My avatar says it all: I �m a book lover.

What are your favourite books?

 

Mine are...

The Time Traveler �s Wife

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

My Sister �s Keeper

Nineteen Minutes

The Kite Runner

A Thousand Splendid Suns

The History of Love

 

and many more... but those are usually the ones I recommend. Can you make any recommendations?

I have Love in Time of Cholera but have not read it yet.

 

Right now reading Korea history through the eye of photojournalist 1870 to 2002.  It has some interesting stories mixed in from personal aspects.  Also just got done reading Korea Unmasked (which is about Korea �s history and culture through a comic book form) and Flags of Our Fathers.

 

Fiction or just for fun tend to go back to James Bond, News, magazines (music and art), anything with Vampires (have read stories from all over the world, some very interesting twists; just saw and read a vampire story from Sweden), political and saving the best for last Poetry.  I try to write some poems and it is either street life poems or written in the form of Edgar Allan Poe meets Tim O �Brian.   Did have a disturbing experience with my poetry a few years back, had wrote a poem on a mysterious death of my alter ego and being buried with the worms and moles a few years later went into an used book shop and found a book with mostly unknown poet authors from the Holocaust and the third poem was so similar to the one I wrote had to buy it and bring it home to show some fellow writers and readers.  We all got the chills from that, but did make a great discussion topic at the coffeehouse.  If your in St. Petersburg do recommending visiting that Coffeehouse it is called "The Globe" and is run by the resident art specialist.

 

Oh yeah and as a history person have done some living history and clips of course you can�t recognize me or really get a clear shot ended up in a couple Civil War movies like Glory and Gettysburg.  Read the stories of the area years before they shot the movies.  It does make it interesting when you read a book and either see a movie based on the book being shot first hand.  Of course most movies don�t do the books justice.

 

After posting notice some of the words were altered, is anyone else having that issue?  Maybe because I am using a Korean based computer at school?  Have hit the edit button to try to fix it.

 

You �ve touched a cord here manonski. I also love boks and have read many. My main interests are Spritualism/Sufism, Fantasy and Travel.

I have read all books by Idris Shah, such classics as: The Sufis, Caravan of dreams, The Commanding Self, Darkest England, The Dermis Probe, Wisdom of the Idiots, World Tales, The World of Nasrudin, The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin, The Sublteties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin, Knowing How to Know, Learning How to Learn, The magic Monastry and many others.

 

Terry Brooks- The Shinnara series and David Gemmel �s various series and so on.....

 

 

I also love The Name of the Rose ... and the movie too!!! (BTW I love Sean Connery!!)

And now my favourite writer in English is Roald Dahl with his incredible short stories...

 

regards, PAULA

My favourites are:

All novels by Jane Austen

" The French Lieutenant �s Woman" by John Fowles

" Possession" by A.S. Byatt

" Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo

" Mrs. Dalloway" by Virginia Woolf

" The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James

" Macbeth" and " Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare

 

all the best,

Nebal