books anyone??

[gila]

books anyone.. was just quite intrigue if anyone's a bookworm like me..
what's the best book youve read for the past 3months?

mine is "tuesdays with morrie" by Mitch albom.
it talks about how someone conquers death/sickness.. its very inspiring book. it somehow moved me on how to face death ;D a real nice book to own. and actually, ive read it a long time ago but i keep on reading it from time to time

[marcs]

Mastering Mountain Bike Techniques by Brian Lopes.

One line sums it up, 'Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent.' Net, it's always good to know what is the right way to do something before practicing it less you develop a bad habit (e.g. not relying on the front brakes).

Covers all types of riding and the necesarry skills to flow on the trail.

Started reading again The Rosales Novels by F. Sionil Jose. Just finished the 2nd book, Tree, and starting off with My Brother, My Executioner. The novels pretty much sum up the tragedies in Philippine history via the lives of the main characters.

[kuchikoo]

48 laws of power.....haven't finished it thou.....gila do you have old renato constantino history books? im kinda collecting them. ;D

[hance]

Im a sucker for tech-espionage-thriller novels. There was even a time I was reading two different novels at a time. One at work, during breaks, and one at home, when my kids hog the PC.

[gila]

@kuchikoo : sorry po but i dont have

[qt_kat]

marcs said:

Started reading again The Rosales Novels by F. Sionil Jose. Just finished the 2nd book, Tree, and starting off with My Brother, My Executioner. The novels pretty much sum up the tragedies in Philippine history via the lives of the main characters.

Whoa, I've read those books when I was in high school and its a good read I must say. Maybe I should start reading it again to refresh my memory. Right now, I'm reading John Grisham's latest..."The Broker".

I love books and I love to read!

[styxmaster69]

before stephen king's.... kakapraning..... then bob ong's lalo akong napraning..... as of now reading any technical books on communications

[minotaur]

marcs said:

Started reading again The Rosales Novels by F. Sionil Jose. Just finished the 2nd book, Tree, and starting off with My Brother, My Executioner. The novels pretty much sum up the tragedies in Philippine history via the lives of the main characters.

Hey... I have read the whole Rosales novels. F. Sionil Jose is one of my favorite Filipino writers. I read his essays as well and a few other books under his name Viajero, Ben Singkol and Sins.

If you like F. Sionil Jose... Try Azucena Grajo Uranza's Bamboo in the Wind and my all time favorite A Passing Season.

[kulot_salot]

the naked mountain by reinhold messner



every now & then, my circa 1992 pol medina jr.'s PUGAD BABOY comic book... ;D

[xfire]

gila said:

books anyone.. was just quite intrigue if anyone's a bookworm like me..
what's the best book youve read for the past 3months?

mine is "tuesdays with morrie" by Mitch albom.
it talks about how someone conquers death/sickness.. its very inspiring book. it somehow moved me on how to face death ;D a real nice book to own. and actually, ive read it a long time ago but i keep on reading it from time to time

hi, another bookworm here. i'm selling the books i've read. check out bidshot.com, username: "xfire". thanks.

[joes]

f. s. jose is a pompous a$s. but hey, most authors are, even those whose books don't sell so well. i've recently read two books by haruki murakami. a wild sheep chase and south of the boarder west of the sun. both books with @#$% for endings. what a waste of my precious precious time. i've read some of chuck palahniuk's work, fight club, survivor, and diary. i like fight club's non-linear story telling. i'm not so sure if i liked it for the idea of it's anarchistic and somewhat dystopic theme, or if palahniuk is really a clever writer. all time favorites are the great gatsby and the catcher in the rye. for next year, i'll be focusing on history books. i'm going to read some world war 2 @#$%.

xfire - got any old publications of the catcher in the rye?

[Alphabolt]

hmmm...a PinoyMTBiker book club !

I started my book love affair hmmm grade 3 with the Enid Blyton pixie books...fun fun. I would hide the books I was reading at the library back then (we couldnt borrow more than a quota).

