Books & Authors - August 2006

I am reading Beowulf for an English Lit. class. I was wondering what your take on it is (mostly the first 85-100 lines or so....).

2006-08-20 07:52:45 · 20 answers · asked by ♪Meg♪ 2

I saw a tv programme about campus novels a few months ago, and I've since tried Malcolm Bradbury and Evelyn Waugh. Can't remember any others mentioned in the programme.

2006-08-20 07:28:25 · 10 answers · asked by filmwatcher59 4

2006-08-20 07:16:25 · 3 answers · asked by mexican_babiii 1

I listened to Anderson Cooper's narration of his audio book. His delivery is raw and if it is possible to tell the tales of war torn and disaster ridden areas with eloquence, he has done it. He is an awesome storyteller and I look forward to more of his works in the future, whether its books or on CNN. Any thoughts?

2006-08-20 07:03:52 · 1 answers · asked by Annie R 5

I've asked this question so many times and I get good recommendations each time which is great.

I really really like historical fictoin books, especailly good ones about World War II. I also like books like Timline by Michael Crichton and Eragon by Christopher Paolini.

Got any suggestions?!

2006-08-20 06:55:33 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

The novel used to be called "Ten Little Indians." Are there any good teaching kits for this novel?

2006-08-20 06:51:18 · 2 answers · asked by david b 1

Martin and Lucy, remind me of Mohammad ally,
Their fly like butterflies,
And their sting like bees,
And they are very, very sweet little honey bees.

2006-08-20 06:36:42 · 17 answers · asked by pixie007 4

What were your favorite quotes?

2006-08-20 06:10:59 · 4 answers · asked by crazed1511 1

2006-08-20 05:46:40 · 19 answers · asked by burp 1

In the sixth grade, my teacher read us a novel about a teenage girl whose father works for the government and they, along with her brother, are saved when the most of the rest of civilization is wiped out by some sort of carbon-destroying weapon. The first half of the novel deals with the disaster and its aftermath, the second takes place a couple of generations later during the rebuilding of society. I can't remember the title or author for the life of me, and I'm hoping it hasn't gone out of print (I'm a sophomore in college now). Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

2006-08-20 05:24:42 · 7 answers · asked by Sarah 1

2006-08-20 05:19:24 · 11 answers · asked by jacqueline a 1

i read a paperback many years ago about a nuclear war but the story focused on airliners in transit when the bombs start going off around the world. anyone have a clue what it was?

2006-08-20 05:01:33 · 10 answers · asked by tjmc2gc 2

Man works for private school. Man gets fired from private school and goes to work for a prison across the lake. Man's wife dies. Prisoners break lose and wreak havoc on town, killing everyone at the private school and taking control of it.

I read this several years ago and can't remember what book it was.

2006-08-20 05:00:00 · 1 answers · asked by Minion26 2

I have read a few things on the internet saying that maybe Dumbledore didn't really die. That he faked his death. Most people under the killing curse don't die the way he did. They just kind of fall. Dumbledore didn't. And Sirius, will he come back? Or will he somehow communicate with Harry from the dead? I think at least one of them will make an appearance in the last book. Your thoughts?

2006-08-20 04:56:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-08-20 04:55:46 · 3 answers · asked by E-con 1

2006-08-20 04:46:30 · 22 answers · asked by billy b 1

I'm trying to come up with a list of books that other people think everyone MUST read before they die, you know one of those essential books.

It could be either fiction (like The Life of Pi, or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) or non-fiction (like A Brief History of Time or The Origin of Species). BUT I am not considering any holy texts like the Bible or the Koran (I know that any Christian will tell me that one HAS to read the Bible, same with any Muslim and the Koran). I've read the Bible by the way, the Devil did it.

So, name a book that in your opinion everyone should read before they die (the author would be good too).

Thanks!

2006-08-20 04:43:47 · 53 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a confident girl!

