Guest Quinn Posted April 20, 2020 Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 Which books should people read at least once in their life Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted April 20, 2020 Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 Animal Farm. Shows the current context of Singapore very very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mith Posted April 20, 2020 Report Share Posted April 20, 2020 tolkien's LOTR. BaliBoy79 and Shitson 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1potato2potato Posted April 21, 2020 Report Share Posted April 21, 2020 Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code - really fascinated🤯 by the details he actually put into it, read the book! It beats the film☺️ yuquidam and mith 2 Quote "KNOWLEDGE will be your passport to WHEREVER you want to go in the world." - Marco Pierre White "Taste. Savor. Relish." - Chef Slowik (The Menu, 2022) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doncoin Posted April 21, 2020 Report Share Posted April 21, 2020 The Prince by Machiavelli. 1potato2potato 1 Quote Love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuquidam Posted April 21, 2020 Report Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) 10 hours ago, 1potato2potato said: Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code - really fascinated🤯 by the details he actually put into it, read the book! It beats the film☺️ Oh yeah. I was so taken up by the plot and couldn't put it down. Read through the night too. Read it a second time a year later and was still fascinated by the details that helped glued me thru every chapter. Still have the book with me and think I am going to read it the third time after so many years...haha Edited April 21, 2020 by yuquidam mith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuquidam Posted April 21, 2020 Report Share Posted April 21, 2020 25 minutes ago, doncoin said: The Prince by Machiavelli. Never read this book before though had read the synopsis. Bro, can kindly share what are the views of Niccolo in your opinion could still be of important relevance for politicians in present times when the world seems to be fraught with conflicts, and with the potential of a catastrophic WW3? Thks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neh Neh Posted April 21, 2020 Report Share Posted April 21, 2020 The Magic of Thinking BIG by David Schwartz, PhD 金庸 《神雕侠女》 Lord of The Rings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Cute Posted April 21, 2020 Report Share Posted April 21, 2020 On 4/21/2020 at 6:49 AM, Guest Quinn said: Which books should people read at least once in their life Facebook Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest Guest 2 Posted April 22, 2020 Report Share Posted April 22, 2020 17 hours ago, Guest Neh Neh said: The Magic of Thinking BIG by David Schwartz, PhD 金庸 《神雕侠女》 Lord of The Rings 神雕侠女 LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doncoin Posted April 22, 2020 Report Share Posted April 22, 2020 On 4/21/2020 at 12:01 PM, yuquidam said: Never read this book before though had read the synopsis. Bro, can kindly share what are the views of Niccolo in your opinion could still be of important relevance for politicians in present times when the world seems to be fraught with conflicts, and with the potential of a catastrophic WW3? Thks Some of the stuff is a little outdated when i last read the book. But it is a good lesson in leadership. I think what is dangerous is the lack of checks and balances in any political system. yuquidam 1 Quote Love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HC-B Posted April 22, 2020 Report Share Posted April 22, 2020 (edited) There are too many! Let’s see, where to begin: To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Road - Cormac McCarthy Lullaby - Leïla Slimani Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood The Constant Gardener - John Le Carré Beloved - Toni Morrison The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje The Harry Potter series - JK Rowling Atonement - Ian McEwan Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro Edited April 22, 2020 by HC-B mith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repressednerd Posted April 23, 2020 Report Share Posted April 23, 2020 This one perhaps? https://www.amazon.com/Backstabbing-Beginners-Course-International-Diplomacy/dp/1568588623/ref=dp_ob_title_bk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuquidam Posted April 24, 2020 Report Share Posted April 24, 2020 On 4/23/2020 at 3:43 AM, doncoin said: Some of the stuff is a little outdated when i last read the book. But it is a good lesson in leadership. I think what is dangerous is the lack of checks and balances in any political system. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 2eyes+ Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 Three Body Problem, Liu Cixin Either in original Chinese or excellent English translation. Changed my perception of super intelligence and what people might be thinking in modern China and how that will impact our real world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benedict5856 Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 The bible. FINISH EVERY PAGE. hahahhaaa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suckmegood Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 A Boy Call It Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Slut Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 "the 7 habits of highly effective sucker" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilfgene Posted April 26, 2020 Report Share Posted April 26, 2020 2 hours ago, benedict5856 said: The bible. FINISH EVERY PAGE. hahahhaaa And I am the page between the Old and New Testament. