Recommend a book you ever read.

by GotCash 25th May 2009, 5:17 pm

Hello peeps, i just want to know if anyone in this forum does read books at all =D
If you do, please recommend some books you ever read and give some background infomation about it.

Here's mine.

"Change of Heart" by Jodi Picoult.
Shay Bourne becomes the first person in decades to be sentenced to death in New Hampshire, when he is found guilty of the cold-blooded killing of a policeman and his stepdaughter.
After eleven years on Death Row, the end is coming for Shay. Until he sees a news piece about a young girl who urgently needs a heart transplant.

June's husband and daughter died at Shay Bourne's hands, and she thought her greatest desire was to see him killed. Then her remaining daughter is hospitalised, and she realises that there is something she wants even more: for Claire to live. Shay Bourne is offering June's daughter a miracle - a second chance. But at what cost ?

I personally feel that this book is a heart-wrenching book, a very good book in all ways.
It allows you to look at an issue from different ways, instead of just looking at it from a viewpoint.

I'm 14 pages away from finishing the book and i hope by the time, i would get a new book to read that was recommended by the forum itself =D
Goodday

by lordhawk 25th May 2009, 6:26 pm

Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose.

Wished I had read it before I enlisted for NS. Unfortunately it was written some time after, I think.

by tiny 25th May 2009, 6:35 pm

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. It's a life changing book. Makes you realise that you don't live for others.

by lordhawk 25th May 2009, 6:37 pm

Atlas Shrugged!!!

You're a closet libertarian? Now that's a book I gotta read.

No more taxes!

by **tish** 26th May 2009, 10:14 am

lao fu zi, i read alot of series of it in my younger days when im sitting on the toilet bowl, not sure if it suits u Smile

by luvxiaobeng 26th May 2009, 11:17 am

tish wrote:lao fu zi, i read alot of series of it in my younger days when im sitting on the toilet bowl, not sure if it suits u

Wah Lau Tish...... Please lor.... ppl toking about good books..... Not those books you sh*ttin tat time read 1 lor......

Me life to read more on bio or true story..... Yakuza Moon..... Thumbs Up.... is a story about a japanese ger growing up in a "gangster" family From taking drugs to a book writer now.....

by **tish** 26th May 2009, 11:23 am

those were good toilet books ok!!! GOOD!!

by GotCash 26th May 2009, 4:25 pm

Ya i heard about Yakuza Moon, getting popular in my school now.
Haven't had a chance to read it yet but i will =D

by tiny 26th May 2009, 4:34 pm

lordhawk wrote:Atlas Shrugged!!!

You're a closet libertarian? Now that's a book I gotta read.

No more taxes!

No. I'm an atheist and an objectivist. Not to mention a nihilist..lol If you want I should still have a slightly tattered copy of it to lend you..along with almost the rest of the Ayn Rand Collection and her lexicon..lol

by luvxiaobeng 26th May 2009, 5:32 pm

GotCash wrote:Ya i heard about Yakuza Moon, getting popular in my school now.
Haven't had a chance to read it yet but i will =D

If you want I can pass the book to you.... I finish reading liao.... now lyin at hm no one want to read other then me..... pass it to your dad during the next meet up I'm in no hurry to get it back...... I kw you got Cash but save for other thing ya..... no need to buy..... hehehe.....

by lordhawk 26th May 2009, 5:35 pm

Well tiny, now that you have a Forte, perhaps you are now less a nihilist than a materialist. If you're still the former, remind me to stay far away from you when you're driving... Very Happy

But yes, I'd like to borrow your copy of Atlas Shrugged. Next meetup perhaps?

tiny: Do not try and drift the car. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
lordhawk: What truth?
tiny: There is no car.
lordhawk: There is no car?
tiny: Then you'll see, that it is not the car that drifts, it is only yourself.

Argh! Razz

by GotCash 26th May 2009, 7:10 pm

tiny wrote:
lordhawk wrote:Atlas Shrugged!!!

