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Yesi wrote: jajajajaja this is too funny,  Lahtina - I did't know you were from Mexico, what part?? Yesi I'm from Michoacán, Yesi. You? @ Buffy: You can't get rid of poverty by sharing wealth with people.

Hello Lahtina, Michoacan great, I went to sawayo, Michoacan with my grandma when I was like 9 years old, beatiful place.  I think that is how is written right?


I Grew up in Guadalajara Jalisco (Tapatia de Corazon) jajajajajajaja


Nice to see another Mexican in here, we are not a lot jajajajaja


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@ Buffy: You can't get rid of poverty by sharing wealth with people.

I wouldn't wanna get rid of poverty. I'd very much like the equation You poor=me rich. When I said share the wealth I meant give me your stash and you stay with nothing. Human nature. So when can I have your stash?


 


Oh, and BTW, in theory, you could.



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Yesi wrote:

jajajajaja this is too funny,  Lahtina - I did't know you were from Mexico, what part?? Yesi

I'm from Michoacán, Yesi. You?


@ Buffy: You can't get rid of poverty by sharing wealth with people.



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jajajajaja this is too funny,


 Lahtina - I did't know you were from Mexico, what part??


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Lahtina wrote:

Sorry Buffy, I've got none of those in my stash.
Stash? Forget the books! I wanna get me a copy of your "stash". On second thought, I prefer the original! Share the wealth, woman!

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Sorry Buffy, I've got none of those in my stash.

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Do I ever?! That was "our daily bread" back in school but I hate reading photocopies and you should too.
Let me be the judge of that. Let's start with the Pulitzer prize winners.

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Lahtina wrote: Woohoo! I just brought back 30 kilos of books that I had in Mexico. I should have enough reading material for a couple of years. And no, I don't lend books. And you shouldn't either. Do you photocopy?
Do I ever?! That was "our daily bread" back in school but I hate reading photocopies and you should too.

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Woohoo! I just brought back 30 kilos of books that I had in Mexico. I should have enough reading material for a couple of years. And no, I don't lend books. And you shouldn't either.
Do you photocopy?

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Woohoo! I just brought back 30 kilos of books that I had in Mexico. I should have enough reading material for a couple of years. And no, I don't lend books. And you shouldn't either.

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Right now I am almost done reading Delirio by Laura Restrepo. Good book.


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@ Senhorita: I'll definitely read that one. Maybe we'll make it a Foro Book Club selection.

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If you want a REALLY funny and easy read, i suggest THE DIRTY GIRLS SOCIAL CLUB.
Its a chick book... about five latina friends and each chapter goes into their lives in details.
Its super funny, and contains conversations between each other in spanish.

Great book...this is the first book ever written by Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez.
she has a new one out called PLAYING WITH BOYS. Should also be a good book.


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Oh, no!

 


Oh yes, I'm fully prepared now..hehehe.



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sunday night on my way back from Chile i read "The Art of Always Being Right" also known as "How to beat your opponent in a discussion" by Arthur Schopenhauer. It was really good.
Oh, no!

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The "Clasics" (writers for ancient Rome and Greek), are great too, i like Ovidio, Platon, Apuleyo and Luciano de Samosota... of Course Homero and Hesiodo.

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sunday night on my way back from Chile i read "The Art of Always Being Right" also known as "How to beat your opponent in a discussion" by Arthur Schopenhauer. It was really good.

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The Da Vinci Code is the better book that I ever read.    -- Edited by jasmy at 11:01, 2005-10-20
ahahahahaha

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I really recommend to read William S. Burroughs, "Cities of the Red Night"; great book. Oscar Wilde, J.M. Coetzee, Jack Kerouac, Lewis Carroll, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Patricia Highsmith, those are few great writers in english...


in spanish Ferdando Vallejo, Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Cesar Vallejo, Jose Saramago (well he writes in portugues), Mario Levrero, Vicente Huidobro, Jose Revueltas, Juan Jose Arreola, Rosario Castellanos, Salvador Elizondo, etc


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The Da Vinci Code is the better book that I ever read.


 


 



-- Edited by jasmy at 11:01, 2005-10-20

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Tv Buff, yes I had read Siddharta when I was in High School, I didn't mention it, I forgot, what a mistake! You are right Tv Buff, after reading the Herman Hesse books my life started to change a bit, la "introspeccion se me subio a mil" and the rest has been a learning process, forever and ever.


