[MERGED] biography -Novel dari adaptasi kisah sebenar (by chipmunk & intan)

waterlily8475

saya dah baca buku nie..tp cover dia lain..tp mmg best!!! semangat juang wanita utk dptkan hak dan kebebasan.

hamizao

Originally posted by j_adore at 9-6-2006 09:33 PM
roots - alex hailey..
description boleh tengok kat amazon

SHOGUN   & TAIPAN by james clavell
ada lagi sambungan, tapi yg tu paling best la..
my favourite is shogun, pasal kisah orang ero ...

SHOGUN pernah dibuat mini siri dgn Richard Chamberlain sebagai heronya. Memang bagus ceritanya....Hami ada tapekan cerita tu tetapi kerana dah lama sangat, tape2 tu terpaksa dibuang.

"SHOGUN [shogun] , title of the feudal military administrator who from the 12th cent. to the 19th cent. was, as the emperor's military deputy, the actual ruler of Japan. The title itself, Sei-i-tai Shogun [barbarian-subduing generalissimo], dates back to 794 and originally meant commander of the imperial armies who led the campaigns against the Ainu in N Japan. The shogunate as a military administrative system was established by Yoritomo after 1185 and was known as the Bakufu [literally, army headquarters]. The imperial court at Kyoto continued to exist, but effective power and actual administration were in the hands of the hereditary shoguns. The shogunate was held in turn by the Minamoto family and their successors, with their capital at Kamakura (1192-1333); the Ashikaga, with their capital at Kyoto (1338-1597); and the Tokugawa , with their capital at Yedo (Tokyo) after 1603. The overthrow of the shogun in 1867 brought the Meiji restoration and the beginning of modern Japan."

Mini siri TAIPAN ada juga ....kisah pembukaan Hong Kong.

[ Last edited by  hamizao at 17-8-2006 01:08 PM ]

hamizao

Just finished this book ......very compelling!



Carmen's mom is an Iranian born Muslim who married a Swiss. So she grew up mainly in Switzerland. Parents got devorced and on one vacation period when the Bin Ladins rented their place, it all began.......

As a young girl she couldn't say no to Yeslem, Osama's bro. However, as a women and mother of 3 daughters living in Saudi Arabia she wasn't willing to allow her daughters to simply lapse into the lives she had observed the Bin Ladin women lead....even as wealthy as they are. Sometimes I wonder whether there are poor Saudis and what kind of a life would their women lead!!

Life for the Bin Ladins took a turn in 1979 first by the departure of the Shah of Iran and the rise of the fundamentalists. Then by the storming of the Great Mosque in Mecca by insurgents. Yeslem, the 10th of the Bin Ladin bros was never the same after that...............

Yang anihnya,bapa Yeslem , Sheik Mohamed, berasal dari Yeman. Sungguhpun miskin pada mulanya tetapi telah menubuhkan satu syarikat benaan yang unggul di Saudi. Ia telah menjadi begitu rapat dengan kerabat diraja dan sudah tentunya mendatangkan perniagaan yang bagus bagi syarikat. Sheik Mohamed mempunyai 22 orang isteri. Mengikut cerita orang dia dalam perjalanan untuk berkahwin dengan yang ke-23 apabila kapal terbang dia terhempas dan dia maut dalam kemalangan itu. 21 isteri/bekas isteri dia masih hidup lagi semasa kematian dia.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly.

Addicted to the "I-married-the-Mob" genre? Try this variation: smart women who marry Islamic fundamentalists. In 1973, Swiss-born Carmen fell in love with Yeslam bin Ladin, Osama's older brother; after a fairy-tale courtship, including a semester together at USC, the two married in Saudi Arabia. Alas, it wasn't long before the fantasy turned sinister. By Saudi Wahhabi custom, women are usually confined to the home. Activities like listening to music or reading books other than the Koran are either sinful or shameful. Only Carmen's young daughters, occasional international trips and her dear, understanding husband helped her cope. Then, things worsened. The 1979 Saudi mobilization to support Afghan Muslims against the Soviet invasion gave religious hard-liners like Osama more clout. Carmen's husband, now a successful Geneva businessman, reverted to a more orthodox lifestyle. Finally, in 1988, Yeslam divorced Carmen, but by bringing charges against her in Saudi Arabia, made certain she feared for her life梐nd her daughters' freedom梚f she ever again entered an Islamic country. Beyond Carmen's terrible story hovers the larger, later tragedy of 9/11. Remember, Carmen warns, the bin Laden brothers have always supported each other, financially and socially. When Osama dies, he'll certainly be replaced. The gravity of the events Carmen writes of, her insider's perspective and her engaging style make this memoir a page-turner

