Istoryan Readers: Book reviews and recommendations~

[buliwyf]

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@ Isabella Rain: Dostoevsky fan eh? i recommend "Notes from Underground" and "The Idiot", and there's this short story entitled "The Gentle Spirit"... Anyway, I believe his name is Fyodor. Pyotr I think is the fiance of Raskolnikov's sister in "Crime and Punishment"...
Good luck with photography!

[juan_carlos]

mans's search for meaning by viktor frankl, if you can find this book you will not regret it.

[noname]

11 Minutes by Paulo C. Nindot sad. Bag-o lang ko nag sugod ani
nga habit. Every payday palit ug usa ka libro ba. Pang collection.
Nindot sad oi.

[samokan]

try Frank Herbert's : Dune Saga

1. Dune
2. Dune Messiah
3. Children of Dune
4. God Emperor of Dune
5. Heretics of Dune

Go spice trade...

[Gwynhuever]

I would also like to recommend John Dunning's "Booked to Die" and "Bookman's Wake". This is definitely a must for all book collectors.

i have that now....plus i have map of bones sad (pero nag una2 jud akong hubby after reading amazonia from the same author)....just finished labyrinth by kate mosse...and started Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys....karon mangita na sad ko aning Dune series gi recommend ni samokan...ka pas2 ba sa lista oi

[dessay]

by the river piedra, i sat and wept by paulo coehlo... na touch ko ani as in super... same as with his other books... simply written and very inspirational...makes you think also..

[sheeshcute]

* THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA - C.S. Lewis

* MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA - Arthur Golden

* THE COLOR PURPLE - Alice Walker

[galenostiel]

WAHHHHHH!!!!! tooo many to list down.... books left and right, up and down.... in every nook and cranny of my house... where to start? Gibran, Sagan, Poe, Tolstoi, Lev, Crichton, The agony and the ecstacy, lust for life, of mice and men, scarlet letter, asimov, Astral Dynamics, Tolkien, Eco, Ludlum, WAAAAHHHHHH, they're all over... my headboard, bathroom, library, family room, kitchen, dining table, terrace, car, office, garage, parent's house, ahhhhhhhhh.... they drive me nuts.... rand, sophie's world, vatican billions, the emperor has no clothes, cannabis, down under, coffee table books, textbooks, novels, collectors editions, magazines, Walden, Hugo, Flaubert, Hawthorne, Joaquin, Mann, Kidnapped, Verne, Merck Manuals, Zen Gardening, Cultivating Marijuana, Psychic Self Defense, James Clavell books, James Michener books, The Little Prince, Anything on Venice, Santorini, Tangier, Paris or Sydney, Anything on Architecture or Interior design, The Rule of Four, LOTR, The Coral Island, Ragged Dick, Holy Blood Holy Grail, The Hiram Key, thorn birds, Ulysses, Nabokov, solzhenitsyn, Toffler, orwell, Joyce, Great Gatsby, hemingway, james, L. Frank Baum, Salinger, Hesse, ARRRRGGGGHHHH, The playboy mansion, Seth Speaks, Jay Leno, Ray Romano, Lewis, Lawrence, faulkner, Vonnegut, Lord Jim, Wide Sargasso Sea, Kipling, rushdie, forster, capote.... where does it end...?

did i tell you that i collect books? :mrgreen: some of my more "arranged" collections:

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I prefer the way they used to bind back in the 1800's better than our modern day methods... although some clubs like Folio Society ( http://www.foliosoc.co.uk/default.php ) still try to deliver great quality collector's items...

For those looking for a particular book, new, phased out, out of circulation, or used, i suggest using www.abebooks.com they carry books from 10 cents to $100,000's

Keep on reading!!!! :mrgreen:

OMIGAD!!!!!! sorry delayed reaction karon pa ko naka-check balik ani nga thread. shucks suya ko sa Poe and The Name of The Rose!!!! The latter's one of my top faves, I have it on paperback lang.... *sigh*

[br]Posted on: July 10, 2006, 07:58:58 PM_________________________________________________T he last 2 books I read were Anne Rice's Servant of the Bones and Gore Vidal's Creation.

The first one touches a bit on some tricky issues in religion...but probably not as much as Memnoch the Devil, I think which is sitting in my drawer at home waiting to be read hehehe. Creation was a heavy read...meeting all these names in history and thought and philosophy and getting acquainted with their supposed personalities and teachings in a different light...whew!

[The_Child]

Guess nobody likes to Read Ayn Rand much in here....
i'd like to recommend the following books:

1.) THe Fountainhead by Ayn RAnd
2.) Atlas Shrugged by AYn Rand
3.) The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner
4.) Christ the Lord out of Egypt by Anne Rice
5.) Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto eco
6.) Short Stories of Franz Kafka
7.) Being and Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre (kung gusto mo ug challenge)
8.) Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Neitzche

[MrBiddle]

kay wa paku kabasa pero plano ko if naa nay wawarts...

what does anyone thnk of?

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Dickens)
HEIDI (Spyri)
THE SCARLET LETTER (Hawthorne)

Though much critical acclaim is in the books themselves nindot unta if naa'y recommendations here that are unbiased and unbalanced, unless I have to read them myself and be my own judge for them.