Roisu's comments (member since Jan 04, 2009)

Roisu's comments from the The Next Best Book Club group.

Loathed and despised it. Despicable book.

God, where to start........

The first book that ever made me really think was 'Is anybody listening?' by Larry O'Loughlin. I read it when I was 11, it was like being kicked in the stomach.

What else..Media Control The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda by Noam Chomsky turned me off voting. Anything by Chomsky makes me think.

Heidi did too. Read it when I was 7, it had a big effect on me. It's one of my all-time favourite books.

Theres so many....Evasion is also fantastic and made me think a lot.

Also...The Cosmic Code Quantum Physics As the Language of Nature by Heinz R. Pagels made me think a lot, its mind- blowing!

1. Lyra Silvertongue- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.

2. Heidi- Heidi by Johanna Spri

3. Severus Snape- Harry Potter Series

4. Ugly Girl- Big Mouth and Ugly Girl- Joyce Carol Oates.

5. Mrs. Coulter- His Dark Materials series.

6. Jane Eyre- Jane Eyre

7. Danny's dad- Danny the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl.

My favourite song at the moment is 'Super Tuesday' by Leftover Crack.

Whenever I'm down, I read Juno & Juliet A Novel. Its incredibly funny without being trivial. Its also uplifting thought-provoking.

Animal Farm by George Orwell- absolutely love it.

Constantly. If I've just read a book that I really like, I'll re-read it tons of times until I practically have parts of it memorised.

I agree with Jessica, when you re-read some books, you discover new things to appreciate and love, and also some stuff you didn't notice before.

I constantly soundtrack books that I read. In fact, when I was 11 reading H.P. & the Goblet of Fire, I had a copy where I wrote down all the songs and where they corresponded to the different parts of the book!

If I'm reading H.P. & the Prisoner of Azkaban, the part where they are in the Shack with Sirius, I HAVE to listen to the instrumental version of 'Oops I did it again'.

Hey, welcome! I'm from Southern Ireland!

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold- I could't put it down once I read the first sentence.

Thanks Doni! Yep, I'm female. El, Emma Goldman is a legend! I agree with much of what she says.. I think I might try what the author Inga Muscio does in 'Cunt: A declaration of Independence' and read only female authors for the whole summer.

Oh, and I forgot another book written by female authors, which I haven't read yet, but I've heard is amazing: Off the Map by Hib Chickena.

Hey Emilee, welcome!

Hey, welcome!

There are some great women writers out there, like....

Classics

1.To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
2. The Bronte Sisters: Wuthering Heights,Jane Eyre,Agnes Grey
3. Of course, Jane Austin

Non-fiction
1.Naomi Klein, who wrote No Logo No Space, No Choice, No Jobs, and The Shock Doctrine The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
2. Samantha Power who wrote A Problem from Hell America and the Age of Genocide. This won the Pulitzer Prize
3.Inga Muscio who wrote one of my all time favourite books Cunt A Declaration of Independence
4. Emma Goldman
5. Anne Frank
6. 2. Virginia Woolf

Non- chick-lit
1. Anne Rice who wrote Interview With the Vampire
2. Joyce Carol Oates Solstice
3. Toni Morrison who wrote The Bluest Eye
4. Alice Sebold who wrote The Lovely Bones
5. Alice Walker who wrote The Color Purple

Chick Lit
Theres some good recommendations about female chick lit authors already but heres a few more...
1. Marian Keyes Watermelon
2. Karin Kallmaker

Poetry,plays
1. Elizabeth Bishop
2. Sylvia Plath
3. Susan Glaspell Trifles
4. Shirley Graham

Others..
1. Alice Holman The Last Days Murder List
2. Nandita da Cunha The Magic of Maya
3. Laurell K. Hamilton
5. Flora Nwapa Efuru.

I have tried to be as inclusive as I can (for the short amount of time I have to write this) by including female authors from all around the world. There are some amazing female authors out there, and there are TONS more that I didn't include. Hope thats some help! Happy reading! :-)

The Pact: A Love Story is excellent.

Evasion

I promise you, this book will broaden your horizens.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X+
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien x+
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte x+
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X+
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X+
6 The Bible X
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X+
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell *
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman X+
10 Great Epectations - Charles Dickens X
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare *
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien X
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger X
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell X
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald *
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams *
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy *
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens *
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X+
34 Emma - Jane Austen *
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen *
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X+
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell X+
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X HATED.
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X+
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding *
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen *
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon *
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck X
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov *
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X+
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Aleandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac *
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X+
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath X
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens X
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker X+
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White X
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn X
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X+
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad *
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Eupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks *
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare *
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl X+
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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Loved: 16
To read: 16

Thanks a million, guys! I'll check them out.

Hey,

So I absolutely love reading other peoples (published!) diaries/journals. Problem is, I don't know of all that many. I've read the Diary of Anne Frank, would anyone recommend some others?

I'm Irish. Julian Gough, and Yeats.