NamePros Book (Literary) Club

[CoolGuy]

Okay, don't know if this was ever done before but we could try. The people around this community seem to be into this kinda stuff.


So, basically just talk about any books you've read, recommend books and stuff, post writings anything to that matter.


If enough people get into this, maybe we could vote on a book to read every month and discuss.

Always good to try new things




Thanks,
Experimental Madman CoolGuy

 

[Jammer]

I recommend Brand You 50 by Tom Peters...a must read in my opinion.

 

[resellerlogic]

Read some of shakespeares plays or something.

 

[Rob]

Read some of shakespeares plays or something.

:zzz:

 

[resellerlogic]

Hey I thought the old romeo and Juliet movie was pretty good.

 

[Rob]

Hey I thought the old romeo and Juliet movie was pretty good.

:zzz:

 

[resellerlogic]

I personally find reading books pretty boring myself. But I do watch movies that are based on some of these books.

 

[bensontwenty]

You should try http://promo.net/pg/ - it is a collection of free books - all the books that are out of copyright get converted onto here - you can find absolutely everything there and can read a lot of the classics for free as well as download them.

I hve just finished Icon by Frederik Forsyth and it was excellent - well worth a read.

 

[resellerlogic]

Expired books. If they expired they must not be to good or else they would have renewed the copyright. Or maybe just to old.

 

[RJ]

Feel free to re-open this thread ->
http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=7941

 

[ddrassociate]

Just finished "The Lords of Discipline" by Pat Conroy. An excellent well-developed plot, highly recommend it. By the end of the novel, you'll really be into it.

 

[superprogrammer]

:zzz:

LOL.........

come on Rob...
You are from UK

 

[resellerlogic]

Hey superprogrammer I see your account is suspended if you need hosting feel free to buy from me.

 

[Dwayne]

i hate to read, but i'm on the internet 24/7.. and go on forums alot ;\

 

[bensontwenty]

Expired books. If they expired they must not be to good or else they would have renewed the copyright. Or maybe just to old.

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, the complete works of Sherlock Holmes, the Time Machine by H G Wells, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. All of these books are now in the public domain as an author's estate can only keep the copyright for up to 50yrs after their death. Then it is not able to be renewed unless there are extenuating circumstances - the main copyright that was succesfully renewed and that you will all know of was the rights to the original Mickey Mouse which the Disney estate succesfully renewed but I can't remember how they were able to.

 

[yandig]

I just read "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll about a computer hacker in the '80s breaking into to all kinds of government/military computers & how they caught him. It was very interesting, since the internet hadn't become well known yet.
I also recommend "At the back of the North Wind" by George MacDonald & "til we have faces" by C.S. Lewis. 2 great fiction books by renowned Christian authors.

 

[geoffe]

I do not have much time to read with Christmas and final exams to grade...but I have been reading the Complete Calvin and Hobbs....lol

 

[yandig]

I do not have much time to read with Christmas and final exams to grade...but I have been reading the Complete Calvin and Hobbs....lol

Calvin & Hobbs is great. I was so sad when they went away

 

[MissFlora]

I just bought clavin & hobbes book as my younger sister's christmas present about a fortnight ago, very funny comic lol. I just finished reading the book "a house for mr. biswas" by V.S. Nanipaul. It is a highly recommended book, very nice storyline too.

Rob, Hahahaha! Tell me more about your "cloning me" then. *winks* :D

Flora.

 

[Rob]

Rob, Hahahaha! Tell me more about your "cloning me" then. *winks* :D

If I gave information about that, the British Government would make me 'disappear' one night. :o