Istoryan Readers: Book reviews and recommendations~

[monochrome_delirious]

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I have most of John Saul's books and the one that i really love is the Manhattan Hunt Club.

You can also try Jeffrey Archer's Kane and Abel.

yes my teacher recommended this to me.. still have to finish it

if you're into suspense, mary higgins clark is good.

i love mitch albom's and paolo coelho's works too

[Hunger Artist]

DEAD AIM by Conrado de quiros...
i was truly amazed by the things he had written about the marcos regime... well that's because during Marcos' time, i wasnt born yet...

besides, walang kupas si de quiros... especially his metaphors.

i have not finished the book though, it's so thick...

he has a new book, it's a collection of some of his speeches...

[wsraxe]

1. the fountainhead by ayn rand
2. atlas shrugged by ayn rand
3. the count of monte cristo by alexandre dumas
4. the little prince by antoine de st exupery
5. 100 years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez
6. veronika decides to die by paulo coelho
7. by the river piedra i sat down and wept by paulo coelho
8. the catcher in the rye by jd salinger
9. siddhartha by herman hesse
10. jonathan livingston seagull by richard bach

[saosin_demo]

DEAD AIM by Conrado de quiros...
i was truly amazed by the things he had written about the marcos regime... well that's because during Marcos' time, i wasnt born yet...

besides, walang kupas si de quiros... especially his metaphors.

i have not finished the book though, it's so thick...

Available ba cya sa national? nag tanaw2x pud ko sa sm pro murag la man koy nakit an. try lng nako inquire usab kay la man nako gpa check sa ilang inventory.

[Egoist]

Try to read The Bridge of San Louis Rey by Thornton Wilder

[The_Child]

Here's my top 10 book list. They are not listed in order, suffice to say, theyre my best reads.

1. In the Name of the Rose (Il Noma de la Rosa) -- Umberto Eco
2. Thus Spake Zarathustra (Also sprach Zarathustra) - Friedrich Nietzsche
3. The Stranger (L’Étranger) - Albert Camus
4. Ulysses - James Joyce
5. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
6. Candide - Voltaire
7. The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
8. Indian Philosophy Vol I. and II. - Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
9. Symbolic Exchange and Death (L'Echange symbolique et la mort) - Jean Baudrillard
10. The Story of the eye (Histoire de l'oeil) - Georges Bataille (something you do not wish to drool on, and i mean literally)

[Nino Gonzales]

Here's my categorized list of top books:

Essays
1. Everlasting Man by G.K. Chesterton
2. Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis

Funniest
1. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
2. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
3. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
4. (I don't know if this counts) The Far Side by Gary Larson (any of them)

Novels
1. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
2. Kristin Lavransdatter by Sidgrid Undset (although I've only read the 1st of the trilogy)
3. LOTR

On being Filipino
1. Culture and History by Nick Joaquin
2. Waiting for Mariang Makiling by Resil Mojares

Business
1. Good to Great by Jim Collins
2. The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
3. The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman

Books which I did not expect much from but ended up opening up a new vista of interest or a new genre of books for me
1. Emma by Jane Austen (introduced me to the world of classic chick lit)
2. Study of History by Arnold J. Toynbee (made me interested in historiography)
3. Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom (the American "culture war")
4. Under Three Flags by Benedict Anderson (late 19th century globalized Filipino intellectuals)

Books I thought I'd like but didn't (I tried each at least twice for each... but the magic just isn't there...)
1. Books by Charles Dickens (I tried Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol... yeah, people say he's a great writer... perhaps there's something wrong with me...)
2. Books by Stephen King (I tried The Stand, The Dark Half, Tommyknockers... yuck)
3. Books by Tom Clancy (I liked Hunt for Red October but Debt of Honor was traumatically disappointing)

Books I liked while undergoing puberty
1. Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles and other horror books (I liked Lord of the Flies)
2. Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose
3. Catcher in the Rye
4. Sophie's World

I'm not sure if I could call these "favorites"... perhaps "most influential," but not directly influential... the way I was brought up and the life choices I've made sort of stem not from these books in themselves, but the reality represented by these books... these are so foundational to how I understand the world, and thus so familiar, that I sort of take them for granted...
1. The Bible
2. Catechism of the Catholic Church
3. Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church

[josephdc]

^ wow what a list!

i've listened to "the man who was thursday" (bbc radio adaptation) and found it interesting, pero wala kaayo ko kasabot hehe. and until now wala pa nako mahuman ang "mere christianity". dili man siya lisud sabton, it's just that nawala pa ako interest with apologetics for the mean time.

pygmalion is hilarious! hehe. pero sad pud kaayo no? naguol kaayo ko para sa character. a lot of insights can be gleaned from that book. i enjoyed it more that "the importance of being ernest".

[Kuiaw]

All of Paulo Coelho's books... especially The Alchemist and The Zahir. The latter is non-fiction.

I also like Mitch Albom's Tuesdays With Morrie. Lots of "words of wisdom" by Morrie. Ehehe!

Kite Runner. Falling Leaves. and a lot more... ^_^

[monochrome_delirious]

guys i recommend you sign up for an account at goodreads.com.. it's a great place to keep track of books you've read, books you wanna read, and books you are reading.. you can also know what books your friends are reading and get recommendations and share comments =)