Next book I'd like to read

[Shabbeer]

Read his Millennium series?? I am on his 2nd book..... Found the first one very, very thrilling.....

[Ahtims]

I started the first but gave it up ( I had started it on an EReader, went home for holidays, when I came back I had forgotten about it.) But am planning to read the series soon as I have heard good things about those 3 books

[Muddle head]

Unfortunately i've seen all the three movies and they are GOOD! If someone says the books are better then i'll go read!

[Ahtims]

movies have come out??

[Muddle head]

Sorry am talking of the Millenium series, not the Hunger Games one.

[Shabbeer]

Oh is it???? Are the movies in English?

[Muddle head]

Swedish i guess, i patiently watched with subtitles, and they are good!

[Harsha]

I just read Animal Farm, and it is a brilliant book. Next, I have Night and Day by Virginia Woolf.. Haven't read any of her other works, anyone who has read?

[Muddle head]

Just got my copies of Hickory Dickory Shock and Delayed Monsoon from Flipkart. And then i have the Three Musketeers and Guide for the group reads. These are my next books!

[Sherin]

I'm reading Rebecca.

So far so good :)

[Muddle head]

ooh! A nice mushy mystery i guess, watched the non-Anthony Hopkins movie, so reluctant to 'read' now

[Sherin]

Same to you. Watched the Hitchcock one sometime back & liked it..

Was a bit reluctant to read ,but wanted to know what the rage was all about :)

And I don't think there's mush :)

[Muddle head]

oops, i meant alfred hitchcock, not anthony hopkins!

[Akanksha]

I'm gonna read vilette by charlotte bronte.

[Tarun]

I will stop reading everything and start with "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" once i m able to get my hands on it. Sad that it has run out of stock in the bookstores!!

[Avisek]

Well...I would suggest Delta of Venus if no one has objections.....or Wuthering Heights ????

[Abhijit]

Aacharya Didn't wrote: "Unfortunately i've seen all the three movies and they are GOOD! If someone says the books are better then i'll go read!"

The books are better. But then, I haven't seen any movie which betters the book its made from.

[Ahtims]

Have you ever read Delta of Venus? I found it too boring to continue. Wuthering Heights is quite good, but I have already read it twice - abridged,and then unabridged.
I want to read Vilette and Extremely loud--- too, but am not sure whether will be able to tuck in too many books at a time as I am already on the two monthly challenges and Life of Pi.

[Avisek]

I am reading Delta of Venus....And well, SMitha if you read about her life Anais Nin, you would not be surprised that she could pull this book through...For me, more than the pervertedness, the audacious voice of the lady in the time of 1930's held me in good stead...80 years down the line, still we dont have have writers exploring their dark side !!!! isnt it ??

[Ahtims]

if you say so, will try to read it with an open and intelligent mind (after researching about Anais Nin, as I have no idea who she is?)

[Akanksha]

@Smitha Vilette is pretty good....although the plot isn't that great and the end is kinda sad. It'll be much more enjoyable if you have a rudimentary knowledge of french but its not necessary.

[Avisek]

@akansha : Going by your review, I dont know how anyone will now even try to read Vilette !!!! I mean, it doesnt have a great plot, the narrative has a french concoction, its a grim affair.......

[Akanksha]

Hey people like tragic stories if titanic is anything to go by. And even if u don't know french it wouldn't make a great difference. The plot i agree isn't that great but the characters and the beauty of the descriptions makes up for it.

[Avisek]

Yeah...yeah....thats true...We people generally are sucker of this tragedy trends....As long as the protagonist remains unsatisfied or is so consumed by feelings that he dissolves himself never to enjoy his dreams and whims.....I dont know why but its so true !!! Every(Romantic genre) great tale has the protagonist unquenched.....

[Akanksha]

I know...but it kinda make sense happy endings are too good to be true. Tragedy is something people can associate with coz believe it or not(despite om shanti om) there are very few happy endings in life.

[Avisek]

Wont we be happy by finding escape from the reality ??? Create a parallel world where tragic endings are rare.....to get comforted by this thoughts and imaginations !!!!

