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Favourite book
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
What to do if You Have a Small Thing - Edabomb
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
What to do if You Have a Small Thing - Edabomb
Re: Favourite book thread
Kris_man wrote: What to do if You Have a Small Thing - Edabomb
Anyway,
John Marsden- "Tomorrow when the the war began" Series
Lances Armstong- "It's not about the bike"
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mine are:
Australian books:
1988 - Andrew McGahan
Metro - Alasdair Duncan
Zigzag Street - Nick Earls
Of a Boy - Sonya Harnett
Stasiland - Anna Funder
classics:
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
To kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Tess of the D'Urbervilles -Thomas Hardy
Literature: - Fiction
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Fight club - Chuck Palahniuk
The virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Literature: - Non-Fiction/Biography:
Anne Frank - the Diary of a Little Girl - Anne Frank
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Ugly - Constance Briscoe
Junior fiction:
Sweet Tea - Brian Ridden
Saving Francesca - Melina Marchetta
Playwrights:
Box the Pony - Leah Purcell
X-stacy - Margery Forde
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
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Australian books:
1988 - Andrew McGahan
Metro - Alasdair Duncan
Zigzag Street - Nick Earls
Of a Boy - Sonya Harnett
Stasiland - Anna Funder
classics:
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
To kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Tess of the D'Urbervilles -Thomas Hardy
Literature: - Fiction
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Fight club - Chuck Palahniuk
The virgin Suicides - Jeffery Eugenides
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Literature: - Non-Fiction/Biography:
Anne Frank - the Diary of a Little Girl - Anne Frank
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Ugly - Constance Briscoe
Junior fiction:
Sweet Tea - Brian Ridden
Saving Francesca - Melina Marchetta
Playwrights:
Box the Pony - Leah Purcell
X-stacy - Margery Forde
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
i'm a self-proclaimed book-nerd...
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greeneyed wrote:I'm disappointed we haven't had deeper discussion of the meanig of the books yet.
I can add some...
I like "To Kill a Mockingbird" Harper Lee
"The Great Gatsby" F Scott Fitzgerald
"Sons and Lovers" DH Lawrence
ah we should, but which ones, and what particular aspects do you want to mention? i've read and deconstructed all the books i've mentioned (mostly for uni purposes) but you can get the ball rolling greeneyed
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Re: Favourite book thread
Dunno whats worse, me writing about my small thing, or you picking it up and reading itKris_man wrote:On the Road - Jack Kerouac
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S Thompson
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
What to do if You Have a Small Thing - Edabomb
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What glasses? What shirts??greeneyed wrote:What did you make of the glasses in The Great Gatsby Ella?
And what did you make of the images of Gatsby's shirts?
I think my essay question for that book was "In the Great Gatsby, what was Fitzgerald trying to say about the American Dream?" I'll see if I can dig up the essay haha.
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Yes, when I studied it it was the same thing. We had to compare it with 'The Talented Mr Ripley'. Someone dies in a pool at the end??Kris_man wrote:What glasses? What shirts??greeneyed wrote:What did you make of the glasses in The Great Gatsby Ella?
And what did you make of the images of Gatsby's shirts?
I think my essay question for that book was "In the Great Gatsby, what was Fitzgerald trying to say about the American Dream?" I'll see if I can dig up the essay haha.
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That's all you remember? haha. I certainly don't remember GE's glasses and shirts haha. We had the choice with comparing it to a few other American Dream themed novels: Grapes of Wrath, Catcher in the Rye, etc. Some great books from that era imo, although two of my favourites, On the Road and Fear and Loathing, weren't in the course surprisingly.Raiders_Lover_18 wrote:Yes, when I studied it it was the same thing. We had to compare it with 'The Talented Mr Ripley'. Someone dies in a pool at the end??Kris_man wrote:What glasses? What shirts??greeneyed wrote:What did you make of the glasses in The Great Gatsby Ella?
And what did you make of the images of Gatsby's shirts?
I think my essay question for that book was "In the Great Gatsby, what was Fitzgerald trying to say about the American Dream?" I'll see if I can dig up the essay haha.
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I remember some basics. There was a big house. An island. A cheating couple. Wealth corrupted the American Dream or something like that. Gatsby was the protagonist's ideal of the American Dream which ended up being false and corrupt.Kris_man wrote:That's all you remember? haha. I certainly don't remember GE's glasses and shirts haha. We had the choice with comparing it to a few other American Dream themed novels: Grapes of Wrath, Catcher in the Rye, etc. Some great books from that era imo, although two of my favourites, On the Road and Fear and Loathing, weren't in the course surprisingly.Raiders_Lover_18 wrote:Yes, when I studied it it was the same thing. We had to compare it with 'The Talented Mr Ripley'. Someone dies in a pool at the end??Kris_man wrote:What glasses? What shirts??greeneyed wrote:What did you make of the glasses in The Great Gatsby Ella?