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To improve my spanish, I should be reading a spanish book but one english book that stands out is "The Celestine Prophecies"...good read!
Is that the one about the 9 or 11 things?? I can't remember very well, but I've heard it's really good.

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To improve my spanish, I should be reading a spanish book but one english book that stands out is "The Celestine Prophecies"...good read!

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When i was younger i used to read alot but for the past few years i was too lazy to even pick up a book. So around June i decided to start reading again but i didnt know what i should read and i heard alot about the shopaholic novels by sofia kinsella so i picked up one up at coles, And i loved it. I read five of her novels since then and they were all great, very entertaining, very amusing! If you like reading u should check them out

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I've been reading this book call AZTECA by Gary Jennings, its a gr8 book and i recommend it to everyone. If u want to know a little bit more about it here is a link, it took the author 12 years to write it. X@vier
Why is it that it's mostly gringuitos writing about our own culture? Why can't we write great books like that?

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There are some books that changed my life in different ways. Demian, and Lobo Estepario from Herman Hesse are two of the many good books I have ever read. The other one is La Madre from Maximo Gorki. The list of great authors is vast...Keep reading, you'll live twice!
You have got to read Siddharta by Herman Hesse... life-changing book! I also read La Madre (I was maybe 13,14). Really good book (and thick... )

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I've been reading this book call AZTECA by Gary Jennings, its a gr8 book and i recommend it to everyone. If u want to know a little bit more about it here is a link, it took the author 12 years to write it.

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There are some books that changed my life in different ways. Demian, and Lobo Estepario from Herman Hesse are two of the many good books I have ever read. The other one is La Madre from Maximo Gorki.


The list of great authors is vast...Keep reading, you'll live twice!




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I've heard wonderful stuff about Paolo Coelho and he's on my To Read list. I'll let you know when I read something (though I don't know when that'll be 'cause I'm all about Us, In Touch and People magazine lately... the crap I'm into now... but it's not my fault... they bring them to work as "research" materials!

On a different note, I started reading Pantaleon y las Visitadoras and I just couldn't get into it. I tried and couldn't. I don't know if I'm having problems with my Spanish, but I don't think so. I just found it so scattered and not structured at all, that I couldn't get into the story. Maybe the movie is better and makes more sense.

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I've been reading Paulo Coelho books lately.

The Alchemist, Eleven minutes & the new one The Zahir.

Is anyone familiar with this author? I want to read something new from an author with a similar style.

Any suggestions?

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Bien, continuemos con este tema ...


8. Lolita - To be read in English only.


9. The Stranger - Don't read it if you're on the verge of suicide.


10. The Plague - Another Camus book. A better glimpse of Existencialism than The Stranger.


11. The Tin Drum - Sex, vomit, filth, misery? What's not to like? It does have boring stuff too though: struggle, triumph and oh yeah ... love. zzzzzzzzzz


 



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February? Wow, this is an old thread.


Anyway ... I also don't have a favourite book but I do have a list of very enjoyable books (in no particular order).


1. Don Quijote - to be read only in Spanish.


2. A Confederacy of Dunces - Hilarious! A modern day Don Quijote. Author committed suicide; never saw his book get published. His mother was the one who got the book published after being refused many times. Imagine: it's her dead son's book, of course the publishers couldn't take her word for it that it was good but it was (is). It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981.


3. The Satanic Verses - Yeah, I might have to read that one again. LOL It's a little difficult but it's a fascinating and amusing criticism of Islam.


4. The Perfume - Dark and creepy but an awesome read.


5. 1984 - Big Brother is watching you. This is a fascinating book. Very thought provoking.


6. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Normally I would spit on sci-fi and/or fantasy but this is just too good.


7. Pedro Páramo - Again, only read it in Spanish. I love this book.


Hmmm ... I'll think of more later.



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"I don't think we'd need to read the book to learn from Jenna how to give a good BJ. Unless it comes with an instructional video... "
well I know but there's tips on how to swallow the whole thing without gagging jajajajaa

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"YEs, jenna wrote her autobiography. Very interesting good tips on how to give a good bj jajajajaja"
I don't think we'd need to read the book to learn from Jenna how to give a good BJ. Unless it comes with an instructional video...

