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Posted: Wednesday June 14th, 2006 21:15 |
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CA95616 wrote: we need to talk about Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. brilliant!
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Posted: Thursday June 15th, 2006 14:01 |
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I'm currently reading Twilight people by David Houze Jr. This book is about an African-American( I say that literally because he is of mixed cultures)man who discovers that his South African mother had left there daughter without him knowing and he goes beack and try to find it. Going back to his land of birth also has questioned answered about his sister's far as his mother leaving them behind for 25 years and disucuuing his his reunion with his sisters and his mentally challeged brother. There are other topic that are somewhat unrelated to his attempts to understand racism in the Mississippi( where he was raised) and South Africa and with the politics of Race with the " Coloureds", Black Africans and Whites in South Africa. He laso disucusses about his African American father and his origins.
So far, I'm liking this book because of his parallelisms that he makes about race in this book. Reading his autobiography, I see him as a tragic figure. It also a part history lesson when he talk about the "Coloureds' Position there( and I have to agreewith David with That, They were raised in a environment where the government has been using them up for years). This book is one that may leave you angry, confused, sad and even some humor in it. To me , it a pretty good book by him.
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Posted: Friday June 16th, 2006 16:39 |
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I'm not properly reading this book since it's more of a Coffee table type'a thing. But I got myself a book called Caribbean Style. Basically talking about and displaying the various architectural styles found on a good section of Caribbean islands. It has a little explanation of the ideas behind the buildings, including their introduction to the island in question and functionality.
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Posted: Friday June 16th, 2006 17:22 |
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CA95616 wrote: we need to talk about Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. brilliant!
yep i agree. read that book last year and would call it the most entertaining book i read all year. it had me staying up late, unable to put it down.
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Posted: Friday June 16th, 2006 18:27 |
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bubz wrote: CA95616 wrote: we need to talk about Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. brilliant!
yep i agree. read that book last year and would call it the most entertaining book i read all year. it had me staying up late, unable to put it down.
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What's do damn special about this book? What kind of book is it, fiction, nonfiction, sci-fi, historical fiction, history, anthropological, what??? It is rude to talk about it, yet at the same time keep everyone reading in the dark.
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Posted: Friday June 16th, 2006 19:30 |
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Shemsi en Tehuti wrote: bubz wrote: CA95616 wrote: we need to talk about Kevin' by Lionel Shriver. brilliant!
yep i agree. read that book last year and would call it the most entertaining book i read all year. it had me staying up late, unable to put it down.
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What's do damn special about this book? What kind of book is it, fiction, nonfiction, sci-fi, historical fiction, history, anthropological, what??? It is rude to talk about it, yet at the same time keep everyone reading in the dark.
lol! calm down ! i think you may be a little confused...the title of the novel is 'we need to talk about kevin' and its written by lionel shriver. i dont know if it is the kind of book you would usually read but i found it gripping, totally absorbing. here's a little more info: http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=006072448X
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Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own shortcomings may have shaped what her son has become, she confesses to a deep, long-standing ambivalence about both motherhood in general and Kevin in particular. How much is her fault? Lionel Shriver tells a compelling, absorbing, and resonant story while framing these horrifying tableaux of teenage carnage as metaphors for the larger tragedy - the tragedy of a country where everything works, nobody starves, and anything can be bought but a sense of purpose.
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Prizes: Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction (2005), Shortlisted for the British Book Awards: Crime Thriller of the Year (2006) Related subjects: Modern fiction
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Posted: Friday June 16th, 2006 19:30 |
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| you need to go and buy the book. you wont regret it. I dont want to give too much away but its narrated by the mother of a boy who kills 9 people at his school.
