joe and i are doing the top100! i started when i was in brissie.. haven't gotten through many. would love to be a part of this 'club' reading is for the cool kids! x
Re: books to swaptort_proong_neNovember 16 2005, 18:51:59 UTC
hooray!
well that sounds great Dana! I actually got the boxed set of Across the Nightingale floor ... so I still have a copy! Did you end up reading it?
Apart from that and Mao's Last Dancer (which I have also read), I would love to read them! Actually maybe I should read your copy of Mao's Last Dancer because somehow I bought the "young reader's version" instead of the normal one - whoops!
Well if there is anything you would like to read, let me know. I see Janet Evanovich has a new one out although no one here has bought it.
Not to get all "I love the bible and why is it at 27" here, but come on now old chap! Out of the 26 books before it, two are allegories for it, two are challening its world view head-on, four or five are seeking to overtly promote its worldview and another handful are playing around with and commenting on its worldview. So even from a completely non-religious perspective it is obviously the most important and influential book there is, and also the undisputed best-seller of all time. Christians do far and away the most charity, relief and social justice work too but no one ever mentions that either. Rant over!
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one of the greatest books ever
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Have fun overseas!
PS: I'll find a book to lend you too.
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reading is for the cool kids! x
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5. Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden - haven't read
15. Cloudstreet, Tim Winton - easily my favourite book
19. Tully, Paullina Simons - haven't read
20. Across the Nightingale Floor, Lian Hearn - i think you gave me your copy of across the nightinggale floor for xmas last year!
34. Mao's Last Dancer, Li Cunxin - mum and aimee say its great
40. The Notebook, Nicolas Sparks - told that its better than the movie but not that great
42. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini - a fabulous, if not really sad book, recommend A+++++++++++
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well that sounds great Dana! I actually got the boxed set of Across the Nightingale floor ... so I still have a copy! Did you end up reading it?
Apart from that and Mao's Last Dancer (which I have also read), I would love to read them! Actually maybe I should read your copy of Mao's Last Dancer because somehow I bought the "young reader's version" instead of the normal one - whoops!
Well if there is anything you would like to read, let me know. I see Janet Evanovich has a new one out although no one here has bought it.
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Out of the 26 books before it, two are allegories for it, two are challening its world view head-on, four or five are seeking to overtly promote its worldview and another handful are playing around with and commenting on its worldview.
So even from a completely non-religious perspective it is obviously the most important and influential book there is, and also the undisputed best-seller of all time.
Christians do far and away the most charity, relief and social justice work too but no one ever mentions that either.
Rant over!
PS: Jesus was cool.
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