The Lover by Marguerite Duras
A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesse Williams
Deirdre of the Sorrows by J.M.Synge
The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque
Candide by Voltaire
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo
Please nominate the books you would like to read during the Valentine's Day week here
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January 25th!
The aim of the Book Club is to read and discuss new books together with other members.
Please try to avoid nominating the books you will not read/discuss yourself.
Thank you!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Because its Valintines day, does that mean it has to be "romance" based?
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
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Good question. I'm also thinking of that.Originally Posted by Niamh
The source of any bad writing is the desire to be something more than a person of sense--the straining to be thought a genius. If people would say what they have to say in plain terms, how much eloquent they would be.
-S.T COLERIDGE
Yes.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Oh I would like to nominate a French novel The Lover by Marguerite Duras.
Here's something about it: http://www.amazon.com/Lover-Margueri.../dp/0375700528
Last edited by Virgil; 01-14-2008 at 08:31 AM.
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The source of any bad writing is the desire to be something more than a person of sense--the straining to be thought a genius. If people would say what they have to say in plain terms, how much eloquent they would be.
-S.T COLERIDGE
I would like to nominate A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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Streetcar Named Desire - Tennesse Williams
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
Oooooo! Good choice!
Deirdre of the Sorrows- J.M.Synge
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
my poems-please comment Forum Rules
Nominations so far:
1. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
2. A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
3. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesse Williams
4. Deirdre of the Sorrows by J.M.Synge
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet - short and great.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Devil-Flesh-...0406940&sr=8-1
"Arch of Triumph" by Erich Maria Remarque
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
James Joyce
It is a fatal miscarriage, so ill to order affairs, as to pass for a fool in one company, when in another you might be treated as a philosopher. Jonathan Swift
Nominations so far:
1. The Lover by Marguerite Duras
2. A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens
3. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesse Williams
4. Deirdre of the Sorrows by J.M.Synge
5. The Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet
6. Arch of Triumph by Erich Maria Remarque
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I'll nominate Anthem by Ayn Rand (if it has yet to be discussed in a prior month, if it has, my bad)
Short but powerful book.. and it sort of has to do with love =)
Thanks!
-Derek
Last edited by knightss; 01-17-2008 at 09:36 PM.
I like that one.
I'd like to nominate Voltare's Candide. I'm already reading it and I probably won't get to read anything that's not on my list of assignments. It's an excelent book and I'd love to be able to talk about it with everyone. It erally cracks me up. Candide does love Cunegund so maybe it fits. Here is the online text
http://www.online-literature.com/voltaire/candide/
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