Trump
- kurtster - May 4, 2024 - 10:01pm
Wordle - daily game
- NoEnzLefttoSplit - May 4, 2024 - 9:19pm
May 2024 Photo Theme - Peaceful
- fractalv - May 4, 2024 - 8:31pm
What can you hear right now?
- Isabeau - May 4, 2024 - 5:25pm
Favorite Quotes
- Isabeau - May 4, 2024 - 5:21pm
Radio Paradise Comments
- Isabeau - May 4, 2024 - 5:15pm
Today in History
- R_P - May 4, 2024 - 4:58pm
volcano!
- geoff_morphini - May 4, 2024 - 4:19pm
What Did You See Today?
- Antigone - May 4, 2024 - 4:17pm
Anti-War
- R_P - May 4, 2024 - 3:24pm
Tesla (motors, batteries, etc)
- KurtfromLaQuinta - May 4, 2024 - 2:36pm
Iran
- Red_Dragon - May 4, 2024 - 12:03pm
USA! USA! USA!
- R_P - May 4, 2024 - 11:27am
Live Music
- oldviolin - May 4, 2024 - 11:18am
NY Times Strands
- geoff_morphini - May 4, 2024 - 10:26am
NYTimes Connections
- NoEnzLefttoSplit - May 4, 2024 - 10:25am
Other Medical Stuff
- kurtster - May 4, 2024 - 10:24am
Israel
- R_P - May 4, 2024 - 9:26am
SCOTUS
- Steely_D - May 4, 2024 - 8:04am
Dialing 1-800-Manbird
- oldviolin - May 3, 2024 - 4:51pm
The Dragons' Roost
- GeneP59 - May 3, 2024 - 3:53pm
Name My Band
- oldviolin - May 3, 2024 - 3:04pm
RightWingNutZ
- islander - May 3, 2024 - 11:55am
Photography Forum - Your Own Photos
- MrDill - May 3, 2024 - 11:41am
Poetry Forum
- oldviolin - May 3, 2024 - 9:46am
What the hell OV?
- oldviolin - May 3, 2024 - 9:36am
• • • The Once-a-Day • • •
- oldviolin - May 3, 2024 - 9:24am
Lyrics that strike a chord today...
- R_P - May 3, 2024 - 7:54am
Derplahoma!
- sunybuny - May 3, 2024 - 4:56am
Unquiet Minds - Mental Health Forum
- miamizsun - May 3, 2024 - 4:36am
What Makes You Laugh?
- miamizsun - May 3, 2024 - 4:31am
Russia
- NoEnzLefttoSplit - May 3, 2024 - 3:38am
Main Mix Playlist
- R567 - May 3, 2024 - 12:06am
Who Killed The Electric Car??? -- The Movie
- KurtfromLaQuinta - May 2, 2024 - 9:51pm
If not RP, what are you listening to right now?
- oldviolin - May 2, 2024 - 5:56pm
Joe Biden
- R_P - May 2, 2024 - 5:07pm
What Makes You Sad?
- thisbody - May 2, 2024 - 3:35pm
songs that ROCK!
- thisbody - May 2, 2024 - 3:07pm
Breaking News
- thisbody - May 2, 2024 - 2:57pm
Song of the Day
- oldviolin - May 2, 2024 - 9:27am
Questions.
- oldviolin - May 2, 2024 - 9:13am
The Obituary Page
- Proclivities - May 2, 2024 - 7:42am
And the good news is....
- Bill_J - May 1, 2024 - 6:30pm
Bug Reports & Feature Requests
- ladron - May 1, 2024 - 6:22pm
Things you would be grating food for
- Manbird - May 1, 2024 - 3:58pm
Economix
- black321 - May 1, 2024 - 12:19pm
I Heart Huckabee - NOT!
- Manbird - Apr 30, 2024 - 7:49pm
Democratic Party
- R_P - Apr 30, 2024 - 4:01pm
Oh, The Stupidity
- haresfur - Apr 30, 2024 - 3:30pm
Talk Behind Their Backs Forum
- VV - Apr 30, 2024 - 1:46pm
Canada
- black321 - Apr 30, 2024 - 1:37pm
Mixtape Culture Club
- miamizsun - Apr 30, 2024 - 7:02am
Food
- Bill_J - Apr 29, 2024 - 7:46pm
New Music
- ScottFromWyoming - Apr 29, 2024 - 11:36am
Upcoming concerts or shows you can't wait to see
- ScottFromWyoming - Apr 29, 2024 - 8:34am
Photos you haven't taken of yourself
- Antigone - Apr 29, 2024 - 5:03am
Britain
- R_P - Apr 28, 2024 - 10:47am
Birthday wishes
- GeneP59 - Apr 28, 2024 - 9:56am
Would you drive this car for dating with ur girl?
