Well all these suggestions and stuff
by I found a new love for reading... after finishing 'Prey' , I hit a barnes and nobles shoppiong spree buying the following ( spend 99 bucks and get 10 bucks off) :
Eye in the Sky - Phil Dick
Enders Series #1 GAMES - DONE ! , first sci fi book ever... entertaining..nothing to party on about
#2 SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD...-DON!... second sci fi book ever red.. umm i guess it was ok
#3Xenocide... done!... third sci fi book ever read.. ehh better than the second.. worse than the first
and #4 - orsen scott card
Naked - david sedaris
Ten poems to change your life - roger housden
marvel magnaverse - DONE ! , just interesting quick reading
da vinci code - dan brown DONE ! , amazing book must read
digital fortress - dan brown good book very much like the da vinci code.. but less milo rimbaldi and more NSA goodies
nine stories - salinger
rainbow six - clancy
Heroes, Gods and Monsters of Greek the Myths - DONE ! , should have been a quick reading but i took my team.. interesting to find out who was from where..etc.. good stuff.
The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran - k.g.
the prophet - k. gibran DONE ! , Amazing thinkers book.. must read...and then read over again
Voltaire collection - voltaire
Yea i went nuts.. it'll take me 6 years to read them.
AI Summary
ilikebirds' book-buying spree in September 2003 resulted in a 99-buck splurge with a 10-buck discount at Barnes & Noble. He purchased 14 books, including the Ender series, and expressed excitement about reading them. His enthusiasm was met with similar responses from other users, such as thatdarngirl, who mentioned buying six classic hardcovers during a sale... Six years to read them, indeed.
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speaker for the dead and xenocide were decent.. not great books on their own i think. you need the ender love from the first book
i forgot to finish xenocide. i'm going to do that now since i have no tv.
ENders game, since all my toys were taken away from me on the plane.. i had a book to finish.. it was my first scifi book ever. i never thought that i'd ever read one of these books.. because it's all gay and stuff.. but now that i AM GAY.... the book was entertaining.. it wasn't a great book.. .like the davinci code.. .. but it was good.
Just finished the digital fortress.. i picked it up like 5 months ago.. read the first page... it was great. but i had beer to drink.. but now. i read the whole thing.. in about 3 days.. and good stuff.. whats next..
let me know when you read 10 poems, i saw it in books a million and almost picked it up. But since I see you're gonna read it, I'll check it out after all (good to have a reading buddy:P).
i'll let you know. i've been preoccupied with partying and doing stupid stuff.. but once i calm down .. or dead tired.. i'll get back to it
I'm reading the davinci code right now (well, everytime I visit Barnes and Noble or books a million). I'm at like chap 180 or something. Basically I found out who the Teacher is. That book is really good. - a truly gripping mystery. Just when you think you know where this thing is headed, or feel there can't be more to the story, the very parameters you were using to judge the universe by shift. The only drawback is it occasionally stalls in symbology lingo. Dan Brown obviously is knee deep in this stuff.
I heard a movie is coming out, but I know its gonna be awful, because no studio in America could resist playing up the...um...how to say it...shady parts of the book.
yea the book was great. i dont know.. if i'd say it stalled.. but it slows down the story only to explain more of the symbols..etc.. which i found helpful.. though sometimes too much.
i've never read a book that was turned into a movie.. i'd love to see how their visualization is compared to mine
Yeah, comparing my vision with others would be cool.
How do you visualize the characters? I would love to see if your visions and mine line up.
robert as a short little mexican migrant worker with a mustache and a russian accent
sophie as this tall swedish butch like football player..
Silas as Omar epps
jacques' as puff daddy
the teacher Michael jackson
- hey i actually have the book ONLINE to if you want it so you dont have to run to barnes and nobles..
i should have know i would of gotten an answer like that.
as far as the book goes..link me
haha ok seriously..
jacques, jon voight
sophie, either milla jovovo or some thing reddish long haired actress
robert , michale vartan the guy VAUGHn from alias
oh i dont know... i'd hate to be a casting director.. i'd have too look at all their picures.. but here
/~tpham/files/
i know it is tough. i was all like "yeah, lets compare" then drew a blank when i went to fill in names.
lets see....
jacques - robert duvall (jon voight is good. i also pictured him a little rotund for some reason)
sophie - julie bowen (was she a red head?)
robert - michael vartan? that hot? LOL, that's funny. I was thinking more Greg Kinnear
remy - the mascot for incredimail
teabing - a criples alfred hitchcock
and thanks for the link
finish the book yet? it's been a week... i did it in 3-4 days.. come onnnnnnnnnnn what did you think?
Oh, my bad. I finished it about an hour after you sent me the link. ok. I warn you, i have a tendency to over analyze, because, well, nevermind why. but i'll try not to.
overall, a pretty good book.
yea i focused on the suspense... that was great.. made me not want to put it down. the whole symbolism.. i found it interesting.. but didn't meditate on it much.. just what i needed to know to get me to move on in the book. good times.
Good times indeed.
