GOOD book news

Greenbottle3 · Post time 26-11-2006 06:19 PM

kalau sdr/sdri mahu tau apa yang di baca dan di rekomen oleh kalangan orang2 terkenal dalam bidang budaya di UK pada sepanjang tahun ini sila baca di halaman link di bawah.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1956910,00.html

dan beberapa buku yang di perkatakan di sini boleh di dapati di BIG BOOKSTORE SALES yang sedang berlansung di ATRIA DAMANSARA UTAMA dari sekarang hingga 30 Dec ini!!!

peminat2 buku sekelian, saya fikir kalau berpeluang patut pergi ke sini...buku2 nya baru dan harga nya murah...(RM 12-18 utk buku2 baru)

by the way, my best read for this year are:-

1) The orientalist - by tom reiss (non fiction_
a historical/biographical/travelogue about an azerbaijaini jew who converted to islam and entangled in all kind of strange experience

2) The paper house - by Carlos Maria Dominguez (fivtion)
a very thin book (103 pages) that i bought at ATRIA sales recently...it's a book for people who love to collect books!

here's a little description...

Vast bookcases fill Carlos Breuer's rooms from wall to wall and floor to ceiling, forcing his car out of the garage and himself out of his bedroom into the attic....

seribulan · Post time 27-11-2006 01:12 PM

Payless Sales...Big Bookstore Sales...duh!!! temptation2x...buku yg ada pon tak
terbaca lagik...uhuh...

BeyondSight · Post time 7-12-2006 12:23 PM

My sister's keeper by jody picoult

the best read so far

Greenbottle3 · Post time 10-12-2006 12:27 AM

here is a good take on rushdie, martin amis and ian mcEwan...and a heated forum following the article is a good example of what WE should be all follow when we talk about books here...

always know that amis and rushdie hate islam but news to me that mcEwan too?

seribulan · Post time 10-12-2006 03:59 PM

x only?

Greenbottle3 · Post time 10-12-2006 09:03 PM

oh maaf cik seri

here's the link

http://books.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1968093,00.html

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Greenbottle3 · Post time 29-3-2007 01:08 AM

This is what bill clinton thinks about gabriel garcia marquez:-

...."I believe he's the most important writer of fiction in any language since William Faulkner died," said Mr Clinton.....

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2044201,00.html

seribulan · Post time 1-4-2007 08:26 PM

William Faulkner...will look him up.

Greenbottle3 · Post time 5-4-2007 10:46 PM

here is an interesting excerpt from the last book by a russian journalist who was killed recently. It is about the new chechen president...a thug a very bad man...he is responsible for killing some of the best mujahideens in chechnya...

the book is "A Russian Diary" by Anna Politkovskaya. This journalist as you may already know was assasinated a few months back. The muderers are still at large.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/chechnya/Story/0,,2038122,00.html

Greenbottle3 · Post time 10-4-2007 07:24 PM

here's a nice story about Ernest Hemingway and Marlene Dietrich's love letters to each other

http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Guardian/0,,2053586,00.html

seribulan · Post time 14-4-2007 05:03 PM

Marlene Dietrich, the actress? Hope he didn't commit suicide because of her...

seribulan · Post time 14-4-2007 05:09 PM

Greenbottle3 · Post time 15-4-2007 02:13 AM

one of my favorite authors ; kurt vonnegut is dead. I didn't realize it until i read biblibibuli blog yesterday

Here's the obituary in the guardian

http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2055622,00.html

and here is the said bibliobibuli's blog post...check out her 12th april entry

http://thebookaholic.blogspot.com/

Greenbottle3 · Post time 15-4-2007 02:14 AM

need to put it here so that i can come and read it later...

here's an interesting looking article...

in the guardian again:.... writers reveal what gets their creative juices flowing ....

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,2056935,00.html

seribulan · Post time 15-4-2007 04:54 PM

News to me too...RIP...

redsinner · Post time 15-4-2007 05:42 PM

i bought and read Kiran Desai's Inheritance of Loss and 'twas superb!
cite pasal kehidupan derang kat Nepal/Himalaya with the insurgences from the army and stuffs...
compelling read....

Greenbottle3 · Post time 9-6-2007 08:19 AM

lama tak masuk di sini...

here is a very good write-up by margaret atwood on one of the most famous writers who died recently...Ryszard Kapuscinski .

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,2098537,00.html

Greenbottle3 · Post time 18-8-2007 09:23 AM

it has been a long time since the last time i visited here.
so many news and so many events. but if any of you who i consider my virtual book friends are interested to know what kind of books and related things i've been doing lately you're welcome to visit my blog which is mostly about books and related things...

http://www.booked1.blogspot.com/

Greenbottle3 · Post time 2-9-2007 10:27 AM

here is a link to forgotten literary treasures that some writes think should be more widely read.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2160520,00.html

my three choices from this list is below -taken from the same article:...

The Obscene Bird of Night (1970)
Jose Donoso
I'm no expert on the topic of South American literature (in fact I'm a dunce), but I have reason to believe (after diligently scouring the internet) that Chile's Jose Donoso, while a very highly regarded author on home turf, is little known on this side of the Atlantic. His masterpiece is the fabulously entitled The Obscene Bird of Night. It would be a crass understatement to say that this book is a challenging read; it's totally and unapologetically psychotic. It's also insanely gothic, brilliantly engaging, exquisitely written, filthy, sick, terrifying, supremely perplexing, and somehow connives to make the brave reader feel like a tiny, sleeping gnat being sucked down a fabulously kaleidoscopic dream plughole.

Eden Eden Eden (1970)

Pierre Guyotat
Banned as 'pornographic' on publication in 1970 by the French Ministry of the Interior, this book is the bravest and most harrowing account of the acts of war and sex you will ever read. Artaud and Genet are the obvious forebears, but this book and this writer stand alone in their attack upon language and literature. Eden Eden Eden truly is JG Ballard's Atrocity Exhibition. Unlikely to be in your local Tesco's, but it never hurts to ask.

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1975)

David Nobbs
Many people think that this is a novelisation of the famous 1970s sitcom. But the book came first; what's more, it stands as a fine work in its own right, and remains the best, sharpest, funniest and saddest account of a mid-life meltdown I have ever read. The elegance and moral seriousness of the novel has, to a large extent, been overshadowed by the success of the TV version; but in my view it's one of the few novels from the 1970s which deserves the status of a modern classic.

Greenbottle3 · Post time 1-10-2007 12:45 AM

a new book by orhan pamuk is just published. Sounds like another very interesting read.

Other ColorsEssays and a StoryBy Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen FreelyKNOPF; 434 PAGES; $27.95
here's a link to a good review of the book

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/23/RVOARC4NP.DTL&type=books