CARI (e)BOOK CLUB: sila jawab KUIZ

seribulan · Post time 21-2-2006 03:21 PM

haha....that's a good one...a genius stroke...

Show all posts · Post time 23-2-2006 10:21 AM

tima kasih ya...
padan la slow semcm...
mungkin tak biasa lagi...
skrg ni baru nak kenal...

Hamyhaireen · Post time 23-2-2006 10:40 AM

selagi kita bernyawa proses pembelajaran tak pernah habis...

Hamyhaireen · Post time 23-2-2006 10:53 AM

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
In this touching and atmospheric novel set among the fishermen of Newfoundland, Proulx tells the story of Quoyle. From all outward appearances, Quoyle has gone through his first 36 years on earth as a big schlump of a loser. He's not attractive, he's not brilliant or witty or talented, and he's not the kind of person who typically assumes the central position in a novel. But Proulx creates a simple and compelling tale of Quoyle's psychological and spiritual growth. Along the way, we get to look in on the maritime beauty of what is probably a disappearing way of life.

From Publishers Weekly
Proulx has followed Postcards , her story of a family and their farm, with an extraordinary second novel of another family and the sea. The fulcrum is Quoyle, a patient, self-deprecating, oversized hack writer who, following the deaths of nasty parents and a succubus of a wife, moves with his two daughters and straight-thinking aunt back to the ancestral manse in Killick-Claw, a Newfoundland harbor town of no great distinction. There, Quoyle finds a job writing about car crashes and the shipping news for The Gammy Bird , a local paper kept afloat largely by reports of sexual abuse cases and comical typographical errors. Killick-Claw may not be perfect, but it is a stable enough community for Quoyle and Co. to recover from the terrors of their past lives. But the novel is much more than Quoyle's story: it is a moving evocation of a place and people buffeted by nature and change. Proulx routinely does without nouns and conjunctions--"Quoyle, grinning. Expected to hear they were having a kid. Already picked himself for godfather"--but her terse prose seems perfectly at home on the rocky Newfoundland coast. She is in her element both when creating haunting images (such as Quoyle's inbred, mad and mean forbears pulling their house across the ice after being ostracized by more God-fearing folk) and when lyrically rendering a routine of gray, cold days filled with cold cheeks, squidburgers, fried bologna and the sea.

Other review
This is Quoyle's story (we never do learn his first name), a well-meaning, unattractive clumsy giant of a man who finds himself working as a journalist (not a great one) in New York City.

Quoyle is married to a whore who gives him two boisterous daughters who unfortunately have inherited their father's looks. Mercifully, the wife is killed in a gruesome road accident and Quoyle, at a loss, decides to take the girls and head for Newfoundland, the home of his spectacularly nasty ancestors. There, Quoyle and his aunt become involved in a perilous maritime drama.

Proulx has written, against the odds, a very funny book about a man who stumbles his way through a tragic existence and makes the best of it all through a combination of soft, good nature and a fair measure of luck.

In part, the book was inspired by Proulx's find of a copy of Ashley's Book of Knots, at a bric-a-brac sale. Each chapter is wittily headed by an appropriate quote from this most unlikely source.

This is fiction for everyone, and particularly for people with an interest in the sea. The nautical elements, though well-researched, are unobtrusive and are part and parcel of the story line. Boat designers will be greatly amused by the inappropriateness of Quoyle's first boat, and his "I think, therefore it is" approach to boating. Equally impressive is the approach of the traditional boatbuilder who makes Quoyle's second boat.

The Shipping News has won a number of awards, including the Pulitzer prize for fiction. A fine piece of literature, and great fun, too.

Hamyhaireen · Post time 23-2-2006 10:57 AM

E. Annie Proulx
AKA Edna Annie Proulx

Born: 22-Aug-1935
Birthplace: Norwich, CT

Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Author

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Shipping News

University: BA, University of Vermont (1969)
University: MA, Sir George Williams University, Montreal (1973)

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1994 for The Shipping News
National Book Award for Fiction 1994 for The Shipping News
Guggenheim Fellowship 1993

Official Website:
http://www.annieproulx.com/

Author of books:
Heart Songs and Other Stories (1988, short stories)
Postcards (1992, novel)
The Shipping News (1993, novel)
Accordion Crimes (1996, novel)
Close Range: Wyoming Stories (1999, short stories)
That Old Ace in the Hole (2002, novel)

Hamyhaireen · Post time 24-2-2006 01:37 PM

:stp: Where is our dearest Sir.... :nyorok: hiding somewhere

Greenbottle3 · Post time 25-2-2006 12:27 AM

ni nak tanya...
apa beza baca buku biasa dgn buku klasik?...

pendita;

saya bukan ahli pasal buku2 ni...baca pun kerana minat saja...reading for pleasure..tapi ini pandangan saya...

penulisan fiksyen ada banyak genre

antara nya

crime/mystery...contoh klasik ia lah agatha christie, hammet, chandler dsb nya

romance...buku2 danielle steele, mills & boons dsb nya
blockbusters/pulp fiction --- grisham, etc
horror...klasik nya mary shelly (frankenstien) stephen king, ann rice dsb nya

science fiction...eg klasik nya buku2 asimov, philip k dick dll..

dll...
Walaupun genre2 ini mempunyai penulis2 yg sangat berkualiti tapi tapi fiksyen yang di anggap of "true literary merit" ada lah dari genre "literary fiction"...

