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11/3/2008 10:47 AM (GMT-04:00)
helloimage helloimage Joined: 4/11/2006 Posts: 95 Location:	Books you would recommend (not only) to Robert "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by G.G. Marquez is my all-time favourite But I was also actually thinking of a funny short book which is not very known, that I've read lately "Zazie in the metro" by Raymond Queneau or maybe "Ocean Sea" by Alessandro Baricco Other ideas? Quote

11/3/2008 10:47 AM (GMT-04:00)

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Books you would recommend (not only) to Robert

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by G.G. Marquez

is my all-time favourite
But I was also actually thinking of a funny short book which is not very known, that I've read lately

"Zazie in the metro" by Raymond Queneau

or maybe

"Ocean Sea" by Alessandro Baricco

Other ideas?

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11/3/2008 11:49 AM (GMT-04:00)
brucomela brucomela Joined: 9/18/2006 Posts: 80 Location: Casale Monferrato (AL)	Cool! Thanks Image! I've read this book titled "Carnival Love" (but this is the Italian title, the original is "Geek Love") by Katherine Dunn...is a exciting and moving story about freaks...I wonder if Robert has ever read it, I know that is a quite old book (unfortunately in Italy it has been translated recently)... Oh, I suggest this book not only to Robert! xxx Quote

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Cool! Thanks Image!

I've read this book titled "Carnival Love" (but this is the Italian title, the original is "Geek Love") by Katherine Dunn...is a exciting and moving story about freaks...I wonder if Robert has ever read it, I know that is a quite old book (unfortunately in Italy it has been translated recently)...

Oh, I suggest this book not only to Robert!

xxx

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11/3/2008 5:03 PM (GMT-04:00)
TheJellyFox TheJellyFox Joined: 4/6/2007 Posts: 4 Location: Kent	I love "One Hundred Years of Solitude"! I would recommend "Le Grand Meaulnes" by Alain-Fournier. It's my favourite book, kind of a teenage book i suppose about adolescent love and infatuation and a strange mixture of realism and fantasy. I read first read it when i was 16, then i read it again recently (i'm 18 now) and felt so nostalgic. :( Alain-Fournier died one year after it was published, in the war. So sad. Anway i would recommend it to everyone (includind RS if he hasn't read it already!) My other favourite book is Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre. Quote

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I love "One Hundred Years of Solitude"!

I would recommend "Le Grand Meaulnes" by Alain-Fournier. It's my favourite book, kind of a teenage book i suppose about adolescent love and infatuation and a strange mixture of realism and fantasy. I read first read it when i was 16, then i read it again recently (i'm 18 now) and felt so nostalgic. :(

Alain-Fournier died one year after it was published, in the war. So sad.

Anway i would recommend it to everyone (includind RS if he hasn't read it already!)

My other favourite book is Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre.

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11/3/2008 5:14 PM (GMT-04:00)
PleaseComeHome PleaseComeHome Joined: 8/26/2005 Posts: 420 Location: Vicenza	let me thing about this..... yes...uhm... one of my favourite books is "the cloven viscount" by italo calvino and of course "Flowers of Evil" by Charles Baudelaire the best one in my opinion.... x ------ i don't understand why you wouldn't say, i only know i need you now... Quote

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let me thing about this.....

yes...uhm...

one of my favourite books is
"the cloven viscount" by italo calvino

and of course
"Flowers of Evil" by Charles Baudelaire
the best one in my opinion....

x

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i don't understand why you wouldn't say,
i only know i need you now...

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11/3/2008 5:17 PM (GMT-04:00)
Rosepetals Rosepetals Joined: 6/4/2008 Posts: 8155 Location:	How about... The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss! The story line is engrossing! You don't have a clue what's gonna happen next with thing 1 or thing 2. The plot twist and turns are KAFKAESQUE. BTW, I need Robert to stop watching movies, tv, and reading so he can get crackin' and answer my 10,000 questions! Quote

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How about...

The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss! The story line is engrossing! You don't have a clue what's gonna happen next with thing 1 or thing 2. The plot twist and turns are KAFKAESQUE.

BTW, I need Robert to stop watching movies, tv, and reading so he can get crackin' and answer my 10,000 questions!

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11/4/2008 12:58 AM (GMT-04:00)
Nellie Nellie Joined: 10/31/2008 Posts: 184 Location: Galway	My Recommendation Owen Meany by John Irving Quote

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My Recommendation

Owen Meany by John Irving

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11/4/2008 3:05 AM (GMT-04:00)
.Leah. .Leah. Joined: 5/13/2007 Posts: 113 Location: Melbourne, AU	Re: How about... Rosepetals wrote: The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss! The story line is engrossing! You don't have a clue what's gonna happen next with thing 1 or thing 2. The plot twist and turns are KAFKAESQUE. BTW, I need Robert to stop watching movies, tv, and reading so he can get crackin' and answer my 10,000 questions! LOL your book reading sounds as good as mine! The last book I read was one I bought for my MIL 'Matthew Flinders Cat' by Bryce Courtney. This was the summary Matthew Flinder's Cat is the story of a Sydney hobo and a young delinquent boy who meet outside Sydney's Mitchell Library. Outside the library is a statue of the famous navigator Matthew Flinders and also a statue of his cat "Trim" who sailed with him on his circumnavigation of Australia.The hobo and the boy strike up an unlikely friendship and the hobo tells the story to the boy of Matthew Flinder's epic voyage. It turned out to be a disturbing insight into the world of the sex trade of young boys. WOOPS.... Quote

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Re: How about...

