What was the last book you've read? - Page 46

lockjaw · Oct 27, 2009, 11:14 AM

I just finised Tales of the City

Bitin pa!!

cyberfunk · Oct 27, 2009, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baby_gee3

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. It was fascinating. Neil Gaiman does not disappoint. By the end of the book, I sincerely hoped that it was a series.

Thanks for the heads-up baby_gee3!! I read the book already.. Galing talaga gumawa ng urban mythology ni Gaiman. Remind mo a Clive Barker book and Khoelos The Alchemist before. Got the Audio book read by Neil Gaiman himself!!

summeralpha · Oct 28, 2009, 07:11 PM

the third of my 6 finance books. hahahah

if we go fiction, it's The Book Thief. Awesome book.

baby_gee3 · Oct 28, 2009, 11:30 PM

^I absolute agree. Book Thief is awesome. The ending broke my heart.

@cyberfunk = You're very welcome! Bitin no? Hindi ko pa natrry maglisten sa audiobook from Neil. I might try it soon!

I just finished reading Mansfield Park by Austen. It was dragging in the beginning, the heroine Fanny Price a bit vapid for my taste (like Anne Elliot). I root for the likes of the spoiled Emma or the outspoken Elizabeth or romantic Marianne. Nevertheless, in the middle, it got me really interested yet surprisingly unattached at the end. I was drawn to the Crawfords and was sort of wishing a happy ending for Henry. But alas, he was presented as the ultimate villain with Jane Austen highlighting the constancy of Fanny's morals and unwavering principles. Why can't the manwh0re be tamed by the oh-so-righteous Fanny? I really wanted him to be reformed. Sighs. Sorry for the rant.

C.I.C.C.I · Oct 29, 2009, 09:10 AM

Paperback
186 pages
Copyright 1964
ISBN 0-8166-3862-4

A SINGLE MAN -CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life of his own after the sudden death of his partner, determined to persist in the routines of daily life. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.

...wakaranai · Nov 6, 2009, 02:27 PM

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice

4/5 - and not because of the sexy parts.

sweet_pooh · Nov 6, 2009, 03:50 PM

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

parang mas gusto ko yung movie

Zorro_Legend · Nov 6, 2009, 05:45 PM

Star Wars The Clone Wars by R.A. Salvatore...

But I don't fancy his style that much...

anima9 · Nov 6, 2009, 05:46 PM

Memoirs of Klitorika by Klitorika

I read this because I wanted to know how a typical Filipina goes through life, specially when she gets sexually aroused LOL

...wakaranai · Nov 6, 2009, 06:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sweet_pooh

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

parang mas gusto ko yung movie

i agree. maganda kasi yung pagkakagawa ng movie. and Brad Pitt's there. nuff said.

dikya · Nov 6, 2009, 08:28 PM

The Hunger Games -suzanne collins

anima9 · Nov 6, 2009, 11:15 PM

^lol so talagang maganda sya? kala ko kasi sikat lang sya dahil sa mga posters nya and stuff.

dikya · Nov 7, 2009, 12:46 AM

yup maganda sya, interesting yung story.
..parang syang battle royale x survivor

angus25 · Nov 7, 2009, 03:17 PM

Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago. It's a funny and thought-provoking book. I am actually blogging about it. If you are interested, please visit Book Rhapsody.

cyberfunk · Nov 7, 2009, 03:45 PM

Panalo!! One of the best Grisham book I've read.. Short stories!! He reminds me of Norman Mailer na talaga and I like it when he goes into that Painted House book genre talaga..

cWaYzi · Nov 7, 2009, 05:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anima9

^lol so talagang maganda sya? kala ko kasi sikat lang sya dahil sa mga posters nya and stuff.

maganda po talaga sya promise

Anyway, last book na binasa ko CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger

C.I.C.C.I · Nov 8, 2009, 04:58 AM

hardback
290 pages
copyright 1990
ISBN 0-8050-1176-5

THE LAST STATION: A NOVEL OF TOLSTOY'S LAST YEAR - JAY PARINI

By 1910, Leo Tolstoy , the world's most famout author, had become an almost religious figure surrounded in his lavish estate south of Moscow by family and followers alike. Set in the tumultuous last year of the count's life, The Last Station centers on the battle for his soul waged by his wife, Sofya Andreyevna, and his leading disciple, Vladimir Chertkov. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealkth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight for his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny station at Astapovo, he believes he is dying alone, while over one hundred newspaperman campt outside awaiting hourly reports on his condition. Fifty yards away, the countess and her adult children simmer in a first-class train as Chertkov denies them access to Toltoy's deathbed.

