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Offline Solnath

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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #30 on: August 29, 2007, 12:39:35 PM »
They don't have Card in English at our library, I can't read it at/after work. ;_;
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #31 on: August 29, 2007, 01:28:22 PM »
Now that is an abomination.  You shall read his books when you come to visit; I have about 12-15 of them, and the rest can be procured.
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #32 on: August 29, 2007, 09:24:39 PM »
I suppose my favorite is actually not generally accepted as being literature, since it's a manga... But Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (by Hayao Miyazaki) is definitely my #1. Why hasn't anyone ever bothered to turn that into a proper novel? Although, it would more likely have to be a trilogy. The film is nice too, but it only covers only about 1/4th of the story and that little bit was heavily adapted to fit a complicated story into a 2 hour film...

Other than that, The Discovery of Heaven (by Harry Mulisch) is probably my favorite novel (and the film isn't too bad either :)).
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #33 on: August 30, 2007, 12:53:38 AM »
Why wouldn't manga be considered literature?
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #34 on: August 30, 2007, 12:38:48 PM »
because it isn't, it's a drawing style, not written
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #35 on: August 30, 2007, 12:45:28 PM »
Agreed.  Don't get me wrong; I love manga and read it all the time.  The difference, of course, is that literature portrays people, places, events, and whatnot via the written word whereas manga usually conveys only speech and sound effects in text.

It's an artistically valid media, but it is not literature.


Here's another thought: I really liked Destiny's Road by Larry Niven, but it got some pretty poor reviews.  Has anyone else on this forum read it?
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #36 on: August 30, 2007, 06:39:08 PM »
no sorry, i don't even know most of the books you talk about, i guess i don't get to know American literature or what. Well, most of the best sellers reach this shores, that i can tell you.
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #37 on: August 30, 2007, 08:28:27 PM »
"For though he was master of the world he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something."

And those are the last two sentences of a true classic.
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #38 on: August 30, 2007, 10:04:07 PM »
I guess i have two favourite books... : Ken Kesey-One flew over the cuckoo's nest ; George Orwell-Animal farm
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #39 on: August 31, 2007, 08:11:52 AM »
I do not want to write a book about all my favorite books so I will put the first that come to mind.Hamlet,Ivanhoe,1984,One flew over the cuckoos nest,The Count of Monte Cristo,Rommel:Desert Fox,Benito Cereno....and I'll stop there.
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #40 on: August 31, 2007, 11:17:27 AM »
I agree with Delfos and Allama on their comments about manga.
On the other hand, we might also consider plots and the narrative style... I've read manga (the one I mentioned e.g.) that really outdo literature in these fields.

Anyway, I just remembered that I should have mentioned Umberto Eco. It's been quite some time since I've read The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and Baudolino, but they definitely are on my 'Must Read This Again' list.
I should also mention Jerzy Kosinsky's Being There and The Painted Bird, as well as George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #41 on: August 31, 2007, 12:13:48 PM »
that's the man! Umberto Eco, i only remembered Herman Hesse. Yes i love Umberto Eco stuff!!! Name of the Rose is fantastic even outdated. I'm trying to have time to read the Foucault one, i already have some knowledge around the piece, but haven't read it as whole yet. Must be great!

I guess i like classics, manga never got as comics in this end of Europe, only animations, movies and stuff like that, ofc now it's globalized. My favorite manga classic is Akira, and even if I'm not much into Manga i tend to follow the award winning movies, Blood: The Last Vampire was great...but i don't like the latest awarded ones...
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #42 on: September 01, 2007, 01:35:00 AM »
Quote from: Allama on August 29, 2007, 11:58:50 AM
Trey, I adore you.

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I've read almost every single book Card has ever written, with the exceptions of his most recent novels/adaptations about women from Genesis (and that Empire book that sounds far too political not to piss me off at the mo').  I keep meaning to pick up The Worthing Saga but have yet to get to it.  Some of my other favorites by him are Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, Songmaster, and Treason.

John Irving wrote one of my all-time favorites: A Prayer For Owen Meany.  That book is so well-written it lingers in your mind for days and days after you finish reading it.

I'm tracking down most of his other novels, while also trying to finish his "Bean" quarter...Ender's Shadow is tough to get through...maybe I'm just out of it reading-wise right about now.

Hopefully the upcoming movie isn't too messed up.
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #43 on: September 02, 2007, 06:19:42 AM »
ok i need help picking a book i dont read much i have a short attention span so is gotta have a lot going on and i would like it to be shortish
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Re: Favorite Book
« Reply #44 on: September 02, 2007, 03:59:39 PM »
We're probably gonna need more information. What genre? How short is 'shortish? Modern or classic? If you don't read much, why are you starting now? Etc...
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