You're a closet libertarian? Now that's a book I gotta read.

No more taxes!

No. I'm an atheist and an objectivist. Not to mention a nihilist..lol If you want I should still have a slightly tattered copy of it to lend you..along with almost the rest of the Ayn Rand Collection and her lexicon..lol

Hey Tiny, Change of Heart has some topics including atheist, christianity etc.

luvxiaobeng wrote:
GotCash wrote:Ya i heard about Yakuza Moon, getting popular in my school now.
Haven't had a chance to read it yet but i will =D

If you want I can pass the book to you.... I finish reading liao.... now lyin at hm no one want to read other then me..... pass it to your dad during the next meet up I'm in no hurry to get it back...... I kw you got Cash but save for other thing ya..... no need to buy..... hehehe.....

Haha okay man thanks =D

by Juz@kid 26th May 2009, 7:18 pm

me read newspapers... bookz juz see picture coz picture tellz a thousand wordz Laughing

hehehe

by GotCash 26th May 2009, 7:24 pm

Juz@kid wrote:me read newspapers... bookz juz see picture coz picture tellz a thousand wordz hehehe

haha, can post in my father thread liao =D

by **Siaoster** 26th May 2009, 7:48 pm

FHM
Motor Culture
Hot Stuff

considered? lol

by GotCash 26th May 2009, 8:15 pm

Eh i too young for those man =D

by **Siaoster** 27th May 2009, 12:08 am

haa yeah too true also, hope ur dad don see this *gulp*

by Melfiend 27th May 2009, 12:25 am

Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles
well penned
dark
gothic

by lordhawk 27th May 2009, 12:28 am

Those books suit you, Melfiend

by Melfiend 27th May 2009, 12:29 am

yea
you should read it too

by The Blue Cruiser 27th May 2009, 1:35 am

Disgrace, by J.M Coetzee.

by cboonh 27th May 2009, 2:13 pm

Are you guys into Fantasy Fiction?

Awhile ago i finished this book by Patrick Rothfuss, <The Name of the Wind>. (Kingkiller Chronicles). Part 1 of a series of 3 books. I think part 2 was just released <A wise's man fear>.

It's a darn good book. It gives an interesting and alternative perspective of how "magic" is actually created, based on some underlying psychological/physical interaction. The author is very good at using words to bring out different emotions/reactions. A very enjoyable book after you can get through the few chapters.

Guyss more good books must intro! hehe Smile

by tiny 27th May 2009, 7:31 pm

lordhawk wrote:Well tiny, now that you have a Forte, perhaps you are now less a nihilist than a materialist. If you're still the former, remind me to stay far away from you when you're driving...

But yes, I'd like to borrow your copy of Atlas Shrugged. Next meetup perhaps?

tiny: Do not try and drift the car. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
lordhawk: What truth?
tiny: There is no car.
lordhawk: There is no car?
tiny: Then you'll see, that it is not the car that drifts, it is only yourself.

Argh!

Would you like The Fountainhead too? I find Fountainhead abit deeper, but individual vs the collective is a theme that is ever prevalent in our society..

Lordhawk, it's not the kind of nihilism that you are talking about.. I do not reject all forms of existences.
What I means is this (def: The belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement).

Oh yah..btw I think my real religion is anarchist (or is it arsonist?)..i enjoy seeing things blow up and burn.. Laughing

by The Blue Cruiser 27th May 2009, 9:27 pm

Bookworm Short Stories. Smile

by Kev_78 27th May 2009, 9:55 pm

"How to make money in stocks" by William J.Oneil...useful for those into share trading

by lordhawk 28th May 2009, 12:15 am

tiny, I will still stand far far away from you when you're driving.

Anarchism! Wah rao...

But yeah, I do share some of your sentiments regarding some of our existing institutions. But in that respect, I'm probably more a conservative reformist than anything else. Wink

The Fountainhead...heard of it in JC but never got around to reading it.

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