I ve read most of the "Great Books" during college (an elective ..yeah..Marcs, d ba?). I had a brief "affair with inspirational books like TwM, all of the Og Mandino books, juvenile fiction, etc. Cool read all of them

But life kinda took over and hectic things happen. Now Im more cosmopolitan with my book preferences. Better yet, I would say that books become like medicine...distractions and manipulating tools (sharpen the mind, challenge the biz acumen...) heck I grew up with my grandpa's collection of reader's digest ...from 1966 til 1980

Now Im sticking to techno-thrillers and fantasy books..even Rambo-type Mack Bolans and my all time collectible..Nick Carter series. Regular 1 to 2 nights reads

I ll wait til Im old(er) so I can read more challenging books

Now...anyone out there have Nick Carter books I can buy ?

[xfire]

joes said:

xfire - got any old publications of the catcher in the rye?

sorry joes, i don't have that.

[gila]

;D yeah.. my pugad baboy comics collection and all works of bob ong.. funny books..
and i sometimes loves to read those young adult books like charlie and the chocolate factory. nancy drew and hardy boys ;D ;D

[anthrax76]

all pugad baboy books, except book 2. all of bob ong's books.

for my case, i like fantasy books for some reason. LOTR and The Silmarillon, Dragonlance series, The little prince (he he he).

Then book reviews in high school. Jane Eyre, The Pearl, Cather in the Rye, Last of the Mohicans.

Then there's literature in college, Iliad, The Odyssey, Aenid, Divine Comedy. Let's not forget good ol' Shakespeare.

Basically I read anything I can get my hands on, even technical books that I couln't make out the contents, ha ha ha.

[kulot_salot]

something for you all...


www.pugadbaboy.pardinas.net/pb_comics.html

[puregutz]

I just started reading A QUESTION OF BLOOD by Ian Rankin. So far interesting read. You will need a dictionary though from time to time.

Other good read on my list: (il add as I remember)
Bourne Identity
The Hobbit + LOTR trilogy
Da Vinci Code

[cobym]

All time fave - LOTR
Best reads in past few years - Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield - now thats a beautiful novel!
the Sabriel Trilogy - by Garth Nix - beats harry potter for me.
Best semi-historical novel - Alexander (three vols) - by Valerio Massimo Manfredi - kept me up late countless nights burning batteries on my reading light.

Just started - The Rule of Four

[duldog]

one of the good books i've read is "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff..... and all its small stuff!" but i forgot the name of the author.

its about living life in harmony and stop making big problems on small things.

another good book i've read is the "One Minute Manager" about management techniques.

i was once hooked with "Rogue Warrior" series by Richard Marcinko, its all about the US Navy Seals and read many books about the seals in vietnam, and read much about the vietnam war.

i also like the books of Tom Clancy, especially the nonfiction work (like "Into the Storm: A Study in Command" with Gen. Franks), read some of his fictions, ung nga lang super kapal mga books nya.

now, i'm more into technical/electronics/diy kind (I've collected Electronic Enthusists Magazine since highschoo starting from issue 22-69).

[gadgets88]

The work of Stephen King that affected me the most: "The STAND".
I caught a cold reading it. My friends and friends of my friends also got sick (cold, cough, fever) while reading it. I suspect that the book could had been laced with poison to match the effect of the horror story. It's a great read. But wouldn't read it again for health reasons. The story was adapted into a film version. But i always preferred the read.


The most amazing science fiction work I have ever read was the DUNE series by Frank Herbert.
www.dunenovels.com/

After the demise of Frank, his son Brian and a partner Kevin Anderson continued the series.

Warning: The DUNE story is a little more complicated read and has a longer storyline than Lord of the Rings and Star Wars.
I read each book at least twice and made notes while reading it to connect and recognize the characters of the story.

