what good book have you read lately?

[iratherlikeme]

I read Their Eyes in 11th grade for my term paper. I didn't care for it at all and didn't even want to finish it. I made a big fat 'F' on my paper for it, too.

I have to read aloud when I get to the dialogue and it annoys me to no end (like in Gone With the Wind). I'll try to give it another go after I finish Scarlett.

[kim]

I read "Brother Ray" the autobiography of Ray Charles about two months ago. I finally finished reading Zora Neal Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God".

[ZeldaFScott]

kim! What do you think of Zora's book? May I ask?

[kim]

AnnaKonda said:

kim! What do you think of Zora's book? May I ask?

I cried at the end it was moving. I hate that when Janine finally found someone who loved her unconditionally she lost him. I am curious to see how Halle Berry portrays Janine in the movie version.

[ZeldaFScott]

kim said:

I cried at the end it was moving. I hate that when Janine finally found someone who loved her unconditionally she lost him. I am curious to see how Halle Berry portrays Janine in the movie version.

I cried too. The good thing was, though, that she found all the fulfillment a woman can possibly ask for through that one, short, but genuine love. When she returned back home to tell her story, she had seen a love and a life that enabled her to find an inner peace that everybody longs for.
Choosing Halle Berry to play her is truly an interesting move ... I think she will portray Janies character well. I am so glad for Zora; I only hope the movie makers don't destroy the senisitivity she shows toward the subject.

Have you read more by her? I love the story "Drenched In Light."

[earthangel]

iratherlikeme said:

. I also put in a request for the movie, which I've never seen. For some reason, I can't get enough of Captain Rhett Butler.

Then you'll love him in the movie
I gotta find my two books-turned-movies and watch those...a lot of folks have told me The Joy Luck Club was a good movie but the book was kind of boring

[keres]

Anna, though I seriously doubt you`ll gonna read that book in near future, here is one readers review to "Dandelion Wine" from Amazon:


Very enjoyable, but difficult to explain

"It's the summer of 1928 in a small town in Illinois and Douglas Spaulding is 12 years old. And for the first time in his life he realizes that he is alive, truly alive. He begins keeping a list of all the "firsts" of the summer - first new pair of sneakers, first batch of dandelion wine bottled for the winter months, putting up the porch swing, etc. But with this new awarness of being alive comes the realization that he also will one day die.

This is a difficult book to explain. The writing style is incredible, almost poetic in some ways, and capable of creating powerful visual images and feelings. The beginning, especially when Douglas becomes aware of everything around him, is very moving. But towards the end, when he begins to recognize his own mortality, it gets a bit dark. The chapters are often very disconnected, as if they're snapshots instead of continuations of the story, and that adds to the sometimes dream-like quality of the writing.

This is a very enjoyable book, one that really causes you to think and perhaps even re-consider priorities. It's just a difficult book to summarize and explain."

***

I haven`t read it to the end yet, but I can tell that it`s a very well written and very good book indeed! Very thoughtful...Telling us, how we should appreciate the small things in our life..

[TemptsFanforLife]

I've just finished The Entity by Frank DeFelitta and The Abomination by Gordon McGill which is the fifth book in the Omen series. I kind of have a thing for horror and sci fi and fantasy.

[ken-du]

George Orwells "1984 " (third time) It will make you think.
I have read the entire " Left Behind " (11 books) series.
Well , i had the booke's on tape, that just like reading
--isnt it ?

[Aba21]

kim said:

I read "Brother Ray" the autobiography of Ray Charles about two months ago. I finally finished reading Zora Neal Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God". [/q

Borther Ray? What did you think? It was David Ritz's first autobiography. He was later to do Marvin Gaye. Were you surprised by it? There is a great articvle in the ROlling Sone about Ray's passing.

[kim]

Aba21 said:

kim said:

I read "Brother Ray" the autobiography of Ray Charles about two months ago. I finally finished reading Zora Neal Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God". [/q

Borther Ray? What did you think? It was David Ritz's first autobiography. He was later to do Marvin Gaye. Were you surprised by it? There is a great articvle in the ROlling Sone about Ray's passing.

It was a very honest and interesting book. I knew some things about Ray's personal life but I had no idea about all the amazing things he did. I admired the fact that he was fearless and the fact that even though he was disabled he didn't let that stop him from doing anything he wanted to do.

[kim]

AnnaKonda said:

I cried too. The good thing was, though, that she found all the fulfillment a woman can possibly ask for through that one, short, but genuine love. When she returned back home to tell her story, she had seen a love and a life that enabled her to find an inner peace that everybody longs for.
Choosing Halle Berry to play her is truly an interesting move ... I think she will portray Janies character well. I am so glad for Zora; I only hope the movie makers don't destroy the senisitivity she shows toward the subject.

Have you read more by her? I love the story "Drenched In Light."

I've read a couple of her short stories when I was younger but this was my first time reading a novel of hers.

[iratherlikeme]

I finished Scarlett Saturday. I liked it more than GWTW, but Rhett was hardly in this one until the end.

Time for Their Eyes, but I don't know when I'll get around to it. I finally got a job. I work at the library, lol. Hopefully I'll make enough in the next year to buy another car in August.

[ThezeThreeWordz]

book called.. "The Between" .. also by Tananarive Due is good.. if ya like horror/suspense novels.. check it out.. ... her subjects are out there what i likes about her..

[keres]

National Geographic`s list of 100 Greatest Adventure Books of All Time:


www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/0404/adventure_books_1-19.html


I have only these, so far:

11. Farthest North, by Fridtjof Nansen (1897)
In 1893, Nansen purposely froze his ship into the Arctic ice and traveled with the drift of the pack. When the ship approached striking distance of the Pole, he set out for it by dogsled, reaching the highest latitude yet attained by man before turning back to Norway. He was gone three years. The book is both an epic and a lyric masterpiece.

....

17. Kon-Tiki, by Thor Heyerdahl (1950)
Nine balsa-wood logs, a big square sail, a bamboo "cabin" with a roof made of banana leaves—thus did Norwegian Heyerdahl and his companions set sail from Peru toward Polynesia to prove a point: that the South Pacific was settled from the east. Point proved? Maybe not, but it's one hell of a ride—a daring tale, dramatically told.


...

38. Scott's Last Expedition: The Journals, by Robert Falcon Scott (1913)
Whatever else English explorers can do, they can almost always write. And when things are at their worst, they manage, somehow, to be most eloquent. That's the only word for Scott's Journals, with its entries running right to the end of his desperate race home from the South Pole. Scott's courage—and his mistakes—are known to everyone. Here it all is as he lived it, and as he died.