Book Club

[RachieBabie]

ok... i'm inna reading mood... gues i got a lot of free time on ma hands these days.... read six just this week ( still stuck on jane eyre tho... it reeli not wrkin out, cyaa seem to get anywhr with tht one)

ive borrowed up most of wht i can get ma hands on... guess its time to go shopping now... whts suggested to get?

[tiffany]

right now i'm reading "Tell me Lies".. its not that well written and it's nothing new n compelling.. but i'm bored.. whatever.

[ramesh]

Still reading "The Magus". It's taking a long time to read, because I only have reading time on Sundays and some of that is being taken up by repairing computers.

I've seen the movie already so I know how it ends, but the book is so much more interesting.

Uozo, anyone?

I realise I never told how much I liked this book, it's well worth reading. It's the first book written by John Fowles (The Collector, The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Ebony Tower).

It's mostly set on a Greek island post WW2. The story is about a young Oxford graduate who gets a teaching job on the island. He is also avoiding commitment issues with his new girlfriend Alison so he sees this job as a convenient way to get out of the situation.

While out on a walk contemplating suicide, he stumbles upon the house of a wealthy Greek recluse Maurice Conchis who apparently lives alone. He becomes drawn into Conchis' strange psychological games and soon reality becomes very blurred. Not knowing what is real and what is being manufactured he descends into a web of lies deceit and sex.

All this time he feels manipulated, that he is being controlled by Conchis, instead of realising that he is being presented choices for which he is constantly making bad decisions right up to the end of the book.

I recommend this book to anyone considering "Free Choice" versus "Predetermined Destiny".

[Gwadinka]

RachieBabie, if Jane Eyre is too tough then drop it just the time for you to read Wide Sargasso Sea by Rhys. She wrote this as her version of the beginning of Jane Eyre and how the lady in the cellar became the lady in the cellar. It's really nice because there are so many references to he West indies as it is where the whole action takes place. Then maybe Jane Eyre will be easier.

[RachieBabie]

ok... so i've got this new book called 'The Secret' .... any one know bout it? and the movie?

it's one of those mind over matter self fulfillment books for which a movie was made.


the website for it it:
www.thesecret.tv

i'm still in the early pages of it tho......

[AngelsKiss]

ok... so i've got this new book called 'The Secret' .... any one know bout it? and the movie?

it's one of those mind over matter self fulfillment books for which a movie was made.


the website for it it:
www.thesecret.tv

i'm still in the early pages of it tho......

I saw the movie...it's ok...a bit overrated IMO.

[AngelsKiss]

I am currently reading Rogue State (A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum. I think everyone should read this book.

It chronicles America's lust for power (pre-9/11), resources and their attempts to overthrow governments and assassinate prominent foreign individuals, including former Prime Minister Michael Manley. It also briefly mentioned how the CIA aided the South African government in the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela.

What is particularly good about the book is not bias against any of the political parties.

[tiffany]

I'm now reading The Sweet Potato Queens' Book of Love. It's just an all 'round fun book. look it up n check it out