Don't start this series if you are not a hardcore sci-fi addict. And if you are, be prepared to stay up 6 hours at a time reading non-stop and re-reading the whole book all over again just to savor the intricacies of the story and not get tangled with the confusion.

This story inspired a PC game with the same title: DUNE.
Also a movie flop that didn't do justice to the story. I'm still hoping someday the series will transcend nicely into the movie version.
Calling the director of LOTR!!!


For espionage, books by Irving Wallace (1916-1990).
These are very old books I inherited from an uncle's book collection.

[whoopi]

after reading CATCHER IN THE RYE during my impressionable years i started talking like holden caulfield heheh.

i read a sci-fi to escape. isaac asimov and orson scott card are favorites. and for a while i was crazy about star trek.

nowadays i'm drawn to scientific books written for the layman. the best i've read is A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING by bill bryson. i'm reading THE DANCING WU LI MASTERS by gary zukav now.

[marcs]

wasn't Dune recently made by HBO into a mini-series? yeah I like that PC game DUNE, I think it's the mother of all realtime strategy games.

[arcireyes]

one of the best books i've read was one by kahlil gibran. read a lot of tom clancy and grisham, even the worst read in my life two books by dan brown (what title was that?) right now i read the holy bible....a verse a day for guidance

[allegra]

gila said:

books anyone.. was just quite intrigue if anyone's a bookworm like me..
what's the best book youve read for the past 3months?

mine is "tuesdays with morrie" by Mitch albom.
it talks about how someone conquers death/sickness.. its very inspiring book. it somehow moved me on how to face death ;D a real nice book to own. and actually, ive read it a long time ago but i keep on reading it from time to time

Fave books -
Without Seing the Dawn , sorry couldnt remember the pinoy author. High school lit
Life in pre war rural Philippines , and the brutality of the Japanes occupation
Ang galing , even became a bestseller sa states dring the 60's

Ian Flemming - James bond , parang GQ meets top gear meets andy mcnabb

Andy mcnabb - brit sas trooper turned author
More detailed than clancy since he.s been there done that
The books hero is as scary as the bad guys

The inner game of golf - I dont play golf nor intend to play
Pero this book deals w/ using you mind to get peak performance from of yur body

Practical Shooting Beyond Fundamentals - Zen and the art of shooting firearms. If your a student of Zen, it's a must have
www.brianenos.com/

[wadesingson]

the world according to clarkson. brilliant read - only guy I know who would compare a car to a turnip

[BrusKO]

Any of you into Philosophy?

I swear chicks dig that. hehehehe... HELLO WIFEY!

Don't get me wrong. I didn't get into it for the chicks. It was my wife who got me into it.

[Alphabolt]

Philo of Man ...hayyy I miss that when you can talk and talk.. and they still see the logic in what you are saying !

My Jesuit schooling made sure I had my heavy dose of that

But you know what..I would have really appreciated if the now-present summaries and comparative Philosophy were available back then! A centimeter thick and all the essence therein whew!

I would have saved me hours and hours of study group!


Yeah girls (some) dig that heavy brain flux, Bruce wink wink

[BrusKO]

Truthfully, I'd rather read the thick ones. There was a time in my life when I considered Sophie's World my bible. I still feel the same way now. Only nowadays, I feel I'm more detached to the world of "reality."

[Alphabolt]

I just finished the Daniel Silva series...Mark of the Assasin, DEath in Vienna, The Confessor..

medium challenge and just enough twists...I enjoyed em. The author was a former journalist on the street beat so he s "schooled"

Bummer is.. it only takes two nights a book kahit about 400 pages each. Takes you for a ride eh

Techno-thrillers by Dale Brown take longer to read at my slow pace. Can only read starting about 9 or 10 pm with the kids and all the night workload (principals aboard)

Techno thrillers make me stop every now and then to analize what I just read...yeah nerd yeah !

[Alphabolt]

Bruce, you detached from "reality"? ... high ? heheh

yeah thick is good but when the grades count..I also want the summaries and comparatives , dude