- KurtfromLaQuinta - Apr 27, 2024 - 9:53pm
Classical Music
- miamizsun - Apr 27, 2024 - 1:23pm
LeftWingNutZ
- Lazy8 - Apr 27, 2024 - 12:46pm
Things You Thought Today
- Red_Dragon - Apr 27, 2024 - 12:17pm
The Moon
- KurtfromLaQuinta - Apr 26, 2024 - 9:08pm
April 2024 Photo Theme - Happenstance
- fractalv - Apr 26, 2024 - 8:59pm
Musky Mythology
- Red_Dragon - Apr 26, 2024 - 7:23pm
Mini Meetups - Post Here!
- Red_Dragon - Apr 26, 2024 - 4:02pm
Australia has Disappeared
- Red_Dragon - Apr 26, 2024 - 2:41pm
Radio Paradise sounding better recently
- firefly6 - Apr 26, 2024 - 10:39am
Neil Young
- Steely_D - Apr 26, 2024 - 9:20am
Country Up The Bumpkin
- KurtfromLaQuinta - Apr 26, 2024 - 9:01am
Environmental, Brilliance or Stupidity
- miamizsun - Apr 26, 2024 - 5:07am
Ask an Atheist
- R_P - Apr 25, 2024 - 11:02am
Afghanistan
- R_P - Apr 25, 2024 - 10:26am
Science in the News
- Red_Dragon - Apr 25, 2024 - 10:00am
The Abortion Wars
- Isabeau - Apr 25, 2024 - 9:27am
|
Index »
Entertainment »
Books »
Books read recently
|
Page: Previous 1, 2, 3 ... 12, 13, 14, 15 Next |
JustineFromWyomi...
Location: Teetering on the edge of Avenue D Gender:
|
Posted:
Mar 5, 2009 - 9:39am |
|
Currently reading Fool by Christopher Moore.
|
|
Inamorato
Location: Twin Cities Gender:
|
Posted:
Mar 5, 2009 - 8:56am |
|
Well, this explains all the picture-only posts in the What are you reading now? topic. Most Britons have lied about the books they read LONDON (Reuters) - Two out of three Britons have lied about reading books they have not, and George Orwell's "1984" tops the literary fib list, according to a survey published Thursday.
Commissioned by organizers of World Book Day, an annual celebration of reading in Britain, the study also shows that the author people really enjoy reading is J.K. Rowling, creator of the bestselling Harry Potter wizard series.
According to the survey, 65 percent of people have pretended to have read books, and of those, 42 percent singled out "1984." Next on the list came "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy and in third place was James Joyce's "Ulysses."
The Bible was in fourth position, and newly elected President Barack Obama's autobiography "Dreams from My Father" came ninth.
Aside from a list of ten titles which respondents were asked to tick or leave blank, many admitted wrongly claiming they had read other "classics" including Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Herman Melville.
Asked why they had lied about reading a book, the main reason was to impress the person they were speaking to.
The study, carried out on the World Book Day website in January and February, surveyed 1,342 members of the public.
Those who lied have claimed to have read:
1. 1984 - George Orwell (42 percent)
2. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (31)
3. Ulysses - James Joyce (25)
4. The Bible (24)
5. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (16)
6. A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking (15)
7. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie (14)
8. In Remembrance of Things Past - Marcel Proust (9)
9. Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama (6)
10. The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (6) Big deal, I have not read all those books three or four times.
|
|
(former member)
Location: hotel in Las Vegas Gender:
|
Posted:
Dec 15, 2008 - 4:51pm |
|
Then US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, who had put the total cost at just $50-60 billion, has been off by some three to five trillion dollars on the cost, according to Stiglitz and Bilmes in The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict...
|
|
meower
Location: i believe, i believe, it's silly, but I believe Gender:
|
Posted:
Dec 9, 2008 - 10:53am |
|
greg6494 wrote:Probably my 10th time through it...still love his prose (and yes i'm well aware of the accusations against him which unfortunately led to his suicide). Great Book.. Really great book.
|
|
K_Love
Gender:
|
Posted:
Dec 9, 2008 - 10:48am |
|
Talalala wrote:For those who like to read non-fiction from musicians, I read this weekend.. I just took a couple of days because I got so sucked into E's life. For you who aren't sure who Mark Oliver Everett is, he is the lead singer of the band 'The Eels'. This guy survived some intensely emotional shite and survived. Mostly because he was able to express it in his songwriting, never giving in to what the record companies wanted him to do. He stayed true to himself despite some seriously messed up situations! Wow....I just looked him up on Wikipedia, what a life. I'm going to be joining a friend's book club and when it comes to me to choose the book, I'll be picking this one.
|
|
greg6494
Location: St. Louis Gender:
|
Posted:
Dec 9, 2008 - 10:26am |
|
Probably my 10th time through it...still love his prose (and yes i'm well aware of the accusations against him which unfortunately led to his suicide).
