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appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 21-9-2005 01:13 PM
Appropos, sunyi la kat sini...nape ye???

:bgrin: just said it that i'm not buying anymore books for a while , just bought two more books ..ish ish..

seribulan

Originally posted by appropos at 21-9-2005 07:27 PM

:bgrin: just said it that i'm not buying anymore books for a while , just bought two more books ..ish ish..

kita serupaaa...kita serupaaaa...(nyanyi ala2 Zainal Abidin)

appropos

books books books first off

author - stephen king

title - firestarter
Reviewer:        Eimear Coffey (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   
Being far too impatient to wait quietly for Stephen King to write a new book, I've recently taken to collecting some of his older novels to read in the meantime. "Firestarter" is one of King's earlier works, but it shows none of the amateur qualities that often afflict the early novels of some writers.

The book tells the story of Charlie, an 8 year old girl who possesses the power of pyrokinesis, a result of experiments her parents took part in during their college years. This ability makes a sinister government outfit known only as "The Shop" particularly keen to get their hands on her, and they don't care how they go about it.

The book opens with Charlie and her father on the run from Shop agents through the streets of Manhattan. Through their desperate attempts to escape, we begin to see more of the mysterious powers Charlie and her father possess, right up to their inevitable capture. However, where the book really starts to bite is in the Shop's Virginia compound, where a disillusioned hitman starts to think that perhaps Charlie can teach him more about death than any of the hundreds of people he has dispatched during his "career".

Firestarter is a genuinely riveting book, one that will have you cheering out loud for Charlie and her dad, Andy, and that will have you fuming at the insensitivity, inhumanity and cynicism of the bureaucrats that run any federal government.

http://s8.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2MZHCDH1MVGV81EIKTEM4USW1O

appropos

title - dark prince

author - david gemmell


Amazon.com
Reading this sequel to Lion of Macedon is like reading a compressed, accelerated Lord of the Rings crossed with the classic Star Trek episode, "Mirror, Mirror." Preternaturally precocious 4-year-old Alexander is kidnapped by Philippos, a demonic parallel-universe twin of King Philip of Macedon. Philip's strategos (chief general and strategist), Parmenion, and Philip's assassin, Attalus, form an uneasy alliance in order to retrieve Alexander. Passed (by the sorcerer Aristotle) through a portal to Makedones, a world geographically similar to but historically different from their own, they must first find Alexander and then make their way through hostile, enchanted territory inhabited by magical creatures to a rendezvous with Aristotle. But Philip of Macedon isn't the only person who has a twin in this parallel world, and as Parmenion discovers more about Makedones, he finds that the similarities rather than the differences are the most troubling.

There are two stories here. First, Alexander's mystic quest for redemption (carried out by the chosen few) and Parmenion and the Spartans' parallel last-ditch battle (fought with ordinary weapons); then, David Gemmell follows Alexander and Parmenion home. Although they have beaten a horrific demon in Makedones, they have yet to face the demons of Macedon: Alexander's life and soul are at stake in another battle against darkness.

Book Description
The chaos spirit had chosen the child Alexander to be its human host. But Parmenion, most powerful warrior of ancient Greece, had won a small victory over the darkness that sought to rule through Alexander. The boy's soul had not been destroyed by evil, but instead had merged with it -- and now Parmenion aided Alexander in the battle between light and dark that constantly raged within him.
But there was another world, where the creatures of Greece's legends still flourished. There, the chaos spirit already ruled, through a demon king. In this Greece, there was a prophecy that a child of great power, the legendary golden child, would come and restore the fading magic of the land to the creatures of myth. The demon king believed also that devouring the heart of this fabled child would give him immortality. He believed Alexander, with the power of the chaos spirit within him, to be that child. And so he called Alexander into his world . . .
Only Parmenion, guided by the seeress Derae, his lost love from another life, could hope to save Alexander from the demon king. But who could save the young prince from the chaos spirit that threatened to conquer his soul?

http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1S1KM1491M5JT0JE4KXEGB6YTM

appropos

author - cs. lewis

title - narnia 1-3

Amazon.com
Narnia is the land of enchantment, glory, nobility--home to the magnificent Aslan, cruel Jadis (the White Queen), heroic Reepicheep, and kind Mr. Tumnus. All the magic of C.S. Lewis's Narnia, bewitching readers for almost 50 years, is captured for the first time in this splendid deluxe edition, including The Magician's Nephew, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Horse and His Boy, Prince Caspian, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, and The Last Battle, with fabulous illustrations hand-colored by the original Narnia artist Pauline Baynes and an insightful introduction by Narnia authority Brian Sibley.

