looking for a good book

[Owen]

im looking for a good long read (in english please). can anyone recomend a good book?

[neko kenshi]

I liked Shogun by James Clavell. Not historically accurate, but extremely entertaining.

[Owen]

i will certainly look into that

[dwez]

Harry Potter and the deathly Hallows, out Friday/Saturday apparently they're going to sell 'a few' copies. See the trees quake...

[Newbie]

Musashi. :) It's certainly long and I found it highly enjoyable.

Seven Pillars of Wisdom by TE Lawrence. Can't go past that.

[The great I AM]

How to win freidsn and influence people.

Maybe thats too high brow, how about:

The Cat in the Hat.

[Big One]

How to win freidsn and influence people.

Maybe thats too high brow, how about:

The Cat in the Hat.


I prefer Green eggs and Hams

[Dervish]

Mahabharata

[Paikea]

im looking for a good long read (in english please). can anyone recomend a good book?The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. Awesome and engaging, very English, a real page turner.

[yoda-waza]

Ken Follet's "Pillars Of The Earth" (1990) is an epic tale of history, intrigue and passion spanning a 40-year period in 12th century England, centered around the inhabitants of a village that are constructing a cathedral. "Follett has written a novel that entertains, instructs and satisfies on a grand scale," is typical of the hundreds of enthusiastic reviews on Amazon. This novel is most memorable to me, a true page-turner. Just how many of its 992 pages can you read before succumbing to sleep depredation?

[Kenzan]

im looking for a good long read (in english please). can anyone recomend a good book?

Thus spoke Zarathustra
By Friedrich Nietzsche

Or for that matter, any of the classics.
Or did you need a ride to the library as well?

[Kenzan]

Harry Potter and the deathly Hallows, out Friday/Saturday apparently they're going to sell 'a few' copies. See the trees quake...

That said:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_vas-7a7is)

I'm such as Ba$tard.
:D

[Decado]

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. About 10 billion pages and all in English - well, some of it is in Middle Earth english but what the hell!

Might be best to wait for the fourth book before you splash out on the first three though!

Also, be warned - reading these can be hobbit forming!

[Owen]

well i found shõgun in my basement, and i will go and see if the library has any "classics" tomorrow.

[neko kenshi]

It starts a titch slow, but I and all my friends found ourselves thoroughly engrossed in it before too long. Hope you enjoy it.

[Kenzan]

well i found shõgun in my basement, and i will go and see if the library has any "classics" tomorrow.

You will find that the library has a whole section devoted the classics.

You might also "find it most enlightening" to "read" the "classics."
It "has been said" that if you "read" most of the "classics" it "just might be" "equivalent" to a "college education," although you "may get demerits" for "improper use" of "quotations."

"air quotes" especially.
:alien:

[Kenzan]

Bonus points if you can name who saif your quote.

Aw what the heck....

It was Adam John Savage from Mythbusters.

[Owen]

Bonus points if you can name who saif your quote.

Aw what the heck....

It was Adam John Savage from Mythbusters.

i already knew that. it was when Jamie quoted him on one of his predictions. btw there are a lot of classics. i only used quotes because i was refering to the ones you were talking about. im pretty good with my english.

usually.

[skaffenAmtiskaw]

the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson - best books ever IF you like fact based fiction..heavy reading though... Crytonomicon was pretty good too - WWII / Linux / Adventure / Cryptography etc.

[Owen]

lol just got another thread closed down by neil. thats 2 in a row

[Kenzan]

i already knew that. it was when Jamie quoted him on one of his predictions. btw there are a lot of classics. i only used quotes because i was refering to the ones you were talking about. im pretty good with my english.

usually.

This needs a bit of editing;

"I knew that already. It was Jamie whom was quoted regarding one of his predictions. There are many tomes of literature which are regarded as classic.
I used quotation marks, as I am referring to the specific genera from which you were recommending."

My English writing skills are atrocious.


You may also be surprised to learn that Jaimie did not originate that quote.

Score: 0/2.

Here is the best advice I can give you with respect to your upcoming Kendo adventure;
Be silent, unless it is to ask thoughtful questions of the Sensei.

:smoker:

[planB]

Here are my favorite novels

Haruki Murakami:
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles
Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (inspired the anime "Haibane Renmei")
A Wild Sheep Chase (the final in the "Trilogy of the Rat", the first two are unpublished in English)
Dance Dance Dance (sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase although not considered part of the Rat series)

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig (pop philosophy and as the author points out doesn't have much to do with Zen nor motorcycle maintenance)

Kurt Vonnegut:
Slaughter House Five
Breakfast of Champions

Blindness by Jose Saramago

[Chaby]

I would recommend books from P. Howard.
His novels are unbelievably funny,his best writing was about adventures in the French Foreign Legion.
I got all his books&novels, and read more then once.
Especially the ones about the Foreign Legion.
Please try to get one, U wont regret it.
One of the work U can find online:

http://mek.oszk.hu/01000/01021/01021.htm

Cheers!

[Owen]

well of course jamie didn't say that. hes kind of stuck up most of the time, and adam is the token funny person. every show has them. im not exactly sure which episode it was though.

now then, back to the topic: i went to the library and checked out a book called 'watership down'. i never got a chance to finish reading it. its really... i suppose interesting would be the best word.

[neko kenshi]

Bah, most of the classics are quite bad reads, if you ask me. One trilogy that is supposedly hard to come by is the Time Master series by Lois(e?) Cooper. (The books are The Initiate, The Outcast, and The Master). But read shogun. And Eji Yoshikawa's Musashi is pretty cool too, albeit heavily romanticized.

[Owen]

im on chapter 18 in shogun. the plots really picking up. well i should go to bed, i need to get up at 9 tomorrow. night everyone.

[Alison2805]

now then, back to the topic: i went to the library and checked out a book called 'watership down'. i never got a chance to finish reading it. its really... i suppose interesting would be the best word.

Watership Down was my favourite book when I was 10. Sorry to hear it was too much for you.

[Owen]

Watership Down was my favourite book when I was 10. Sorry to hear it was too much for you.

it wasnt "too much", just too long. so i just checked it out again to finish it.

[aysun]

Although it depends on the purpose of reading...
But whatever the reason or style you are looking for, how about the 4 book-series of Mishima Yukio? The second one has kendo as part of the story too. Or The Name of the Rose (the only book I stopped halfway through) for a determined reading.
Enjoy

[kartoffelngeist]

This needs a bit of editing;

"I knew that already. It was Jamie whom was quoted regarding one of his predictions. There are many tomes of literature which are regarded as classic.
I used quotation marks, as I am referring to the specific genera from which you were recommending."

My English writing skills are atrocious.


You may also be surprised to learn that Jaimie did not originate that quote.

Score: 0/2.

Here is the best advice I can give you with respect to your upcoming Kendo adventure;
Be silent, unless it is to ask thoughtful questions of the Sensei.

:smoker:

Good to see you encouraging the boy.

Get over it, kenz...