Book Comments (997)

RE: Dan Brown: DaVinci Code

There's a book like no other. I hope you read it.

Ionel Movila: A Renegade Angel

thank you so much, i am glad you like that to, much apreciated

Ionel Movila: A Renegade Angel

thank you so much, i am glad that you like it, and i hope that other people will to. Thank you so much again my dear friend, you are a sweet lady

RE: king james version: Holy Bible

The owners manual for human life
His Story = History. 66 Books worth of instruction, that tells us how to live, and why we die. Old Testament = Law and story of Israels disobedience , which shows that humans are all sinners. New Testament = God's method of payment for our disobedience. Jesus Christ paid the price so that we could be reunited with God the Father.
The best selling book of all time. Innumerable changed lives prove it's True!

Ionel Movila: The brick wall imprinted in the rock

thank you, glad that you like it

RE: Clive Barker: The Books of Abarat

Any young adult novel filled with strange creatures and set in a strange land lends itself to comparison with both Alice in Wonderland and The Phantom Tollbooth. Some other adolescent fiction contains only fairies and talking animals, such as the Chronicles of Narnia, but books like Alice and Tollbooth contain not only talking animals and physics-defying occurrences, but also beasts that do not exist in the world with which we are familiar. Abarat by Cive Barker is rife with such creatures: one man, John Mischief, has one normal head and seven “brothers,” which consist of seven other heads at the ends of antler prongs growing out from his “normal” head. In Abarat, squids become binoculars and sea-skippers offer means of aquatic transportation where none is otherwise available. Abarat, like the Chronicles of Narnia and A Wrinkle in Time, realizes that its magic must have a pure source in order to be good magic, and plays respectfully with the idea of deity . As in L’Engle’s classic, there are three mysterious and powerful wise women that make a brief appearance in Abarat, and somewhat similar to the game layout in Catching Fire, the world of the Abarat islands is sectioned into hours like an enormous clock face. But unlike L’Engle, Carroll, Lewis, and Juster, Barker seems to be far more fascinated with the macabre and grotesque.

RE: Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre

Yes, almost brought me to tears too.
So I quit reading it halfway through, still got a "B" on the test.

Stephen Donaldson: The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenent, The Unbeliever

RE: king james version: Holy Bible

It is just a story it has evolved over time with aditions added to help the male on the whole church itself and kings/Queens. In the earliest bibles Jesus never did rise from the dead, the book has been altered over time mainly to surprress the masses

RE: Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznik, Peter Berkrot: Untold History of the United States

Reading it right now. So far I've noticed he has left a whole lot of info off the table..
Namely the IKE years..he takes the Establishment line about McCarthy..
And in NAM, a subject you would think right up his alley, he just skips over Kissinger & Ford leaving all those men behind in Hanoi-- by re Negging on the agreement to pay for infrastructure...on account of all that illegal saturation bombing.

RE: John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces

I read this book and was delighted by it after hearing the author's story. Toole committed suicide in his early 30s, suffering from depression, in part from the failure to get this book published. From Wikipedia:

After Toole's death, Thelma Toole [his mother] became mired in depression for two years and the manuscript for Dunces remained atop an armoire in his former room. She then became determined to have it published, believing it would be an opportunity to prove her son's talent. Over a five-year period, she sent it out to seven publishers and they each rejected it. "Each time it came back I died a little," she said. However, in 1976 she became aware that author Walker Percy was becoming a faculty member at Loyola University New Orleans. Thelma began a campaign of phone calls and letters to Percy to get him to read the manuscript. He even began complaining to his wife about a peculiar old woman's attempts to contact him. With time running out on his term as professor, Thelma pushed her way into his office and demanded he read the manuscript. Initially hesitant, Percy agreed to read the book to stop her badgering. He admitted to hoping it would be so bad that he could discard it after reading a few pages. Ultimately, he loved the book, commenting in disbelief:

In this case I read on. And on. First with the sinking feeling that it was not bad enough to quit, then with a prickle of interest, then a growing excitement, and finally an incredulity; surely it was not possible that it was so good.

Despite Percy's great admiration for the book, the road to publication was still difficult. It took more than three years, as he attempted to get several parties interested in it. A Confederacy of Dunces was published by Louisiana State University Press in 1980, and Percy provided the foreword. At his recommendation, Toole's first draft of the book was published with minimal copy-editing, and no significant revisions. The first printing was only 2,500 copies, and a number of these were sent to Scott Kramer, an executive at 20th Century Fox, to pitch around Hollywood, but the book initially generated little interest. However, the novel attracted much attention in the literary world. A year later, in 1981, Toole was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The book has sold more than 1.5 million copies, in 18 languages.

RE: hyemeyohsts storm: Seven Arrows

Agreed - beautiful book. Read it from a more Spiritual viewpoint of you can as it's not a 'Documentary'.
He has another book that is VERY unique. As far as I can tell was awritten 'autobiographically' maybe durring the Korean War(?) or maybe VietNam. The book is called "Lightningbolt"..Tried to find him but he seems to have disappeared.

Ionel Movila & Lacramiara Simici: The Wandering Souls

yes i think you are right, thank you glad that you like it

Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

David Bercuson and Holger Herwig.: Deadly Seas.

Great book for History Lovers!!! Many of us have had RELATIVES in W.W.II/1939-1945; so we KNOW where our FREEDOMS came from!!! No one is PERFECT-including myself; and NOT being a BRAGGARD-though if you have a TALENT-USE IT!!!

I assisted with MATERIALS for this book-Re-Acknowledgements; and also DEADLY SEAS-the DOCUMENTARY on Canadian History Channel.