ALAN DEAN FOSTER - ALIENS VS PREDATOR - WAR
Anne Rice - New Tales of the Vampires 01 - Pandora
Anne Rice - New Tales of the Vampires 02 - Vittorio
Anne Rice - The Vampire Chronicles (Books 1-10)
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Dan Brown - Deception Point
Dan Brown - Digital Fortress
DAVID BALDACCI - TOTAL CONTROL
DAVID BISCHOFF - ALIEN'S GENOCIDE
Greg Bear - Blood Music
Isaac Asimov - I Robot
John Grisham - The Chamber
Khalil Gibran - The Prophet
Larry Niven - Fallen Angels
Larry Niven - Lucifer's Hammer
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
Plato - Republic
PLATO - Timaeus
Robert Ludlum - The Bourne Identity
Sun Tzu - The Art Of War
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
Thomas Harris - Hannibal
Thomas Harris - Red Dragon
Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs
William Gibson - Cyberpunk 1 - Neuromancer
William Gibson - CyberPunk 2 - Count Zero
William Gibson - CyberPunk 3 - Mona Lisa Overdrive
William Gibson - CyberPunk Shorts - Burning Chrome
I went to the West Los Angeles Library to borrow any David Sedaris book, but found only "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". They said it will cost a quarter a day to borrow it...I didn't know you had to pay at the library. Anyways I plan to buy it instead. By the way his sister Amy Sedaris is totally insane and hilarious.
Just read Ender's Shadow...loved Ender's game though I'm not a huge science fiction fan and read only a bit. Ender's shadow is the parallel story of Bean.
In the middle of THE HISTORIAN by Elizabeth Kosteva, honestly folks, I haven't read a good novel like this since Caleb Carr's the Alienist in 1997. If you like history, mystery, good/evil, bible, quran, eastern europe, cold war, turkey, travelogues and dracula...this is it.
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Read the review of The Historian on Amazon, and it sounds intriguing and I will have to check it out. I still need to finish V.S. Naipaul's Bend in the River; I am half way through that.
Louis de bernieres - Birds without wings
- excellent read. you'll love it more than Captain Correli's mandolin. It's set in Anatolia (i.e. Turkey) in the early 20th century, when the Turks fought the war of independence with Greece. It describes the lives of Turks and Greeks caught up in the war, and the impact of the population exchange that took place (Greeks kicked out of Turkey, and vice versa).
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway is really good - Its a set of short stories, the best being the Kilimanjaro one. They're highly pessimistic pieces though, and often deal with death and the pointlessness of life. I was only able to read about half the stories...and then I got too depressed :D
Finished reading "A Long Way Down" over the last weekend. Parts of it were really great but some other parts I didn't care for. The beginning was much stronger than the ending of the book. Usually I find it easy to identify with Hornby characters but I had trouble with this one.
I also thought a lot of the phrasing for the American character seemed too British--unless of course, Brad Friedel was the model. :D
I am currently reading God of All Small Things. It is extremely difficult to get into, however, I am halfway into the book (don’t spoil it for me … be warned ) and it’s finally getting interesting.
After this, I will be delving into books by Jhumpa Lahiri.
Pinny, I was talking about this book in another thread a while back. I’ve ordered it and am so looking forward to reading it. It apparently took the author 10 years to write!
Mehnaz, and it will take you only two weeks to finish it. What a great read. Amazing narrative and fantastic travelogue…through another times and places…
I am now on to 1776 by David McCullough, something tells me you won’t like that one…
) and it’s finally getting interesting.