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3rd January 2006, 05:59 AM
#31
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Managed to read this heart-tugging novel "Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold in which a girl whose rape and murder of course affects her family tremendously...she relates her view of her family and the killer from heaven to the reader...very powerful and sometimes difficult to get through...but worth it after all.
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3rd January 2006 05:59 AM
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5th January 2006, 08:03 PM
#32
i finally got around to reading sidhartha an old book by herman hesse, i really enjoyed the book, was very fulfilling
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6th January 2006, 01:02 AM
#33
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Originally Posted by
shambhavi
i finally got around to reading sidhartha an old book by herman hesse, i really enjoyed the book, was very fulfilling
Yes I agree it is fluidly written and very simply yet powerfully conveys his straying, ruin and redemption. Though it is about another it makes you feel better having read his story...the amount of change and happiness one achieves from giving up all that he thought would give him happiness is very inspiring.
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6th January 2006, 07:15 PM
#34
totally agree, his language is kinda spare but rteally powerful, looking for other books like that suggestions, please.
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6th January 2006, 11:39 PM
#35
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actually i would be hard pressed to say that i have read anything quite like Hesse's work...especially when it concerns a religious subject. Most books are not so idyllic they may start out with this idea but then it is complicated by other circumstances or shown how it would be in a post-modern view... the latest i have read that is kinda like this, is Life of Pi by Yann Martel...but that is my opinion...still it is a very good book to read.
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7th January 2006, 10:03 AM
#36
i haven rd that but read his short stories which were quite nice,i really liked nikos kazantzakis-gods pauper. was well written
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19th January 2006, 02:27 PM
#37
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hallo,
i recently read " the shadow of the wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon! it is one of the best seller in europe! i liked it very much and i hope you guyz will like it too!
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25th January 2006, 03:16 PM
#38
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Re: What is your latest read?
Originally Posted by
a.ratchasi
I have just finished reading
The Queen & I by Sue Townsend.
It is supposed to be a 'laugh-out-loud-funny' kinda book, though it was least funny to me.
Instead, I felt sorry for the queen at first and admiration later for her ability to be part of the lower strata folks without compromise.
Anyone has read it yet?
i have read a book called THE KING AND I ....and it was okay ...
later in our skool ..the dramtics club produced a play version of it and there are also 3 movies based on the same novel wid the same story
one is a black and white movie ..
one is in color ..released in aroun d1980 ..
and the other some time near 1990...
THE KING AND I ...
one of the movies was called ANNA AND THE KING ..dunno which ..
i saw the second one ..
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25th January 2006, 03:23 PM
#39
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MY LAST READ WAS THE BROKER BY JOHN GRISHAM
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25th January 2006, 07:18 PM
#40
the book that i have just begun is G.GMarquez's 100 years of solitude its nice till now
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