Literary fiction boleh mempunyai elemen2 di atas (crime, romance, horror etc) tapi satu kareteristik utama buku2 ini ia lah kualiti pengolahan bahasa yang sangat tinggi...development karektor2 dalam cerita nya sangat well...devaloped... bukan black and white simple cardboard model of good or bad...

literary fiction dapat benar2 membina minda pembaca kerana penulisan nya mempunyai kualiti intelektual yg tinggi....oleh itu pembacaan literary fiction bukan sahaja dapat memberi 'hiburan' malah biasa nya ia mempunyai substance dan boleh menjana minda untuk apresiasi bahasa yang paling tinggi...

apresiasi literary fiksyen oleh itu memerlukan kefasihan bahasa yang agak tinggi supaya dapat menghayati segala 'nuance' subtleties of language dan juga makna tersurat dan tersirat...

antara penulis2 yg boleh di klasifikasi kan dalam genre literary fiksyen ada lah nama2 terkenal dalam pemenang anugerah pullitzer, national book award (amerika) booker prize (UK) atau Nobel prize...

antara penulis2 (dari ribuan) dalam genre ini ada lah seperti berikut...

allan hollinghurst
J coatzee
Julian barnes
ian mc ewan
salman rushdie
isabelle allende
e annie proulx
norman mailer
f scott fitzgerald
john stienbeck
gabriel garcia marquez
gorge luis borges
mario vargas llosa
zadie smith
milan kundera
martin amis
peter carey
nadine godimer
gunther grass
orhan pamuk
vladimir nabokov
tobias wolfe

dan banyak lagi...
kebanyakan review fictions' dalam akhbar2 berkualiti biasa nya review buku2 dari jenis 'literary fictions

buku2 'klasik' pula ada lah buku2 yg telah di 'canon' kan sebagai buku2 yg mempunyai nilai dan mutu yg tertinggi dalam genre 2 mereka...

misal nya buku 'dracula' oleh bram stoker...ada lah klasik dlm genre horor etc

biasa nya buku2 yg di anggap klasik ada lah buku2 yg telah undergo 'test of time'....

bagi saya semua buku baik di baca tapi bagi orang2 yng serius untuk menghayati buku tidak patut baca buku2 'pulp atau blockbuster' kerana buku2 ini tidak menbina minda...ok la baca sikit2 tapi lepas baca jangan simpan dalam library..buang dalam bakul sampah saja...

Leha. · Post time 26-2-2006 03:44 AM

tak tahulah post kat thread yang betul ke tak nii

sebenarnya Leha nak carik tajuk buku nii...terbaca review dia kat The Star tahun lepas .... tapi bila nak carik kat kedai buku dah lupa tajuk lak..dan tak tahu author sape..yang leha ingat tuu karya pertama author tuu

buku tuu pasal seorang priest or pastor yang sebenarnya tak percayakan Tuhan pastu dia terfall in love dgn sorang pompuan..dan kerja sambilan dia bawa cab... penumpang yang naik cab dia bayar tambang seikhlas yg mereka nak sebab sebenarnya duit tu dia akan dermakan kat churh...

muka depan buku tu ada gambar black cab...sesiapa tahu tajuk buku tu tak?

Leha, Gadis Klasik

appropos · Post time 27-2-2006 04:26 PM

hello group sorry sort of dissapeared ,things have been a bit busy. so saying hi to all .

seribulan · Post time 27-2-2006 04:41 PM

hi, u r back...or hi for now, I'm still bz...

hi back...

seribulan · Post time 7-3-2006 03:01 PM

well, happy women's day to all...tomorrow...

anythingspecial enuff to in relation of D'DAY?

[ Last edited by seribulan at 7-3-2006 06:44 PM ]

seribulan · Post time 8-3-2006 06:26 PM

feast ur eyes....on d special day...

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Show all posts · Post time 10-3-2006 07:13 PM

Originally posted by Greenbottle3 at 25-2-2006 12:27 AM
pendita;

saya bukan ahli pasal buku2 ni...baca pun kerana minat saja...reading for pleasure..tapi ini pandangan saya ...

tima kasih Greenbottle...
penerangan yg panjang lebar...
jenuh tu nak taip panjang