Reads for December '08

• Kuali Baba

  1 Dec 08, 10:47

  Moving on from Neil Humphreys, I'm going to start on this:

  

  It's partly for my coursework next semester.

• eagle

  1 Dec 08, 10:48

  I just finished reading The Richest Man in Babylon

• fairlady_xoxo

  1 Dec 08, 11:16

  Originally posted by eagle:

  I just finished reading The Richest Man in Babylon

  That's a nice read =)

• elindra

  1 Dec 08, 11:17

  The Witness by Sandra Brown

  Lots of twists to the story

• fudgester

  1 Dec 08, 21:37

  

  Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short.

• gasband

  3 Dec 08, 00:37

  Reading this now...into chapter 4

  

• soleachip

  16 Dec 08, 01:54

  One third into this. So far so good, especially for impatient readers with short attention span. 

  

• MooKu

  16 Dec 08, 02:00

  

  and George Orwell's 1984. =X
  

• Detached

  16 Dec 08, 02:03

  

• soleachip

  16 Dec 08, 02:19

  Originally posted by MooKu:

   

  and George Orwell's 1984. =X
  

  fwah! fierce, but i likey.

• MooKu

  16 Dec 08, 02:22

  Originally posted by soleachip:

  fwah! fierce, but i likey.

  I'm taking ages to finish it I believe I've been at it since... June. :X

• Detached

  16 Dec 08, 02:23

  Originally posted by soleachip:

  fwah! fierce, but i likey.

  
  That's Detached's Favorite Read

• Detached

  16 Dec 08, 02:24

  Originally posted by MooKu:

  I'm taking ages to finish it I believe I've been at it since... June. :X

  
  Been so long since I gave you that book?

  Goshie.. I took like couple weeks to finish that.. It was so good, I couldn't put it down

• MooKu

  16 Dec 08, 02:31

  I'm taking a couple of weeks too! ... 26 weeks is a couple of 13 weeks. =X

• Detached

  16 Dec 08, 02:32

  Originally posted by MooKu:

  I'm taking a couple of weeks too! ... 26 weeks is a couple of 13 weeks. =X

  
  Ha.. very funny...

   

• elindra

  30 Dec 08, 12:04

  Last book of Dec 08

  Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daugther

  

  From Publishers Weekly
  Tendo, the daughter of a yakuza (mob) boss, grew up in 1970s and '80s Japan, living through the booms and busts of life on the wrong side of the law. Her first published work, Shoko uses unpracticed but appropriately blunt prose to memoir her exceedingly arduous life; readers will appreciate her restrained but powerful details, especially during some of the harsher scenes. From age 12 onwards, Shoko's life was enveloped in drug addiction, poverty, psychological and sexual abuse, miscarriage, attempted suicide and the deaths of many close family members, set against a backdrop of Japan's ultra-secretive yakuza society. Admiration and a detached style keep Tendo from exploring any resentment she might harbor toward her criminal father, which may prove off-putting for some, but feels entirely honest given the emotional trauma Tendo suffers, and is as revealing for what it includes as for what it doesn't. Emotionally complex and thoroughly heart-rending, this book is recommended for anyone searching for a more thorough and personal understanding of Japanese society, and its darker corners, than is offered by more popular Japanese imports (movies, comic books) featuring similar subject matter.
  Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

• Rhonda

  30 Dec 08, 16:52

  Originally posted by elindra:

  Last book of Dec 08

  Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daugther

  

  From Publishers Weekly
  Tendo, the daughter of a yakuza (mob) boss, grew up in 1970s and '80s Japan, living through the booms and busts of life on the wrong side of the law. Her first published work, Shoko uses unpracticed but appropriately blunt prose to memoir her exceedingly arduous life; readers will appreciate her restrained but powerful details, especially during some of the harsher scenes. From age 12 onwards, Shoko's life was enveloped in drug addiction, poverty, psychological and sexual abuse, miscarriage, attempted suicide and the deaths of many close family members, set against a backdrop of Japan's ultra-secretive yakuza society. Admiration and a detached style keep Tendo from exploring any resentment she might harbor toward her criminal father, which may prove off-putting for some, but feels entirely honest given the emotional trauma Tendo suffers, and is as revealing for what it includes as for what it doesn't. Emotionally complex and thoroughly heart-rending, this book is recommended for anyone searching for a more thorough and personal understanding of Japanese society, and its darker corners, than is offered by more popular Japanese imports (movies, comic books) featuring similar subject matter.
  Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

   

  Fwah... I want to read this too!  It looks mighty interesting!  So this was what you were talking about last night... 

• Rhonda

  30 Dec 08, 16:55

  Originally posted by MooKu:

  

  and George Orwell's 1984. =X
  

   

  MooKu, I read this a while back.  I loved it!  For some reason, I still remember scenes from the book! 

• Fatum

  31 Dec 08, 00:40

  just finished Guy Sajer's The forgotten soldier, which AV passed to me at the potluck

  

• MooKu

  31 Dec 08, 00:42

  Originally posted by Rhonda:

   

  MooKu, I read this a while back.  I loved it!  For some reason, I still remember scenes from the book! 

  They should totally make this into a movie!!

• Master -_-

  31 Dec 08, 00:45

  

  Now reading.."Can Asians Think?"

  Very content heavy..critical thinking required..albeit yawn inducing 

• Rhonda

  31 Dec 08, 06:36

  Originally posted by MooKu:

  They should totally make this into a movie!!

  Agreed!!  It has a bit of... is it Jane Eyre kinda air about it!    Siiiigh...

• viciouskitty74

  1 Jan 09, 16:18

  Just placed an order on Borders USA for the following books:

  1) Victory Conditions-Elizabeth Moon (Read it but wanting the paper pack edition)

  2) Against the Odds- Elizabeth Moon (Read it, but hard to locate so buying it.)

  3) Liars' Oath-Elizabeth Moon (Its suppose to be similar to Deeds of Paskideron)

  4) Rogue Clone by Steve L Kent (Read Clone Republic but cannot locate this 2nd book)

  Planning to order:

  Clone Alliance & Clone Elite (Not sure should I order also the 1st book Clone Republic, so I get the whole collection.)

  Elizabeth Moon books I am sure will have to donate to Library once I have to move house again, this time to Thailand.