Thursday, November 30, 2006

need good books. pls recommend

ethics end on friday, 5pm.. so the countdown begins.


nothing non-fiction, nothing fantasy, nothing to do with politics or war, nothing to do with mass killings and gore and blood everywhere and having images in your head that you're afraid to sleep with, nothing with death of dog (just a quirk), nothing thrashy, nothing depressing (like never let me go, kazuo ishiguro).

if all else fails then i'm gonna read the classics, and bear the comments of the sisters calling me a geek.
a week of iliad. :) happy girl.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

cloud atlas.. by david mitchell

The book consists of six nested stories that take us from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to the far future after a nuclear apocalypse.

The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing. Pacific Ocean, circa 1850. Adam Ewing, an American notary's account of a voyage home from the remote Chatham Islands, east of New Zealand. The next character discovers this story as a diary on his patron's bookshelf.

Letters from Zedelghem. Zedelghem, Belgium, 1931. Robert Frobisher, a penniless young English musician, finds work as an amanuensis to a composer living in Belgium. This story is saved in the form of letters to his friend Rufus Sixsmith, which the next character discovers after meeting Sixsmith.

Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery. Buenas Yerbas, California, 1975. Luisa Rey, a journalist, investigates reports of corruption and murder at a nuclear power plant. The next character is sent this story in the form of a manuscript for a novel in the mail.

The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish. United Kingdom, early 21st century. Timothy Cavendish, a vanity press publisher, flees the brothers of his gangster client. The next character watches a movie dramatisation of this story.

An Orison of Sonmi~451. Nea So Copros (Korea), dystopian near future. Sonmi~451, a genetically-engineered fabricant (clone) server at a fast-food restaurant, is interviewed before her execution after she rebels against the society that created and exploited her kind. The next character sees this story projected holographically in an "orison," a futuristic recording device.

Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After. Hawaii, post-apocalyptic distant future. Zach'ry, a tribesman living a primitive life after most of humanity dies during "the fall," is visited by Meronym, a member of the last technologically-advanced civilisation. This story is told when the protagonist is an old man, to seemingly random strangers around a camp-fire.

Apart from the central story (Sloosha's Crossin'), which is uninterrupted, each story breaks off abruptly half-way through, to be followed by the first half of the next story. The interrupted story then appears within the next one, with the protagonist reading or watching the first half of its text; for example, in "An Orison of Sonmi~451," Sonmi~451 describes watching a film about the life of Timothy Cavendish, but she is only able to watch 50 minutes before her story is also interrupted. Each story ends with its protagonist finding the second half of this story, which is then printed after it.

7:38 AM
Anonymous said...

Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom. This book is worth reading again and again and again to remind you of the little things in life you should never let slip.

My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult. Fantastic book. Simply genius.

9:13 AM
Anonymous said...

If you like Literature, try Volpone. It's a classic.

9:15 AM

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