My new book

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RE: My new book

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Guadalupana wrote:

Miel and GL--i heard about the one i'm reading from a friend here at work. Well i was mostly impressed with the sheer massiveness of the book, and well, i like big things. So i had to get it!

I watch Oprah.

I also check the papers' bestselling lists. I browse through libraries seeing what catches my attention. Word of mouth. I check what the Indigo people recommend and what librarians recommend as well. Fine. I'm a nerd and a follower so shoot me.*

* That's a figure of speech. Do NOT shoot me.

Guadalupana · Foro Master

Miel and GL--i heard about the one i'm reading from a friend here at work. Well i was mostly impressed with the sheer massiveness of the book, and well, i like big things. So i had to get it!

Gringa Lahtina · Guru

Miel wrote:

Where do u guys usually check the books you want to read????

Anyway,. I jsut finish reading LA TREGUA,. by Mario Benedeti,. el primer libro que leo de el,.. y su manera de escribir me parece muy clara y sencilla pero a la misma vez con adornos literarios,..

Lei tambien felicidad y espejismo,. un ibro muy bueno de autoestima,. el autor no me acuerdo,..

Exactly! Because I've never heard of any of those books. weirdface

Miel · Guru

Where do u guys usually check the books you want to read????

Anyway,. I jsut finish reading LA TREGUA,. by Mario Benedeti,. el primer libro que leo de el,.. y su manera de escribir me parece muy clara y sencilla pero a la misma vez con adornos literarios,..

Lei tambien felicidad y espejismo,. un ibro muy bueno de autoestima,. el autor no me acuerdo,..

Guadalupana · Foro Master

So, "she's come undone" is my next book then.

Motown Junkie · TOP Guru

TV Buff wrote:

Chale Tanga wrote:

Guadalupana wrote:

GL--haven't heard about that one ---must do research---y QUE?! i do happen to care what other nerds are reading!!

Anyway, i'm reading one named: I know this much is true by Wally Lamb. Loving it.

oh thats the really thick one. By a female author no?

Whats it about anyways?

I love that book. I took it to Mexico, to a resort, and people were looking at me like "you're actually going to read THAT?" It's a really good book. It took me a while to get into it, but once I did (almost halfway) I couldn't put it down. My favourie Wally Lamb, though, is She's come undone. Now, THAT ONE is really, really good.

I'm reading some money book for women right now (I can't remember the name). I need to get rich fast. Well, not rich, but "comfortable".

That is an AWESOME book!!! I remember reading it in OAC English and watching Oprah discuss it on the show!!!

It was such an odd book though, so odd, that I couldn't put it down!!!

TV Buff · TOP Guru

Chale Tanga wrote:

Guadalupana wrote:

GL--haven't heard about that one ---must do research---y QUE?! i do happen to care what other nerds are reading!!

Anyway, i'm reading one named: I know this much is true by Wally Lamb. Loving it.

oh thats the really thick one. By a female author no?

Whats it about anyways?

I love that book. I took it to Mexico, to a resort, and people were looking at me like weirdface

"you're actually going to read THAT?" It's a really good book. It took me a while to get into it, but once I did (almost halfway) I couldn't put it down. My favourie Wally Lamb, though, is She's come undone. Now, THAT ONE is really, really good.

I'm reading some money book for women right now (I can't remember the name). I need to get rich fast. Well, not rich, but "comfortable".

Guadalupana · Foro Master

MJ--it is

you must read it!!

Motown Junkie · TOP Guru

Guadalupana wrote:

Chale Tanga wrote:

Guadalupana wrote:

GL--haven't heard about that one ---must do research---y QUE?! i do happen to care what other nerds are reading!!

Anyway, i'm reading one named: I know this much is true by Wally Lamb. Loving it.

oh thats the really thick one. By a female author no?

Whats it about anyways?

Im currently reading "Andanzas y Malandanzas" b Alberto Rivas Bonilla.
Its about a dog.. and life as seen through the perspective of a badly treated dog. Its a cute story.

Yes, almost 900 pages. But it's a quick read. Wally is a male.
The book is about twin brothers. One turns out to be a paranoid schizo and the normal brother cares for him for all his life.
From Amazon.com
Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of I Know This Much Is True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man's search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather seemed to take parenting tips from the SS and his grandmother was a possible teenage murderess, his stepfather a latent sadist, and his brother, Thomas, a politically motivated psychopath. Not one to break with tradition, Dominick continues the dysfunctional legacy with rape, a failed marriage, a nervous breakdown, SIDS, a car crash, and a racist conspiracy against a coworker--just to name a few.

Oh wow!!! This looks good!!!

Guadalupana · Foro Master

Chale Tanga wrote:

Guadalupana wrote:

GL--haven't heard about that one ---must do research---y QUE?! i do happen to care what other nerds are reading!!

Anyway, i'm reading one named: I know this much is true by Wally Lamb. Loving it.

oh thats the really thick one. By a female author no?

Whats it about anyways?

Im currently reading "Andanzas y Malandanzas" b Alberto Rivas Bonilla.
Its about a dog.. and life as seen through the perspective of a badly treated dog. Its a cute story.

Yes, almost 900 pages. But it's a quick read. Wally is a male.

The book is about twin brothers. One turns out to be a paranoid schizo and the normal brother cares for him for all his life.

From Amazon.com
Oprah Book Club® Selection, June 1998: What if you were a 40-year-old housepainter, horrifically abused, emotionally unavailable, and your identical twin was a paranoid schizophrenic who believed in public self-mutilation? You'd either be a guest on the Jerry Springer Show or Dominick Birdsey, the antihero, narrator, and bad-juju magnet of I Know This Much Is True. Somewhere in the recesses of this hefty 912-page tome lurks an honest, moving account of one man's search, denial, and acceptance of self. This is no easy feat considering his grandfather seemed to take parenting tips from the SS and his grandmother was a possible teenage murderess, his stepfather a latent sadist, and his brother, Thomas, a politically motivated psychopath. Not one to break with tradition, Dominick continues the dysfunctional legacy with rape, a failed marriage, a nervous breakdown, SIDS, a car crash, and a racist conspiracy against a coworker--just to name a few.

Chale Tanga · TOP Guru

Guadalupana wrote:

GL--haven't heard about that one ---must do research---y QUE?! i do happen to care what other nerds are reading!!

Anyway, i'm reading one named: I know this much is true by Wally Lamb. Loving it.

oh thats the really thick one. By a female author no?

Whats it about anyways?

Im currently reading "Andanzas y Malandanzas" b Alberto Rivas Bonilla.
Its about a dog.. and life as seen through the perspective of a badly treated dog. Its a cute story.

Marky Mark · Foro Master

Gringa Lahtina wrote:

Qué qué?! No!! You've never heard of it? C'mon, even MiMi has heard of it!

Gringa Lahtina · Guru

Qué qué?! No!! You've never heard of it? C'mon, even MiMi has heard of it!

Guadalupana · Foro Master

GL--haven't heard about that one ---must do research---y QUE?! i do happen to care what other nerds are reading!!

Anyway, i'm reading one named: I know this much is true by Wally Lamb. Loving it.

Gringa Lahtina · Guru

So I'm reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera (thank you Mastropiero for recommending it). Right away it starts with the Nietzche's myth of Eternal Return and a philosophical discussion of heaviness vs. lightness. Bah! I would write more but I have noticed that no one actually cares so why even bother? Toot-a-loo!

Heeeeeeeeeeey, I just realized that toot-a-loo is à tout à l'heure!

Yesi · Guru

Guadalupana wrote:

Yesi--what happened to The Coins of Judas?!! i need to know what heppens in the scary book!

I can find it anywhere furious

I already checked the Kitchener library and nothing... What can I say i live in the wild, wild west biggrin

A frind is trying to get it for me.....

Guadalupana · Foro Master

Buff- No, and No.

The one i just read "Can you keep a secret?" had nothing to do with shopping. But totally girlie. :barf:

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Guadalupana wrote:

Buff- read the ones by Sophie Kinsella she writes the ones on the shopaholic series. Those are very girlie.

Do you need to be a shopaholic to enjoy the books? 'Cause I ain't.
And if I read them, will I become one?

I read a book once by the woman who created the Sex and the City series (Candace something) and it was all about shopping and New York society and the hamptons and whatnot, and I found it sooooooo boring and superficial. I read it all, though, but didn't really do it for me.

Guadalupana · Foro Master

Buff- read the ones by Sophie Kinsella she writes the ones on the shopaholic series. Those are very girlie.

TV Buff · TOP Guru

Guadalupana wrote:

Yesi--what happened to The Coins of Judas?!! i need to know what heppens in the scary book!

She probably got scared too.

I need a new book. Carlos Fuentes was good, but it started to get boring. I want to read something fun... I want a chick flick in a book. hmm

Guadalupana · Foro Master

Yesi--what happened to The Coins of Judas?!! i need to know what heppens in the scary book!

Yesi · Guru

Guadalupana wrote:

SO! i read "can you keep a secret?" by by Sophie Kinsella
I can't say it was the best book ever, i found Emma annoying, and she talked too much, over analized everything and was a bit of an insecure nag.

Currently reading : The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Hi Guada, good book you are reading......

Right now I am reading... and I am loving it....... so far so good

El Psicoanalista - John Katzenbach

Tras "La guerra de Hart" John Katzenbach presenta su nuevo libro. Un thriller fuera de serie.

"Feliz 53 cumpleaños, doctor. Bienvenido al primer día de su muerte. Pertenezco a algún momento de su pasado. Usted arruinó mi vida. Quizá no sepa cómo, por qué, pero lo hizo. Llenó todos mis instantes de desastre y tristeza. Arruinó mi vida. Y ahora estoy decidido a arruinar la suya. Al principio pensé que debería matarlo para ajustarle las cuentas. Pero me di cuenta de que eso era demasiado sencillo. Es un objetivo patéticamente fácil, doctor. Acecharlo y matarlo no habría supuesto ningún desafío. Y, dada la facilidad de ese asesinato, no estaba seguro de que me proporcionara la satisfacción necesaria. He decidido que prefiero que se suicide".

Chale Tanga · TOP Guru

i wanna read Conversations with God, aparently its a really good book. I kinda wanna find it in one of the used book stores here downtown, so my quest has only begun to find this book.

Anyone read it?

Guadalupana · Foro Master

SO! i read "can you keep a secret?" by by Sophie Kinsella
I can't say it was the best book ever, i found Emma annoying, and she talked too much, over analized everything and was a bit of an insecure nag.

Currently reading : The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Gringa Lahtina · Guru

TV Buff wrote:
And you turned out humble too...

NOT!Your poor, poor mother.

Hey, woman! If I don't promote my awesomeness, who will? MM? Pfffffffffffff! Nobody reads his posts!

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Gringa Lahtina wrote:

TV Buff wrote: Your poor mother. You were one of those, huh?
Silence, you! I turned out just fine... better than fine, actually.

And you turned out humble too...

NOT!

Your poor, poor mother.

Gringa Lahtina · Guru

TV Buff wrote:
Your poor mother. You were one of those, huh?

Silence, you! I turned out just fine... better than fine, actually.

TV Buff · TOP Guru

Gringa Lahtina wrote:
Reaaaaaaaaaally? Well, to be quite honest, I wasn't 9... I think I was 10. I never went to kindergarten (I missed out on what should have been the most formative years of my life!) and I didn't go to first grade until I was like 7... why? I was spoiled rotten! I had separation anxiety. My mom had to sit with me through half of the school year otherwise I would run out of the school crying.

Your poor mother. You were one of those, huh?

Gringa Lahtina · Guru

TV Buff wrote:

Gringa Lahtina wrote: Dare to tell me that you didn't like that book when you were nine and in the fourth grade! I had no idea that book existed when I was 9 and in 5th grade (I was advanced for my age... plus my mother had to lie when I was 4 'cause I was so boooored with kindergarten so she and a teacher friend of hers put me in the 1st grade when I was 4... )

Reaaaaaaaaaally? Well, to be quite honest, I wasn't 9... I think I was 10. I never went to kindergarten (I missed out on what should have been the most formative years of my life!) and I didn't go to first grade until I was like 7... why? I was spoiled rotten! I had separation anxiety. My mom had to sit with me through half of the school year otherwise I would run out of the school crying.

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Gringa Lahtina wrote:
Dare to tell me that you didn't like that book when you were nine and in the fourth grade!

I had no idea that book existed when I was 9 and in 5th grade (I was advanced for my age... plus my mother had to lie when I was 4 'cause I was so boooored with kindergarten so she and a teacher friend of hers put me in the 1st grade when I was 4...

)

Gringa Lahtina · Guru

Jaime Cruz wrote:

My new book is Facebook

LOL you dork! So is everybody else's anyway, you're not special!

Jaime Cruz · Foro Master

My new book is Facebook

Gringa Lahtina · Guru

TV Buff wrote:

Gringa Lahtina wrote: Allow me to tell you guys about MYYYYYYYYYYY new book. It's called: C'est dur à supporter. Sounds pretty high browish, doesn't it? Yeah, but it's just the French translation of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume which I love! And you're critical of MY choices!!! double

Everything sounds trés sexy in French.

Silence, you! How dare you compare TOAFGN to Sandra Benitez and the rest of YOUR choices! This is an awesome book for fourth graders (and second language students

). When you are nine, you're not likely to dive right into Shakespeare. And I aaaaaaam trying to read another book in French - a high browish one (Albert Camus) but I just get the gist of it.

And this one I love because I understand it all.

Dare to tell me that you didn't like that book when you were nine and in the fourth grade!

TV Buff · TOP Guru

Gringa Lahtina wrote:

Allow me to tell you guys about MYYYYYYYYYYY new book. It's called: C'est dur à supporter. Sounds pretty high browish, doesn't it? Yeah, but it's just the French translation of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume which I love!