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" anyhow i just thought of another book, Memoirs of a Geisha, but i don't remember the authors name, i read it a long time ago, but what i find peculiar about this book is the fact a man wrote this book, if you read it you would think it would be a female writing it.
Miss Lee, I must say, you and I have pretty much read the same stuff... or we have the same taste. I read Memoirs of a Geisha, and you're right, like She's come undone, it was written by a man and it was a first novel. It is lovely (BTW, it's also one of Madonna's favourite books).

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YEs, jenna wrote her autobiography. Very interesting good tips on how to give a good bj jajajajaja

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"Anne Rice's Vampires Chronicles, Jenna Jameson"how to make love like a porn star" Spanish :Og Mandino's books, Pablo Neruda"

that jenna jameson book sound interesting lol.....


anyhow i just thought of another book, Memoirs of a Geisha, but i don't remember the authors name, i read it a long time ago, but what i find peculiar about this book is the fact a man wrote this book, if you read it you would think it would be a female writing it.


Motorcycle Diaries is inspiring......OUT TODAY ON DVD GO BUY IT!!!! I read it a long time ago, and the movie i believe did it justice, it could not have had a better cast. I have read about 4 of che's bios i just finished another book that was about the cuban revolution but in the eyes of a Cuban-Jew, its called Vida Clandestina by Ernesto Oltuski, its good too you get to see Oltuski's perpective on che and plus the book has some really good pics of che.



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"Anne Rice's Vampires Chronicles, Jenna Jameson"how to make love like a porn star" Spanish :Og Mandino's books, Pablo Neruda"
Are you serious? Jenna Jameson wrote a book? Probably a ghost writer, but that'd make for an interesting read.

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"There is a "Latin American" book store VERY close to Bloor and Christie...I don't remember the name but it's the only one in that area....you will find it there for sure"
There's Boli's @ Bloor & Christie, and they usually have a booth whenever there are Latin American festivals around the city. There's also the Spanish Centre on Hayden Street. But check out your local library... they have tons of books (and movies) in Spanish.

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"Do you mind if I ask where you are from?  yeah "not convenient" good choice of words"
Where do you think? There's only a couple of places in Latin America where you are or were actually ENCOURAGED to read about Che and people like him. I was lucky enough to be born in one of them.

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Anne Rice's Vampires Chronicles, Jenna Jameson"how to make love like a porn star"


Spanish :Og Mandino's books, Pablo Neruda



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Yes God is right, I get all my books from amazon.ca and prices are great.  i also have 100 años de soledad y se lo recomiendo a cualquiera.


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LOL...I have a 4 year old niece and she is obsessed with Robert Munch.  She has them all and she NEVER gets bored of me reading them to her.  Kids are great and reading with them is the best thing for them.
Have you read smelly socks...lol...that is her favorite..."


You can get any book there.....Amazon.com
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"HEY  I GET TO READ ROBERT MUNCH........   CANT U TELL I HAVE A KID!!!!     BUT ISABEL IS AWESOME.... READ PAULA GREAT BOOK!!!!.......       IVE BEEN DYING TO READ CIEN ANOS DE SOLEDAD, WHERE CAN I GET A COPY??????"
There is a "Latin American" book store VERY close to Bloor and Christie...I don't remember the name but it's the only one in that area....you will find it there for sure

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LOL...I have a 4 year old niece and she is obsessed with Robert Munch.  She has them all and she NEVER gets bored of me reading them to her.  Kids are great and reading with them is the best thing for them.


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"I guess I was lucky enough to be part of an educational system in transition, where I was learning about Che AT school, outside, and everywhere. And his picture was all over the place too... Argentina? I can see why it wouldn't be convenient, politically and otherwise, to teach about Che."
Do you mind if I ask where you are from?  yeah "not convenient" good choice of words

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HEY  I GET TO READ ROBERT MUNCH........
 
CANT U TELL I HAVE A KID!!!!
 
 
BUT ISABEL IS AWESOME....
READ PAULA GREAT BOOK!!!!.......
 
 
 
IVE BEEN DYING TO READ CIEN ANOS DE SOLEDAD, WHERE CAN I GET A COPY??????

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