Recommend some books to me!

Here is a list of books you should read:
To be Slave, Julius Lester — Relatively quick read. Probably could use this for a week when you don’t have much time. This is a great compilation of slave diary entries that create a historical narative

A History of God the 4,000 year quest is a great read. Karen Armstrong at times can be a bit lenghty at times, she can not be accused of being incomplete.

While this is fiction, A wild sheep chase serves as a critique of modern and post-occupation Japan with it’s rampant my-home-ism and consumerism.

These three books will not disappoint you that’s for sure.

For science fiction, I’d recommend anything by Stanislaw Lem, such as “Memoirs of a Space Traveler”. I found it to be very fun and insightful.

The Crow Road by Iain Banks.

If you can actually keep up with this I’m sure I’ll think of some other suggestions, but if you desire something a bit lighter I found Mike Nelson’s Movie Megacheese and Mind over Matters to be quite good fun.

I know that this is an old one, but it’s a golden one which every man or woman should read to understand each other better
Men is from Mars
women is from Venus

by John Gray

So simple, yet so difficult… Some of it is just so true that it’s embarrassing…. *lol*

Oh, and CONGRATS x millions for being accepted to 9rules. I had a hunch that you might be
Have a hilaroius Happy New Year all of you - even the cat

I’d like to recommend ‘The Stars My Desitantion” by Alfred Bester - a really strange book
Any Discworld book - maybe you should read one a week, I think it’s 52 by now..
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

I love the “52 books in 52 weeks”-idea, so I’d like to recommend two books. But I’m completely unsure if you could like them:
Rebecca Walker: Black, White and Jewish and
Sherley Anne Williams: Dessa Rose.
The first one is an autobiography, the second one a modern slave narrative. I read both books at university and I think they are both very interesting to gain an insight into the the self-empowerment of african american women. Also very good in this context: Toni Morissons “Beloved” (although I thought it was rather hard to read because of the - for me unfamilliar - narrative structure) ans Paule Marshalls “Brown Girl, Brownstones”.
And I really love “In our Times” - Ernest Hemmingway shortstories.

Happy New Year!

By the way: I got four books for christmas (three Terry Prattchets and Hape Kerkelings “Ich bin dann mal weg”) and have already read two of them. I think I will finish the third book today

I really should read more. Since I’ve been out of school, I haven’t really read anything! But there were a few good books that I was forced to read. Have you ever read Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse? I read it twice and thoroughly enjoyed it both times. I’m not even at all a religious or spiritual person, but it was interesting and different.

And happy New Year! By the way, in your next post you need to write 5 things about yourself that we don’t know. You have no choice, because I tagged you!

Please, Please, PLEASE read Jennifer Government by Max Barry. You won’t be disappointed.

Yeah, Nationstates was fun for a bit..but the book is way better than nationstates ever was. Glad to hear you added it to the list. I look forward to hearing what you think of it.

Hi Josh

You might enjoy reading a book in progress: Harry McFry Investigates the Case of the Missing Family mixes current-day mystery with events in the Spanish Civil War. Currently running in at about 100,000 words, it’s scheduled to end in a few weeks, and is available online for your perusal.

Kind Regards

THJnr

If you’d like a quick read to catch up, try The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or one of the other collections. Yum I need to catch up too but am reading a Thomas Hardy book (Under the Greenwood Tree) and it takes a little bit of getting into…

Some of my favorite books are:
A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Iriving (He also wrote The World According to Garp.)
Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follet (Usally writes spy novels, but this is a historical novel about a stone mason who wants to build a cathedral, i.e. be more than a laborer - become an artist. I was amazed at the realism. Hard to believe that the writer didn’t actually live in those times.)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court - Mark Twain (Not to be confused with the countless lowbrow movie spinoffs.)

Bit late maybe but the year’s not over yet. Don’t know if you’ve heard of the Blog a Penguin project? Runs in the UK and sends people a free Penguin classic if they promise to review it within 6 weeks. There’s some good reviews on there (and some really rubbish ones) and it’s a great place for ideas: http://www.blogapenguinclassic.co.uk/site/pcBooks.php5