Forum: Finheaven Reader's Review

I have a hard time choosing between Fitzgerald and Hemingway. They're both amazing but have completely different styles and write about different things. I like the fact that they wrote at the same time and were friends. If I had to pick between the two I'd say, Fitzgerald. My three favorite...

George Orwell "Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me. There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree" "You're only a rebel from the waist downwards," he told her.

http://bookcoverarchive.com/images/books/player_piano.large.jpg Kurt Vonnegut said that the worst thing about America is the saying: If you're so smart why aren't you rich?That phrase (which figures large in the novel PLAYER PIANO) sums up our whole neurotic Calvinist scene. There are good...

Great, great books about one of the more bizarre serial killers in US history, even world history. The movie Zodiac was based off the two books. Just a really fascinating story.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_Cantos After the heavy, funny, and ultimately depressing book The Information by Martin Amis, I decided to read something a little lighter. And so last Tuesday I started reading this book. It consists of both the original Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion....

Alright guys Welcome to the new forum, I'm not quite sold on the name, so offer some suggestions, and we'll pick the best to go up for a vote! That being said, this forum is about books and other things you read, please keep it mature....:tumbleweed:

I have to do a refectionaire on a book that highlights culture, cross-culturalism, multi-culturalism, etc... for a grad class I am in... the professor threw out around 6 suggestions, every one of which I have read (Poisonwood Bible, 1000 Splendid Suns, Kite Runner, Angela's Ashes, etc.)... I want...

"The graveyards of the world," Charles De Gaulle once said, "are filled with indispensable men." The eloquent shrug of Gallic irony aside, the living do walk away, even from the graves of the great and good, and history -- which is life in the aggregate -- simply goes on. Yet it does no justice...

In another thread I rated Amis as my favorite contemporary author. Since I'm back at school and I thoroughly enjoyed Time's Arrow, I decided to give this title a shot. It's hilarious. I'm about 1/3 of the way through, and I know for sure that this book is the best-written profanity-ridden work...

I had a mixed bag, but I mostly stuck with the dystopian themed novels. I read or re-read the following: 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Invisible Man, The Great Gatsby, Race Matters by Cornel West, Democracy Matters by Cornel West, I'm nearly finished with Dreams...

I'm reading this book right now and I have to say that although it is very unconventional in its form, it is a very touching work. I guess they're making a movie out of it. Does anyone know why everything is burning? Did a volcano erupt or something?

..to the deadest section on the 'Heaven! :tumbleweed: Hey! I tried...

Currently reading "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany". Huge World War II History nut - love reading about Ike's boys, the Band of Brothers, etc. This one is really well written; lots of details. Still working on Chapter 2 but I love it already. Gives a very...

Last few books that I've read have been some fairly good ones. For one, the two Wolf of Wall Street books, by Jordan Belfort, which are The Wolf of Wall Street, and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street. These two are two of the most well-written books I've ever read. They're both those types of...

Wound Licker by Jason Johnson I am no reviewer, but the absolute paucity of activity in this section has disappointed me. I want to read your assessments of books, so I will throw my own out there to see if it motivates participants. Wound Licker is the story of a man, Fletcher Fee,...

Anyone read this? I plan on picking it up this weekend FINALLY. It's been out for a while but I hear Colin Cowherd talk about this book all the time on his radio show. I listen to Colin religiously and he has had Malcolm Gladwell on his show a few times recently. ...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Slaughterhousefive.jpg Slaughterhouse-Five by Vonnegut This work is sometimes funny and sometimes disturbing. Vonnegut writes with a tone that is light-hearted. And his repetitive use of the phrase "so it goes" adds a cadence, which basically...