|
|
Inamorato
Location: Twin Cities Gender:
|
Posted:
Dec 9, 2008 - 10:25am |
|
Talalala wrote:For those who like to read non-fiction from musicians, I read this weekend.. I just took a couple of days because I got so sucked into E's life. For you who aren't sure who Mark Oliver Everett is, he is the lead singer of the band 'The Eels'. This guy survived some intensely emotional shite and survived. Mostly because he was able to express it in his songwriting, never giving in to what the record companies wanted him to do. He stayed true to himself despite some seriously messed up situations! I can imagine how you were sucked into this. Mark Everett is a very interesting guy who seems to have escaped a spiral of emotional misery. His music lately doesn't seem as dark and sardonic as it once was. Maybe it reflects his improved outlook.
|
|
Talalala
Location: Ã
rhus, Denmark Gender:
|
Posted:
Dec 9, 2008 - 10:08am |
|
dionysius wrote: You should see the PBS Nova documentary about him and his father Hugh Everett, a famous physicist who propsed the "Many Worlds" hypothesis. It's called "Nova: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives" and you can read more about it here. Mary and I saw this a few weeks ago, and were entranced. awesome..maybe I can find it online. :)
|
|
dionysius
Location: The People's Republic of Austin Gender:
|
Posted:
Dec 9, 2008 - 10:05am |
|
Talalala wrote:For those who like to read non-fiction from musicians, I read this weekend.. I just took a couple of days because I got so sucked into E's life. For you who aren't sure who Mark Oliver Everett is, he is the lead singer of the band 'The Eels'. This guy survived some intensely emotional shite and survived. Mostly because he was able to express it in his songwriting, never giving in to what the record companies wanted him to do. He stayed true to himself despite some seriously messed up situations! You should see the PBS Nova documentary about him and his father Hugh Everett, a famous physicist who proposed the "Many Worlds" hypothesis. It's called "Nova: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives" and you can read more about it here. Mary and I saw this a few weeks ago, and were entranced.
|
|
Talalala
Location: Ã
rhus, Denmark Gender:
|
Posted:
Dec 9, 2008 - 9:59am |
|
For those who like to read non-fiction from musicians, I read this weekend.. I just took a couple of days because I got so sucked into E's life. For you who aren't sure who Mark Oliver Everett is, he is the lead singer of the band 'The Eels'. This guy survived some intensely emotional shite and survived. Mostly because he was able to express it in his songwriting, never giving in to what the record companies wanted him to do. He stayed true to himself despite some seriously messed up situations!
|
|
Welly
Location: Lotusland Gender:
|
Posted:
Nov 17, 2008 - 9:53am |
|
|
|
betsyroks
Location: mid-land uk Gender:
|
Posted:
Nov 17, 2008 - 9:27am |
|
Show me the sky
|
|
rosedraws
Location: close to the edge Gender:
|
Posted:
Nov 15, 2008 - 5:44am |
|
woozurbuddy wrote:Just starting this from one of my favorite authors....
....and also this, just out....
What's Jim Harrison like? (i'm always trolling for stuff I might like) And I lurve the short stories best-of every year!
|
|
Servo
Location: Down on the Farm Gender:
|
Posted:
Nov 14, 2008 - 2:33pm |
|
I'm still reading "The Terror Presidency" by Jack Goldsmith, former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel (ISBN: 978-0-393-06550-3). It's all about how Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzalez et al. made conscious and informed decisions to break the law.
|
|
rosedraws
Location: close to the edge Gender:
|
Posted:
Nov 14, 2008 - 11:13am |
|
latest audio books:
Discworld #7 (Pyramids) by Terry Pratchett — excellent of course
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card — excellent (except I hated the woman narrator)
A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon — meh
Longshot - by Dick Frances — usually I like Francis, but after an hour I gave up as it was vapid and dull and had not yet delved into any semblance of plot.
|
|
joan_c
Location: Rushing Here, Rushing There Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 25, 2008 - 8:33pm |
|
Like Water For Chocolate
Very good book!
|
|
rowdydaisy
Location: Chicago, IL Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 25, 2008 - 8:12pm |
|
Wicked
Recomend it. Actually I listened to it on CD.
|
|
uselessart
Location: Here. But not really. Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 25, 2008 - 6:46pm |
|
The Lovely Bones. I have a two-year old daughter. I don't know if I can keep reading this book. Tears roll out the corners of my eyes when I read anything about Susie's family, but especially her father. I can't help but think what if...?
|
|
Xeric
Location: Montana Gender:
|
Posted:
Feb 6, 2008 - 4:05pm |
|
|
|
CCinSB
Location: the west coast Gender:
|
Posted:
Feb 6, 2008 - 3:52pm |
|
|
|
|