....aaaaaaaaand I finally got that PHI reference you made a few weeks ago.
i decided to go with the digital fortress instead.. and i'm already hooked.. geez. this dan brown is good peoples
the myths book was entertaining. i'm upset that there were no hercules stories... i mean.. come on
what's next?
eye in the sky.. phil dick... i'm pushing off the enders series.. because if i read one.. i'm gonna have an urge to read them all.. and that's a long time.. books are so thick.. i hate that i bought them paperback... i love hardcovers .. so much easier..
is that a book about satellites or something?
no..
a big pulse generator zaps 8 people.. and the book explores their altered worlds.. and how they deal...
Finally finished the da vinci code.. took me three days. thats a new record. for a guy who used to hate reading . anyway .. the book was 5x's better than prey. the ending was sorta kinda expected.. but definately twisted. and i wish it would tell you what the fuss was all about.. but they really can't... seriously book was amazing. i suggest it for all.
I'm half way through the da vinci code.. and maybe i can finish today.. wow.. this is unheard of.. i hated reading... but once i got a copy of the prey from deanbag.. i liked it.. anyway.. the da vinci code is so good. i was up till almost 3 reading it. couldn't put it down.
wow. I got you back into reading? cool.
BTW, I want my book back! you can borrow something else if you like. I think I've got a copy of The Hitchhikers Guid to the Galaxy. You should read that.
i have 14 new books... plus biblie literature.. soo... hitchikers guid to the galaxy.. has go to wait.
and no you didn't get me back into reading.. You got me to start.
before that all i'd ever read was what was for school... and meetings ...
thats it. i was never interested in reading. always had something better to do. but now that i'm old and stuff.. i read. and wear depends.
wow. wow. wow. its good to have geeky friends, right?
THat was the most important fact i learned through highschool. Geeky friends are the best... copy your homework... hook you up with tricks for passing...ok ok.. cheats. whatever. they ruled.
SO funny! we were just talking about that book out in service today..hitchhikers guide to the galaxy..what are the odds.
SO i got 9 of my 15 books yesterday... and i read the marvel mangaverse thing.. took my like 30 minutes. it was interesting. spun all the characters into different stories. bruce banner becomes thor through dr. strange. etc . anyway .. after that i started to read the biggest book .. to get it out of the way.. amazing.. THe Da Vinci Code... couldn't put it down.. within the first few chapters.. theres already a murder and implication towards a highly important crptological puzzle. anyway.. good times.
did they find the Rimbaldi scrolls yet with the picture of the girl in hidden ink?
hahha i swear.. alias stole the whole ribaldi plot line from this book.. i downloaded the ebook too.. so i can read here at work... kazaa rules. i have nothing else better to do here.
prey was amazing
once he went to the fab plant.. i couldn't put the book down.. but ... then it ended... and the ending was horrrrible
really? I liked the ending
really ?i dont know... it was sorta.. anti-climatic..
maybe the build up was so good.. that it's conclusion though great in any other book was dead here. perhaps perhaps perhaps
yeah, thats true...the build up was so incredible, that i could see the ending being a bit of a let down...
ugh, its so difficult discussing the end of a novel when you can't actually give it away
maybe you think i'm incredible and dont want to let me down.. so lets dicuss our future...
lets make the future the present baby
and lets make the present... hot.
Hahah! WOW man, that's amazing. I've never heard of a few of those books. Which one will you start first?
i'm gonna read digital fortress first... looks good.
i didn't like voltaire. i saw that myth book tho-i wanted to get that.
what story/book did you read of his... did you read candice?
haha Candide yeah i read that
same thing. bite me. anyway.. no likey ? i found in interesting.... for me to POOP ON !
everything is about a woman or liquor to you...or pooping
i love women. i love liqour. i love pooping. so sue me.
okay how much you got? i'm going for everything except your clothes...those would be too short.
HA! little do you know, i grew in the past week. i'm at least 5'10 now.
really?? did you have the degaspris grab your arms and legs and pull?
i've read that myth book. interesting stuff.
My mother, sister, and I did the same thing a few weeks back. They were having a sale on all these classic hardcovers, buy two get one free, so we bought six of them. I'm in the middle of the Count of Monte Cristo at the moment, most of it is pretty exciting!
yea i love hardcover . i hate paper backs. they just seem flimsy and cheap.. but i got the whole ender series in paperback.. because..i'm poor
That's such a great book. The movie was pretty good too but movies can never compare with books.
I agree, there's much more that happens in a book than in the movie. sometimes they can make a movie out of a great book and it'll fail cuz it doesn't capture the whole momentum
It's hard to capture what people see in their imagination as they read a book. It happens even with the people they cast in roles sometimes. You just go they totally don't make me think of that character from the books.
when you're done may i borrow it?
You can borrow it now, I made that comment in September!
sahweet may i have my brand new cd too?
only if you promise to hold me close and sing me a song... a song of happiness and jo
jo! who is jo?!
half of half of k-ci and jo jo
this makes it better?
it sure makes it chocolatier
Haha yeah, esepcially since I even had it with me last time I saw you! I've been carrying it around in my bag.