[Ankita]

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[Mansee]

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[Ankita]

Thanks Mansee!
Do read and let me know! :-)

[Teja]

Have any of you read any Frank Miller's books? Stan Lee? Alan Moore? Will Eisner? I find graphic novels (yes, they are called graphic novels,not comics) much more intriguing, gripping and creative than most fiction stories.

[Ahtims]

I have never read graphic novels, though I bought one for my uncle (Japanese manga - original with Japanese & Eng subtitles) and flicked through it.
Frank Miller is Sin city, or something, right?

[Teja]

Frank Miller is guy who wrote Sin City, 300, Ronin. Manga is Japanese and they are usually released weekly or something of that frequency.

http://www.hbook.com/magazine/article...

[dely]

Seen that I am sick and have not the good concentration for difficult books I will start with The Piano Tuner. Somebody of you knows it? Is it a good book?

[Jyoti]

Villette by Charlotte Bronte is waiting in my desk drawer. Will take that up probably.

[Shivani]

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

[Ravi]

I am currently reading "The hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy" for the 3 rd time, and will start Catch 22 by Joseph Heller after that :)

[Book'd]

Losing my virginity and other dumb ideas

[dely]

I don't know what to read next :(
For sure I must relax my brain so stop non fiction for a while.

I am undecided between: Love Tales by Bunin, Memoirs from the House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky and The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov (yes, I love russian literature!).

[dely]

Chintan wrote: "The Idiot -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
have you read it dely?"

Yes. It is my favorite book ever.
I love prince Mishkin and his "love story" with Nastasja is something wonderful. Every time I think about this book I have no words to talk about it. It is a masterpiece and Dostoyevsky is a genius.

[Ahtims]

has anyone read 'the host'by Stephanie Meyer? how is it?

[Muddle head]

Nope, have heard rave reviews abt it, i tried the synopsys, it sounds more complicated than the Twilight series, hence gave up for later!

BTW, anyone read Nevil Shute's books? Was having a chat about books with my dad when he mentioned Ruined City. Seems that one was a non-detailed text for them 40 years ago in 1970!
Looks very interesting. I want to recommend that for our next group reads!

[Sudarshan]

BTW, anyone read Nevil Shute's books? Was having a chat ab..."

I've read some of Nevil Shute's books - On the Beach is considered one of the all-time classics, though it's darker than the rest of his work. A Town Like Alice is also very nice. His books have this very warm feeling to them, there's the feeling that 'people are basically good, and things will eventually be all right'. Well worth reading.

[[deleted user]]

The next book I'd like to read is one that would really blow my hair back.... if in fact I had hair. Patrick O'Brien's Master and Commander is well written and after reading the first few pages it's on the top of my to-read list. I might re-read Black Elk Speaks, one of the better spiritual books I've read. I also need to log in some non-fiction so Thich Naht Hanh's biography on the Buddha will be somewhere on the near literary horizon.

[dely]

Craig wrote: "I might re-read Black Elk Speaks, one of the better spiritual books I've read. I also need to log in some non-fiction so Thich Naht Hanh's biography on the Buddha will be somewhere on the near literary horizon. "

They seem both interesting, must note them.

[[deleted user]]

Black Elk Speaks is an unusual piece of work. The title character was the cousin of Crazy Horse, who have George Armstrong Custer the worst and last day of his life. But what makes the book interesting is that it's one of the few voices that come from the inside of native American Indian culture before it was wiped out. He was a shaman and gave long detailed descriptions of his visions which is very rare. Usually we know these cultures only by anthropologists who view them throught the sterile prism of science.

[dely]

Craig wrote: "Black Elk Speaks is an unusual piece of work. The title character was the cousin of Crazy Horse, who have George Armstrong Custer the worst and last day of his life. But what makes the book intere..."

I have found an italian edition, yeah!
It seems stupid but a lot of times some books are not translated.

[[deleted user]]

It depends on their market I guess. It's well worth reading. It's wonderfully simplistic yet poignant.

[dely]

I added it to my wishlist!

[[deleted user]]

May all of your wishes come true that don't come with malign results.

[dely]

Craig wrote: "May all of your wishes come true that don't come with malign results."

To me? Thanks.