Rosepetals wrote:
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss! The story line is engrossing! You don't have a clue what's gonna happen next with thing 1 or thing 2. The plot twist and turns are KAFKAESQUE.

BTW, I need Robert to stop watching movies, tv, and reading so he can get crackin' and answer my 10,000 questions!

LOL your book reading sounds as good as mine! The last book I read was one I bought for my MIL 'Matthew Flinders Cat' by Bryce Courtney.

This was the summary
Matthew Flinder's Cat is the story of a Sydney hobo and a young delinquent boy who meet outside Sydney's Mitchell Library. Outside the library is a statue of the famous navigator Matthew Flinders and also a statue of his cat "Trim" who sailed with him on his circumnavigation of Australia.The hobo and the boy strike up an unlikely friendship and the hobo tells the story to the boy of Matthew Flinder's epic voyage.

It turned out to be a disturbing insight into the world of the sex trade of young boys. WOOPS....

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11/4/2008 5:59 AM (GMT-04:00)
Rosepetals Rosepetals Joined: 6/4/2008 Posts: 8155 Location:	Re: Re: How about... leahjc wrote: Rosepetals wrote: The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss! The story line is engrossing! You don't have a clue what's gonna happen next with thing 1 or thing 2. The plot twist and turns are KAFKAESQUE. BTW, I need Robert to stop watching movies, tv, and reading so he can get crackin' and answer my 10,000 questions! LOL your book reading sounds as good as mine! The last book I read was one I bought for my MIL 'Matthew Flinders Cat' by Bryce Courtney. This was the summary Matthew Flinder's Cat is the story of a Sydney hobo and a young delinquent boy who meet outside Sydney's Mitchell Library. Outside the library is a statue of the famous navigator Matthew Flinders and also a statue of his cat "Trim" who sailed with him on his circumnavigation of Australia.The hobo and the boy strike up an unlikely friendship and the hobo tells the story to the boy of Matthew Flinder's epic voyage. It turned out to be a disturbing insight into the world of the sex trade of young boys. WOOPS.... Wow, at first it sounded like a children's book. Yikes!! Quote

11/4/2008 5:59 AM (GMT-04:00)

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Re: Re: How about...

leahjc wrote:
Rosepetals wrote:
The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss! The story line is engrossing! You don't have a clue what's gonna happen next with thing 1 or thing 2. The plot twist and turns are KAFKAESQUE.

BTW, I need Robert to stop watching movies, tv, and reading so he can get crackin' and answer my 10,000 questions!

LOL your book reading sounds as good as mine! The last book I read was one I bought for my MIL 'Matthew Flinders Cat' by Bryce Courtney.

This was the summary
Matthew Flinder's Cat is the story of a Sydney hobo and a young delinquent boy who meet outside Sydney's Mitchell Library. Outside the library is a statue of the famous navigator Matthew Flinders and also a statue of his cat "Trim" who sailed with him on his circumnavigation of Australia.The hobo and the boy strike up an unlikely friendship and the hobo tells the story to the boy of Matthew Flinder's epic voyage.

It turned out to be a disturbing insight into the world of the sex trade of young boys. WOOPS....

Wow, at first it sounded like a children's book. Yikes!!

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11/4/2008 7:35 AM (GMT-04:00)
CureCatLady CureCatLady Joined: 10/27/2008 Posts: 58 Location: Boston	My recommendation for Robert Smith I Don't Believe in Atheists by Chris Hedges This book is a poignant analysis of dogmatic fundamentalist believers, be they Christian, Muslim, Atheist or otherwise. Hedges brilliantly shows the parallel between the mindset of the American Christian Right and Dogmatic Atheists such as Richard Dawkins. The book is NOT an attack on Atheists, but rather an attack on all thinking that carries potential for violence against other human beings. He demonstrates how SOME strains of Atheism (as exemplified by Dawkins) are indeed as full of blind faith as the faiths the Atheists claim to eschew. His book reflected my own reaction to Dawkins' book, The God Delusion. All open minded persons will appreciate Hedges' book: atheist and theist, naturalist and supernaturalist alike. Chris Hedges is a popular left-progressive writer who is also a person of non-dogmatic faith. Quote

11/4/2008 7:35 AM (GMT-04:00)

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My recommendation for Robert Smith

I Don't Believe in Atheists
by Chris Hedges

This book is a poignant analysis of dogmatic fundamentalist believers, be they Christian, Muslim, Atheist or otherwise. Hedges brilliantly shows the parallel between the mindset of the American Christian Right and Dogmatic Atheists such as Richard Dawkins.

The book is NOT an attack on Atheists, but rather an attack on all thinking that carries potential for violence against other human beings. He demonstrates how SOME strains of Atheism (as exemplified by Dawkins) are indeed as full of blind faith as the faiths the Atheists claim to eschew. His book reflected my own reaction to Dawkins' book, The God Delusion.

All open minded persons will appreciate Hedges' book: atheist and theist, naturalist and supernaturalist alike.

Chris Hedges is a popular left-progressive writer who is also a person of non-dogmatic faith.

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