     Basra | Friday, October 27, 2000 - 05:29 pm
No comments. No opinions. Just the name of the book and why you think its great! PLEASE!..looool |
| Basra | Friday, October 27, 2000 - 05:34 pm
looool ok maybe opinions.....but strictly restricted to the book you are sharing.If you dont read books. SMILE * looool
bye.lol |
| laZy | Friday, October 27, 2000 - 07:22 pm
Hey basra,
I wait till the movie comes out does that count?
if not sorry!
If yes "The Firm"
peace from an educated but lazy Brother |
| T-GIRL | Friday, October 27, 2000 - 08:34 pm
Go Oprah......LOL
Hey my favourite book was "The Giant Within" by Tony Robinson. That book inspires me to great heights and I hope U can find the passion I found in it girl.
PEACE
Trouble
PS:- BASRA.....This is not fair .....What was your book?????? |
| Laa0098 | Friday, October 27, 2000 - 08:55 pm
I really like this book, it changed my whole life and it left me with a good memory in my childhood and I admire it as I read it almost everyday. I think it'll be good idea if you give it a SHOT. It's the QURAAAAAAAAN. It's been very beneficiary for me and i hope it'll be for u as well. |
| Ice-Man | Friday, October 27, 2000 - 10:10 pm
Well Said Laa 0098, Me too I love Qura'an very much, but what made amaze here is when people say Toni Morrison or Tony Robinson who eve they are inspired them, rather then the Word off Allah The true religion Islam,
I hate people who imitate other people their evil acts like here "Oprah Book Club" nonsense
later |
| Anonymous | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 05:07 am
Should we really only be inspired from One book?
I read the Quran, it's my favourite #1 book.But i dolet my self get inspired as well reading other books. |
| hebel | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 05:37 am
Anyone knows where the Bathroom is? |
| Africanii | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 06:32 am
Why bring religion into a general discussion. The girls are talking about other books that have inspired them.
TI GIRL: A good book to read WHEN THINGS FALL APART by chinua Achebe, an african writer. |
| amal | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 09:19 am
The book i thought was great to me was Bridget jones diary by helen fielding.From,fears,love,triumph,joy,sad and life. |
| GhettoGirl | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 09:44 am
The book that really caught my eye was the POKEMON pop up book it really brought a tear to my eye. The part I liked the most was when POKEMON got reunited with his family in the end. n e ways peace out y'all |
| Reader | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 09:45 am
If tomorrow comes by Sydney sheldon! One word .BRILLIANT! |
| Anonymous | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 09:55 am
My book is 'When we were orphans'.Here is a review from amazon.com.Having been an Orphan, i think this book has created an understanding in me.
"In When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro uses the
conventions of crime fiction to create a moving portrait of a troubled mind, and of a man who cannot escape the long shadows cast by childhood trauma. Sherlock Holmes needed only fragments--a muddy shoe, cigarette ash on a sleeve--to make his deductions, but all Christopher has are fading recollections of long-ago events, and for him the truth is much harder to grasp. Ishiguro writes in the first person, but from the beginning there are cracks in Christopher's carefully restrained prose, suggestions that his version of the world may not be the most reliable. Faced with such a narrator, the reader is forced to become a detective too, chasing crumbs of truth through the labyrinth of Christopher's memory.
When We Were Orphans is an extraordinary feat of sustained, perfectly controlled imagination, and in Christopher Banks the author has created one of his most memorable characters. --Simon Leake |
| 4EVER | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 12:57 pm
to africanii,
I agree my favorite book was WHEN THINGS FALL APART by chinua Achebe.
I loved that book; I read it when I was in high school and knew in this country.
I think every body should read this book. |
| Abdul | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 01:02 pm
The Quran has a Sacred place in our lives and that can not be questioned. But I think the question posed here is with regards to fiction or Non-fiction. One book that I found very interestin was the Autobiography of Malcolm X, the it gives us an isight on how the brother was transformed by his trials and tribulations of his life. How he overcome the odds and the burden of being Black in America at the height of the Racist era. it also shows how Allah guides him through his difficult times.
The moral of this is..
Whosoever Allah leads Non can lead Astray ! |
| T-GIRL | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 02:40 pm
Abdul
It sfunny U mentioned Malcolm X...Coz I was watching his biography earlier this evening. Great man....Even though he was a crook and got jailed for what he did....but nevertheless he improved in prison.
ICE-MAN
I don't think its your place to condemn or condone other ppls preference. If U have an opinion don't try to enforce it on PPL aight. We all know the Holy Quran is an ispiration.......but the girl asked us about the other books that we indulge in. I see your comments as pure IGNORNANCE trying to emerge from your 2 inch brain.
Africanni
Thanx bro/sis......I'll see into it...How about
-"The memoirs of a Geisha" and also At War in Somalia--"Me against my brother".......another interesting read to remind us whatever happened to our country and ppl.
