What Book Are You Reading?

Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 23 April 2007

My Thread has gone, so here is the second part.

Currently in the "Lonely Planet Polish Phrasebook."

ATB from Fredrik

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Posted on: 04 May 2007 by Reginald Halliday
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During my 'A' levels his work tortured me, yet now I reread him constantly.
Posted on: 04 May 2007 by Rasher
The Innocent Man - John Grisham
Posted on: 04 May 2007 by JWM
This is not a wind-up!
Posted on: 04 May 2007 by JamieWednesday
And the answer is..?
Posted on: 04 May 2007 by JamieWednesday
Currently "20 Years After"
Posted on: 04 May 2007 by JWM
quote:
Originally posted by JamieWednesday:
And the answer is..?


...read the book. Winker
Posted on: 04 May 2007 by JamieWednesday
...but wouldn't that spoil the ending?

Kinda like the answer to life, the universe and everything.
Posted on: 04 May 2007 by acad tsunami


Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

Q: Your use of the term "apartheid" has been a lightning rod in the response to your book. Could you explain your choice? Were you surprised by the reaction?
A: The book is about Palestine, the occupied territories, and not about Israel. Forced segregation in the West Bank and terrible oppression of the Palestinians create a situation accurately described by the word. I made it plain in the text that this abuse is not based on racism, but on the desire of a minority of Israelis to confiscate and colonize Palestinian land. This violates the basic humanitarian premises on which the nation of Israel was founded. My surprise is that most critics of the book have ignored the facts about Palestinian persecution and its proposals for future peace and resorted to personal attacks on the author. No one could visit the occupied territories and deny that the book is accurate.
Posted on: 22 May 2007 by Diccus62
This book cover is in focus it's your eyes that need testing Big Grin

Posted on: 22 May 2007 by bhazen
The Beatles | The Biography by Bob Spitz. A huge lump of a book, that I'm struggling to get through. SHOUT! | The Beatles In Their Generation, by Philip Norman, remains (IMHO) the most readable biography of the Fab Four. Believe it or not (thousands wouldn't), I just read, for the first time, Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. Very ahead of its time, that one!
Posted on: 23 May 2007 by Colin Lorenson
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, but Marisha Pessl.

Without wishing to sound like a blurb, one of the most sparky, clever and interestingly written books I have read for a long time.
Posted on: 23 May 2007 by Frank Abela
Proven Guilty - Jim Butcher

So far, more serious than the usual, I think...
Posted on: 23 May 2007 by Edot
The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Very good but very grim and oh so grey.
Posted on: 23 May 2007 by Diccus62
Recently finished



Excellent
Posted on: 24 May 2007 by Haim Ronen
Posted on: 24 May 2007 by fidelio
i'm fighting off alzheimer's by reading "kant and the platypus," umberto ecco. it's on semiotics. anything w/ the word "kant" in the title is going to be slow going.
Posted on: 25 May 2007 by Rasher
Posted on: 25 May 2007 by Driver8


Enchanting book, lovely.
Posted on: 25 May 2007 by Driver8
Enchanting book, lovely.
Posted on: 26 May 2007 by Diccus62
possibly a little after the event but very interesting non the less.

Posted on: 29 May 2007 by Haim Ronen


Started it tonight.
Posted on: 30 May 2007 by Diccus62
Unbearably sad (up to chapter 9). If you enjoyed 'kite runner' you should find this to your favour. Beautifully written. Khaled Hosseini is a talent indeed.


Posted on: 31 May 2007 by Edot
Life of Pi by Yann Martel. So far so good.
Posted on: 31 May 2007 by Bruce Woodhouse
Edot

Life Of Pi is currently being filmed. Now that must be a challenge.
Posted on: 02 June 2007 by Haim Ronen
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Originally posted by munch:
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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:


Started it tonight.
Hi Haim ,I hope you like it, i loved it.I got it when it first came out and could not put it down.Mind you all his books are a bit like that imo.Regards munch


Hi Munch,

I am enjoying reading it. It is my first Leon Uris.

Regards,

Haim