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How about english ones??
books, novels, articles etc...
oldies n latest...

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DanaScully

Introduction

The mythic village of Macondo lies in northern Colombia, somewhere in the great swamps between the mountains and the coast. Founded by Jose Arcadio Buendia, his wife Ursula, and nineteen other families, "It was a truly happy village where no one was over thirty years of age and where no one had died." At least initially.

One Hundred Years of Solitude chronicles, through the course of a century, life in Macondo and the lives of six Buendia generations -- from Jose Arcadio and Ursula, through their son, Colonel Aureliano Buendia (who commands numerous revolutions and fathers eighteen additional Aurelianos), through three additional Jose Arcadios, through Remedios the Beauty and Renata Remedios, to the final Aureliano, child of an incestuous union.

As babies are born and the world's "great inventions" are introduced into Macondo, the village grows and becomes more and more subject to the workings of the outside world, to its politics and progress, and to history itself. And the Buendias and their fellow Macondons advance in years, experience, and wealth ... until madness, corruption, and death enter their homes.

From the gypsies who visit Macondo during its earliest years to the gringos who build the banana plantation, from the "enormous Spanish galleon" discovered far from the sea to the arrival of the railroad, electricity, and the telephone, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's classic novel weaves a magical tapestry of the everyday and the fantastic, the humdrum and the miraculous, life and death, tragedy and comedy -- a tapestry in which the noble, the ridiculous, the beautiful, and the tawdry all contribute to an astounding vision of human life and death, a full measure of humankind's inescapable potential and reality.

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DanaScully

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi - a 16-year-old Indian boy.The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary pieces of literary fiction of recent years.

Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound readers in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God.



Reviews:

An inventive, shocking and ultimately uplifting story." Daily Mail

"Yann Martel is a vivid and entrancing story-teller." "An inventive, shocking and ultimately uplifting story." Sunday Telegraph

"Martel's witty and wise novel, with its echo of William Golding's Pincher Martin, has a teasing plausibility about it that taps into our desire for extraordinary stories that just might be true." Metro

"In its subject and its style, this enormously lovable novel is suffused with wonder . . . this is fiction probing the imaginative realm with scientific exactitude, twisting reality to 'bring out its essence'." Guardian

"This exceptional, understated novel . . . would not be out of place on the Booker shortlist." Bookseller

"Impressive enough to make you, as the old man said, believe in God . . . Martel has hit on a marvellous notion and revels in elaborating it." The Scotsman

"Every page offers something of tension, humanity, surprise, or even ecstasy." The Times

"Absurd, macabre, unreliable and sad, deeply sensual in its evoking of smells and sights, the whole trip and the narrator's insanely curious voice (which evokes an intellectual humming-bird compelled to sip deep from every possible blossom) suggests Joseph Conrad and Salman Rushdie hallucinating together over the meaning of The Old Man and the Sea and Gulliver's Travels." Financial Times

DanaScully

Midnight's Children is Rushdie at his finest. The book is surrealist fiction that deals with the history of India from 1910 to the declaration of the emergency in 1976 through the eyes (and nose) of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of Midnight August 15, 1947.

Midnight's Children, like most of Rushdie's writing, does have political overtones, yet the fog of larger events is never permitted to detract from the more personal experiences of all the multi-faceted characters in the novel.

This is perhaps why this form of "magical realism" is so effective in a novel that is at once the history of a sub-continent, the story of a boy's coming to age, the saga of a family and the off-key liberation-song of a people.

mok_nik

90% koleksi buku kat mini library rumah kami ialah buku2 english. tapi sekarang nie mok nik banyak beli buku2 berkaitan parenting dah,sebab dah ada anak. Nie baru beli minggu lepas...

1- Childhood songs
Lucy Larcom

2- Positive Deviance in Child Nutrition World Health
Marian Zeitlin, Hossein Ghassemi & Mohamed Mansour

seribulan

Originally posted by DanaScully at 15/9/04 02:33 AM:

Introduction

The mythic village of Macondo lies in northern Colombia, somewher ...

:hmm: there was a controversy when Marquez sold the right of one of his novel to be made into film....

OnEdge

nak rekemen baca:

Haroun And The Sea Of Stories - Salman Rushdie

Adrian Mole series - Sue Townsend

Discworld Series - Terry Pratchett

hirai_saza

THE MALAY DILEMMA
The Malay Dilemma is a controversial book written by Mahathir bin Mohamad in 1970.