2006-08-20 04:31:33 · 8 answers · asked by eva 1

Talked

He talked about me
He loved me
He even liked me

Till one day he stopped
I felt so sorry, i didn't know what to say
What to do.
What more was there left to do or say?
nothing.

1 week passed
i haven't herd from him
I felt like i did something wrong
It was only a joke
He took it seriously

He talked about me all the time
He loved me everyday
He liked my attention, he liked me for me.

Till he couldn't tell me it was annoyance, it really wasn't
i talked to much to him
only because he made me
feel so good, cuz i liked talking
to him

I loved him, I still do.
I liked him, still do i? Yes i do.

Why me? It had to happen to me.
i don't know what to do

He's changed so much
He's lied to my best friend
Did he lie to me?
Maybe

He talked about me
to my best friend
my other friends
even his own.

Does he care anymore?
Does he not?
Im lost and confused
I love him and i know its true
What did i do?
I just played one little joke
I some how hurt his feelings

2006-08-20 04:11:15 · 16 answers · asked by ♥mcmanda♥ 5

2006-08-20 03:59:42 · 1 answers · asked by bram_krist 1

In the books, i think he fancies Ron and Hermione.

2006-08-20 03:51:46 · 37 answers · asked by naughty boy 1

2006-08-20 03:46:55 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

i need some constructive criticism and at the same time to be able too see how different people write outside of books
anyone??

2006-08-20 03:15:58 · 8 answers · asked by la_fille_en_blue 2

I write some articles, nothing too long, nothing too short. and i would like to get some feedback becuz friends dont always say the truth if you know what i mean

2006-08-20 02:52:21 · 4 answers · asked by la_fille_en_blue 2

does anyone actual like them they never shut up and one of my friends caught on fire they were the toys of my child hood yet they sucked !!!

2006-08-20 02:18:07 · 14 answers · asked by hello_o_there_o_bob 3

I like Clive Barker and the kind of horror that he writes. I have not been able to find another author that is similar to him. I like to read horror fantasy, and like Clive Barker's writings, but he has not written anything new in quite a while. So does anyone have any suggestions about new authors. Imajica and Weaveworld by Clive Barker were excellent books.

2006-08-20 01:42:21 · 9 answers · asked by richardeslaughter@ameritech.net 1

I'm looking for some good books where chess plays a major part in the story. Some I've read already are:
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll, Alice goes through the looking glass and becomes a pawn in a chess game,
"The Eight" by Katherine Neville, where the characters are sent on an Indiana Jones-style hunt for a lost jeweled chess set,
and
"The Flanders Panel" by Arturo Perez-Reverte, a murder mystery where the characters are researching a famous painting of a chess game.
Can you suggest any others?

2006-08-20 00:44:52 · 5 answers · asked by BlueManticore 6

in Germany called "Gespräche mit Gott" and what do you think about his theory?

2006-08-20 00:41:21 · 2 answers · asked by ottizuber 5

I have read a lot of literature from the 19th century and virtually all of it, no matter the nationality, is full of digressions as far as its prose is concerned. However, Hugo in Les Miserables seems to do it excessively. Not only do we get a fifty page account of the sunken road in the Battle of Waterloo, a rebellion in adjacent Spain that the French were interested in, a chapter detailing the house Jean Valjean and Cossette lived in when they were running away from the police, but now we need to know every aspect of the history of a specific convent in numerous chapters. What is the purpose of all of this? Hugo even tells the reader to pardon his digressions which is another digression.

2006-08-20 00:39:19 · 2 answers · asked by Steven S 2

Both are man written stories
One I find entertaining as fiction should be the other I find is a brainwashing exercise with a lot of contradictions .Do you think it is wrong for human kind to beleive in something that can neither be proved nor disproved.I expecxt a lot of indignant answers but please try to keep them logical.Have a nice day

2006-08-20 00:06:36 · 10 answers · asked by witchfromoz2003 6