A Piece Of Cake By Cupcake Brown (tuh mmg nama sebenar dia).mmg best sgt sgt, it made me cried in the end, but cried becoz i satisfied for the whole novel, cite betol ni pasal cupcake yg jadik anak yatim by the age of eleven.kena antar rumah anak anak yatim, tapi kena dera n molest ngan dia nye keluarga angkat.then dia lari dari foster home, n stat kenal prostitution, smoke weed, heroine, crack n terlibat dalam alcoholism yg amat teruk.dia cite macam mana seksanya idop dia terlibat ngan benda benda ni semua.pretty much 80 % of the stories dia cite inside world of those things dia buat.then she bounced back n realized yg dia makin teruk n need help n dia stat masuk pusat pemulihan, then masuk balik skolah (dia masuk grade 9 pada umo dia linkungan 20s), then masuk law school, n now she is one of the lawyer in San Diego.lady did check her website as being written in her book, n she she showed sum pictures of ppl yg di mention dlm buku tuh.
harga buku rm49.90 kat MPH.one of the best seller in UK.
link buku tuh boleh check kat sini www.cupcakebrown.com

an excerpt from Oprah nye website

PHENOMENAL WOMAN
Cupcake Brown


At 37, Cupcake Brown has only to pass the bar and she'll be a lawyer, with a $125,000-a-year job waiting for her at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, a white-collar criminal defense firm in San Francisco. Doggedly focused, she is busy these days and full of hope.

It wasn't always so. There was a time when she got up梠r "came to," as she puts it梚n the morning with nothing to look forward to but the pursuit of the next trick and the next high.

Brown梬hose first name is the result of a nurse's misunderstanding of her mother's post-delivery request for a cupcake梤emembers a happy childhood. "We lived in the ghetto, but it was home," she says. One morning she woke up to the sound of the alarm clock in the other room blaring on and on. Her mother had choked to death during a seizure. Brown was 11.

Placed in a series of foster homes where she was repeatedly abused physically and sexually, Brown started running away and selling her body in order to survive. At 12 she joined a gang and started "doing what gangs do: rob, steal, fight."

Two days before she turned 15, Brown nearly got her wish. She was shot in a drive-by and doctors told her she might not walk again. When she did, three weeks later, she knew it was time to leave gang life. That same year she left the foster care system for good, having herself declared legally emancipated. "I was 'grown,'" she says wryly, "so I did what I wanted, when I wanted, how I wanted." What she wanted most was oblivion, and she found it in heroin, crystal meth, marijuana, powder and crack cocaine, angel dust, alcohol, acid.

For many of its alumni, foster care proves to be a one-way ticket to failure. One study indicates that less than 8 percent manage to graduate from a four-year college. The few who do succeed have one thing in common: someone in their life who stands by them. Brown found that person at the age of 23, in Kenneth J. Rose, a San Diego attorney who gave her a job as a legal secretary.

Rose saw in Brown something she did not yet recognize in herself: her intelligence. "He acted like I was smart, and it just blew me away," she says. Nevertheless, as her responsibilities at work increased, so did her drug use. At one point, she lost her apartment and went on a four-day crack binge, winding up without her shoes, wearing nothing but a green dress, now brown with filth. "I happened to pass a window," Brown recalls, "and saw my reflection. My eyes were sunk in my head. My lips were burned and scabbed from the crack pipe. You could see my ribs. I had seen death before on other people. But I'd never seen it on me."

