Sorry has the next book been decided

Im done... and waiting on Buffster to say the word.

LaDyBuG wrote:

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WHERE'S BUFFY WHEN YOU NEED HER....LOL AND I HEARD THE BOOK SUUUUUUCKED!!!  (BITTER GROUNDS) DISSAPOINTING AND BORING  

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I'm here!!! And no, the book didn't suck. You sucked for not reading it...

 

Lemme know, guys. I'm still up for this, but I finished reading the book like three months ago, so I don't know how much of it is fresh in my mind.

OH, I almost forgot...  the BBC made a movie based on the novel a few years back as well.

-- Edited by Luna Chiquitita at 13:15, 2006-01-09

Luna Chiquitita wrote:

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Hey Chale, its from 2001.  It's a great book! I thoroughly enjoyed and think you foromonkeys might like it too, with the exception of Ladybug 'cause she doesn't read (jokes). Check the link for reviews and what not... I think this should be the next book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375703861/ref=sib_rdr_dp/103-9767739-0685431?%5Fencoding=UTF8&me=ATVPDKIKX0DER&no=283155&st=books&n=283155

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excellente!
I'm down like James Brown!


Althougth Im not too found of female authors, I'd be willing to give it a shot.

@ Luna:


That book sounds sooo good!
Is it new? When did it come out?


Anything with a bucktoothed heroine is golden in my eyes!!!

I suggest Zadie Smith's White Teeth.  Very funny!

Amazon.com
Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again.

Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."

Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's... parts." And the men, of course, have their own involvement in bodily functions:

The deal was this: on January 1, 1980, like a New Year dieter who gives up cheese on the condition that he can have chocolate, Samad gave up masturbation so that he might drink. It was a deal, a business proposition, that he had made with God: Samad being the party of the first part, God being the sleeping partner. And since that day Samad had enjoyed relative spiritual peace and many a frothy Guinness with Archibald Jones; he had even developed the habit of taking his last gulp looking up at the sky like a Christian, thinking: I'm basically a good man.

Not all of White Teeth is so amusingly carnal. The mixed blessings of assimilation, for example, are an ongoing torture for Samad as he watches his sons grow up. "They have both lost their way," he grumbles. "Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave." These classic immigrant fears--of dilution and disappearance--are no laughing matter. But in the end, they're exactly what gives White Teeth its lasting power and undeniable bite. --Eithne Farry--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

LaDyBuG wrote:

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WHERE'S BUFFY WHEN YOU NEED HER....LOL AND I HEARD THE BOOK SUUUUUUCKED!!!  (BITTER GROUNDS) DISSAPOINTING AND BORING  

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Guess you'll never know since you didnt read it!! MUAHAHHAHAHA!



Nah man.. it did suck azz... the book that we were talking about was "A Fine Balance"... now THATS a book worth reading.


But bitter grounds...... meh, I could have done without

is it worth to make a movie out this book???

let me know....

WHERE'S BUFFY WHEN YOU NEED HER....LOL

AND I HEARD THE BOOK SUUUUUUCKED!!!  (BITTER GROUNDS)

DISSAPOINTING AND BORING

 

Chale_Tanga wrote:

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I truely dont have a preference.  I've read some books from different cultures that are absolutely amazing!  I dont mind either way.You ever read "A Fine Balance"?

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Nope, haven't read it.
Just read the review and sounds very interesting.

Chale_Tanga wrote:

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I know... but we were just waiting for people to finish reading it. Im done.... very very dissapointed but hey, what can you do? What book do you recommend?

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Mmm...depends on what you guys want to read....
are we sticking to latin american authors?

People..you have been with this book for sooo long....

when are you moving on to a different one? I'll read the next one....

Ummm, what's the next book ... so I can get started with that one instead

I've read half the book and i'm so hooked. Though I've had some disappoinments!

I'm still up for this!! I'll bring the smirnoffs!!!