At the time of publication, Mahathir had been expelled from the ruling party UMNO and Malaysia had recently been rocked by the racial riots later known as the May 13th Incident. The book analyzes Malaysian history and politics in terms of race, and posits the following basic positions:

The Malay race are the indigenous people (bumiputras) of Malaysia.
The sole national language is the Malay language and all other races are to learn it.
The tolerance and non-confrontational nature of the Malays has allowed them to be subjugated in their own land by the other races with the collusion of the British.
A program of affirmative action is required to correct Chinese hegemony in business.
The "dilemma", thus, was whether Malays should accept this governmental aid -- and Mahathir's position was that they should.

Prone to sweeping statements about other races, such as describing Jews as "hook-nosed", the book entrenched Mahathir's image as a Malay ultra and has been even compared to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. However, it is worth noting that Mahathir also dissects the multiple failings of his own race, and the book was intended as a solution leading away from violence towards a harmonious, integrated Malaysia (albeit one where political and economic power is firmly concentrated in the hands of the Malays).

Readmitted to UMNO in 1972 and becoming Prime Minister in 1981, most of the policies suggested in the book were indeed adopted by the Malaysian government. The dilemma was revisited in 2000-2002 by Mahathir and his successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who now argued that Malays were well on the way to catching up, and that they should now be weaned away from the "crutches" that had allowed them to compete.

sebab nak baca buku nih..carik merata2..kat kedai buku..lam internet..
last2 ader jumpa kat kedai buku lam airport Changi,Singapore

gorgonz

salman rushdie - midnight chldren nin ada link kat ebooks
        link -- ebook Rushdie

novel The Return by K.S. Maniam tue masyuk gak..
aku bace time aku sec.skool lue..
wakaakakaka
pis..

OnEdge

try la juga

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love In The Time Of Cholera

Michael Oondatje's English Patient

Sophie's World (tak ingat author la)

Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

Neil Gaiman's Stardust (?) tak ingat the title

deaf4ever

Aku cuma tertarik baca, kalo english dia simple je...

jadi ni ah dari pengalaman sendiri...

buku budak2 - karya tulisan Judy Blume

buku horror - karya tulisan awal Stephen King sampai era The Stand. ( lepas tu dah start merapek Stephen King ni ).

buku horror tapi sadis dan geng jahat selalu menang - karya tulisan Richard Laymon

buku2 tulisan perang dan keganasan - karya awal Tom Clancy sampai era Clear and Present Danger ( lepas tu dia pun cam Stephen King, dah start merapek ).

dah tu je ah...ngan komiks Asterix hehehee.

LoLiPoP

All books by :

Judith McNaught
Sidney Sheldon
Jackie Collins (ni content may be too extreme for kids laa)
Nora Roberts (my personal favourite)

Other genres :

Liberal Views (?) by Marina Mahathir
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

tulip

Read & own :ah:

Can u keep a secret? Sophie Kinsella (very interesting plot.. really really like it.. heheh )

yang lain2 tu tak ingat title. post later ...

ingat nak letak kat topic tig..tenyeh sini ajer laa

The Botany of Desire: A plant's-eye view of the world



Synopsis:
Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers

fly_in_d_sky

takde sapa nak rekemen cite Enid Blytons ker ...?
suka sgt baca cite dari Enid especially yg investigators .......
leh baca 2-3 kali ... seronok .....

buku ada byk lum terbaca, beli rajin .....
ntah biler nak abis baca tak tau ler?
maybe time puasa nanti nak abiskan baca buku cite lah ....

korang pernah try michael chriton...
citer dier best gak...
aku sker citer..
Death Eater..
Disclosure...
Jurassic Park..
n da Sphere..
lame tak jumper buku br...

azaleena

haaa ... sapa2 yg lahir in early 70s & before mesti ingat cite ni kat tv "LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE"

buku ni available kat MPH in 9 series.

Cite pasal family yg moved to Prairie & suka-duka kehidupan esp mula2 nak bercucuk tanam & gangguan red indian. Starts dari Laura kecil sampai la dia berkahwin & ada anak. It is based on the true story.

Baca buku ni, u tak leh stop. I bought all 9 series & baca one after another ..

db10

has anyone read bourne lagacy by eric van lustbader? dah ada kat m'sia ke belum?

LoLiPoP

Barbara Taylor Bradford?

Style dia very narrative...she presents the story from her own point of view.
Boleh try baca Everything to Gain atau A Secret Affair