CARI (e)BOOK CLUB: sila jawab KUIZ

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Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 4/8/05 08:51 AM:



ok i will help u update on page 1.....later cay

:ah:Good job, Hamy...:hug:

Duta lover

elo...kowang ada tak buku buku oleh paolo coelho???
aku suka sgt dgn paulo coelho!!!
jalan cerita yg simple tapi banyak nilai nilai kemanusiaan
buku buku dia semua nipis nipis..tapi hara rm30 ++ gak
huhuhu
aku ni skola lagi..susah sket nak beli buku..
so kalau kowang ada,,buleh tak uploadkan :D

appropos

Originally posted by Duta lover at 6-8-2005 02:38 PM:
elo...kowang ada tak buku buku oleh paolo coelho???
aku suka sgt dgn paulo coelho!!!
jalan cerita yg simple tapi banyak nilai nilai kemanusiaan
buku buku dia semua nipis nipis..tapi hara rm30 ++ ...

wiil do , check out this thursday .

Duta lover

tengkiu!!!!!

azaleena

Originally posted by appropos at 2005-7-31 03:55 PM:
thorn birds ( a classic)
author : coleen mccullough
genre : romance
An Epic Love Story You Won't Want To Miss!!!, July 27, 2004
Reviewer:        Kristi Ahlers (APO, AE. Bruxelles, Belgium) - See all m ...

tolong upload cite ni balik boleh tak???

termiss yg ni ...

appropos

http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0LZALDRMA66S3CMW6P4DL4M1P
round 2 of the thorn birds

azaleena

Originally posted by appropos at 2005-8-8 01:24 PM:
http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0LZALDRMA66S3CMW6P4DL4M1P
round 2 of the thorn birds

thanks a lot appropos!!:tq::tq::tq:

appropos

Originally posted by azaleena at 8-8-2005 02:39 PM:


thanks a lot appropos!!:tq::tq::tq:

no prob . i aim please:hatdown::hatdown::hatdown:

Hamyhaireen

Paulo Coelho
Brazil   (1947 - )

Published in over 100 countries, translated into 42 different languages, with over 21 million copies of his books sold internationally, Paulo Coelho can truly claim to be one of the most popular writers in the world. The Independent on Sunday has called him a 'publishing phenomenon'. Paulo's writing is a visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism and folklore. His stories are simple and direct, yet they have the power to change lives and inspire you with the courage to follow your dreams...

NOVELS
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream (1993)
The Pilgrimage: A Contemporary Quest For Ancient Wisdom (1995)
The Valkyries: An Encounter With Angels (1995)
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1996)
The Fifth Mountain (1998)
Veronika Decides to Die (1999)
The Devil and Miss Prym (2001)
Eleven Minutes (2003)
The Zahir: A Novel of Love, Longing and Obsession (2005)


Collections
Manual of the Warrior of Light (2002)

Website
http://www.paulocoelho.com.br/engl/index.html

appropos

since i managed to find only one of his books so i decided post it earlier

author - paulo coelho

title - the alchemist

http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0Y8EJTJY9MQNW1ZMANCBBMUXAT

enjoy

Duta lover

oh time kasih ya :D
tapi aku dah ada buku ni....(best giloz)

aku cadangkan korang semua baca buku ni tau
mmg best sgt

appropos

Originally posted by Duta lover at 9-8-2005 03:14 PM:
oh time kasih ya :D
tapi aku dah ada buku ni....(best giloz)

aku cadangkan korang semua baca buku ni tau
mmg best sgt

i'll see if i find more books by him i'll post it so check here often..

Hamyhaireen

title - the alchemist, author - paulo coelho



From Publishers Weekly
This inspirational fable by Brazilian author and translator Coelho has been a runaway bestseller throughout Latin America and seems poised to achieve the same prominence here. The charming tale of Santiago, a shepherd boy, who dreams of seeing the world, is compelling in its own right, but gains resonance through the many lessons Santiago learns during his adventures. He journeys from Spain to Morocco in search of worldly success, and eventually to Egypt, where a fateful encounter with an alchemist brings him at last to self-understanding and spiritual enlightenment. The story has the comic charm, dramatic tension and psychological intensity of a fairy tale, but it's full of specific wisdom as well, about becoming self-empowered, overcoming depression, and believing in dreams. The cumulative effect is like hearing a wonderful bedtime story from an inspirational psychiatrist. Comparisons to The Little Prince are appropriate; this is a sweetly exotic tale for young and old alike.

