Books!

sirrichardburton,

Thanks for sharing your favourite books and thoughts. 'The Devil Drives' seems interesting I'll consider reading it if I get a chance. And yes, I do also have the habit of buying a lot of books and taking as long as an year to finish them. I recently bought 'Les Miserables' by Victor Hugo, 'A Brief History of Time' by Stephen Hawking, 'The Monk Who Sold His Ferari' by Robin S. Sharma, and 'The Power of Your Subconcious Mind' by Dr.J Murphy, all these books I'm able to read only after finishing '1984', I have also read 'Macbeth' and I liked it, I have also heard about ' The Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich' on goodreads community.

badenwurtca wrote:

The first book that I remember reading in the English language was " Treasure Island " and it was very good ( I was about 10 yrs old ). I'm in my mid-60's now and most of my reading over the years has been in the area of History however as I've gotten older I seem to be reading a lot less ( too much internet fun now   lol ).

Thanks badenwurtca! I have read somewhere that Stevenson only started writing after he was retired from his profession as a doctor and he started to make up stories for his stepson during that period and that that's how he got the idea of writing all his books , which I find interesting! :)

Shine, did you read "twinlight saga 2" 

"Where was the dream that didn't shrivel when you pierced it with reality?" Sterling Hayden---"Wanderer"

Santiago was not very lucky.

leklerk1 wrote:

Santiago was not very lucky.

Yes, it was sad! But the fish didn't beat him, neither the sea, nor the sharks, he actually won. He didn't falter, he didn't give up, he proved how much a determined man could do, he proved himself worthy of the admiration the boy always showed him. And above all, he did what he wanted and, he didn't betray his heart and so he found peace. When you look at it this way, it is neither unlucky or sad, but a triumphant victory of mankind.

Society is now one polish'd horde,
Form'd of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains;
They crown'd him long ago
On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds,
With a diadem of snow.

- Lord Byron

'By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.' - Macbeth

'WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH' - '1984' ( George Orwell )

Earnest Hemingway is considered as a great American author. In high school, "The Old Man and the Sea" was required reading. The book itself was o.k. but our teacher spent soooooo long on the book that she completely sickened me of Hemingway. That was 40 years ago and of the 1000's of books I've read since then, not one has been a Hemingway tome.

http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/04/specials/hemingway-fbi.html

really, I red the book in question because I was lazy to read anything longer than that, at the time, and if it weren't for the fact that he was given the nobel prize I don't think he would have been prized that much by your teacher, or any other institution of the kind for that matter

  "100 years of Solitude" is very good, also "To Kill a Mocking Bird " both are must reads .

Thanks shadowcat53!