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adeledazeem Posted April 30, 2020 Report Share Posted April 30, 2020 Pachinko - Min Jin Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Neh Neh Posted April 30, 2020 Report Share Posted April 30, 2020 西游记 (Journey To The West). You will be surprised to know there were so many 妖 demons in the west Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny_B Posted April 30, 2020 Report Share Posted April 30, 2020 On 4/26/2020 at 9:06 PM, suckmegood said: A Boy Call It Loved this book! I read the trilogy and it was gut wrenching. Also recommend Alan Cumming's Tommy's Tale. suckmegood 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverletmego Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse was pretty memorable for me. Lots of deep meaningful life lessons even if you look past the religious context. Peculiar Chris? Haha pretty significant work in my coming of age experience. Took me a lot of courage to read this in the open at the library even though nobody probably cared. 😂 mith 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A350-900ULR Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul — Deepak Chopra The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything — James Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted May 1, 2020 Report Share Posted May 1, 2020 Don’t stop believing ~ Memoirs of Olivia Newton-John , a three time cancer thriver , an amazing lady with amazing real life story ! Every charter is headlined with one of her song title appropriately . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Books! Posted May 2, 2020 Report Share Posted May 2, 2020 I actually can't hold down to any book. Often will fall into sleep within the first chapter over many books: be it Inspirational, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Biography, education books..etc The only book that I could hold on thoroughly throughout the night, not falling into sleep and still able to finish it within a single volume, thick fiction is Lord of the Ring which prompted me to collect all of Tolkien's books (The Silmarillion, The Fall of Gondolin, The Hobbit, The Children of Hurin...etc) In fact, I read LOTR three times until the books was worn out and still never seems to get tired of it. I was very much amazed at Tolkien's style of writing - very rich, meticulous and without having to cut corner. Suprisingly, an adult friend of mine who was an MBA and a professional couldn't quite grasp Tolkien's writings. I guess, it depends on individual's thinking wave. Not everyone think alike, and I admit I am not a fan of Harry Potter or Stephen Kings books which was written for the sake of writing fictions and wasn't quite impressed with their writing skills. I prefer something much deeper, provocative, at times funny and relatable to our everyday life experience. I have Chemistry with Tolkien's thinking process and gained tremendously from his experience, through his books. Someday I might just replace those paper back with hard-cover if the price comes down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mith Posted May 2, 2020 Report Share Posted May 2, 2020 10 minutes ago, Guest Books! said: I actually can't hold down to any book. Often will fall into sleep within the first chapter over many books: be it Inspirational, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Biography, education books..etc The only book that I could hold on thoroughly throughout the night, not falling into sleep and still able to finish it within a single volume, thick fiction is Lord of the Ring which prompted me to collect all of Tolkien's books (The Silmarillion, The Fall of Gondolin, The Hobbit, The Children of Hurin...etc) In fact, I read LOTR three times until the books was worn out and still never seems to get tired of it. I was very much amazed at Tolkien's style of writing - very rich, meticulous and without having to cut corner. Suprisingly, an adult friend of mine who was an MBA and a professional couldn't quite grasp Tolkien's writings. I guess, it depends on individual's thinking wave. Not everyone think alike, and I admit I am not a fan of Harry Potter or Stephen Kings books which was written for the sake of writing fictions and wasn't quite impressed with their writing skills. I prefer something much deeper, provocative, at times funny and relatable to our everyday life experience. I have Chemistry with Tolkien's thinking process and gained tremendously from his experience, through his books. Someday I might just replace those paper back with hard-cover if the price comes down. you cant hold down any books but you finish tolkien LOTR, 3 times! you are very very powerful already... hahahaha i read LOTR 4 times, and im still reading it. its so deep both action, and history... really really enduring book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Books! Posted May 2, 2020 Report Share Posted May 2, 2020 13 hours ago, mith said: you cant hold down any books but you finish tolkien LOTR, 3 times! you are very very powerful already... hahahaha i read LOTR 4 times, and im still reading it. its so deep both action, and history... really really enduring book! Yes, Yes!! If you read the book till the very end - after Frodo has been shipped to the gray Haven. You also get bonus glimse on the ultimate