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Posted: Friday June 16th, 2006 19:31 |
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i stand corrected, 7
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Posted: Monday June 19th, 2006 08:59 |
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The 2 books I'm currently reading are:
Don't know much about mythology - Kenneth Davis
This book looks at various myths and tries to track back through history where they came from and shows examples from multiple places and how they are still used today just repackaged..... like Wile E Coyote and Bugs Bunny are inspired by myths, rabbits, coyotes and ravens are among the most common "tricksters" found in myths of native America and Africa. Myths about Druids buliding Stonehenge, Pandoras "jar" not box and how this came about, the word hurricane can be traced back to the Mayans storm god Hurracan and changed to hurricane after the Spanish influx. It also mentions an early Mespotamian kings list which closely resembles the names and decendants from the very first people.........
Supernatural - Graham Hancock
Very interesting book, goes way way back to studing cave art and history of wo/man, what and why they might've done cetain things, their admiration of creatures, how this may have been carried to present day this is what I got from the book so far....example: man relising the lion was the top predator, felines also have prides...many females, how man tries to emulate the lion hence the many females but forgetting completely we are primates and the opposite of felines. How the histroy of animal veneration has followed us as half animal half wo/man all through the ages, from half animal half god, Batman, Spiderman, animals with human voices like The Wild or Madagascar.
Goes into many differant areas which more or less shows how and why we do things, yet don't relise why we do them.
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Posted: Saturday June 24th, 2006 23:05 |
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 Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
'Diary takes the form of a "coma diary" kept by one Misty Marie Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in a hospital after a suicide attempt. Once she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at school and being brought back to once quaint, now tourist-overrun Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Peter, it turns out, has been hiding rooms in houses he's remodeled and scrawling vile messages all over the walls-an old habit of builders but dramatically overdone in Peter's case. Angry homeowners are suing left and right, and Misty's dreams of artistic greatness are in ashes. But then, as if possessed by the spirit of Maura Kinkaid, a fabled Waytansea artist of the nineteenth century, Misty begins painting again, compulsively. But can her newly discovered talent be part of a larger, darker plan? Of course it can... '
'Some of his best work is here...It could be Palahniuk's most ambitious novel to date, certainly the most ambitious since Fight Club." --The Washington Post Book World
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Posted: Tuesday June 27th, 2006 01:09 |
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| I'm reading "The Wreck of the River of Stars" by Michael Flynn. So far so good.
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Posted: Tuesday June 27th, 2006 11:30 |
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These are books I read a some months back, but I recommend them to anyone who is interested:
All the fairy tales of romance between Pocahantas and John Smith are dispelled here. This books tell a realistic account of the life of Pocahantas, without the soppy love story.
This is a great read about the life of a mulatto slave girl and what she went through to get her freedom. I read it once when I was 13 or 14 and I just re read it again recently. This is a great book for anyone who is interested in the sexual aspect of slavery.
A realistic account by a black woman what life was like growing up in the poor segregated south. Tells of her trials and tribulations during the civil rights movement. Very nice book.
if you are looking for a clean cut argument as to why blacks are entitiled to reparations then i suggest you read something else. This book is very metaphorical, and in a roundabout way argues why blacks are entitles to reparations, but most of it is left to the reader to figure out. Nonetheless, still a great book. 
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Posted: Wednesday June 28th, 2006 22:25 |
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Dan Brown - Angels and Demons............... its a good book....... the begining is more intrestin than the beginin of the da vinchi code
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Posted: Tuesday July 11th, 2006 08:11 |
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"Ugly" by Constance Briscoe. It's an autobiography about how she rose from her abusive childhood and became one of the first Black Women to serve as a Judge in a British court. And who says a mothers love comes naturally?
Haven't finished reading it yet; but i'm well past the centre page. Extremely interesting- would recommend it to anyone.
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Posted: Tuesday July 11th, 2006 10:21 |
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I'm reading a book called 'SLAVE' - mende nazer and damien lewis
its the autobiography about a young african girl from sudan who was captured at 12 and sold into slavery
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A shocking true story of contemporary slavery: a young girl, snatched from her tribal village in Africa, survives enslavement in Sudan and London before making a courageous escape to freedom.
