This is a list of random comments on All Books - ordered by date. Click on the book title to view the book. Click here to post a Book.
RE: herge': the adventures of tintin
Loved Tintin, particularly the ones about the moon trip.
RE: Bill Bryson: A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Especially, for any Brit, his one about the UK, Notes from a small island. Talk about LMAOROFL.RE: stieg larsson: The girl with the dragon tatoo series
Wouldn't have stuck with this lot but that a friend recommended them so highly so I read them all. The whole Scandinavian setting was good. At some point they may be edited properly and it will improve them very much because the story is erratic and drags at times, but overall an interesting read.RE: J.K Rowling: The Harry Potter Series
Loved the first 3, enjoyed the 4, read the others because I wanted to know what happened but they got soooooo dark. The third is probably the best, loved it.RE: Gary Chapman: The Five Love Languages
Very interesting, everyone should read it also couples struggling in their relation, I'm a touch person and cuddle addict !!
RE: Judith Levine: Not Buying It
This is subject I closely value. I actually believe in a world without money; I think it would be much better for all of us. As it is, money mostly serves the top, and the rest of us work hard for that to happen, with very little benefit to ourselves.We've been conditioned to buy, and we are addicted to it. I know that I am. But I'm in love with the idea of needing less. There are times when I desperately want more money but then I catch myself and realize that I have everything I need and more. So, thanks to your post, I will find this book at my library and read it.
RE: Don Piper: 90 Minutes in Heaven
My dad has been telling everyone about this book for years. My parents both got to meet the author 2 or 3 yrs. ago.This is a genuine and miraculous account- a story the author was reluctant to tell.
RE: E L James: Fifty shades of grey
I found out about 50 Shades via one of the social circles I circulate. It was heavily praised in said circles by the time I learned of it. I of course had to go check it out, my attention grabbed at this point.Yes I looked it up first, having been told that it was "not everyone's taste", and of course what I found was people reviewing it as "an erotic novel of BDSM", controversial, downright dirty, etc.
Honestly, it couldn't be worse than De Sade's Justine, could it?
As I got further into the book, yes, it made me uncomfortable in a few places, pun both intended and not. By the time I got to the infamous contract, I had started to consider re-evaluating my own sexuality. By the time I got through the contract I had both decided to be more open in my sex life and more honest about it. Not only that but, considering my own intimate life and the contract, I realized that I had a MUCH more solid understand of what I do like, what I don't like, what I'm willing to explore, what I might be willing to explore but am not ready to at this time, and what is PERMANENTLY off limits.
Add to this that I love analyzing life and people, sorry it's in my nature to do so. I found myself intensely interested not only in the story, but also the underlying psyche's of the characters on a level that most of the time, I don't get from reading.
End of the first book, I find myself with mixed feelings about everything, the situation, the people, all of it.
I started reading the second, couldn't wait to pick it up at this point, and immediately I'm irritated, feeling that the author has seriously reduced her writing skill and quality, and pretty much damaged their intelligence and maturity level's integrity. But I keep reading.
And I start to realize that this is WAY more than erotic fiction, or an expose' on not so talked about lifestyles. It's way more than a romance novel. It will, if read in the correct light, make you re-examine the value of unconditional love, what it REALLY means to stand by someone through whatever hell may come. It will make you re-examine your own life and maybe some of your own flaws and "baggage" so to speak. It will make you re-examine your lines, sexually, romantically, socially, and how much and to what extent you will take hardship, period.
I am glad that this was correctly categorized under romance. But I don't think that any categorizing of 50 Shades is going to do it justice. It's true to its name. 50 Shades of Grey, 50 shades of erotica, 50 shades of screwed up, 50 shades of unconditional love, 50 shades of healing, 50 shades of hardship, and 50 shades of relationship dynamics.
Personally the movie trailer looked like it may not do it justice, but I'll of course wait and see. In the mean time I've just started reading the third book with a kind of wonder and breathless anticipation, as par the course by now with this series.
RE: Gary Chapman: The Five Love Languages
One of the most important books I've ever read! I'm a physical contact / quality time lover :)
Naomi Klein: No Logo
From back cover:With a new Afterword to the 2002 edition, No Logo employs journalistic savvy and personal testament to detail the insidious practices and far-reaching effects of corporate marketing—and the powerful potential of a growing activist sect that will surely alter the course of the 21st century. First published before the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle, this is an infuriating, inspiring, and altogether pioneering work of cultural criticism that investigates money, marketing, and the anti-corporate movement.
