Spin Posted August 3, 2004 Posted August 3, 2004 I'm re-reading trainspotting at the moment by Irvine Welsh.. sick sick sick My favorite authors are Michael Crighton, William Gibson (my all time favorite book EVER is "Neuromancer" by him), Douglas Adams, Ben Elton, and a great meany more http://www.spinstorm.cjb.net
aefibird Posted August 3, 2004 Posted August 3, 2004 I'm re-reading trainspotting at the moment by Irvine Welsh.. sick sick sick Do you prefer the book or the film? It's a tough one to call, but I think that I ever-so-slightly prefer the book. The movie is an amazing one, though. I went to see it 4 times in a week when it came out at the cinema! "Was it really worth it? Only time and death may ever tell..." The Beautiful South - The Rose of My CologneSheffield Steelers!
monkeygirl Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 Just finished "The Importance of Being Earnest" (for school), about to wrap up "Death of a Salesman" (also for school). Even though I'm required to read them for AP English next year, I'm glad I'm reading them...very enjoyable reads. Book 2 of 7 I need to finish by Sep. 7th! 1st dan & Asst. Instructor TKD 2000-2003No matter the tune...if you can rock it, rock it hard.
battousai16 Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 y'know, i really didn't care for death of a salesman, but i guess it's just me. what else do you have to read? "I hear you can kill 200 men and play a mean six string at the same time..."-Six String Samurai
Spin Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 I'm re-reading trainspotting at the moment by Irvine Welsh.. sick sick sick Do you prefer the book or the film? It's a tough one to call, but I think that I ever-so-slightly prefer the book. The movie is an amazing one, though. I went to see it 4 times in a week when it came out at the cinema! Its a close call, but I'd have to say the book.. Not sure why but I much prefur reading a book to sitting infront of a TV or cinema screen http://www.spinstorm.cjb.net
aefibird Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 but I much prefur reading a book to sitting infront of a TV or cinema screen Me too, although I do love film. My love of reading was one of the main reasons I chose to do an English Studies and Performing Arts degree. Battousai - I don't like Death of a Salesman either, but that's because it was drilled into us at school, when I was taking my GCSE's (the exams that 16 year olds in the UK take). I initially quite enjoyed the play when I first read it, but the teachers turned me off it, which is a pity, as English teachers should be encouraging their students to love literature. One of my English lit teachers is the main reason why I can't stand reading war poetry any more. It was done to death and I found it so boring after a while. However, I have to say that one of the worst books I've ever read is Last of the Mohicans. I had to read it for a university course and I couldn't get into it at all. In the end I took it with me on a 10 hour flight, as I knew that I'd read it 'cos I had nothing else to read. That was the worst flight of my entire life! "Was it really worth it? Only time and death may ever tell..." The Beautiful South - The Rose of My CologneSheffield Steelers!
monkeygirl Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 y'know, i really didn't care for death of a salesman, but i guess it's just me. what else do you have to read? Orlando by Woolf Hedda Gabler by Ibsen Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy Life of Pi by Martel Copenhagen by some guy I can't remember 1st dan & Asst. Instructor TKD 2000-2003No matter the tune...if you can rock it, rock it hard.
Luckykboxer Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 I recently finished the Da Vinci Code, and then i read Angels and Demons both by Dan Brown. I really really liked them. I highly recommend them. I am looking at getting the Stan Brown versions next. Someone told me that an author writting under the name Stan Brown has written a rebuttal of sorts to Dan Browns books to support the religious side of the coin... Not sure what that means yet but i guess ill find out
battousai16 Posted August 4, 2004 Posted August 4, 2004 copenhagen was written by michael frayn. y'know, just fyi. i think the only book on your list and had read that i dug was the life of pi. that was kind of a neat one. copenhagen wasn't the worst book i've ever read, either. aefibird, i hear ya! my teachers turned me off of poetry in general! it was all well and good 'til we were forced to analyze every single word! which didn't get horribly pathetic until we had to analyze a poem about how people analyze poems to much and should just sit back and enjoy them. gah, i forget what the poem was called, but i think it was the first in the poetry 180 series.... i think... i forget. i really enjoyed the davinci code, but didn't think it as good as the rest of the nation. i hear angels and demons is better, but i haven't gotten around to it. "I hear you can kill 200 men and play a mean six string at the same time..."-Six String Samurai
Drunken Monkey Posted August 5, 2004 Posted August 5, 2004 life of pi rocks... hmm, those four words could almost mean just about anything.... anyway. nyone here read perfume but patrick suskinde? post count is directly related to how much free time you have, not how intelligent you are."When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
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