Books' Corner

Is there anyone who loves reading books, novels, essays?

What are you currently reading ?
What would you recommend to read ?
What have you planned to read in time to come?

Currently i'm reading

The Godfather_ by Mario Puzo

Top class book! The storyline is pretty well known by everybody, btw i recommend it, it's damn catching..i've an exam but i cannot resist to read a few chapters every day!

Then i will watch the mvies, never seen them..it's incredible


I also recommend :

1) The Name of the Rose_ Umberto Eco

It's a more refined Da Vinci Code, written by one of the best phylosophy professors in Europe, and underneath the thriller story based in Middle Age, in a Abbey of the Northern Italy , and the weird homicides which happen there ( the monks fear an evil presence because of the making of them, seeking some strange rituals linked to the Apocalipse and the Gospels), there's a erudite kernel full of feedbacks of phylosophy, hystory and religion whcih are priceless..you may catch them or just read a good thriller story..btw it's a multilevel book suitable for everyone.
Very well written.

many more to recommend for ex. The Lord of the Rings, Ken Follet's _The Pillars of the Earth , and many more

Btw it's late and i will write about them in few days time

Opinions, reviews, recommended choices?

Well, currently I'm reading Essential Spider-man volume 1. Essential Spider-man has all the original Spider-man comics in them and is good for Spidey fans

Books I recommend are Book of Five Rings. Its written by a Japanese Samurai and explains methods of fighting, strategies and philosophy. Its been heavily used in the world of business, but can be applied to many aspects of life.

Another book to recommend is the Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu. Its a book of "poems" about life or more accurately, the way. VERY deep and an excellent read for those who are interested (I have a feeling you might be Gio).

I'm planning to read 1984, The Path to Wing Chun (a book by my sifu/master) and more essential Spider-man soon. On top of this I also read manga quite regularly

I have some oriental phylosophical aforism books..they are very nice and still lively

I also recommend one of my fav books which is pretty unknown :

Henry Charriere's_ Papillon

It's the story of 40 years into the worst prisons of the old French colonies and spanish such as La Cayenna, the Devil's Isle, the prisons in Guyana.
This is the true story of the writer, and it's full of rocambolesque tries to escape from these prisons.
The desciption of the hard life inside the worst prisons of the world (the story is based in the fisrt half of 1900) is very lively and written in easy style, therefore it seems to actually be there.
Strongly recommended, a good reader can burn it in few days despite the 700 pages.

I generally consume bad spy novels, but once a year for my birthday my wife buys me a piece of work by whoever won the Nobel Prize for Literature that year. It is an interesting way to be exposed to quality literature.

Right now I am reading "The Piano Teacher" by Elfride Jelinek (this years winner of the prize). Of resent winners VS Naipaul is easy and worthwhile to read. Jose Saramago is fantastic but very difficult to read (kind of like eating whole grain bread without anything on it).

I love to read.I`ve read mario puzo`s godfather as well and i absoloutely love it and i love the movie itself.Currently reading his book `Family`(but at the moment also reading Hamlet for the 100th time,since i study english i have to know what type of panties hamlet was wearing when he killed polonius ) And also the 3rd book i`m reading at the moment is James Morton`s `Gangland.Mafia and other Mobsters`.Anyway i highly reccomend already mentioned `The Name of The Rose` ,any of five or six Mario Puzo`s novels,G.G.Marques `100 years of solitude`.I also like Stephen King,Sherlock Holmes stories.etc etc
If u want to have a good laugh read any of the 2 `Bridget Jones`s diary`,they`re indeed hilarious.
I forgot to mention masterpiece `The Picture of Dorian Gray`.
And i`ve read Pierluigi Collina`s `My Rules of The Game`...quite interesting
oh and yes...Alber Camus `The Stranger`.

P.S.
well done gio,i love the book corner

I do not like reading books. The last book i read was an itailan, its name is 'Inter? No Grazie!' (Inter? No thankyou) by Davide Grassi. A must book for all those rosso neri and especially for those ilke me that hate inter.

As its that time of year i was planning on reading A Christmas Carol but i'll probably just watch it on TV instead, they bring a new version out every year

I read everything I can put my hands on.
I love history
I love philosophy
I love arts
Most of the time I read several books, it goes like this: I buy a book about Milan for example. "Milan is a city in northern Italy." ( let me get a map....) "In the centre of Milan is the famous white duomo" ( do I have a book with some picture?...)
"In another church ÿou can find da Vinci's famous "Last Supper". ( Who is da Vinci? I need to go to the library....). And so on and so on.
Sometimes there are so many open books everywhere in the house that my husband get's crazy.
But at the moment I'm very busy and the only book I'm reading now is Machiavelli"s - The Prince. Tough stuff....lol

great! Il Principe_Machiavelli !

Did you read it too, Gio ?

Originally Posted by Nona

Did you read it too, Gio ?

some parts

btw i like Plato dialogues..
they are so lively and real still now

i suggest you all to read the Plato dialogues about the ancient phylosophers chatting on the issues of ancient phylosophy and problems such as the contrasts between appearence and essence or about the start of the universe or how must the political power be like
to be labelled right

it seems annoying stuffbut it isn't


btw i wanna ask if someone has read THE DA VINCI CODE and what are the opinions about it?

i enjoy reading too but have not much time lately to read. i like thrillers. authors i like are james patterson, john sandford, nelson demille. I read Angels & Demond by Dan Brown in september by the pool over in holidays in majorca was good and the Da Vinci Code also by Dan Brown is a book I must read too. Ill get it after my exams in January.

btw i wanna ask if someone has read THE DA VINCI CODE and what are the opinions about it?[/quote]


Yes, I did.
Dan Brown took some historical facts, some myths, a man and a woman and made a story full of ancient conspiracy and a modern murder of it. There is even some romance.

Something like Agatha Christie writing about Miss Marple discovers the murder of the king of Atlantis, after reading Plato....lol

Originally Posted by Giovanni

Is there anyone who loves reading books, novels, essays?

What are you currently reading ?
What would you recommend to read ?
What have you planned to read in time to come?

Opinions, reviews, recommended choices?

I love reading novels very much. The only unfortunate thing is that I've been reading more academic books (a.k.a. anthropology) lately because of my ongoing research, and I have three novels lying on the floor that are halfway read.

Currently, I am reading Gabriel Marquez's "Storm Leaf", Jhumpa Lahiri's "Namesake" and a book consisting of Rudyard Kipling's short stories called "Stories from India". Just finished Umberto Eco's "Travels in Hyperreality" and Pramoedya Ananta Toer's biography.

The type of novels I usually enjoy reading is philosophical but not the too-serious stuff. More like the postcolonial philosohpy sprinkled with elements of humor.

One of the best books, and a bit surreal, I've read was Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and I'd recommend to those who loves literature that defies reality of time, space and character. Another book is Jose Saramago's "All The Names" -- read this one and tell me what you find "ah-hah" strange about this book.

Has anyone ever read something of Soren Kierkegaard?