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The Worthing Saga Actually after Ender I scanned for more of Orson Scott Card. I came across "The Worthing Saga", including "the Worthing Chronicle", "Tales of Capitol", and "Tales from the Forest of Waters". It is not as touching and brilliant as Ender's Game. But some ideas were nice...

You are right, Beer Good, - hate is a strong emotion. I do not hate Rushdie for the reason that others hate him. I do not mind his views on religion. I mind just a boring writing. And unfortunately, I am now stuck with two of his books - I am somewhere at the end of "Satanic Verses" and...

Sometimes ago I was desperate from this grey cruel unjust world, and I was looking for a funny and kind book here. Somebody advised the Jasper Fforde SciFi book series - and that was awesome! I really suggest reading it, whoever still had not. I could not believe that I omitted him till...

Terrible book The controversal part was the only part where I managed to keep my eyes open. Otherwise I found this book extraordinarily boring. What is this stupid cinema cover-story all around? What those boring love-affairs, where I lost already who-slept-with-whom and why? Rushdie tries...

Rushdie Guys, most of you agree that Salman Rushdie is great. But I struggle with the Satanic Verses and I hate the book and I hate myself. In order to peace myself, I stopped reading this stupid book at home and now I read it only in a public transport on my way to work and back home. Every...

Steven Pinker Actually I much enjoyed the Steven Pinkers http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/books/index.htmltwo books: How the Mind Works The language instinct I did not read these books sequentially, skipped from chapter to chapter (subjects from some chapters I knew already well but from a...

Hi. I just came back from India where I found out how terribly poor is my knowledge in Indian mythology. I started to update myself through the internet but I got confused and very desperate because Gods names are long and foreign for my western ears and after a two or three minutes I loose...

Book recommendation I am now reading a "City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi" by William Dalrymple. This is a non-fiction, at least as far as I got in it by now, and it is about the author's experiences in New Delhi. Actually I am just back from my holydays in India, which make the reading very...

Just back from a book store. I was looking for something nice, but did not find. I was so sorry that I already read the Mark Twein. It would be exactly what I would like to read now. Funny and kind. Then, I was sorry that I read Astrid Lindgren's Karlson series. I was sorry that I read already...

Well, what a good thought! Never crossed my mind! Thanks a lot! Errr,hm, should I google for such e-magazines, or could you just please advise me at least one? Actually I never suspected of their existance :cool: ....

Well, May be I had to put it like that- there is no a "better murder" or a "worse murder", should not I? I still do not think that these people should be granted prizes. Here OJ Sipmson is not very different from Grass. Actually if I say today that I think that OJ Sipson had written amazing...

Well you helped me to find out the common line between the stories. Suffering. I could not put my finger on it, somehow. This is exactly the problem with all these competitions - no matter how great you are, if you do not hit the subject, your are out... Although I must admit that the language...

If a Nazi get the Nobel Price than what is about O.J. Simpson? Here in this link however people were less supportive about even reading the Simpson's book: http://www.bookandreader.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12427 But if you think that for a good peace of literature (if it might come out...

That sounds very ignorant. I am not German, but I have many jewish friends. Some of them were born DESPITE people like Mr. Grass. I love my jewish friends (may be one day I will marry one of them :) and I can not imagine that they just could be not born at all! I think that not ANY prize could...

I was yesterday in a bookstore trying to find "Ender's Game" for my friend's birthday. Nope, none, the world had forgotten the amazing Orson Scott Card. Instead, most of the shells were filled with books of Murakami. So many of them! Who is this guy? What kind of books are those (what...

Saramago is amazing! I agree that reading such a novel at school will make one hate it. Simply you can not grasp the whole beauty of this book when you are only 16-18 years old and dream of space ships in starwars rather than about naiive prehistoric flying machines before the Wright...

Hi, I was scrolling the net and I found several competitions on short stories. One of them is the "BBC short story competition": http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1210_shortstorycomp/index.shtml I read some winner-stories...

Funny selection Stewart, You must be either crazy or genious! Your list with the french Serge Gainsbourg and kind-of-russian-and-english Gogol Bordello is what I call extreme! I heard that Gogol Bordello, it is amazing! I am listenning to it currently. I cant stop laughing. They are...

Thanx! I am much intrigued by your suggestions - I must admit that I recognized only the "Buena Vista Social club" . Now I have a new list to-be-heard! Thanks a lot!

Recently I got my MP3 player. The first one in my life. After a week I was in an enormoud depression. I was wondering where it comes from and then I looked on my songs selection at the MP3: REM (depressing after 5-6 sad songs...) Beethoven Symphonies (rather sad too...) Some blues (here it...