She walked nearly 60 blocks to Rose's law firm, where she told him for the first time that she was addicted to drugs. Rose got on the phone and found a bed in a rehab program, then assured Brown that her job would still be there when she got out. "Ken's white," Brown observes. "I'm black. He's Jewish. I'm Christian. Society says we're supposed to hate each other, but he has shown me unconditional love. If it hadn't been for Ken, I'd be dead or in jail."

Once she got clean, despite never having finished high school, Brown enrolled in community college. It took her five and a half years to get through a two-year program while working full-time, and another two years to finish her BA. Brown then applied to five law schools and anxiously waited for the responses. The first four were rejections. "I thought all my dreams would go up in smoke," she recalls. "But I opened that last letter from the University of San Francisco, and girl, not only did they accept me, they gave me money."

Defying all expectations, Brown graduated from law school this past spring. What she didn't know until she heard her name read out is that the faculty had voted to give her the school's highest honor for outstanding scholarship, activities, and character.

"It was a wonderful feeling," Brown says. "Most of my life, people hated to see me coming, 'cause I'm gonna beg for some money, I'm gonna steal something, I've got some angle. So for people to actually vote on me and say, 'We like her. We like what she stands for'梩hat was a complete turnaround for me."

lady_nF

Originally posted by hamizao at 27-7-2006 03:48 PM


Hamipun ada baca "PRINCESS" ..suatu kisah benar seorang putri Arab yang dikenali oleh penulis .....banyak mengenai  betapa kaum wanita dianggap sebagai tiada berharga dikalangan masya ...

another one is Mayada the daughter of iraq also by jean sasson
mayada nih descendant of ottoman empire punya queen...
mcm princess, she also fight for woman right in iraq...
sampai laa dia ditangkap oleh saddam punya tentera..
dan dia tgk mcm mana perempuan2 iraq diseksa

hamizao

Thnxs, lady.

Will try to look for it next time I go to the bookshop.

waterlily8475

ada satu lagi novel yg interesting "snow flower and its secret fan" by Lisa See. Citer pasal traidition foot binding utk kanak2 perempuan...menarik tp blom abis baca lagi...

captain_scubby

buku ni aku beli sbb aku suke tajuk dia...since masa tu aku jadi volunteer teacher kat rumah anak2 yatim....citer dia lebih kurang sama ngan apa yg aku tgk jadi kt budak2 anak2 yatim kat tmpt aku mengajar tu....tapi citer dia lagi sadis lah....
masa beli pun..harga dia aound rm16..sbb clearance stock mph ..actual price dia around rm36 something....
aku tk tau ada lagi ke tak jual buku ni... tapi citer dia mmg sedih...

Roger Dean Kiser, Sr., was raised by the Children's Home Society, a Florida orphanage, and then was passed on to the Florida School for Boys at Marianna. The dramatic true account of the abuse he suffered under the care of professionals will change how people view the juvenile justice system. His childhood was filled with a mixture of physical, mental, and sexual abuse that would have left a lesser man wishing for death, yet Kiser is grateful for simply being alive. This poignant moving story is true, sharp, and motivational and it will deeply affect the hearts and minds of all who read it. Chronicling his life through the eyes of the child he once was, Roger Dean Kiser takes readers on an unforgettable journey as he recounts his childhood with a wide-eyed innocence that illustrates the resiliency of the human spirit.

limau_nipis

await tak nampak gambar?

captain_scubby

uikss...apsal aku nampak jer gambar dia....

mantan

Aku baca buku biografi Emma Thompson " Emma - Chris Nickson" tapi tak beli, aku pinjam kat library saja..kang lari pulak bajet bulanan aku. Buku ni cerita pasal life Emma Thompson dari dia kecik sampai ler camna dia boleh jadi among British best actresses. Ada list semua hasil keja dia sampai tarikh buku ni ditulis ler. Aku pinjam buku ni sebab aku minat Emma Thompson ni, dia bukan saja boleh berlakon tapi dia the person yang menang award hasil lakonan dan jugak buat cerita , first time dia buat lakon layar untuk Sense and Sensibility terus menang Oscar untuk cerita tu, pastu siap bagi ucapan ala2 Jane Austen lagi.