Mende Nazer lost her childhood at age twelve, when she was sold into slavery. It all began one horrific night in 1993, when Arab raiders swept through her Nuba village, murdering the adults and rounding up thirty-one children, including Mende.
She was sold to a wealthy Arab family who lived in Sudan's capital city, Khartoum. So began her dark years of enslavement. Her Arab owners called her "Yebit," or "black slave." She called them "master." She was subjected to appalling physical, sexual, and mental abuse. She slept in a shed and ate the family leftovers like a dog. She had no rights, no freedom, and no life of her own.
Normally, Mende's story never would have come to light. But seven years after she was seized and sold into slavery, she was sent to work for another master--a diplomat working in the United Kingdom. In London, she managed to make contact with other Sudanese, who took pity on her. In September 2000, she made a dramatic break for freedom.
Slave is a story almost beyond belief. It depicts the strength and dignity of the Nuba tribe. It recounts the savage way in which the Nuba and their ancient culture are being destroyed by a secret modern-day trade in slaves. Most of all, it is a remarkable testimony to one young woman's unbreakable spirit and tremendous courage.
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Posted: Friday July 14th, 2006 17:36 |
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"The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the crisis in american culture" by Bakari Kitwana
Its a brilliant book. It explains the impact hip hop in every walk of life, it shos the impact it has on films, the impact it has on male attitudes to women, the effect it has on the growing prision population, the effect on employment, it even gives a background in how the hip hop generation emerged , and goes into details into the conflict between the civil rights generation ( our parents, elders) and the hip hop generation
Ive also recently read Omar Tyree's "Just Say NO", and I am more than half way through Tookie Williams "Redemption"
There are so many books that I want to buy, and read. I have even made a list of all the boks I want to get. Right now Im not sure what to read next between
Destruction of Black Civilisation by Chancellor Williams, or Revolutionary suicide by Huey p newton of the black panthers
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Posted: Friday July 14th, 2006 20:48 |
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Covenant with Black America. . .and I am also re-reading "Miseducation of the Negro".
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Posted: Tuesday July 25th, 2006 17:31 |
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I'm rereading Rat's in the trees. I read it years back and to be fair it is aimed at kids but it's a good book I enjoyed in my early teens. It's about a boy who moves to a new town and has a new set of friends. Sounds basic but the stuff they go through is pretty bleak and it hits kinda hard at the end.
I recommend it, it's good.
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Posted: Tuesday July 25th, 2006 18:13 |
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Performance Coaching: The Handbook for Managers, HR Professionals and Coaches
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Posted: Tuesday July 25th, 2006 23:33 |
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James Patterson - along came a spider........
james patterson books are amazin.... any1 who aint read one shud read one....... he is an amazing crime writer!!!
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Posted: Friday July 28th, 2006 01:09 |
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Im currently reading 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright, the authour of the remarkable novel 'Native Son'.
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Posted: Sunday August 6th, 2006 17:54 |
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Just finished The Fledgling by Octavia Butler and am now starting on Floetry of my Third Eye by Tammy Jones
Both can be ordered through Amazon
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Posted: Sunday August 6th, 2006 18:49 |
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| I'm currently reading The Isis Papers by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing and I'm on chapter 11 The Symbolism of Smoking Objects.
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Posted: Monday August 7th, 2006 17:42 |
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One sci-fi book I'm almost finished and an entertaining math book I just started.
The SF book is about robot tanks, an idea originated by a writer now deceased. The idea was taken up by another military sci-fi writer whose stuff I have read and I wanted to see how well he adapted the idea to his style.
BOLO!
I want to add a mathematics book to my reading list but I want something entertaining to stimulate interest not a boring grind even if useful. This has lots of pictures and demonstrates many areas in which mathematics is applicable. I'm only on page 20 and I've learned some things I never heard of.
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