[ Last edited by Hamyhaireen on 10-8-2005 at 10:06 AM ]

Hamyhaireen

Duta,
Since you dah baca buku ni dan suka sangat apa kata citer sikit
apa yang best sangat pasal buku ni. Kesimpulannya, share your review
about this book. People would love to know......

appropos

been a bit hectic this few days so deciced to post the books a bit early takut tak sempat plus the weathers making me very miserable .. so without wasting more time this weeks books..

appropos

something a bit controversial

a note - i am posting this here not to cause an uproar or any offense to those that might not agree with me posting this book . if this posting does cause any offense i apologise and please inform me and i will not post this type of books..

author - salman rushdie

title -  the satanic verses

Amazon.com
No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of language served up by a writer at the height of his powers, and a rollicking comic fable. The book begins with two Indians, Gibreel Farishta ("for fifteen years the biggest star in the history of the Indian movies") and Saladin Chamcha, a Bombay expatriate returning from his first visit to his homeland in 15 years, plummeting from the sky after the explosion of their jetliner, and proceeds through a series of metamorphoses, dreams and revelations. Rushdie's powers of invention are astonishing in this Whitbread Prize winner.

From Publishers Weekly
Banned in India before publication, this immense novel by Booker Prize-winner Rushdie ( Midnight's Children ) pits Good against Evil in a whimsical and fantastic tale. Two actors from India, "prancing" Gibreel Farishta and "buttony, pursed" Saladin Chamcha, are flying across the English Channel when the first of many implausible events occurs: the jet explodes. As the two men plummet to the earth, "like titbits of tobacco from a broken old cigar," they argue, sing and are transformed. When they are found on an English beach, the only survivors of the blast, Gibreel has sprouted a halo while Saladin has developed hooves, hairy legs and the beginnings of what seem like horns. What follows is a series of allegorical tales that challenges assumptions about both human and divine nature. Rushdie's fanciful language is as concentrated and overwhelming as a paisley pattern. Angels are demonic and demons are angelic as we are propelled through one illuminating episode after another. The narrative is somewhat burdened by self-consciousness that borders on preciosity, but for Rushdie fans this is a splendid feast. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo; first serial to Harper's; BOMC alternate; QPBC alternate; author tour.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0WYON9VOI4R4G17Q8X26GV64EC

appropos

author - bret easton ellis
title -  american psycho

From Library Journal
This review is based on the galley issued by Ellis's original publisher, Simon & Schuster, before it cancelled the book. The book is now going through the editing process at Vintage. There may be some changes in the final version. The indignant attacks on Ellis's third novel (see News, p. 17; Editorial, p. 6) will make it difficult for most readers to judge it objectively. Although the book contains horrifying scenes, they must be read in the context of the book as a whole; the horror does not lie in the novel itself, but in the society it reflects. In the first third of the book, Pat Bateman, a 26-year-old who works on Wall Street, describes his designer lifestyle in excruciating detail. This is a world in which the elegance of a business card evokes more emotional response than the murder of a child. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, Bateman calmly and deliberately blinds and stabs a homeless man. From here, the body count builds, as he kills a male acquaintance and sadistically tortures and murders two prostitutes, an old girlfriend, and a child he passes in the zoo. The recital of the brutalization is made even more horrible by the first-person narrator's delivery: flat, matter-of-fact, as impersonal as a car parts catalog. The author has carefully constructed the work so that the reader has no way to understand this killer's motivations, making it even more frightening. If these acts cannot be explained, there is no hope of protection from such random, senseless crimes. This book is not pleasure reading, but neither is it pornography. It is a serious novel that comments on a society that has become inured to suffering. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 9/15/90 and 12/90.
- Nora Rawlinson, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Description
Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).

In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other.  Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan.  Young, handsome, and well educated, bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom.  Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.

http://s30.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2K9I70G6E2T800LR8JXRAUGHTX

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author - james clavell

title  -  tai pan
One of my all-time favorites!, June 6, 2005
Reviewer:        Burke Churchill (SAINT LOUIS, MO United States) - See all my reviews
The first time I read Tai Pan was in college 30 years ago. I picked it up reluctantly, despite a strong recommendation from a friend, because it was about China and Hong Kong about which I had little interest. But I read it nonetheless and was absolutely transfixed. I've just finished reading it again at age 54 and can heartily still recommend this book.

