starved for literature! (OAV Message Board)

Title: starved for literature!
Description: book suggestions

minamic - June 7, 2003 06:28 PM (GMT)

Hi peeps! Can anyone suggest a good book or author? I need a lit fix. I tried to look for Neil Gaiman books everytime I pass by Powerbooks but they're always out of stock.... of ALL HIS NOVELS. Just when I was so inspired by Good Omens, too. I looked for other books but can't find one that I'd want to read. So, any recommendations? I'm open. ^_^

Or you can just answer this simple question: What is your all-time favorite book/author and why? ^.^

thankies muchies! :D

eva_guy01 - June 7, 2003 10:00 PM (GMT)

The great thing about having friends is that you could borrow stuff from them. ^_^

I could lend you a couple of Gaiman books i got.

1) Neverwhere
2) Smoke and Mirrors

About recommending new books, well, im just in the dark as you are.

l_i_g_a_y_a_h_a_r_u_k_a - June 8, 2003 10:10 AM (GMT)

I haven't read anything Gaiman yet, but I hear he now has a storybook for children out now. :P;

My favorite authors include: Jude Deveraux (can anyone say "trashy romance novel"? XD ), Nick Joaquin, Kyoko Mori, Madeleine L'Engle ... and right now, not much else. --; I REALLY need to catch up on my reading! -__-

skyjade - June 9, 2003 02:21 PM (GMT)

Hm, really depends on what genre you're looking into.

I'm currently awaiting Book 5 of Harry Potter, Order of the Phoenix.

Meanwhile, I'm reading Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmerman Bradley - girl power in Camelot!

I've got lots of books I haven't read yet, mostly gifts or charity cases from my aunts in the US. If you want, you can pass by the apartment and I can lend you some. :D

officer_fujita - June 9, 2003 04:47 PM (GMT)

- After Eden by Arre.
- Rizal Without The Overcoat by Ambeth Ocampo
- The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

This coming from someone who doesn't like to read books. :)

minamic - June 9, 2003 05:08 PM (GMT)

QUOTE (skyjade @ Jun 9 2003, 10:21 PM)

No particular genre, as long as it's good. ^_^ Romance novels aside though, because as far as it goes, I've read most of my faves already. I guess I've outgrown them. (But haruka-chan, Jude Deveraux is a good author! Even though my loved authors are McNaught and Lindsay, one of my all-time fave novels in the genre is Deveraux's "Sweet Liar" which was very much recommended by my best friend and friends at the time. ^.^ )

I'm waiting for book 5, too. ^_^ When does it come out? I hope they'll still have copies left after they've taken care of all the reservations.

Thanks for the offers, Sonia and Robert! ^_^ *glompies* I'm going to take you up on those when I find the time. ^.~

... anyone else? Any more titles you like? I'm sure the people here like reading. ^_^

As for me, my fave books so far have been Neil Gaiman's "Good Omens" and Arthur Golden's "Memoirs of a Geisha". Lately I've been looking for oriental-themed novels --- Adeline Yen Mah's "Chinese Cinderella" and "Falling Leaves" were good books ... too good, in fact, that I felt like strangling the antagonists. Hm, I might look into that "Rape of Nanking" title, JM. ^_^

Must cure lit fix until they restock Neil Gaiman. Sigh.

l_i_g_a_y_a_h_a_r_u_k_a - June 11, 2003 09:53 AM (GMT)

QUOTE (minamic @ Jun 10 2003, 01:08 AM)

No particular genre, as long as it's good. ^_^ Romance novels aside though, because as far as it goes, I've read most of my faves already. I guess I've outgrown them. (But haruka-chan, Jude Deveraux is a good author! Even though my loved authors are McNaught and Lindsay, one of my all-time fave novels in the genre is Deveraux's "Sweet Liar" which was very much recommended by my best friend and friends at the time. ^.^ )

Thanks for the offers, Sonia and Robert! ^_^ *glompies* I'm going to take you up on those when I find the time. ^.~

... anyone else? Any more titles you like? I'm sure the people here like reading. ^_^

As for me, my fave books so far have been Neil Gaiman's "Good Omens" and Arthur Golden's "Memoirs of a Geisha". Lately I've been looking for oriental-themed novels --- Adeline Yen Mah's "Chinese Cinderella" and "Falling Leaves" were good books ... too good, in fact, that I felt like strangling the antagonists. Hm, I might look into that "Rape of Nanking" title, JM. ^_^

Must cure lit fix until they restock Neil Gaiman. Sigh.