Next, yg ni pun pinjam gak, autobiografi "The Harem Within - Fatima Mernissi" pasal kisah childhood penulis kat Maghribi zaman 1940-an. Masa tu setiap famili tinggal dalam rumah yang dipanggil Harem. Harem ni berdasarkan apa yg dia describe macam satu blok apartment la kot   sebab semua ahli keluarga akan tinggal kat situ tapi ada unit umah masing2. Kalau lelaki tu kawin ramai pun semua isteri akan tinggal kat situ dalam unit berbeza. Fatima ni cerita kisah camna mak dia ni cam tak puas hati dengan sistem harem ni yg mana derang takleh keluar sesuka hati, ada guard kat pintu rumah. Jadi mak dia memang tanamkan kat dia semangat supaya dia tak duduk kat tempat tertutup bila dia besar nanti. Masa tu wanita sana memang tak bebas nak gi mana2, kalau nak keluar kena ada kebenaran daripada ketua keluarga, pastu kena pakai aku rasa cam niqab kot. So mak dia ni cam puas hati, siap cakap kat dia bila dah besar nanti tak payah pakai tudung semua, kena tuntut kebebasan dari lelaki. Mak dia sendiri pun masa revolusi tu keluar berarak kat jalan pastu buka tudung. Pada dia semua tu adalah peraturan yg dibuat oleh lelaki. Mak dia memang nasihat dia suh jadi cam French woman & westerners yg bebas pakai skirt & tak pakai tudung. Aku rasa cam didikan orang arab masa tu agak kurang dari segi keagamaan, kalau cam belajar agama pun pada subjek rigid  sahaja - ngaji, tafsir, hadith dsb. sebab tu wanita pada masa tu kagum dgn orang barat dan nak jadi cam French woman semua tu.

[ Last edited by  mantan at 16-2-2007 03:28 AM ]

limau_nipis

The Pursuit of Happyness

By Chris Gardner with Quincy Troupe
Amistad/HarperCollins

In his stirring autobiography Chris Gardner details his journey from homeless single father to self-made millionaire. It is the gripping story of his refusal to give up on his quest for the American dream and his duties to his toddler son, or give into the despair that threatened to devour him from birth.

Today, Gardner is president and CEO of Gardner Rich & Company, a multi-million-dollar brokerage firm, and an avid philanthropist committed to assisting organizations involved in education and economic development. Intelligent, charismatic and well connected, he is a perfect portrait of success. Yet, he is the same man who was forced by circumstance into homelessness in the early 1980's on the streets of San Francisco. And he is also the boy who grew up poor and fatherless in 1950's Milwaukee.

Despite an unstable childhood spent between the homes of relatives and foster care, Gardner's sense of his own worth was shaped early on by the love and encouragement of his mother, Bettye Jean. She taught Gardner that his mind, his power to reason and his ability to read, could set him apart from his surroundings, elevating him above the abuse of his illiterate, ignorant step-father, the taunting of his peers, and the limitations of his education. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS is filled with richly detailed accounts of Gardner's childhood: his questions about his father's disappearance and other dark family secrets; his brutally honest reactions to his stepfather's relentless attacks and a sexual assault by an older man in his adolescence; the grateful acknowledgement of his mother's unconditional love; and the lessons absorbed from the fascinating characters in his extended family. After high school, Gardner joined the Navy and became a medic. A prodigy in scientific research, at twenty he was hired as clinical research assistant to a cardiac surgeon in San Francisco. But by the age of twenty-seven, with a girlfriend and baby son to support, Gardner reluctantly abandoned his dream of medical school and took a job as a medical supply salesman. Constantly struggling to make rent, one day in a parking lot he saw an impeccably dressed man getting out of a red Ferrari. Gardner did not want the car, but what it represented: "freedom, escape, options." Gardner approached the driver and asked him two questions: "What do you do? And how do you do it?" The man was a highly paid stockbroker, and despite the odds stacked against him, Gardner immediately set a new career goal.