Narrated in six different voice, including Tolstoy's own form his diaries and fiction, this epic story unfolds with all the suspense of a thriller. Out of the delicate interplay of voice and text emerge his life and work with all their grotesque contradictions. Tolstoy's marriage to Sofya Andreyevna, one of the most infamous mismatches in history, is depicted with sensitivity. A portrit of a literary genius who aspired to nothing less than sainthood, The Last Station is richly inventive novel that dances bewitchingly between fact and fiction.

hardback
268 pages
copyright 2004
ISBN 0-312-31594-5

MAGICAL THINKING - AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS

From the number one bestselling author of Running With Scissors and Dry comes Augusten Burrough's most eagerly anticipated collection yet: true stories that give voice to the thoughts that we all have but dare not mention.

It begins with a Tang Instant-Breakfast Drink television commercial:

"Yes, you, Augusten You were great. We want you." I can now trace my manic adult tendencies to this moment. It was the frist time I felt deeply thrilled about something just a fraction of an instant after being completely crushed. I believe those three words "We want you" were enough to cause my brain to rewire itself, and from then on, I would require more than other people. ... from Magical Thinking's Commercial Break"

A contest of wills with a derailed cleaning lady. The execution of a rodent carried out with military precision and utter horror. Telemarketing revenge. A different kind of "roof work." Dating an undertaker who drives a mini-van. This is the fabric of Augusten Burrough's life: a collection of true stories that are universal in their appeal yet unabashedly intimate, stories that shine a flashlight into both dark and hilarious places. With Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs goes where other memoirists fear to tread.

hardback
176 pages
copyright 2008

WISHFUL DRINKING - CARRIE FISHER

Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen.
Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It's an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty -- Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher -- homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed

talkshowsonmute · Nov 9, 2009, 04:44 AM

the accidental mind.

princessvogue · Nov 9, 2009, 10:57 AM

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

vampire lestat · Nov 10, 2009, 08:30 PM

^ To Kill A Mocking Bird is one of my all-time favorites! He he he

I just finished reading LOVE by Nobel Price Winner for Literature Toni Morisson. It's a good one.


Nov 7, 2009, 03:17 PM	#914
angus25 Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Baguio CIty	I am still reading Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago. It's a funny and thought-provoking book. I am actually blogging about it. If you are interested, please visit Book Rhapsody.


Nov 8, 2009, 04:58 AM	#917
C.I.C.C.I Castro, San Francisco CA Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: World's Gay Mecca	finished the following while vacationing in Kona Hawaii hardback 290 pages copyright 1990 ISBN 0-8050-1176-5 THE LAST STATION: A NOVEL OF TOLSTOY'S LAST YEAR - JAY PARINI By 1910, Leo Tolstoy , the world's most famout author, had become an almost religious figure surrounded in his lavish estate south of Moscow by family and followers alike. Set in the tumultuous last year of the count's life, The Last Station centers on the battle for his soul waged by his wife, Sofya Andreyevna, and his leading disciple, Vladimir Chertkov. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealkth, his thirteen children, and a life of hedonism, Tolstoy makes a dramatic flight for his home. Too ill to continue beyond the tiny station at Astapovo, he believes he is dying alone, while over one hundred newspaperman campt outside awaiting hourly reports on his condition. Fifty yards away, the countess and her adult children simmer in a first-class train as Chertkov denies them access to Toltoy's deathbed. Narrated in six different voice, including Tolstoy's own form his diaries and fiction, this epic story unfolds with all the suspense of a thriller. Out of the delicate interplay of voice and text emerge his life and work with all their grotesque contradictions. Tolstoy's marriage to Sofya Andreyevna, one of the most infamous mismatches in history, is depicted with sensitivity. A portrit of a literary genius who aspired to nothing less than sainthood, The Last Station is richly inventive novel that dances bewitchingly between fact and fiction. hardback 268 pages copyright 2004 ISBN 0-312-31594-5 MAGICAL THINKING - AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS From the number one bestselling author of Running With Scissors and Dry comes Augusten Burrough's most eagerly anticipated collection yet: true stories that give voice to the thoughts that we all have but dare not mention. It begins with a Tang Instant-Breakfast Drink television commercial: "Yes, you, Augusten You were great. We want you." I can now trace my manic adult tendencies to this moment. It was the frist time I felt deeply thrilled about something just a fraction of an instant after being completely crushed. I believe those three words "We want you" were enough to cause my brain to rewire itself, and from then on, I would require more than other people. ... from Magical Thinking's Commercial Break" A contest of wills with a derailed cleaning lady. The execution of a rodent carried out with military precision and utter horror. Telemarketing revenge. A different kind of "roof work." Dating an undertaker who drives a mini-van. This is the fabric of Augusten Burrough's life: a collection of true stories that are universal in their appeal yet unabashedly intimate, stories that shine a flashlight into both dark and hilarious places. With Magical Thinking, Augusten Burroughs goes where other memoirists fear to tread. hardback 176 pages copyright 2008 WISHFUL DRINKING - CARRIE FISHER Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean (well, sort of ) with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In Wishful Drinking, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood in-breeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen. Intimate, hilarious, and sobering, Wishful Drinking is Fisher, looking at her life as she best remembers it (what do you expect after electroshock therapy?). It's an incredible tale: the child of Hollywood royalty -- Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher -- homewrecked by Elizabeth Taylor, marrying (then divorcing, then dating) Paul Simon, having her likeness merchandized on everything from Princess Leia shampoo to PEZ dispensers, learning the father of her daughter forgot to tell her he was gay, and ultimately waking up one morning and finding a friend dead beside her in bed


