malaccastrait Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 anything Isaac Asimov Quote Link to comment
goddessofperpetualdeliciousness Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 anything but mushy love story... isabel allende and gabriel garcia marquez Quote Link to comment
bakedzitiguy Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 nice taste Goddess. I dont have any favorite authors or books perse. as long as it's a good one, I'll invest my time reading it. I dont know if this apply, but i love Sandman series by Neil Gaiman. Specially, "season in hell" (hope i got the title right, tagal na kasi eh) Quote Link to comment
bakedzitiguy Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 sabi ko nga ba mali ang title kol. its not season in hell. its season of mist. very profound. lucifer decided to sell hell to the highest bidder Quote Link to comment
anonymongoose Posted August 22, 2005 Share Posted August 22, 2005 Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child their co-authored books are incredible. Quote Link to comment
qt_temptress Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 anything John Grisham Paulo Coehlo's By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, The Alchemist, and Eleven Minutes Dave Pelzer's A Child Called "IT" and The Lost Boy Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson,MD Quote Link to comment
qt_temptress Posted August 29, 2005 Share Posted August 29, 2005 forgot to add Tuesdays with Morrie Quote Link to comment
BigBoner40 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden <{POST_SNAPBACK}>  Was this the one that was made into a movie or documentary?? Quote Link to comment
genuis8 Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Alistair MacLean ......... The Way to Dusty Death, Guns of Navarone, When 8 Bells Toll, etcA.A.Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner writing as) ....... His P.I. series of Donald LamLouise Cooper ...... SciFi - Time Master TrilogySteven Brust ........ SciFi - Teckla, Jhereg, Yendi, etcSimon Green ........ Scifi - The John Taylor series (Something from the Darkside, see my comments in books recommended) Quote Link to comment
slimboyefx Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Has anybody read The Unbearable Lightness of Being? Is it me? or the book is just boring? Ive read more interesting philosophy textbooks. Quote Link to comment
magnus Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 Ambeth Ocampo and his books (which basically are a compilations of his articles on history) Quote Link to comment
lefleuerdumal Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Works by Rynusoke Akutagawa, Louis Aragon, Maurice Blanchot, Valery Larbaud, Giselle Prassinos, and Robert Desnos... Quote Link to comment
zzzz_z_z Posted December 25, 2005 Share Posted December 25, 2005 Has anybody read The Unbearable Lightness of Being? Is it me? or the book is just boring? Ive read more interesting philosophy textbooks.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yeah, I agree... or maybe its just the way it was translated... MY fave author would be ORSON SCOTT CARD and SALINGER... As for books, well, the one that comes to my mind now is POISONWOOD BIBLE by barbara kingsolver.. Quote Link to comment
Karma Policeman Posted December 31, 2005 Share Posted December 31, 2005 Haruki Murakami. Reading his books feels as if you're caught in a hypnotic, trance-like spell. Ang lakas ng sipa mga tsong. Quote Link to comment
Hottie_Babe Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 Umberto EcoGabriel Garcia Marquez Quote Link to comment
Hottie_Babe Posted January 1, 2006 Share Posted January 1, 2006 I have to agree that Unberable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera) is dragging at several parts of the story. AKo kasi mainipin. Hehehe. It failed to sustain the phase that it started with the early chapters. It is not exactly a page turner. It took me two days to finish the book. Which was bad for me, considering that it's just about three hundred pages or so. If it was a good book, I couldn't have put down the book. Hehehe. Yabang! It poses the question, "What then shall we choose, burden or lightness?" Although the book has merits too, undeniably. Opening pa lang, yung Nietzsche's "myth of eternal return" nag-iisip na ako. Hehehe. Something that you don't do to me, make me think. He also has references to "" the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return" . It attempts to explain what adult love is (with the complexities of sex, etc) and how it could coexist wih the indidual's free will. Quote Link to comment
mar_go_88 Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 all works of Nathaniel Hawthorne Tom Clancy and John Grisham po Quote Link to comment
xuaeenr Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 I like the author's more. I like Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (love story, politics and caste system during the post Nehru periods in India). Her writing is more fluid than than that of Salman Rushdie. The love scenes, the playfulness of her words, the harshness of Indian caste system and the colours of living in impoverished and humid province in India makes you want to take a bath after reading each chapter since the words just jump out of each written page.I like Rushdie too for his The Moor's Last Sigh (read the part where his parents made wild/hot sex in the chili or pepper factory or warehouse). Make you want to eat lots of curry and make love to a hot sweaty Indian woman which you would not normally think about). Â Try to look for Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Horse Trader's Daughter where he likens the dark pool or lake to that of human love. My favorite short story would have to be The Bread of Salt by N.V.M. Gonzales whom I had the opportunity to study under back in UP. The story makes you recall vivid memories of youth, the insecurities and the genuineness of young love. Eventhough one grew up in the city, one can still mirror the innocence and purity of his story. Quote Link to comment