Without experience, connections or a degree Gardner began applying for training programs at brokerages, even though it meant living on next to nothing while he learned. He was finally accepted into a program and left his job in medical sales - days before the man who accepted him was fired. Then things got worse. He was put in jail for $1,200 in unpaid parking tickets and Chris Jr.'s mother left taking the baby with her. Gardner feared that his dreams of a better life for him and his son would rip apart at the seams.

Gardner managed to enter a training program at Dean Witter Reynolds, arrived early and stayed late. His meager stipend meant he, like so many working poor, had a job but could barely make ends meet. Then, after four months without contact with Chris Jr., the boy was given back to him, for good. Due to the stringent "no children" clause at the cheap boarding house where often stayed, and unable to cover the bills that came with a toddler (pampers, day care, extra food), Gardner and his son were instantly homeless. Yet it was critical to keep his son for, as he said, "nobody on this earth is going to take him away from me again. That's a principle of the universe now" and "I made up my mind as a young kid that when I had children, my children were gonna know who their father was."

Gardner's co-workers never knew he and his son spent nearly a year moving from shelters to soup lines, even sleeping in the locked public restroom at a subway station. Eventually, Gardner persuaded Reverend Cecil Williams, founder of a homeless hotel at Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, to let him and Chris Jr. stay there. Able to study at night and stay focused, Gardner passed his licensing exam in 1981 on the first try. As a young African American broker managing the million dollar accounts of wealthy white clients, Gardner learned an invaluable lesson: On Wall Street, it isn't "a white thing or a black thing, it's a green thing." In 1983 he was lured to Bear, Stearns and after becoming a top producer, he left in 1987 to establish Gardner Rich & Company, Inc., an institutional brokerage firm specializing in the execution of debt, equity and derivative products transactions.

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS is an inspirational, coming-of-age memoir that bears the message that a hunger for learning, hard work, and never giving up on the people who make you truly "wealthy," can break destructive cycles and propel anyone to unlimited heights - no matter who they are, where they come from, or what their circumstances may be.

[ Last edited by  limau_nipis at 27-2-2007 09:14 AM ]

mantan

How Far Is The Nearest Pin by Bob Shields. Bob Shields ni merupakan journalist yg senior kat sotkabar Daily Records kat Glasgow. Dalam buku  ni dia cerita pengalaman dia cari berita untuk Daily Records dan semua citer yang dia tulis kelakar ler. Kalau tgk tajuk buku dia pun dah boleh agak la dia ni boleh tahan gak ler kaki minum, even cover puku dia pun tunjuk gambar dia dgn segelas guiness, dia nyer feberet ler tuh. Dia citer pengalaman dia dia interview selebriti2 ler, dalam hiburan & sukan. In fact, dia jugak penah gi ke Iraq few days sebelum Saddam kene tangkap sebab pergi untuk menyampaikan sumbangan2 org ramai kat scotland kepada scottish/british army kat sana. Ada few citer kelakar yg aku larat taip la kat sini aku kongsi ye.

1. dia kena buat coverage pasal sorang pemain Sotland Ranger yg pindah ke kelab Kansas City di US. then masa pengumuman utk pemian baru tu, kansas city buat cam media day. masa tu semua wartawan dibenarkan try la nak jaringkan gol dgn suh pemain dari scotland ni jaga gol, alih2 semua wartawan kat sana cuma nak jaringkan gol dgn american football nyer stail nampak sgt depa tak penah tgk bola   tapi si bob ni ckp takpa la sebab kalu disuruh semua wartawan kat scotland main americna football mesti satu apa pun tak tau

2. ni masa dia gi kansas city gak ler, dia gi minum kat bar ngan kawan jurugambar dia nak minum, then depa ni sembang2 la ngan bartender dia pompuan, bartender ni citer ler dia keje sebab nak bayar yuran kolej tgh final year...dia komen ckp "she was obviously a very intelligent girl...well, by American standard anyways." yg ni aku rasa paling kelakar, bartender ni tanya depa ni "Where you guys from?"

"Scotland."
"Now where exactly is that? Is that in Europe somewhere?"
"Yes."
"Well, I have to say, you guys speak VERY good English."