Oct 27, 2009, 11:14 AM	#901
lockjaw Pinoypride! Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: sa dakong paroon	I just finised Tales of the City Bitin pa!!


Oct 28, 2009, 07:11 PM	#903
summeralpha Basking under the alpha sun Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: In motion	the third of my 6 finance books. hahahah if we go fiction, it's The Book Thief. Awesome book.


Oct 28, 2009, 11:30 PM	#904
baby_gee3 time traveler Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: hanging around	^I absolute agree. Book Thief is awesome. The ending broke my heart. *@cyberfunk* = You're very welcome! Bitin no? Hindi ko pa natrry maglisten sa audiobook from Neil. I might try it soon! I just finished reading *Mansfield Park* by *Austen.* It was dragging in the beginning, the heroine Fanny Price a bit vapid for my taste (like Anne Elliot). I root for the likes of the spoiled Emma or the outspoken Elizabeth or romantic Marianne. Nevertheless, in the middle, it got me really interested yet surprisingly unattached at the end. I was drawn to the Crawfords and was sort of wishing a happy ending for Henry. But alas, he was presented as the ultimate villain with Jane Austen highlighting the constancy of Fanny's morals and unwavering principles. Why can't the manwh0re be tamed by the oh-so-righteous Fanny? I really wanted him to be reformed. Sighs. Sorry for the rant.


Oct 29, 2009, 09:10 AM	#905
C.I.C.C.I Castro, San Francisco CA Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: World's Gay Mecca	Paperback 186 pages Copyright 1964 ISBN 0-8166-3862-4 A SINGLE MAN -CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life of his own after the sudden death of his partner, determined to persist in the routines of daily life. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.


Nov 6, 2009, 02:27 PM	#906
...wakaranai Give Me Flowers ♥ Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Team Alice&Jasper	The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice 4/5 - and not because of the sexy parts.


Nov 6, 2009, 03:50 PM	#907
sweet_pooh Member Join Date: Jul 2006	Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk parang mas gusto ko yung movie


Nov 6, 2009, 05:45 PM	#908
Zorro_Legend Member Join Date: Oct 2008	Star Wars The Clone Wars by R.A. Salvatore... But I don't fancy his style that much...


Nov 6, 2009, 05:46 PM	#909
anima9 The 9th Soul of Bravery Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Between spaces	Memoirs of Klitorika by Klitorika I read this because I wanted to know how a typical Filipina goes through life, specially when she gets sexually aroused LOL


Nov 6, 2009, 08:28 PM	#911
dikya by starlight Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: rockville	The Hunger Games -suzanne collins


Nov 6, 2009, 11:15 PM	#912
anima9 The 9th Soul of Bravery Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Between spaces	^lol so talagang maganda sya? kala ko kasi sikat lang sya dahil sa mga posters nya and stuff.


Nov 7, 2009, 12:46 AM	#913
dikya by starlight Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: rockville	yup maganda sya, interesting yung story. ..parang syang battle royale x survivor


Nov 7, 2009, 03:45 PM	#915
cyberfunk Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: cavite	Panalo!! One of the best Grisham book I've read.. Short stories!! He reminds me of Norman Mailer na talaga and I like it when he goes into that Painted House book genre talaga..


Nov 9, 2009, 04:44 AM	#918
talkshowsonmute Member Join Date: Feb 2009	the accidental mind.


Nov 9, 2009, 10:57 AM	#919
princessvogue Facile. Brezza. Bella. Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: City of Pink	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee


Nov 10, 2009, 08:30 PM	#920
vampire lestat Craving for Life.... Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: savage garden	^ To Kill A Mocking Bird is one of my all-time favorites! He he he I just finished reading LOVE by Nobel Price Winner for Literature Toni Morisson. It's a good one.