Description : If you could read one biography, autobiography or memoir from a person who is deceased, and one from a person currently living, which two (one from each category) would you read and why?
Last Answer : answer:Deceased——Ozu Yasujiro. Living——Setsuko Hara.
Description : What would be the title for your autobiography?
Last Answer : “The Autobiography of Grisson”
Description : how is an autobiography, such as a white house diary, different from a biography? -General Knowledge
Last Answer : An autobiography, such as a White House diary, is different from a biography in that: It tells about the writer's life.
Description : Can anyone recommend some good fiction novels?
Last Answer : Rather pedestrian, but how about The Road ?
Description : Can anyone recommend a good book?
Last Answer : I just finished reading Remainder by Tom McCarthy. It was really compelling – strange, but very interesting.
Description : Would you recommend a book to me?
Last Answer : answer:My name is Red by Orhan Pamuk The Hunchback of Notre Dome by Victor Hugo Antigone by Sophocles The Scaffold by Chinghiz Aitmatov Perfume by Patrick Suskind Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor ... The Divine Comedy by Dante Many more, but not sure if there is English translation online.
Description : Could you recommend a good space travel / science fiction novel?
Last Answer : Anything by Larry Niven.
Description : Fluther history buffs, can you recommend a good book with an overview of World War I?
Last Answer : Check out “The Origins of the First World War,” by James Joll.
Description : Can you recommend me an easy, gripping book?
Last Answer : The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Description : Can you recommend some mystery books?
Last Answer : answer:Donald Westlake was one of my favorite authors years and years ago. I still recall a line in one of his stories where he talked about how the police department of a particular area had always ... mystery writers around, and your aunt may not have read them all yet. (She was very prolific.)
Description : Can you recommend some good, intense, fast-paced books that allow for an escape from reality?
Last Answer : If you haven’t read them yet, try Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its two sequels. Once I got into the books, they were hard to put down.
Description : What books would you recommend, at this moment?
Last Answer : How To answer Questions Better by I.M.Mature
Description : Can you recommend books (fiction) that are based around the lives of Circus entertainers?
Last Answer : The Circus in Winter.
Description : Regarding gender and queer studies, what readings would you recommend?
Last Answer : A Place at the Table is an excellent book to start with.
Description : Can you recommend some good lesbian fiction? see details...
Last Answer : This could be great blog idea because I like to write fiction at times… I wish I could help, you mean like a day long seduction between a couple? Almost sounds like me and the wife several times a week!
Description : Have you read War and Peace? Would you recommend it?
Last Answer : Not exactly what you're looking for, but I want to give you my two cents. Its next on my list after I finish Anna Karenina (more than half way through!). War and Peace is much different, but ... crowning glory, so it must be worth a read, especially if you find yourself drawn to Russian lit, right?
Description : Not knowing anything about Dean Koontz, which book do you recommend I read?
Last Answer : He writes thrillers, and what you do is close your eyes and point.
Description : Which chuck palahniuk book would you recommend I read first?
Last Answer : Survivor all the way. It’s awesome and a quick read. I also liked fight club (the movie). I haven’t read the book yet but I heard it’s a little different from the movie. I plan to read Choke before the movie comes out too.
Description : Will you recommend some books to me (and each other)?
Last Answer : Try some of these
Description : Can you recommend a good book?
Last Answer : Geek Love by Katherine Dunne, maybe?
Description : Can you recommend some wholesome gay fiction?
Last Answer : Mary Renault, The Charioteer and The Last of the Wine.
Description : Can anyone recommend a good autobiography (or two) by jewish authors that survived the Holocaust?
Last Answer : There’s Elie Wiesel’s Night.
Description : Is anyone else from Fluther on Goodreads?
Last Answer : I have one, rarely used it. I never liked the layout and it didn't make much sense to me. I tracked what books I read/wanted to read and that was it. Never did anything else and barely kept up with ... books I suppose. I just don't prefer the site. (I go to goodwill and buy 3 million books instead)
Description : Anyone read the book "The Lilac Girls" and what did you think?
Last Answer : I only read about half of it but then I’ve read and known a lot about the Holocaust.
Description : Anyone else noticed the plot similarities between the Eldest trilogy and Star Wars?
Last Answer : answer:You mean Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle? I kind of want to read it, but at the same time I feel like I should’ve read it when I was 13 and now it’s too late :P Almost every review I’ve read says something about it being a rip-off of other, better fantasy, including Star Wars.
Description : Does anyone know where to start in either Star Trek or Star War's Book series?
Last Answer : Hey Bro I just asked the same question on one of my post no one answered yet but hopefully this will get us both an answer. I've been wanting to read these books for a while now. By the way we should ... is not like you live that far away. Call me this week, and we will have a cook out or something.
