Please vote for the you liked best in 2008.
Norwegian Wood
The Road
Odyssey
The Sea
Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather: Stories by Gao Xingjian
Dubliners
The Name of the Rose
Slow Man
The God of Small Things
The Map of Love
Rabbit, Run
Master and Margarita
Murder in the Cathedral
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Please vote for the you liked best in 2008.
~
"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
~
Voted!
"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
Done!
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Also done!
Your Guardian Angel
I did not share in the readings of 2008 but I read some of them let me see: Odyssey,The Sea, Master and Margarita and I loved Margarita
Art is a lie that leads to the truth.
--Picasso
I'm slightly ashamed I did not read any in the list... :S
Done! Though I've only read 4 of the books.
I am very impress with your post because it have nice details about 2008 books. I like to tell you about four books which i read & bought from online stores as well. I was very impressed with online services of books which help a lot to read and buy books. I like reading e-books too.
Four books i read:
The Odyssey bought from Amazon
Master and Margarita bought from Amazon
The Road bought from Amazon
The Sea bought from Infibeam
It was really nice reading this book.
Last edited by Scheherazade; 07-06-2009 at 05:58 AM. Reason: url
I have read only two of them and out of them I gave my votes....
I am the author of Parmethia
If these were texts done in the forum book club, I have little option but to pick The Road, oddly enough. I did read the Eco title, but that was years ago, not here, and it is perhaps unfair to pit my Italian sensibilities against McCarthy's western minimalism.....zzzzzz
in my opinion best reads in 2008 is Master and Margarita.It is a complex sprawl of a novel, definitely, and a structuralist's dream. The nifty central conceit is that in addition to the devil-comes-to-town story, there is a second narrative strand jogging through the novel. It is framed as the work of the eponymous Master, and is the story of one Pontius Pilate. Yes, that Pilate. What is special about this telling of the story, however, is that as much as the Moscow strand is exuberantly fantastic, Pilate's story is strictly realistic, strictly human. And the inversion is even more specific than that: Plenty of biblical events make a distorted appearance in the contemporary story, and far that is typical of 1930s Moscow - the intrigue, the double-dealing - is displaced in to the Pilate chapters. Both strands, however, happen on the same timeline, over an Easter weekend.
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote
