HeadingEast
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You've gotta fight for your right to SFK
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Post by HeadingEast on Sept 4, 2003 11:37:35 GMT 10
Lord of the Rings - I need no more books than that
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Kalacora
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I am the ruler of the fifth level of hell... the place you DON'T want to end up...!
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Post by Kalacora on Sept 4, 2003 16:53:19 GMT 10
Lord Of The Rings is three books anyways  ... and if you're lucky to get through the ten paged detailed descriptions of a small flower, you don't have much time to read many other books anyways... sorry... weird mood... good book in the end... very good... especially if you're into the fantasy side of things... bye...  |
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Post by cellardoor on Sept 4, 2003 17:33:59 GMT 10
hmm so many to chooooose from
Harry Potter of course
Orwell's 1984
Jeffrey Eugenedes (crap spelling) - the Virgin Suicides
Janet Fitch - White Oleander
Margaret Atwood - the Handmaid's tale
Philip K. Dick - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (most people know it as Blade Runner)
my memory is crap. that's all i can think of for the moe.
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Post by loux2 on Sept 5, 2003 13:41:21 GMT 10
if you haven't already left canberra for today and youy bring me the bladerunner one  thankya dudette i think i've told you before to let me borrow  |
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Post by back2u on Sept 7, 2003 16:36:02 GMT 10
"Queen of the Damned" by Anne Rice but I guess you have to read "the Vampire Lestat" to fully appreciate it, don't waste time with interview if you read this series though. My favourite is the chapter on Baby Jenks.
Sally Morgan's "My place" is a good and interesting book too.
And if you play music Read Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy it's only short but it's pretty brilliant.
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Post by caelestis on Sept 7, 2003 16:38:31 GMT 10
sentimental favourite: the thief of always, by clive barker.
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this guy is a brilliant and/or completely nuts.
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fatalistic
beautiful shark
"Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero." ~Horace Ode
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Post by fatalistic on Sept 12, 2003 13:02:26 GMT 10
Conversations Before The End of Time – by Suzi Gablik
-recommended reading for any artist, especially painters and installation artists. Discusses in dialogue format the role of artists, and art in society.
* Schindler’s List – by Thomas Keneally
- self explanatory.
* The Prophet – by Kahlil Gibran
- the most beautiful poetry. eg.
“When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.”<br>
* A Terrible Beauty – by Peter Watson
- “Unique narrative of the twentieth century. Unlike more conventional histories, where the focus is on political events and personalities, on wars, treaties and elections, this book concentrates on the IDEAS that made the century so rewarding, rich and provocative….brings together the main areas of thought and juxtaposes the most original and influential ideas of our time…encyclopedic…stimulating…surprising.”<br>
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tilted
captain
the madcap laughed at the man on the border
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Post by tilted on Sept 14, 2003 10:03:05 GMT 10
He lives next to my uncle's beach house at Bilgola and they're good friends with him..
we all go up there on Christmas and Tom comes round mid-afternoon drunk wrapped in christmas paper and ribbons ;D,
usually starts arguing with my dad/uncle about political issues and tells my mum about his next book...
i think it was last time he said i was the quietest Gyles he'd ever met... (gyles is my last name.. ) my dad and uncle are pretty loud and opinionated!! funny. cos i'm pretty loud, but on xmas i'm always really shy because i'm the youngest and everyone's yelling hehe.
anywho. that was just random.
oh did you know he was a Catholic priest at one stage? interesting... he's such a friendly old leprochaun.
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Post by Glen on Oct 12, 2003 0:40:20 GMT 10
Tomorrow When The War Began series, Letters From The Inside, Winter - John Marsden Deep Thoughts and Deeper Thoughts - Jack Hendy (if you call them books...? They rip off philosophy... for example... Imagine: A world without war, a world without hate... then I can imagine us attacking that world because we'd never expect it...) I'm reading my way through the Tomorrow When The War Began series at the moment...hasn't lost any of it's impact over time! Marsden is a hell of a writer. Anmd Jack Hendy is great! My favorite has to be this: "If you're robbing a bank, and your pants suddenly fall down, I think it's okay to laugh, and to let the hostages laugh too, because come on, life is funny. " |
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Post by Hazy Recollections on Oct 13, 2003 21:12:09 GMT 10
I really really loved the "Tomorrow Series", and now when any adult comes into my work i always recommend they buy one for their kids. I should be getting a commission from Marsden...
anyway, my fav books are mostly biography types:
- Marching Powder : Rusty Young
- Stasiland : Anna Funder
- The Power of One: Bryce Courtney
- all of the Patricia Cornwall series
- Three Dollars : Eliott Perlman
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Post by streetlights on Nov 8, 2003 11:23:14 GMT 10
I'm changing mine! I just re-read a book called Memoirs Of Geisha, sad and beautiful. It's by Arthur Golden and i recommend to some not all. Interesting too.
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Post by loux2 on Nov 13, 2003 13:28:51 GMT 10
i've been meaning to read that for soo long thanks for reminding me  |
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natty
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Post by natty on Nov 13, 2003 13:36:32 GMT 10
i had to read maestro for school - very good read!
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Post by TheAstronaut on Nov 14, 2003 15:22:45 GMT 10
I really really loved the "Tomorrow Series", and now when any adult comes into my work i always recommend they buy one for their kids. I should be getting a commission from Marsden... anyway, my fav books are mostly biography types: - Marching Powder : Rusty Young - Stasiland : Anna Funder - The Power of One: Bryce Courtney - all of the Patricia Cornwall series - Three Dollars : Eliott Perlman I was introduced to the Tomorrow series only two years ago and bought all the books, they're amazing, so close to home! Well, maybe for Victorians more than myself  I find some of the Patricia Cornwall books interesting, I read one in grade nine and found it a bit gruesome. I just finished a book today, I bought it a year ago [read about 20% of it at the time] and never finished it! I picked it up a few weeks back and started again, and found it to be very good. When you wake and find me gone by Maureen McCarthy, its about a girl in Melbourne who finds out a horrible secret about her past and goes to Ireland and discovers her true identity. Very good for anybody whose interested in the IRA issues in Ireland, and the Hunger Strikes of 1981. |
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Post by Rebelle on Nov 18, 2003 1:25:52 GMT 10
I don't read real books much... but my faves include:
-All of Nicci French's books.
-Tintin adventures by Hergé (original French version).
-L'Enfant des neiges by Nicolas Vanier (The Internet says the English translation is called The Wild, it is the story of a father adventurer which leaves with his wife and young child for an expedition in the west of Canada+Alaska, the father tells the story of the expedition with his beautiful pictures to support the story... Really awesome to read. Makes me wanna do the same expedition!)
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thankya dudette
