[Aida]

Originally Posted by Blue_Phoenix

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.

I read that book in High School. I think I'll reread it. I liked it because the plot is so twisted and the characters are incredibly evil .

[Deel]

Originally Posted by 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?

tttyea!!!
you'll enjoy it, it's a really good book.
..if you understand it .

Originally Posted by Bluestar

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 read of mice & men in high school, it was sad
you'll like it Blue_Phoenix!

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

rofl.

Originally Posted by Blue_Phoenix

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.

word .

[Bluestar]

Life isn't all Haa Haa Hee Hee by Meera Syal

[Arabesque]

Why do they spell it as Meera? Why not Mira?

Regards from a Dead Princess, by Kenize Mourad.

[moonlightrose]

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

[TariqBinSleepin]

I need like a book to read >_> Any recommendations? I like all sorts of Genre.

[Rain]

Originally Posted by Bluestar

Life isn't all Haa Haa Hee Hee by Meera Syal

I love that book! Do you remember when they made a television adaptation? Meera Syall played one of her own characters.

I just read "The Kite Runner" ((Blooey: I borrowed it from Hala, she said you recommended it to her))

[dezhen]

"Road to Mecca" by Muhammad Asad


"The Great Theft" by Khaled Abou El Fadl


"Al-Islam wa Usul al-Hukm: Bahth fi al-Khilafa wa al-Hukuma fi al-Islam" (Islam and the Foundations of Governance: Research on the Caliphate and Governance in Islam) by 'Ali 'Abd al-Raziq

Al-Islam wa Usul Al-Hukm(Islam and Governance), Ali Abdel-Razeq, Cairo: Kitab Al-Hilal, 2000. pp178

First published in 1925, this book remains extremely controversial as it raises a wide range of religious, political and intellectual issues. Al-Islam wa Usul Al-Hukm was written by a young judge who graduated from Al-Azhar and went on to study at Oxford University. Ali Abdel-Razeq was also a member of one of Egypt's best-known families and brother to the thinker Mustafa Abdel-Razeq. His relatively short book on Islam and government was written in the political context following the dissolution of the Ottoman Islamic Caliphate, which had previously ruled the Arab World spiritually as well as politically, at the hands of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk following the First World War and revolution in Turkey. The British occupying power sought an alternative that it could use to manipulate the Muslim world and hoped to persuade Egypt's King Fouad to take on the title of Caliph, arranging a conference in Cairo to discuss the possibility. In the midst of these preparations Abdel-Razeq published his book, which sought to show that the Holy Qur'an and the Sunna had not laid down the specific form that a Muslim government should take, arguing that in fact the choice of government and of political system had been left to the Muslims themselves and denouncing attempts to turn a political authority into a religious symbol.

Such was the book's fame at the time of its initial publication that King Fouad had Al-Azhar's High Council of ulama dismiss the young scholar from his job, stripping him of his degrees. Abdel-Razeq remained isolated for another 25 years, yet his book lives on while people have forgotten King Fouad, the British, and Al-Azhar's High Council of ulama.

"Bidayat al-Mujtahid wa Nihayat al-Muqtasid" by Ibn Rushd (Available in English as "The Distinguished Jurists Primer")


dawood

[Bluestar]

Dezhen, you must be busy!

Originally Posted by Arabesque

Why do they spell it as Meera? Why not Mira?

maybe because she pronounces it with a longer "eee" sound

Originally Posted by TariqBinSleepin

I need like a book to read >_> Any recommendations? I like all sorts of Genre.

Truckers by Terry Pratchett

Originally Posted by Rain

I love that book! Do you remember when they made a television adaptation? Meera Syall played one of her own characters.

I just read "The Kite Runner" ((Blooey: I borrowed it from Hala, she said you recommended it to her))

Yeah, i only caught little bits of it. I know she played the woman who was self harming. It's weird, do you think Meera Syal is the modern day Virginia Woolf?

did you like The Kite Runner? Ali and Nino is a good book too. I can send you my copy

Pshht, BluePheonix doesn't think so

[Rain]

Originally Posted by Bluestar

Yeah, i only caught little bits of it. I know she played the woman who was self harming. It's weird, do you think Meera Syal is the modern day Virginia Woolf?

did you like The Kite Runner? You should read ali and nino too. I can send you my copy

Pshht, BluePheonix doesn't think so

That remains to be seen i.e, if she's thinking of drowning herself, then yeah...maybe. hmmm.

[Bluestar]

yeah, ok. Hopefully they're not similar.

[Deel]

Originally Posted by TariqBinSleepin

I need like a book to read >_> Any recommendations? I like all sorts of Genre.

brozer, that is what ve are discussing right now!

read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown (knowing you, i'm sure you'd like this book).
mos def read Kite runner (Khaled Hosseini)
and when you're done with that
read the sequel, A thousand splendid suns - i'm reading this one now

[Rain]

Originally Posted by Bluestar

yeah, ok. Hopefully they're not similar.

Hopefully! I still have your "Wild Swans". Brilliant book.

[Bluestar]

Originally Posted by Rain

Hopefully! I still have your "Wild Swans". Brilliant book.

You still have that? dude i thought you were disorganised? I'll entrust you to look after it, hopefully it's fate won't be like my bonsai tree, which you also kept for me :ahem:

( i think we should have an ahem smiley).

[Rain]

Originally Posted by Bluestar

You still have that? dude i thought you were disorganised? I'll entrust you to look after it, hopefully it's fate won't be like my bonsai tree, which you also kept for me :ahem:

( i think we should have an ahem smiley).

i gave your bonsai tree much needed attention, love and care. now back to books! <