fate of Sam, Aragon, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin, Merry, Arwen, Eomer, in bit and pieces,which Tolkien wasn't able to finish in his later years. You also need to read his other books (The Silmarillion), to understand how those elves came into existence, who is Gandalf, Sauron, Galadriel, Tom Bombadil, the Giant Spider, the Balrog...etc. I particularly like the story the children of Hurin (sad ending) and Beren & Luthien (sad love story between two different elves). The unfinished Tales, and The Hobbit, were a starter before LOTR stories began. These books are now on my wish list for hardcover copy and then get placed on bookends made of Argonath statue or Desolution of Smaug Statue Those on paper back were worn out and discarded after reading several times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mith Posted May 3, 2020 Report Share Posted May 3, 2020 On 5/2/2020 at 10:26 PM, Guest Books! said: Yes, Yes!! If you read the book till the very end - after Frodo has been shipped to the gray Haven. You also get bonus glimse on the ultimate fate of Sam, Aragon, Gimli, Legolas, Pippin, Merry, Arwen, Eomer, in bit and pieces,which Tolkien wasn't able to finish in his later years. You also need to read his other books (The Silmarillion), to understand how those elves came into existence, who is Gandalf, Sauron, Galadriel, Tom Bombadil, the Giant Spider, the Balrog...etc. I particularly like the story the children of Hurin (sad ending) and Beren & Luthien (sad love story between two different elves). The unfinished Tales, and The Hobbit, were a starter before LOTR stories began. These books are now on my wish list for hardcover copy and then get placed on bookends made of Argonath statue or Desolution of Smaug Statue Those on paper back were worn out and discarded after reading several times. yes yes yes... those parts are bittersweet! tolkien's work on middle earth is indeed very enduring, one could spend a lifetime reading them! now u mentioned harcovers copies..... i really regretted when mph closed down last year, the children of hurin and beren&luthien, both hardcover, new and factory wrapped, going for $4 and i didn't buy them!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Books! Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 2 hours ago, mith said: yes yes yes... those parts are bittersweet! tolkien's work on middle earth is indeed very enduring, one could spend a lifetime reading them! now u mentioned harcovers copies..... i really regretted when mph closed down last year, the children of hurin and beren&luthien, both hardcover, new and factory wrapped, going for $4 and i didn't buy them!!!!!!!!!!!! MPH closed? $4 for each hardcover?? I would have camped outside the shop for a night, if I knew they were clearing at that price!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest InBangkok Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 Gay guys should definitely read at least one of the factual books about the HIV-AIDS crisis in the 1980s. And the Band Played On by San Francisco journalist Randy Shilts is an excellent read - far better than the TV series made from it. More recent discoveries do not take away from the impact of the book. Sadly Shilts himself did of AIDS. My list of other great reads - The Goldfinch by Donna Tart. A recent novel about the adventures of a small painting and the young boy who steals it. A story of deep love, loss of a loved one in a terrible crime, betrayal and double dealing. Story telling at its finest. Endurance by Caroline Alexander - an account of Ernest Shackleton's superhuman efforts a century ago to rescue his crew after their ship got trapped in Antarctic ice and eventually sank. Arguably the greatest act of personal heroism of the 20th century. Birdsong, the first novel by Sebastian Faulks - a superbly written intense love story set before and during World War 1 A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, a long fascinating book about an Indian mother's attempts to find a husband for her daughter Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia by William Shawcross. This was one of the first books to reveal the USA's secret undeclared war in Cambodia and the resultant genocide of the Khmer Rouge regime, a hugely moving and damning indictment of people in power. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. The only book I read cover to cover in one sitting! Once again the movie was a pale version of the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mith Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 21 hours ago, Guest Books! said: MPH closed? $4 for each hardcover?? I would have camped outside the shop for a night, if I knew they were clearing at that price!!! singapore MPH has official closed island wide. worst is i was there and i even held the 2 books in my hands, but i didn't purchase them in the end. ... aiyaya! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mith Posted May 4, 2020 Report Share Posted May 4, 2020 21 hours ago, Guest InBangkok said: Gay guys should definitely read at least one of the factual books about the HIV-AIDS crisis in the 1980s. And the Band Played On by San Francisco journalist Randy Shilts is an excellent read - far better than the TV series made from it. More recent discoveries do not take away from the impact of the book. Sadly Shilts himself did of AIDS. My list of other great reads - The Goldfinch by Donna Tart. A recent novel about the adventures of a small painting and the young boy who steals it. A story of deep love, loss of a loved one in a terrible crime, betrayal and double dealing. Story telling at its finest. Endurance by Caroline Alexander - an account of Ernest Shackleton's superhuman efforts a century ago to rescue his crew after their ship got trapped in Antarctic ice and eventually sank. Arguably the greatest act of personal heroism of the 20th century. Birdsong, the first novel by Sebastian Faulks - a superbly written intense love story set before and during World War 1 A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, a long fascinating book about an Indian mother's attempts to find a husband for her daughter Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia by William Shawcross. This was one of the first books to reveal the USA's secret undeclared war in Cambodia and the resultant genocide of the Khmer Rouge regime, a hugely moving and damning indictment of people in power. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth. The only book I read cover to cover in one sitting! Once again the movie was a pale version of the book. i grew in 80s, very intense period for Gay people, i read THE NORMAL HEART by Larry Kramer a few times... watched AND THE BAND PLAYED ON too. now you mentioned it, must get my hand on the book! must get my hand on shawcross's book too. as i found out more about nixon over the years, my 'puke' intensity increases...a damn ugly person, inside and out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest InBangkok Posted May 5, 2020 Report Share Posted May 5, 2020 2 hours ago, mith said: i grew in 80s, very intense period for Gay people, i read THE NORMAL HEART by Larry Kramer a few times... watched AND THE BAND PLAYED ON too. now you mentioned it, must get my hand on the book! With a quarter century of HIV treatments, in talking to younger guys I am always amazed that so few are really aware of what gay men (and haemophiliacs and some others) went through in the period from roughly 1980 to 1993 - the fear that the cute guy you just had sex with might be infected and have passed the HIV virus to you. If so, both of you would suffer dreadfully, perhaps for more than a year, and then die. Quote “There were 15 dreadful years of unmitigated death – 15 years! – before treatments finally became available to make an HIV infection survivable. I spent those years in brutal terror, flat-out convinced I would be one of the dead." There is an article in today's edition of the British newspaper The Guardian about how gay men who lived through the early years of the AIDS pandemic can teach the world how to survive the coronavirus. Although a blood test was developed in mid-1985, if you tested positive, you died. Life for gay men was as simple and dreadful as that. It was not for another seven years before the first drugs were developed that could control the virus. By then, millions around the world were infected. Ironically, AZT was not a new drug. It had been developed years earlier as a treatment for cancer. When first introduced, gay men had to take four or more pills every 6 hours or so, and there were considerable side effects including nausea, headaches, loss of appetite and more. Now one daily pill with no side effects controls the HIV virus very effectively. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/04/hiv-teach-us-to-survive-coronavirus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Curious Posted July 26, 2021 Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 anything from Jane Austen will bring out the cultivated snot in you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve5380 Posted July 26, 2021 Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 - Books make good presents. Why don't you give a book to your sister for her birthday? - Why? She already has one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auscent Posted July 26, 2021 Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 Diplomacy. Henry Kissinger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Alexis Carrington. Posted July 26, 2021 Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 The 4 gospel books but exclude the old testaments, and the other books , and especially the very last book. The one that title begins with R. 4 GOSPEL is about love, love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gossipel Posted July 26, 2021 Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 17 minutes ago, Guest Alexis Carrington. said: The 4 gospel books but exclude the old testaments, and the other books , and especially the very last book. The one that title begins with R. 4 GOSPEL is about love, love. 1 Gospel is good enough. From John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightsmith32 Posted July 26, 2021 Report Share Posted July 26, 2021 Cant think 1 read but there are a few that have left an impression: 1. Mahabharata 2. Art of War 3. Da vinci code 4. Lord of the rings 5. Rumi: Book of love 6. Animal Farm 7. Alice in Wonderland 8. Harry Potter Series 9. All quiet in the western front 10. Windup bird chronicles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest CHER Posted July 28, 2021 Report Share Posted July 28, 2021 The English Roses by Madonna. Madonna wrote a children 's book preaching about morality and kindness. The Brits were not too pleased that a woman who came out with an explicit coffee table book named X , Should be reaching out to tween girls about how to behave. Read it for yourselves and see why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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