Eldest by Christopher Paolini
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Eldest by Christopher Paolini
Here's My Top 10 so far in no particular order; Henry James A Life by Leon Edel;Author, Author by David Lodge;The Turn of the Screw by Henry James;The Finishing School by Muriel Spark; As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann; Havoc,In Its Third Year by Ronan Bennet; Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem;The Child That Books Built by Francis Spufford; Ghostwritten by David Mitchell and Last but definitely not least,Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, which deserves to win the Man Booker prize.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- JK Rowling
Wuthering Heights- Bronte
The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown
I have seen the movie, yet have not read the bookQuote:
Originally Posted by Natalie
I agree that this is a very fine book :nod:Quote:
Life of Pi
Tomas Man - "The Magical Mountain", I donīt know if it is really called like that in Englisch, cause I red t in German, and it is called "Der Zauberberg".
German is by the way not my mother tongue.
Best books read this year were mostly by Pearl S. Buck.
Dragon Seed (sequel not as great)
Peony
Pavilion of Women
The Living Reed
Also
My Indian family - by Hilda Wernher (simply wonderful)
Zanna's Gift: A Life in Christmases - by Scott Richards (short, sweet, teary)
from the earth to the moon by jules verne, such a humourous book and the description so vivid!
as well,frankenstein by mary shelley, a fantastic gothic novel with great intensity
and lastly,the hobbit by tolkien. bilbo is such an amusing and funny character!
Dracula, Bram Stoker; Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte; The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown; The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, all by H.G. Wells; The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; hmmm..... hopefully lots more to come..
Thanks,
April
My Friend Leonard-James Frey
Tropic of Cancer-Henry Miller
? - Life of Pi
Mark Haddon - The curious incident of the dog during night-time
Jules Verne - Journey to the center of the Earth
H.G. Wells - Time Machine
much to my surprise...
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
I am in love with Jonathan Livingston Seagull (R. Bach), To Kill a Mockingbird (H. Lee) and The Great Gatsby (F.S. Fitzgerald). Lol. http://clicksmilies.com/s0105/liebe/love-smiley-019.gif
I am on a Murakami kick: Sputnik Sweetheart and Kafka On the Shore top my list from my recent reads. I also enjoyed Wilkie Collins' "The Woman in White." It is one of those fantastic, page-turning mysteries. Ishiguro's latest "Never Let Me Go" was probably one of the most moving books I have ever read. Other enjoyable recent reads:
Ian McEwan's "Saturday" (Good but not of the stature of "Atonement")
Neil LaBute's "The Shape of Things" (A disturbing look at a dysfunctional relationship)
Jonathan Coe's "House of Sleep" (A very strange book about sleep disorders and odd coincidences)
Middlesex by Eugenides
Wise Blood by O'Connor
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
The Handmaid's Tale by Atwood
J.D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye never made the list, Scher? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade