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Michelle 1203 · Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 86

If your answer is 'YES'
tell me your favorite book
what is you most recommended book?

If your answer is 'NO'
One of my teacher told me that 'Reading is a privilege only human being have.' No other living creature on this planet has this ability.

Reading gives you free access to the treasure of the human spirit-from all ages,from all parts of the world

the first step is to get into the habit of reading.
The most important thing is to develop yourselves. Very Happy

RedRose · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China

YES!!!

My favorite books : <silent mass> by WangXiaoPo, China; <encircle a city> By QianZhongShu, China, <Dream from Red Mansion> By ChaoXueQing, China.

<Godfather>, <the stories of Quran>, <brokenback mountain>, <if tomorrow comes>.....

too many to count!

Reading is such an amazing enoyment!!

stellara · Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 583 Location: germany

god, i can only agree Very Happy

i love reading, actually!
i have no favourite book because i read so many books and either i like ther very much, or only like them, or don't like them so much - if i don't like them at all then i don't read them, that would be nearly a waste of time Wink

but i enjoyed reading "The Third twin" by Ken Follett, "The discrete Charm of Charlie Monk" and "Mother Of God" by David Ambrose (all thriller), and i also like the novels by Linda Howard or Sandra Brown.

but everybody has his own fancied books Wink

i can only say that i found these really good.

greets
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Emma_kimdinh · Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:57 pm Post subject:

I LOVE reading so much ! My favourite books are "Frindle","Princess Diary","oh,brother","deadly","Joey Pigza loses control","Animorphs"

READING,READING,READING !!!!!!

RedRose · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China

eda · Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 379 Location: Ankara/Turkey

Of course YES!!!!
In fact it is my passion!!

Lately i have read a book.It changed my life dear friends...
It is called "Tutunamayanlar"(The Losers) from a turkish writer Oguz Atay...It has become my all time favourite..
I was also fascinated by "Sofia's World" by Jostein Gaarder.
Also Oscar Wilde,William Shakespeare,Nietzsche,most of russian writers and so.. are my favourites.In fact my list is endless.I do love books,i cant imagine a world without them.

I wanna share some quotes about books with you...greets

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends:
they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors,
and the most patient of teachers.
Charles W. Eliot

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left
I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. Skinner

Fiction is like a spider's web,
attached ever so lightly perhaps,
but still attached to life at all four corners.
Virginia Woolf

Literature is my Utopia.
Helen Keller

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges

T'is true: there's magic in the web of it...
William Shakespeare, Othello Act 3, Scene 4

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln

A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly
fixed and whose top is in the sky.
The Koran
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elba · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 66 Location: mexico

OMG, if I told you all the books I have read in all my life. Since I learn how to read I have had a book into my hands. Before my mother read for me.
I prefer tell you the authors: Homero, Balzac, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Herny Miller, Anais Nin, Simone de Bovoir, Sartre, Gorky, Borges, Saramago, Oriana Fallaci, Carpentier, Cervantes Saavedra, Lilian Helman, Carlos Fuentes, Poniatowka, Garc�a Marquez, and much much much more. Now I�m learning a trilogy of the myths and legends of the King Arthur.
In the same was I have seen too much movies. I think to see a movie is like read a book, you must to finish to see it or to read it.
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RedRose · Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 2735 Location: GuangZhou, China

elba, your mum had read those books for you, she must have been a patient mum Exclamation

Contrary to what your mom did to you, my mom used to force me to read!!! if I didn't read what books she gave me, I would be beaten terribly! By comparison, I prefer your mum's method.

But gratually, I found that reading was very interesting! Finally, I got obsessed with reading. and then my mom demanded me not to read so much! she told me:"don't be geeky! your eyesight is getting worse and worse by reading so much! I don't want you to become a blind girl!"

Sigh! Terrible mom! but I still miss her since I left my hometown to my recent city Crying or Very sad

elba · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 66 Location: mexico

Guau Rose, I don�t know where I read this, but in some book I read that we have to understand us ouorselves to understand the anothers.
I mean, if your mom was hard with you for the pourpose of reading, maybe you was a little lazy, and she wanted you were different.
My mom was so sweet, but I was a very sweet and shy girl, if someone say anything hard to me I used to cry all the day, then she was convinced that I need sweetness, even now I am very fragil I mean my heart broke easyle.
It is good to read, you go into a unknown world and discover lots of things and feelings. Yuo know, I think that all people want, some day in the life, to be a character of a novel.
that�s what I think
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