This is the story of the founding of Hong Kong as told through the fictional characters of Dirk Struan, his son Cullum, their arch-enemy Tyler Brock and many others. Dirk Struan is the Tai Pan (supreme leader) of the Noble House, the largest and strongest of the China traders. Tyler Brock is his sworn enemy since Struan first served aboard an English man-of-war and experienced the lash from Brock's hands as a "powder monkey" at Trafalgar aboard the 110-gunship Royal Soverign.

Clavell uses Struan as the embodiment of the best virtues of the English system with her rule of law and the Chinese system. Brock, while not without redeeming qualities, reflects some of the worst features of the English system. Struan is receptive to the virtues of the Chinese culture while remaining a patriotic Englishman.

Struan has acquired many of the habits of the Chinese including bathing 2-3 times a day (as opposed to the rest of the English who believe that bathing renders one susceptible to the "flux") wearing light cloths and boots, and many others. He takes a Chinese concubine, May-May, and has children by her. His eldest half caste son, Gordon Chen, from a previous concubine plays a major role as well.

Struan is no saint, particularly when viewed from the perspective of the 21st century, or for that matter even when viewed from the perspective of his own time. But he is one of the most intriguing fictional characters you're likely ever to come across. This book was first published in 1966 so the idiocy of PC had not yet reared its ugly head. And this book pays little heed to the silly PC concerns of our time and is correspondingly refreshing.

If you like your characters strong, raw, unadulterated, and realistic and love a great story line this book will not disappoint. My only misgiving about the book was that it had to end at 732 small-print pages. The good news is that the book Noble House, though it takes place 120 years later does continue the saga of the Noble House and provide the follow-up on the characters that you come to know and love in Tai-Pan.

http://s26.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1Y5FIQ8FXC1SL2EOJ4N6QKHQT4

appropos

last but not least...
author - anne rule

title -  ( just found this book have not had the chance to read it yet but it sounds interesting just had to share it)

Amazon.com
Not long ago, true crime writer Ann Rule recalls lying on an operating table. The anesthesiologist leaned over before putting her to sleep. "Ann," the anesthesiologist said softly, "tell me, what was Ted Bundy really like?" Despite meeting Florida's electric chair in 1989, the subject of Rule's bestselling book continues to haunt her. Rule and Bundy were friends. They met in 1971 at a Seattle crisis clinic, where they shared the late shift answering a suicide hotline. Their subsequent conversations, meetings, and letters spanned the rest of Bundy's life as he evolved into one of the century's most notorious serial killers. It's been 20 years since Rule first penned this chilling account. But the story--and her 2000 update--will still have readers reaching for their Xanax. No gratuitous gore here; just the basic, bone-chilling evidence. In fact, like a protective mother shielding us from horrors too awful to mention, Rule seems to avoid delving too deeply into crime scene descriptions. She devotes one paragraph in her new afterword to her discovery that Bundy engaged in necrophilia and returned to the scenes of his crimes to "line dead lips and eyes with garish makeup and to put blush on pale cheeks." She tells readers that John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan, and David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam Killer, traded prison correspondences with Bundy. And she hints that Bundy's insatiable killer instincts may have started when he was a 14-year-old paperboy. (Ann Marie Burr, an 8-year-old girl on his route, mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night and has never been found.) The skimpy update is over too soon, leaving readers wanting more and offering further proof of the public's never-ending fascination with serial killers. --Jodi Mailander Farrell

From Library Journal
Rule met Bundy at a local crisis counseling center. Sharing long nights helping those who felt that suicide was the only option, they developed a friendship. She believed that she knew the handsome psychology major about to attend law school; however, she only knew a part of the man. Bundy was also a cold-blooded serial killer. This story follows Rule as she at first denies that the Bundy she knew could have committed these murders, and then the realization that he was ruthless, dangerous, and evil. Lorelei King is a phenomenal reader; her vocal characterizations never seem forced and fit seamlessly into the narration. Listeners will be spellbound and anxiously awaiting the next twist, when they are not double-locking their windows and doors. A wonderful tape that will find a home in all true crime collections. One warning: some of the descriptions of the crime scenes and murder victims are a bit graphic and may want to be avoided by those with delicate constitutions. Danna Bell-Russel, Library of Congress
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

http://s20.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=19AG9YS7GUN4V1TNJ3CAIRZRMJ

seribulan

Originally posted by appropos at 10/8/05 09:08 PM:
been a bit hectic this few days so deciced to post the books a bit early takut tak sempat plus the weathers making me very miserable .. so without wasting more time this weeks books..

it's the haze...last nite had to go to the hospital...
it's surely packed to the hilt...so many sick people
around...