As global corporations compete for the hearts and wallets of consumers who not only buy their products but willingly advertise them from head to toe—witness today’s schoolbooks, superstores, sporting arenas, and brand-name synergy—a new generation has begun to battle consumerism with its own best weapons. In this provocative, well-written study, a front-line report on that battle, we learn how the Nike swoosh has changed from an athletic status-symbol to a metaphor for sweatshop labor, how teenaged McDonald’s workers are risking their jobs to join the Teamsters, and how “culture jammers” utilize spray paint, computer-hacking acumen, and anti-propagandist wordplay to undercut the slogans and meanings of billboard ads
Maria Dzielska: Hypatia of Alexandria
From back cover:Hypatia—brilliant mathematician, eloquent Neoplatonist, and a woman renowned for her beauty—was brutally murdered by a mob of Christians in Alexandria in 415. She has been a legend ever since. In this engrossing book, Maria Dzielska searches behind the legend to bring us the real story of Hypatia's life and death, and new insight into her colorful world.
Christopher Hitchens: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
From back cover:From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices--past and present--that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) God/no-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you’ll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, George Eliot, Bertrand Russell, Emma Goldman, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and many others well-known and lesser known. And they’re all set in context and commented upon as only Christopher Hitchens--“political and literary journalist extraordinaire” (Los Angeles Times)--can. Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: The Portable Atheist will speak to you and engage you every step of the way.
RE: E L James: Fifty shades of grey
At first reading (first book of the series) was not impressed with the girl main character...as read further I began to feel she was certainly a victim and how could anyone let themselves be used like that( yes, a piece of fiction here but do you ever identify with the characters?) and where was her brain!!...to make a long story short, I did finish the series and had mixed feelings about it. Some parts of it were way too kinky for my tastes but that is part of its draw on the book scene...sensationalism.Read if you wonder how they could make a movie about it...and yes, of course, they are!
RE: E L James: Fifty shades of grey
I read it too, cant wait for the movie too.RE: Bill Bryson: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir
Best comedy book I have read.
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five
NOBODY F**KS AROUND WITH PAUL LAZZARO
Brian Lumley: The Necroscope
er more so than Ann RiceRE: Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven
I was going to read it again, but then I decided nevermoreRE: Sun Tzu: The Art of War
This book is still today considered "required reading" in most military academies as the tactics and strategies taught by this well known general from 6BC!!Quote:
If you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles... if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
Courtesy of Wikiquotes.
Epic stuff!!
RE: Sun Tzu: The Art of War
Badass book of war tactics.RE: Danielle Steel: Palomino
I just like to read and read it lolRE: Stephen King: Pet Sematary
Well its just a movie if you ask me.
RE: John Saul: The Unloved
I totally agree with you guys. A friend couldn't sleep for 2 weels, she was always in her aunt's. Swore never to read horror anymore..
RE: Raymond Chandler: The Big Sleep
A great read. The interraction of the characters and the plot twists are unforgettable.RE: tolkien: The hobbit
Loved The Hobbit but never yet managed to finish LoTR - doubt I ever will now, the films look pretty good, why fight with the trilogy?I don't know why I couldn't get past the losing of Gandalf in the chasm, I tried more than once but nope. Partly because I don't really like hobbits. Bilbo was okay but Frodo? Still on my shelf. Someday. So many books, so little time ...
RE: Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics
Good lord, I read that in college. Definitely worth reading, but I wonder how much the layperson who doesn't know a thing about early greek philosophy will fare reading this.
RE: Danielle Steel: Palomino
Seen the movie and enjoyed this not read book yetRE: J.R. Ward: Dark Lover
eh...begs the question...do you like cloak and dagger or are you a believer in vengeance? if so,would you consider being hired to beat the shit out of a professional scrawny heart breaking nasty witch for me? I'll gladly pay you on Tuesday for a hamburger today!
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
The movie is more a love story, whereas the book seems to focus more on questions about human condition, social hypocrisy and so on.RE: Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
wooww! I saw the movie , obviusly I guees the book is way better! stilll has a good baseRE: Stephen Curtis: Together through life volume 1
Well done you Morgen I cannot find my way arounf all little nooks on cs.I await my book and will come back to review when read BUT I have a space of honour already on my bookshelf when I have finished reading.
Thanks to Steve
George King: The Nine Freedoms
To begin with I was unable to post the book cover from Amazon although I followed the same procedure as for my own book, in which I initially made some duplications and corrected.The chapter on LOVE,which is the second Freedom,describes this universal energy as an entirely different concept and is truly illuminating in its power and how it should be used.
Following the different stages of spiritual evolution up to and beyond Cosmic Consciousness the reader begins realise the vast scope of his/her future through many lives.
We were told that after reading this book you can never be the same again.
Dr.Peter Daley: Metaphysics and The New Age
Correction! The book cover did appear when posted.RE: Don Piper: 90 Minutes in Heaven
Thats thrue
RE: Patrick Suskind: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Bizarre but interesting!