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What is your favorite book and why?
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My faviorate book is the life of pi. I like it because its a very intresting story and it has meanings about religion. I don't usually like reading books but I had to read this book, and I enjoyed reading it. I found it very intresting how Pi practices 3 diffrent religions.
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ReplyDeleteGlad to see you back on the blog! :o)
I am also very happy to see that the summer reading book has become one of your favorites. Have you read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time? The God of Small Things? The Kite Runner? The Power of One? A Short History of Nearly Everything? If you liked The Life of Pi, you might like some of these. I'll keep an eye out for other books you might like as well.
My favorite book is " A first Rate Madness" written by Nassir Ghaemi. Ghaemi is a professor of psychiatry, who proved that several of the greatest political, military, and business leaders of the last two centuries were suffering of depression. I love this book because it talks about madness in important people such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Lincoln. Also, i like this book because it proves Ghaemi's theory through different statements. In conclusion, i believe that the book " A First Rate Madness" is probably one of the possible favorite books in top 10 list.
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If there's one thing that i don't like about the book "Life of Pi" is the protagonist's obsession to just love God through all the different religious perspectives. The only thing i liked about "Life of Pi" is Pi's understanding of Richard Parker's personality through a series of events. Also, through a changing of Pi's character.
My favorite book is a Chinese comic book called "My Way", it is about a girl who went on a journey and the stories happened between her and the people she encountered. I like the book because the language which the writer uses is so beautiful and makes me think about my own life. For example she writes “Behind every smile there is a sad story” , I like her books very much.
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Haha! I have a same feeling just like you, I also found it very interesting how Pi practices 3 religions. I think “The Life of Pi” also can be a survival handbook.
my favourite book is "L?amico ritrovato" by Fred Uhlman. The book is set in nazi germany during the second world war. It talks about a hebrew boy, Hans, that beca friend with the new boy at his school, Konradin. Together they pass a lot of time together until they have a discussion about politics, and Hitler, because Konradin was pro nazism and Hans was hebrew. After that Hans goes to live in America to escape death, and Konradin stays in Germany. After the war ended Hans recieved a letter from his old school with all the names of his companins that died during the war. The last name of the list was Konradin Van Honfels, who was killed beacause he tried to kill Hitler. i prefer this book to the others because it is fluid, and it is very pleasent to read. Another reason why i like this book is for the message: "a true friend will always do everything for you". I could read this bokk over and over again.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book, is my summer reading: “Dear John” written by Nicholas Sparks. It speaks about this guy, who has family’s troubles, that needs a change in his wasted life, so he joins up the military service. During one of his leaves, he meets the girl of his life, his soulmate: Savannah. After two weeks of utter happiness he has to come back, their paths take their own way and after years they will find themselves back togheter. I liked it because it shows how one person could change yourself and how much fate dominates our lives.
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I’ve just seen your book’s description, it interested me a lot and I’d like to read it, because I think that describing what’s going on in such important man’s minds will make us understand what is like to govern a state and how hard it could actually be. So that you could go trough the simple surface and look what’s behind the masks.
My favourite book is "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe". I suppose all of you know this book. It is about two brothers and two sisters that enter a magic wardrobe and enter in another world called Narnia. The major conflict is when the troups of Aslan fight the evil army of the White Which. I reccomend this book to all the people which love fantasy/science fiction books.
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I suppose you would like a book named "The Adventure of Robinson Crusoe". It a very popular book and maybe more interesting than the "Life of Pi" in my opinion.
My favourite book is "The Never Ending Story" because while I read it I felt as if I was looking at the scenes and learning about those different creatures. It is about this boy which stole a book from a library and by reading it he apparently becomes part of the story in first person, he will be the hero.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book is "Animal Farm" written by George Orwell. This was one of the few books I enjoyed reading because it was very simple to read and had a very important significance. Orwell used animals to represent communism in Russia during the 1900's, this tactic fascinated me, and I think many other readers.
