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Peewee Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 4:51 PM |
Can you recommend any books that have made you stop and think, something life changing or you just the WOW?
I have just finished The Celestine Prophesy by James Redfield
I Defo recommend it! It's a fiction story about a hunt for a manuscript through Peru. It kinda cover evolution/religion/spirituality etc.....very good read! |
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Joana Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 8:02 PM |
One of my favourite books and the one that always makes me think everytime I read it, is "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley!
"O brave new world, That has such people in't!"
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scummy Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 8:18 PM |
a book that makes me think about some stuff is definitely 'crimen y castigo' (not sure the right words in english) by Dostoievski, when i first read it, i understood so many things in life. of course now i see i was really stupid xD
another one is 'the metamorphosis' by franz kafka, now that's a good book to read! |
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scummy Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 8:19 PM |
a book that makes me think about some stuff is definitely 'crimen y castigo' (not sure the right words in english) by Dostoievski, when i first read it, i understood so many things in life. of course now i see i was really stupid xD
another one is 'the metamorphosis' by franz kafka, now that's a good book to read! |
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scummy Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 8:19 PM |
| sorry about that, this stupid computer grrr |
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Joana Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 8:28 PM |
scummy wrote: a book that makes me think about some stuff is definitely 'crimen y castigo' (not sure the right words in english) by Dostoievski, when i first read it, i understood so many things in life. of course now i see i was really stupid xD
another one is 'the metamorphosis' by franz kafka, now that's a good book to read!
Yeah!Great book!"Crime and Punishment"! |
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scummy Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 8:31 PM |
Joana wrote: scummy wrote: a book that makes me think about some stuff is definitely 'crimen y castigo' (not sure the right words in english) by Dostoievski, when i first read it, i understood so many things in life. of course now i see i was really stupid xD
another one is 'the metamorphosis' by franz kafka, now that's a good book to read!
Yeah!Great book!"Crime and Punishment"!
thank you about that, i thought it sounded spanglish xD |
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AbsolutPurple Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 8:42 PM |
| Dostoievski isn't a minor author...he wrote masterpieces - i have the "Karamazov brothers" on the night table. |
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AbsolutPurple Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 8:44 PM |
| life changing experience ? "Brazzaville beach" by William Boyd. |
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bogusblue Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 8:55 PM |
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Soledad) by Gabriel García Márquez
AMAZING. This book really changed my life when I read it. I was 14. It's my favorite book ever! |
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scummy Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 9:01 PM |
bogusblue wrote: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Soledad) by Gabriel García Márquez
AMAZING. This book really changed my life when I read it. I was 14. It's my favorite book ever!
oh yeah, i forgot about garcía márquez. i think i read that book about 3 times last year. another one it's great is Love in the Time of Cholera, it's amazing the way he can create new worlds based in the real society. |
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bogusblue Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 9:05 PM |
scummy wrote: bogusblue wrote: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Soledad) by Gabriel García Márquez
AMAZING. This book really changed my life when I read it. I was 14. It's my favorite book ever!
oh yeah, i forgot about garcía márquez. i think i read that book about 3 times last year. another one it's great is Love in the Time of Cholera, it's amazing the way he can create new worlds based in the real society.
Love that one too. Actually I love Gabriel García Márquez! =P. I like one of his short stories called "La siesta del martes", it's great. |
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pixiedixie Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 9:22 PM |
If this is a man, by Primo Levi
The perfume, Patrick Suskind
Two cool books
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ricv64 Posted Tue 04 Dec, 2007 11:34 PM |
bogusblue wrote: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Soledad) by Gabriel García Márquez
AMAZING. This book really changed my life when I read it. I was 14. It's my favorite book ever!
I concurrrrrrrrrrrr, awesome writer , Ninotchka Rosca is another |
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I Came in Through the Bathroom Window Posted Wed 05 Dec, 2007 1:11 AM |
I've been wanting to read something by Primo Levi.
The Party Of The Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa is my favourite book. It's very intense and was one of the many things that made me realize that my academic path is historical sociology (contemporary), based in Latin America: dictatorships, genocides, revolutions... |
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