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[curiousboy]

got it. now starting reading

I bet U`ll like it, my pal!

Hugs,

cb

[gninori]

I bet U`ll like it, my pal!

Hugs,

cb

yes, i liked it
reading completed yesterday
you won't believe it, but i was a bit sorry for him at the end
great negative character, but all the novel is written wonderfully
now i'm tempted to read "porno" from welsh
do you know it? is it good as well?

[curiousboy]

A quite particular book indeed, glad you liked it, my friend!
Nope, didn`t read "Porno"...yet! I let you go first one this time, hehehe.
I still have to read "The bedroom secrets of the masterchefs" and I will.
Che bello scambiar cultura fra amanti del "bus del cul"
"It`s great to swap culture between "rosebutt lovers"

Ciao, samurai,

hugs,

cb

[gninori]

A quite particular book indeed, glad you liked it, my friend!
Nope, didn`t read "Porno"...yet! I let you go first one this time, hehehe.
I still have to read "The bedroom secrets of the masterchefs" and I will.
Che bello scambiar cultura fra amanti del "bus del cul"
"It`s great to swap culture between "rosebutt lovers"

Ciao, samurai,

hugs,

cb

tutto fa cul-tura, no?

no translation whatsoever possible...

[minx]

Do you guys seek to constantly educate and improve yourselves or are you occasionally content to read for the pleasure of the story and escapism?

Think my brain might implode if I tried to read anything more sophisticated than chick lit or Harry Potter at the moment!

[curiousboy]

Do you guys seek to constantly educate and improve yourselves or are you occasionally content to read for the pleasure of the story and escapism?

Think my brain might implode if I tried to read anything more sophisticated than chick lit or Harry Potter at the moment!

What`s chick lit? What a lazy bastard I am, why don`t I look it up myself? Hre`s what I found:

term used to denote genre fiction written for and marketed to young women, especially single, working women

Hey, you are not allowed to read that stuf..

Ok, now, excluding you and all no italian members, profiting by this little joke I will suggest a lite (to answer with a "no" to your question) and funny book; my last toilet reading:

Fabio Volo: "Esco a fare 2 passi"

Cheers:

cb

[minx]

I'm currently reading this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Diary-Demen...00921362&sr=8-1

And its rubbish. I'm really struggling to get through it let alone enjoy it. It's supposed to be reflective of the average housewife and therefore I should be able to identify with the main character....what a load of absolute bollocks. It's rubbish, very unfunny and rather boring.

And I can read chick lit...lots of it now marketed towards young marrieds.

(I can't believe I'm officially a housewife - its just wrong.)

[gninori]

Do you guys seek to constantly educate and improve yourselves or are you occasionally content to read for the pleasure of the story and escapism?

Think my brain might implode if I tried to read anything more sophisticated than chick lit or Harry Potter at the moment!

welcome to this corner minx, and the answer is the first part you said
i dont pick up a book by pure chance but that should interest me because it's related to some subject some author that previously interested me, and so and so forth, making it an endless chain of choices, rarely by sheer occasionality. but when it happens this last way and i enjoy the reading (watching, talking, hanging out etc as applies to any field) i'm the happiest man in the world Edited January 22, 2008 by gninori

[minx]

I've still not finished it. Its really rubbish.

[freya4]

last book i read was

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1...apesOfWrath.jpg

great great classic, on the dignity in struggle of human condition
but it's multi-layered and offers many keys of reading
a book worth having on shelves
the style is amazing: from the broken poor english of american migrants to the lyrical pure language used in the descriptive intermissions
the first chapter is a masterpiece on itself

my last book was by Robert.G.Barret "crime scene cessnock"
Its about a nightclub doorman who gets himself into trouble with the law so he decides to get away to a health resort in Cessnock only to find himself at the scene of a suicide and in the end he solved it.

[minx]

I've just read most of the Phillipa Gregory books again...it's incredibly well written and researched historical fiction, and it really is hard to know where she's left the truth for story. Now reading Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir.

[curiousboy]

One of the books I read on the beach in Cambodia lately, laying in a hammock was "Atomised" by Michel Houellebecq ( I read it in german: "Elementarteilchen", french title: "Les Particules élémentaires")

Writer`s site:

http://www.houellebecq.info/english.php3

A brief critic of the book:

Houellebecq's controversial novel, which caused an uproar in France last year, finally reaches our shores. Whether it will make similar waves here remains to be seen, but its coolly didactic themes and schematic characterizations keep it from transcending faddish success. The story follows two half brothers, Michel Djerzinski and Bruno Cl ment. They have in common a minor Messalina of a mother, Janine Ceccaldi, who contributed most effectively to their upbringing by abandoning them--Bruno to his maternal grandmother, and Michel to Janine's second husband's mother. Bruno's is the harder life. Abused by fellow students at a boarding school, he grows into a perpetually horny adolescence, his sexual advances always rebuffed because he is ugly and devoid of personal charm. He spends the '70s and '80s exposing himself to young girls or masturbating. After his first marriage fails, he meets Christiane at an "alternative" vacation compound with a reputation for free love, and together they embark on a tawdry swingers' odyssey. Meanwhile, Michel (whose story is told in counterpoint) is so emotionally remote that he is unable to kiss his first girlfriend, the astonishingly beautiful Annabelle. In college, he loses sight of her and devotes himself to science, finally becoming a molecular biologist. Then, at 40, he meets Annabelle again. However, as Houellebecq puts it, "In the midst of the suicide of the West, it was clear that they had no chance." Once death cheats both Bruno and Michel of happiness, Michel develops the basis for eliminating sex by cloning humans. The novel is burdened throughout with Houellebecq's message, which equates sex with consumerism and ever darker fates. The writer also upholds the madonna-whore polarization, pigeonholing his female characters with tiresome predictability. Still, it isn't the ideology that hampers the narrative--it is Houellebecq's touted scientific theorizing, which, far from covering fresh ground, resorts to the shibboleths of popular science. Houellebecq is disgusted with liberal society, but his self-importance and humorlessness overwhelm his characters and finally will tax readers' patience. 40,000 first printing.

A bit "heavy" on the beginning, but this guy got a great writing style and soon I devoured the book!

I suggest it. Dot.

hugs buddies,

cb

[marlindickwater]

My 2 current reads are:
Blackwater: The rise of the world's most powerful mercinary army.
By Jeremy Scahill.

A book all of us should read. Private mercenary armies employed around the world by governments to do corporate dirty work and have no accountibility for the people they slaughter. In depth history of Erik Prince and his 10 billion dollar a year private kill squad for hire army.

Nuclear Nebraska
By Susan Cragin
A small county in rural Nebraska that is close to my heart, try's and succeeds in keeping the DOE (Department of Energy) from building a nuclear land fill in their county. A lesson of perseverance and devotion, and of what is right and wrong.


MD

That's all my literary scholars!!

[sam.]

Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty by Robert D. Friedel.
It covers the comercial History of Zippers.


The sexy zipper is a Nordic invention. A very good erotic read.