ReplyDeletemy favorite book is Holes, by Louis Sachar. I read this book when i only was in 6th grade, but i still remember as it i just read it this summer. Im fascinated by this book's story. Friendship is one of the main themes in this novel, and it is represented in a beautiful way by the author. The stronger friendship is between the two protagonists, Stanley and Zero. Stanley is sent unjustly to an alternative of prison: Camp Green Lake, where there is no lake, but only land. Life there, is really tuff and Stanley has a really hard time in the beginning, until he meets some friend, but especially Zero. The two try to escape from the camp, but fail and returning back to the "camp" they found a treasure that one of Stanley's ancestor owned. Stanley's family becomes extremely rich, and they order camp green lake to close. In the end he all invites his camp friends at his house. The story concludes with a happy ending. In conclusion, another part of the story i appreciated was the use of foreshadowing. I really recommend this book to all readers.
ReplyDeleteto Francesco: i agree while reading the neverending story you really feel part of it!!
ReplyDeleteMy Favorite book is "The Legion of the Immortals". It is about ancient Rome and I like these kind of books. It is about Julius Caesar's Legion which never lost a battle and goes deeply in detail with all the battles and the soldiers fighting them. I also like this book because I learned many things on ancient Rome which I didn't know before. I would suggest this book to people who like history but especially war tactics because most of the book centers on that.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite book is "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring". This book narrates the story of Frodo Baggins that is given the ring with the objective to bring it to mount doom. I like this book because it is a fantasy book so it talks about magic and medieval war. I reccomend this book to all the people that like fantasy and science fiction books.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite book is, ceirtanly, "The Lord Of The Rings" because it is the most fantastic and breathtaking book ever written, to my opinion. The trilogy is divided in three books: "The Fellowship Of The RIng", " The two Towers", "The Return of The King" and a fourth book, "The Hobbit", which is an antefact of the trilogy. I've red the "the Hobbit" and "The Fellowship of the ring" up to now and I am looking forward at reading the last 2. J.R.R. Tolkien, the author of this masterpiece, is very good at describing the settings, the characters and always gives a large description of anything he says, making the reader perfectly understand, and giving a lot of suspense.
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You should know that C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were great friends and when Lewis asked Tolkien to read his: "Chronacles of Narnia" Tolkien said that the setting was too vague and it was difficult for the reader to understand the setting. He told him this because in "The Lord Of The Rings" their are so many maps at the beginning of the book to make the reader understand and take part in the adventure.
I am glad to see there are so many lovers of fantasy out there--particular lovers of Tolkien, whom I personally adore and read over and over again. Did you all know that Tolkien was first, before he was a writer, a linguist? He believed (like us in English B) that language helps to truly create culture. As a result, the different languages that are mentioned in LOTR are actually fully developed languages that he created himself. Fascinating! This year (at some point!) I plan on reading The Silmarillion because that's one Tolkien I have yet to read.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite book is “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” by Jeff Kinney's, i like it because its a very intresting and its a funny book, and i also enjoy the movies of Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
ReplyDeleteYes I am a lover of Tolkien too. I think he invented about 11 languages himself: a genious! I hope we will read The Silmarillion too because other Tolkien fans have talked me well about it, and they said it is a description of the Middle Earth, so important in LOTR.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book is The Catcher in the Rye, written by JD Salinger. is a book about the life of a young boy (HOLDEN) which is at odds with the world and its system according to him wrong. The book fascinated me because surely even if it was written long ago, JD Salinger makes it look contemporary. The book is based on his life and the hatred he feels for what he calls phony adults.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite book without any doubts is Fahrenheit 451, this novel is written by Ray Bradbury. This book is a masterpiece of fiction. The story is about this fireman that lives in a futuristic city, Guy Montag had the job to burn things instead of turning the flames off. In this novel books were considered illegal, but during the novel the protagonist converts and he starts saving some books. This changing of position will cause him a lot of troubles.
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