xuaeenr Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Sorry. What I meant was that I'm a bigger fan of the authors actual works than the persons who wrote them. Add to this list Butch Dalisay's Killing Time in a Warm Place and Penmanship (which one of my friends borrowed in college and never returned. DARN IT)! Quote Link to comment
Hottie_Babe Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Dagdag ko lang, binasa ko nung highschool yung Catcher in The Rye ni JD Salinger. Ever since, nahook na ako basahin yung mga stories niya Quote Link to comment
puretuts Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Umberto Eco - Martin Cruz Smith - Gorky Park, havana bay; galing ni col. Arcady RenkoNick Joaquin -Tom Clancy - Jack Ryan seriesFrederick Forsyth - Icon: about sa Russia, Dogs of War: about attempted coup set in diamond rich country, Day of the Jackal: Galing ni Carlos, attempted assasination kay Charles De Gaul, the movie was banned by Ferdinand Marcos in the 70's.Leon Uris - Exodus: about the formation of the nation of Israel; forgot the title another novel regarding a revolt of the jews against the nazi in a jewish ghetto in Poland. They were able to hold for a month. Quote Link to comment
mr_batuta Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 i'm such a big fan of milan kundera, especially "the unbearable lightness of being". it's my fave book of all time.  gustong-gusto ko yung characters, buhay na buhay, 3-dimensional. it's nonlinear, sa gitna pa lang, alam mo na yung ending. pero the way kundera closed the story was really disturbing, in a good way, that is. you may also want to check out chuck palahniuk (fight club, diary, etc) and haruki murakami, guys. sa mga classic, "great expectations" by charles dickens & "madame bovary" by gustave flaubert. these two tackles the social differences and one's desire to go up the social ladder. if you want something sociopolitical, you may try "1982" by george orwell. yep, dito kinuha yung "big brother". political siya pero hindi masakit sa ulo, madali lang i-digest. saka yung plot, punung-puno ng tension. if you want something cool, neil gaiman's books are the best read.  kung gusto nyong sumakit ang ulo nyo, basahin nyo yung mga books ni fyodor dostoevsky saka ni ayn rand. t*ang*na, di ako tumagal sa mga books nila! whew! Quote Link to comment
mr_batuta Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 I have to agree that Unberable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera) is dragging at several parts of the story. AKo kasi mainipin. Hehehe. It failed to sustain the phase that it started with the early chapters. It is not exactly a page turner. It took me two days to finish the book. Which was bad for me, considering that it's just about three hundred pages or so. If it was a good book, I couldn't have put down the book. Hehehe. Yabang! It poses the question, "What then shall we choose, burden or lightness?" Although the book has merits too, undeniably. Opening pa lang, yung Nietzsche's "myth of eternal return" nag-iisip na ako. Hehehe. Something that you don't do to me, make me think. He also has references to "" the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return" . It attempts to explain what adult love is (with the complexities of sex, etc) and how it could coexist wih the indidual's free will.<{POST_SNAPBACK}> i'm sure,maraming guys na makaka-relate kay tomas, isa sa lead characters. hehe. si tomas yung tipong kayang believes na love and sex are worlds apart. one could have sex without falling in love. siya rin yung taong takot sa commitment associated with sexual and romantic acts. ibinuko ni kundera yung mga kalalakihan. hehehe Quote Link to comment
Karma Policeman Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 i'm such a big fan of milan kundera, especially "the unbearable lightness of being". it's my fave book of all time.  gustong-gusto ko yung characters, buhay na buhay, 3-dimensional. it's nonlinear, sa gitna pa lang, alam mo na yung ending. pero the way kundera closed the story was really disturbing, in a good way, that is. you may also want to check out chuck palahniuk (fight club, diary, etc) and haruki murakami, guys. sa mga classic, "great expectations" by charles dickens & "madame bovary" by gustave flaubert. these two tackles the social differences and one's desire to go up the social ladder. if you want something sociopolitical, you may try "1982" by george orwell. yep, dito kinuha yung "big brother". political siya pero hindi masakit sa ulo, madali lang i-digest. saka yung plot, punung-puno ng tension. if you want something cool, neil gaiman's books are the best read.  kung gusto nyong sumakit ang ulo nyo, basahin nyo yung mga books ni fyodor dostoevsky saka ni ayn rand. t*ang*na, di ako tumagal sa mga books nila! whew!<{POST_SNAPBACK}> Panalo sila Murakami at Palahniuk. :cool:  Recommend ko rin si Raymond Carver at Luis Katigbak. Quote Link to comment
cool_hedonist Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn RandCouples and the Rabbit series by John UpdikeA Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensBrothers Karamasov by Fyodor DosteyevskiGoodbye Columbus and Letting Go by Philip RothThe World According to Garp by John Irving.... Quote Link to comment
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