Lewis's work has cast a spell over countless readers over the years, so that once we pick up The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, we don't want to stop until we've read the whole series. The Complete Chronicles makes it even easier to keep reading! The seven beloved stories have been arranged in the chronological order in which Lewis intended them to be read. Begin at the beginning, as Digory and Polly are tricked into a strange other world, which becomes, even as they watch, the great Narnia. Return again and again with four other children--Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy--who are to play such a vital role in Narnia's history. Finally, enter the whimsical land one last time to witness the end of Time, and the beginning of something new: "world within world, Narnia within Narnia." This gorgeous volume is absolutely a must-have for current and future Narnia lovers. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter

http://s18.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=204CG98A5IJUC1TWB8K35NQDQ9

appropos

Originally posted by seribulan at 21-9-2005 07:37 PM

kita serupaaa...kita serupaaaa...(nyanyi ala2 Zainal Abidin)

:dia:  fellow bookaholic :bgrin:

Hamyhaireen

Originally posted by appropos at 21-9-2005 07:27 PM

:bgrin: just said it that i'm not buying anymore books for a while , just bought two more books ..ish ish..

hak..hak... I drove my friend to payless and she buy books for me.... 3 more new books....   she said so cheap.... bukannya selalu dia nak belanja... :pray:

Hamyhaireen

Originally posted by appropos at 21-9-2005 07:55 PM

:dia:  fellow bookaholic :bgrin:

:hmm: I think we should change our book club to bookaholic club....:lol

appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 22-9-2005 09:00 AM


:hmm: I think we should change our book club to bookaholic club....:lol

another fellow bookaholic , welcome lol

Hamyhaireen

Appropos,

DA VINCI CODE, now im in chapter 3.... you?

appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 22-9-2005 01:31 PM
Appropos,

DA VINCI CODE, now im in chapter 3.... you?

baru chapter16

Hamyhaireen

Originally posted by appropos at 22-9-2005 01:18 PM

another fellow bookaholic , welcome lol

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE BOOKS..... lol:lol

Hamyhaireen

Originally posted by appropos at 22-9-2005 01:38 PM

baru chapter16

:jeler: ish ish ish.....ni yang jealous ni.....:geram::geram:

appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 22-9-2005 01:46 PM


THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE BOOKS..... lol:lol

so are you the hobbit or the dwarf :hmm:

appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 22-9-2005 01:48 PM


:jeler: ish ish ish.....ni yang jealous ni.....:geram::geram:

ada ka nak jealous , so how do you find the book so far

Hamyhaireen

Originally posted by appropos at 22-9-2005 02:38 PM

so are you the hobbit or the dwarf :hmm:

:nana: or smeagol?

Hamyhaireen

Originally posted by appropos at 22-9-2005 02:42 PM

ada ka nak jealous , so how do you find the book so far

Dak aih mana ada jeles, :bgrin:
Baru start malam tadi, macam baca buku sejarah... tapi gambar2 dia menarik so senang nak faham cerita dia.

appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 22-9-2005 03:21 PM


:nana: or smeagol?

preciousss my preciousss.....:nana::nana:

appropos

Originally posted by Hamyhaireen at 22-9-2005 03:26 PM


Dak aih mana ada jeles, :bgrin:
Baru start malam tadi, macam baca buku sejarah... tapi gambar2 dia menarik so senang nak faham cerita dia.

ni baru jeles , mine is the poor mans version tak de gambar..:bgrin: , but i think i prefer the unillustrated version la .. tak menganggu your imagination..

Hamyhaireen

Mine illustrated cause im less imaginative right now....he he he.....
Malam ni nak baca lagi...hopefully sampai chapter 16 ...by that time u dah abis baca.