And what did you make of the images of Gatsby's shirts?
I think my essay question for that book was "In the Great Gatsby, what was Fitzgerald trying to say about the American Dream?" I'll see if I can dig up the essay haha.
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Yeah there's a big ass one in Bondi Westfields. Best thing is there's a cafe, and there are couches where you can sit and preview your books.Ella_Ruiz wrote:gee you're game BSB Raiderman! i wanted to buy Moral Disorder by Margaret Atwood, and it was nearly $50, and i was like, i'll wait till it's in paperback,
Btw, has anyone heard of a bookstore called BORDERS? it's got everything in there!!!!
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we have one in Elizabeth Street in the Brisbane CBD that's been there for ages, but they've just established new ones in two of the Westefield shopping centres (Chermside and Garden City/Mt.Gravatt) - they all have a Gloria Jeans coffee shopKris_man wrote: Yeah there's a big ass one in Bondi Westfields. Best thing is there's a cafe, and there are couches where you can sit and preview your books.
Went to one in West Edmonton mall in Edmonton Canada last year (was also a Starbucks), picked up a Lennox Lewis biography for $5- and some really good Tapas recipe books for under $10- so when they have a sale they really do have a sale but I was unaware they were in Oz.Ella_Ruiz wrote:we have one in Elizabeth Street in the Brisbane CBD that's been there for ages, but they've just established new ones in two of the Westefield shopping centres (Chermside and Garden City/Mt.Gravatt) - they all have a Gloria Jeans coffee shopKris_man wrote: Yeah there's a big ass one in Bondi Westfields. Best thing is there's a cafe, and there are couches where you can sit and preview your books.
I make sure I never pay over $30- for my hard covers and generally somewhere will have them on sale so I'm only spending around $60- a year on them. My wife thinks I'm mad lugging 400 page hard covers around when we go OS but I don't care.
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The glasses in Gatsby... I'm assuming GE means the glasses on the billboard which has the picture of the giant optometrist (name escapes me).
Always took it to be 'big-brother' type imagery, with corporate, soulless America looking down on all the people going about their business, and how hollow that world was/is compared to Gatsby's built-up image (in his own mind of course) of Daisy and the wonderful life they would have had together.
Gatsby is my favourite book of all time - I have read it over 30 times - when I have nothing to read I read it again. Fitzgerald's use of language is perfect IMO.
Always took it to be 'big-brother' type imagery, with corporate, soulless America looking down on all the people going about their business, and how hollow that world was/is compared to Gatsby's built-up image (in his own mind of course) of Daisy and the wonderful life they would have had together.
Gatsby is my favourite book of all time - I have read it over 30 times - when I have nothing to read I read it again. Fitzgerald's use of language is perfect IMO.
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Wilbur Smith fan here as well, The Quest rounds out the whole egyptian series really well, although it moves away from the realistic Egypt he was depicting in River God and more towards fantasy.BSB Raiderman wrote:I tend to only read Wilbur Smith's books these days, I have read them all and have started collecting them in hard cover. Reading his new one at the moment and find it hard to put down but I don't want it to finish.
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The Tomorrow Series by John Marsden
Christian Jacq's egpyt novels
Dan Brown's Novels
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To Kill A Mockingbird is a stone cold classic, and Harper Lee gets my eternal love for that...
My fav books are these
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
Neal Stevenson - Snow Crash
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
and yeah... read David Mitchell... I have never found a more inventive author with such an amazing grasp of language...
My fav books are these
David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas
Neal Stevenson - Snow Crash
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy
and yeah... read David Mitchell... I have never found a more inventive author with such an amazing grasp of language...
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I agree, they use it quite widely through many english curriculums in many of the secondary schools in Queensland, not sure if they so the same down in NSW or ACT.glassandahalf wrote:To Kill A Mockingbird is a stone cold classic,
I remember back in 2002, in the Rock Eistedfodd Challenge, Randwick boy's and girl's highschools based their production on this book, and won the competition.
it's a compellling story. I always think of the aspects of racism, and how Brave Atticus was going for the Underdog, and Bob Ewell - what a pathetic rednecked low-life!