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Post by elle on Mar 21, 2006 21:23:45 GMT -5
^No, just watch, Tom Hanks is good enough an actor to pull off that role...come on...it's clearly not the most "challenging" role in the world-he's already pulled off some much better stuff than that.
Currently reading a ripping yarn called Bangkok 8-the first 'best seller' type written book i read since davinci code-this book is MUCH better. to quote wall street journal, "like a modern day indiana jones adventure written by evelyn waugh...one of this season's most cleverest and stylish entertainments"...and coincidentally-the main character is half thai-half US caucasian! muahaha...
I"m half-way reading "the unconcious civilisation" by John Ralston Saul..taking time off from it at the moment because it's a tad dense and i'm on holiday..but it's one of the most important books i have ever read.
about palahniuk, I liked the essays and survivor (although i think i need to read the hardcopy format of that..reading from computers just isnt' the same)...very powerful writer-gripping!
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Post by muzo on Mar 21, 2006 22:50:52 GMT -5
sth german thats really nice for a change herman hesse - narziss und goldmund dunno wat its called in english, but its very very nice EDIT k its called narcissus and goldmund
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Post by bulaklak on Mar 21, 2006 23:16:51 GMT -5
^ Isn't Narcissus the guy who fell in love with his reflection? but that guy probably has nothing to do with the book you mentioned... ;D
Right now I'm reading Ensaio sobre a Cegueira (Blindness) by Jose Saramago. Some of it is very disturbing but I've found it interesting so far. In the book, blindness spreads like a disease through the population and it causes panic, morals fly out the window and society crumbles... The book kind of reminds me of Lord of the Flies. However, the punctuation is really frustrating. There are no quotation marks so it took me awhile to figure out who was talking. The sentences never seem to end either. They literally go on for pages and pages without a period.
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Post by ~MangO_O~ on Mar 23, 2006 14:48:22 GMT -5
^ Narcissus didn't jsut fall in love with his reflection... he drowned in the water trying to grasp it...
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Post by Pocky Monster on Mar 23, 2006 15:02:41 GMT -5
^^ Which reminds me.. I'd like to find a good book on Greek mythology or maybe dig up the old Hercules shows.
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Post by Nikki on Mar 23, 2006 17:13:32 GMT -5
^ Narcissus didn't jsut fall in love with his reflection... he drowned in the water trying to grasp it... This is one of my favorite myths. Narcissus doesn't drown though. Quite the opposite. He is consumed by the fire of his passion (for himself) and slowly wastes away next to the pool of water on Mount Helicon. And voila he was turned into a dainty pretty little flower. There's a new translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Charles Martin which includes most of the famous / most popular Greek Myths which I'd recommend. It's fun but it is written in verse. Robert Graves' Greek mythos books are also pretty useful I think.
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Post by ╗ on Mar 24, 2006 6:39:06 GMT -5
sth german thats really nice for a change herman hesse - narziss und goldmund I read "Siddharta", which is also by Herman Hesse. Not sure if it was based on Buddha's life though (I mean like a biography).
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Post by mino on Mar 24, 2006 10:50:42 GMT -5
I liked the da vinci code. Also Rushdie's books are really good
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Post by muzo on Mar 24, 2006 13:49:38 GMT -5
^ Narcissus didn't jsut fall in love with his reflection... he drowned in the water trying to grasp it... This is one of my favorite myths. same sth german thats really nice for a change herman hesse - narziss und goldmund I read "Siddharta", which is also by Herman Hesse. Not sure if it was based on Buddha's life though (I mean like a biography). thats really nice too no its not based on buddha, the guy is just called siddharta, but he also goes on a life journey, kinda.
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Post by muzo on Mar 24, 2006 13:51:38 GMT -5
I liked the da vinci code. Also Rushdie's books are really good i started reading a rushdie book but com to think of it i never finished it cant remember which one it was, sth with 'east'..
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Post by mino on Mar 24, 2006 13:57:10 GMT -5
I liked the da vinci code. Also Rushdie's books are really good i started reading a rushdie book but com to think of it i never finished it cant remember which one it was, sth with 'east'.. Do you mean Rushdie east and west? or Öst, Väst. I just started read his books because my sister tells me to read them. But they are hard, I'm not a good reader.
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Post by muzo on Mar 24, 2006 14:00:03 GMT -5
i started reading a rushdie book but com to think of it i never finished it cant remember which one it was, sth with 'east'.. Do you mean Rushdie east and west? or Öst, Väst. I just started read his books because my sister tells me to read them. But they are hard, I'm not a good reader. Öst, Väst? (that supposed to be german? or scandinavian? ) yeah i think it was east, west. if its the one with short stories, then yeah.
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Post by mino on Mar 24, 2006 14:01:58 GMT -5
Do you mean Rushdie east and west? or Öst, Väst. I just started read his books because my sister tells me to read them. But they are hard, I'm not a good reader. Öst, Väst? (that supposed to be german? or scandinavian? ) yeah i think it was east, west. if its the one with short stories, then yeah. I read my books in Swedish.
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Post by muzo on Mar 24, 2006 14:05:37 GMT -5
Öst, Väst? (that supposed to be german? or scandinavian? ) yeah i think it was east, west. if its the one with short stories, then yeah. I read my books in Swedish. cool
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Post by dave on Mar 24, 2006 14:51:56 GMT -5
hey amir, (or anyone else for that matter), have you read steppenwolf by herman hesse also? I found the novel heavy going, and i dunno if i missed the point of the whole book but couldn't always relate to they guy, even though it's supposed to be considered a classic? Maybe I'm too young to get it. It's put me off reading any of his other books really!
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