Description : Have your reading habits or those of anyone you know been changed--or created--as a result of the Harry Potter books?
Last Answer : Nope. My sisters both read the books, they enjoyed them. I never touched them. I don’t like fiction. I don’t know anyone that started reading just to read the series, and I don’t know anyone that read them that wouldn’t normally care to read that sort of thing. I think that’s what you’re asking.
Description : Hey, just bought an I-Pad and suddenly I love reading again. Anyone have a book that really touched you or really made you think? (don't want to waste my battery on junk)
Last Answer : answer:Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. I read it wondering, “How did this man pull through and survive the horrors of Auschwitz? What can I learn from him?
Description : Anyone own or have used the Amazon Kindle?
Last Answer : answer:I have one and I absolutely love it. I do miss the tactile experience of books from time to time, but I no longer carry paper books when I'm travelling. It's harder to thumb through and find ... ), but for reading to pass time and immerse yourself in the world of a book it's pretty great.
Description : Has anyone read "The Slap" by Christos Tsiolkas?
Last Answer : I haven’t read it. =[ I’m not sure I’ve even seen it. Can you type out the synopsis/summary from the cover? If it sounds interesting I might get it. I need a new book.
Description : Does anyone have any tips on remembering lines in movies and/or tv shows?
Last Answer : I annoy my family with that. My kids are constantly trying to figure out which movie I am noting.
Description : Anyone ever read the short story "The Rocking- Horse Winner" by D.H. Lawrence. If yes, What movie does it remind you of?
Last Answer : I just had to read that for English Class. I hate the class but I REALLY liked that story for some weird dark reason. I can’t think of any movies similar to the story but I would like to see one made.
Description : Anyone read "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" by Marisha Pessl?
Last Answer : I read it and really enjoyed. I definitely took a while to hook me in, so I suspect you never made it past the tipping point. I remember enjoying the self-aware narrative style, and the overall vibe of ... : yes, tons of exciting stuff happens later on. I found the second half hard to put down.
Description : Has anyone here read Alice in Wonderland recently?
Last Answer : I have massive book thats a compilation of Lewis Carrolls work, i LOVE it.
Description : Anyone part of a book group?
Last Answer : Never been in one, but they sound fun. I think you could just wing something like that. You know, just discussions about symbolism and each person's opinion about the entire book? Maybe each ... in college and we read 10 different Sports novels, that was one of my favorite classes in college
Description : Anyone read 'Until I find You' by John Irving? No spoilers given and none expected please...
Last Answer : No, but I have enjoyed other books by him. Sounds awfully long through.
Description : If, you killed a person would you tell anyone?
Last Answer : No, once is enough. It’s been over twenty years, and I still don’t talk about it. As far as what I did next, I cleaned my gun.
Description : Does anyone know of any good comics/manga about magic?
Last Answer : Fruits Basket has people turning into zodiac animals. It’s the only manga I’ve ever read, and I liked it.
Description : Summer reading recommendations...anyone, anyone?
Last Answer : Here is the same question asked very recently.
Description : When a memoir is published, do the names of the real people within it have to be changed or can they remain?
Last Answer : It seems to depend on a few factors. Like is the person previously unknown, or already sort of famous? If you're a former president publishing a memoir, you can't really change the name of your chief ... want an alias or not. The rest, you probably change because it's easier for everyone that way.
Description : A good book in the memoir genre?
Last Answer : answer:Go Ask Alice was a fiction piece. Anything by Charles Bukowski except for Pulp. Post Office is the best one from him I’ve read so far.
Description : What is the best 300+ memoir you have ever read?
Last Answer : GQ.
Description : Will you tell me your 6 word memoir on love and life?
Last Answer : Live, Love, Love some more, Die.
Description : If you were to write your memoir but it could only contain 6 words, what would it say?
Last Answer : My memoir is very hard work.
Description : help - what was Pablo Neruda's line in his memoir about the poem he wrote for Garcia Lorca?
Last Answer : I would go to librarything.com and ask the users there.
Description : What is your own six-word memoir?
Last Answer : Tried my best, with mixed results.
Description : Is there a different in exposing details from your life on a blog or doing so in a memoir?
Last Answer : answer:Well, one difference is that unless you are famous, a fabulous writer, or have led an incredibly interesting life (other than in your own mind), you won't be publishing a ... reflection and goes through several more different reviews and edits and time for reconsideration than blog entries.
Description : Who is the author of the book "Hemant Karkare: A Daughter’s Memoir" ? -General Knowledge
Last Answer : Hemant Karkare's daughter Jui Karkare
Description : Would a memoir be considered a nonfiction book?
Last Answer : Yes, a memoir is a historical account or biography written frompersonal knowledge, so it should be non fiction/true
Description : What advice do authors give about writing a good memoir?
Last Answer : Need answer