[Bluestar]

Originally Posted by Deel

i just finished Kite Runner! i loved it!
but there were some things i didnt like, it wasnt worst book i ever read though.
i didnt like how the author portrayed one sect of islam 'better' than the other
i know that's a common way of thinking among non-muslims nowadays,
so i have a strong feeling some parts of the movie will tick me off when it comes out in theatres November .

It's coming out in theatre? Wow, with the Kite Runner, i can understand how some people can think that he takes the word "coincidence" too far but it's how he writes about things and the non-fiction within his fiction that i really appreciated.

Finally finished Little Dorrit, it's a really good book which (like War and Peace) writes about so many different characters that it's more about life rather than the life of one character. Plus he writes about the debtors prison which actually existed in England at one point (which i had no idea about ) and expresses a critical view on the governmental institutions that did nothing but had a lot of power which i enjoyed to read about The only limitation it has, is that it goes on for AGES! Every nook and cranny is described, he obviously wanted to make a fair amount of money from publishing it in parts in a newspaper

Now i'm reading The Colour Of Magic, first of Pratchetts' discworld series

[Ilikemyscarf]

I'm reading Animal Farm.

[AyEshAa]

im reading 'what are you reading?'

[Deel]

Originally Posted by Bluestar

It's coming out in theatre? Wow, with the Kite Runner, i can understand how some people can think that he takes the word "coincidence" too far but it's how he writes about things and the non-fiction within his fiction that i really appreciated.

yeah. i can't wait
it was supposed to come out like two months ago actually!
i heard there's some kind of controversy going around so they pushed back the release date.

ps: i started A Thousand Splendid Suns last month by the same author and i'm still on page 20
i have no time man

[zakk]

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte

[Bluestar]

Originally Posted by zakk

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte

I really enjoyed reading that. Her main character is strong! Most of the Brontes characters are usually strong women. But yeah, i liked the story, a little too coincidental sometimes but she writes well.

What do you think of it?

[Blue_Phoenix]

So I'm looking at John Steinbeck books lately because I haven't read any of them yet. Any suggestions?

[Aryan_]

I refuse to read the Kite Runner because it's about a boy being raped. That's not literature, that's just sick. The people who get off on paedophilic literature like that aren't very different to those who get off on the visual photographic equivalent.

We live in a very decadent society today.

[zakk]

Originally Posted by Bluestar

I really enjoyed reading that. Her main character is strong! Most of the Brontes characters are usually strong women. But yeah, i liked the story, a little too coincidental sometimes but she writes well.

What do you think of it?

I'm still reading it, like it so far!

[Blue_Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Aryan_

I refuse to read the Kite Runner because it's about a boy being raped. That's not literature, that's just sick. The people who get off on paedophilic literature like that aren't very different to those who get off on the visual photographic equivalent.

We live in a very decadent society today.

Oh how ignorant we are. Hear "rape" and imagine that to be the whole ****ing theme. Doesn't bother you a wiff that the boy who got raped was a servant or that he later gets killed and his kid gets orphaned. Or that the book is really about the redemption of his cowardly friend, who did nothing to prevent the rape. If anyone is getting off here, it's you getting off on condemning something you clearly know nothing about.

[Bluestar]

Originally Posted by Blue_Phoenix

So I'm looking at John Steinbeck books lately because I haven't read any of them yet. Any suggestions?

Of Mice and Men! It's a must read! I'd watchh the black and white movie if you can after reading it. It's strange, i was thinking of reading about john steinbecks work as well

i wouldn't worry about the wave of ignorance there, just treat it like a bad stench, that's what i usually do

[Blue_Phoenix]

I hear good things about The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden too.

[Bluestar]

i haven't heard of them. I hate it when i read someones best work and nothing else. Reading more of John Steinbeck is definately on my 'to do' list. I think he wrote a book about "yellow..." something i wish i didn't have the memory of a goldfish

have you read any of George Bernard Shaw? He's very good

I just found out Brick Lane is being shown in cinema in the middle of November :yay:

[Blue_Phoenix]

What's Brick Lane?

I've heard of Shaw, but I don't know anything about him other than his name.

Anyway, you haven't heard of The Grapes of Wrath or East of Eden? The Grapes of Wrath is arguably Steinbeck's most popular, best-loved book, though Of Mice and Men gives it a serious run in both of those categories. East of Eden is more epic, it has to do with the re-enactment of the fall of Cain and Abel by two California families. It was his most abitious book, but not too many people have heard of it. If they have, it was probably because Elia Kazan made a movie out of it which starred James Dean.

I've given up on two books in the last month. One was Outer Dark by Cormac McCarthy, and the other was White Jazz by James Ellroy. Neither could really hold my interest.

[Sumeraa]

Of mice and men is not the only book that's interesting to read, but also The Pearl.
i enjoyed reading both books, i finished reading them in a day.

rite now i'm reading a novel 1984. have u guys heard of it?