And you're critical of MY choices!!! double

Everything sounds trés sexy in French.

Gringa Lahtina · Guru

Allow me to tell you guys about MYYYYYYYYYYY new book. It's called: C'est dur à supporter.

Sounds pretty high browish, doesn't it?

Yeah, but it's just the French translation of Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume which I love!

Chale Tanga · TOP Guru

@ Buffster:

Wouldnt be surprised if he was the "Vega" in the book.

TV Buff · TOP Guru

Chale Tanga wrote:

Gringa Lahtina wrote: @ Chale... that sounds like a very interesting book. What's it about and where is the author from? When was it written? I like the title but I can't say I'm too impressed by it. Sound like a rip off of Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée... hmmmm. *suspicious*
Its about el asco that this dude feels about El Salvador. I've only read about 30 pages so far, but its pretty much just about this guy named Vega who is so disgusted by every aspect of Salvadorean culture/people/land/everything. He finds that they are like vomit. Its a conversation that takes place between Vega (uber hater) and Moya, who is a silent listener. I really dont know what the whole point of the book is, other than for Vega to express his utter disdain for all things Salvadorean. Im intereseted to know how the ending is going to be. The guy who wrote it is Salvadorean, his name is Horacio Castellanos Moya.

We should recommend this book to Padre Astudillo. I'm sure he'd go like this reading it...

Bad TV Buff... bad...

Chale Tanga · TOP Guru

Gringa Lahtina wrote:

@ Chale... that sounds like a very interesting book. What's it about and where is the author from? When was it written? I like the title but I can't say I'm too impressed by it. Sound like a rip off of Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée... hmmmm. *suspicious*

Its about el asco that this dude feels about El Salvador. I've only read about 30 pages so far, but its pretty much just about this guy named Vega who is so disgusted by every aspect of Salvadorean culture/people/land/everything. He finds that they are like vomit. Its a conversation that takes place between Vega (uber hater) and Moya, who is a silent listener.

I really dont know what the whole point of the book is, other than for Vega to express his utter disdain for all things Salvadorean. Im intereseted to know how the ending is going to be.

The guy who wrote it is Salvadorean, his name is Horacio Castellanos Moya.

Gringa Lahtina · Guru

Yesi wrote:

Has annyone read La bruja de Portobello by Paulo Coelho? Is it good?

Thanks,

Nope, but I think it's Mastropiero's favourite author. Aaaaaah- where the hell is the guy... I miss him.

I don't like Coelho.

Guadalupana · Foro Master

Yesi wrote:

Has annyone read La bruja de Portobello by Paulo Coelho? Is it good?

Thanks,

No, but i have read Veronika Decides to die and Eleven minutes by him. Both good.

Yesi · Guru

Has annyone read La bruja de Portobello by Paulo Coelho? Is it good?

Thanks,

Gringa Lahtina · Guru

TV Buff wrote:

Chale Tanga wrote: I am currently reading "El asco" by Horacio Castellanos Moya. Muy goodo booko
Does it make you nauseous? Oh, I crack myself up.

LOL What aaaaaaaaaa dork! Loved it.

@ Chale... that sounds like a very interesting book. What's it about and where is the author from? When was it written? I like the title but I can't say I'm too impressed by it. Sound like a rip off of Jean-Paul Sartre's La Nausée... hmmmm. *suspicious*

Chale Tanga · TOP Guru

TV Buff wrote:

Does it make you nauseous? Oh, I crack myself up.

You, my friend, deserve the NOT award. As in, youre so funny....... NOT!!

TV Buff · TOP Guru

Chale Tanga wrote:

I am currently reading "El asco" by Horacio Castellanos Moya. Muy goodo booko

Does it make you nauseous?

Oh, I crack myself up.

Chale Tanga · TOP Guru

I am currently reading "El asco" by Horacio Castellanos Moya. Muy goodo booko

Yesi · Guru

Jajajaja Guada you are so funny... I will read this book and let you know, I love scary movies and books.....

"The exorcism of Emily Rose" really good movie......

Guadalupana · Foro Master

So buff, are you saying it's sort of like the movie "The exorcism of Emily rose?" cuz if it is, holy mother of god, that movie really freaked me out.

TV Buff · TOP Guru

Guadalupana wrote:

Yesi, you are one brave soul. Please be our sacrifice for our own mental sake...

Buff--yeah i need examples, porque if there is anything remotely close to exorcism and latin speaking demons, i'm done for.

Then it's a good thing you returned it. This is SO not the book for you.

Guadalupana · Foro Master

Yesi, you are one brave soul. Please be our sacrifice for our own mental sake...

Buff--yeah i need examples, porque if there is anything remotely close to exorcism and latin speaking demons, i'm done for.