I didn't mean it like THAT. XD That's just what my Ate and I call them, because they aren't exactly recommended reading which would stimulate the intellect. Not to mention some of them (not all, just some) have overly-exaggerated plots and overly-drawn sexual accounts. XD :lol:

They're having the premiere of Harry Potter Book Five in the bookstore formerly called "Page One," Fully Booked, this month, but I don't recall what date and time. --;

I happen to like a great many Asian-themed novels as well as those written by Asians and Asian-Americans, like Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses, Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha and this book about Nonya class divisions written by a Singaporean who I can only remember by her first name, "Catherine." --;

Dark_MooN - June 15, 2003 06:52 AM (GMT)

the amazing maurice and his educated rodents - terry pratchett
one hundred years of solitude - gabriel garcia marquez
coraline - neil gaiman
memoirs of a geisha - i forgot the author O_O
any edition of Twisted (pero i bet you've read it :D) - jessica zafra

l_i_g_a_y_a_h_a_r_u_k_a - June 16, 2003 05:44 PM (GMT)

I remember now! The Singaporean author's Catherine Lim, and the book I like is called The Bondmaid. The reason I remember is that they're still selling the book in National Bookstore after more than 5 years... :P XD

Is Wei Hui's book Shanghai Baby (title...?) as good as I've heard it to be? :)

ryanclive - June 19, 2003 02:26 AM (GMT)

Romance Of The 3 Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong (if you're into war novels)
<-- Walang sinabi Braveheart, Gladiator o ano pang war movie. The best talaga.

The Litte Prince by Antoine De Saint Exupery (yeah, baduy na kung baduy!)

minamic - June 21, 2003 04:17 AM (GMT)

QUOTE (Dark_MooN @ Jun 15 2003, 02:52 PM)

They still don't have Coraline in stock at Powerbooks. Dernit. ><

Memoirs of a Geisha was by Arthur Golden. ^_^ Read that one already.

And yes, I've read Twisted. :D Opkors. We like quoting from her, diba? Heheheh.

Missya Gemmie!!! ^_^ *hugs*

minamic - June 21, 2003 04:22 AM (GMT)

Oh and did I forget to mention that I have HP5?

:lol: HAPP-PIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!! :turn: :dance:

Shinzo - June 24, 2003 03:31 AM (GMT)

Some of my favorite authors are Anne Rice, JK Rowling, Pearl S. Buck, and Jean Craighead George.

My favorite books include:
The Vampire Chronicles (Anne Rice)
the Harry Potter Books (I don't have book 5 yet! ;_; )
Imperial Woman (Pearl S. Buck)
the "Sweep" Series (Cate Tiernan)
the Dragonlance Series
Sandman: The Dream Hunters (Neil Gaiman)

:panda:

acewildgal - June 27, 2003 06:28 AM (GMT)

currently reading Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie. Akala ko satanic book siya...kung fiction fan ka okay okay na rin.

Shinzo - July 3, 2003 11:33 AM (GMT)

Add ko lang:

Julie of the Wolves (Jean Craighead George)
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)

jikan - July 20, 2003 09:47 AM (GMT)

uy! books! love reading :D

why don't you try out the ff:

"Soul Mountain" by Gao Xingjian
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera
"Amrita" by Banana Yoshimoto
"Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

cheena_aj - August 8, 2003 07:20 AM (GMT)

Harry Potter 5

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami - chockfull of short stories

The Joy Luck Club and The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan - I dunno if guys will like this tho

The Madolescents by Chrissie Glazebrook - one weird teen mortician

Lenore Comic Books - inspired by the weird poem of Edgar Allan Poe

Emily the Strange - parang Lenore, another teen goth girl

Crimson - vampires and stuff

A Wild Sheep Chase

The Alchemist/ El Alquimista - maganda yung illustrations sa japanese version :D

The Dream Hunters - Neil Gaiman and the reknowned FF Artist

ALL IRVINE WELSH BOOKS!!

Read his Ecstasy book if you wanna be super disturbed :o

:D
Cheena

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