PEACE
TROUBLE
Reader
Sydney Sheldon...hmmm interesting author |
| notbychoice | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 02:57 pm
to the Book club,
"memoirs of a Geisha" is solid and well writing but my fav is "INVISIBLE LIFE" by L Harris. Revealing and provocative are just few elements of this masterpiece |
| Anonymous | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 04:10 pm
"The wedding" by Daniel steel. |
| ... | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 04:30 pm
"To kill a mocking bird" by harper lee |
| Mr:somali | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 04:37 pm
T-GIRL SAID IT ALL ME AGAINST MY BROTHER READ IT AND LEARN FROM IT. |
| Sweetgirl | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 05:46 pm
My favourite book of all time "Raheeq al Makhtoom"
it's the biography of the prophet(saw) it's all facts not fiction, talk about inspiration. Muhammed a simple man from the dessert driven out of his home in Mecca because of delivering the message that was entrusted to him by his God, captures and unites the hearts of millions. His determination to accomplish his goals, his patience during tough times and his very character serve as examples to all people.............I'd recommend this book for everyone because Muhammed is the best role model. |
| RICHGIRL | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 06:20 pm
Aleihi Salaat Wa salaam |
| somalisister | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 06:38 pm
My favorite hobby in the whole world!!!!!!!!!!!!!Boooooooooookkkkkkksssssssssss..I just wish I had time during the school year to read more for pleasure..everytime i try to read for pleasure, i feel guilty for not reading the fat organic chemistry book laying neglected under a heap of trash paper!!!
Anyhow my favorite books (i have many) is :
DO THEY HEAR YOU WHEN YOU CRY???... a beautiful book about a young girl and her attempt to escape from FGM..just downright beautiful!!!..down to earth too..not to mention it's an autobiography, Fatima something or the other wrote it!!!! |
| T-GIRL | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 07:06 pm
SOMALI SISTA
Don't U feel like reading books specially when U got an exam like next friday and U can't be bothered to look at your academic books? That is a dilema I tell ya.....LOL |
| Alyisa | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 08:43 pm
"The Excorist Tradition in Islam" by Dr. Bilal Philips. Let's just say I had to sleep with a night light for a week after reading that book. |
| Alyisa | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 08:45 pm
oops that's Exorcist |
| Hakima | Saturday, October 28, 2000 - 10:50 pm
One of favorite novels..."Taming of the Shrew"
The one i hate most...anything written by Charles Dickens.
ps:africani--->"things fall apart"-->i took when i was 6th grade...that was a tool of torture for me :-(
Basra... nice idea :-) |
| SUNSHINE | Sunday, October 29, 2000 - 06:42 am
YEAH GUYS, FINALLY SOMETHIMG INTERESTING TO TALK ABOUT!!!!! GOOD ONE BASRA, I JUST LOVE BOOKS!!
AFRICANII, I READ 'THINGS FALL APART' AS PART OF MY A LEVEL, IT WAS A GREAT BOOK. BUT ONE OF MY FAVOURITES IS 'DAUGHTERS OF THE STORM' BY ELIZABETH BUCHAN. SET IN THE 17TH CENTURY FRANCE DURING THR REVOLUTION,IT'S A GREAT BOOK!! IT'S ABOUT FRIENDSHIP, LOVE, POLITICS, WAR, AND MUCH MORE!!! YOU SHOULD ALL READ IT.
T-GIRL, I LOVED 'THE GAINT WITHIN' I NEVER THOUGHT ANYONE HERE WOULD READ IT, JUST INSPERATIONAL! |
| Mr:horror | Sunday, October 29, 2000 - 08:52 am
HAKIMA WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT CHARLES DICKINS IS MY FAVORITE"THE TALES OF TWO CITIES"DAVID COPPERFIELD" |
| CandyOne | Sunday, October 29, 2000 - 10:17 am
My favourite book is "Jonathan Seagull". I dont
remember the author cuz i read it sometime back.
Basically it was about a seagull named Jonathan and how he was diffirent from the other birds and
always wanted to reach new heights and discover
new ways of flying. But obviously this seemed
like a very strange behaviour to the rest of the
birds and they isolated him.The story goes on
and ends with Jonathan earning a place in heaven and coming back to earth to inspire his fellow
seagulls.
The book is written in simple language but the philosophy behind it is just GREAT. |
| Hakima | Sunday, October 29, 2000 - 02:21 pm
To: Mr Horror....i think the name tells it all :-) |
| Basra | Sunday, October 29, 2000 - 06:59 pm
Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Thanx people.I can't say how glad i am for your contribution to the world of literary.It is really Knowledgable...lol I loved a lot of the authors mentioned.Anyway ..i think its only customary for me to add miy picks.After all - it's my book club ..loooooooooooool..
1) Tuesdays with Morrie the author is Milch Albon
It's really great.I recommended it to my brother and he still thanks me today .It's an inspirational journey of a young man and lesson from An older Man who's name is Morrie.It's really shocking what you can learn when you only listen.
2) The partner the author was John Grishahm.very clever twists. and most of Grishams books, the firm,the street lawyer the brethehem......and on
And every Jane Austen's books.Complete literary!....lol....And Danielle steels some of her books..lol...and Sydney Sheldon's some of his books. Thaxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx people looool. |
| Sweetgirl | Monday, October 30, 2000 - 09:34 am
T-GIRL
I read a book by the name of Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates, it was about a girl gang in the 50s, any way the main character "legs" reminds me of you, she had a strong character and she was a feminist to the core, but she was seriously disturbed and psychotic at times I mean who could blame her with all her bad childhood experiences and all. Anyways thought I should let you know.
Luv Sweetgirl |
| Troublegirl | Monday, October 30, 2000 - 01:37 pm
SweetGirl....
Thanx Sista...I'll take that as a compliment...although it was a blatant attack on my character........If I didn't have a calm nature I would be cussing you by now...LOL....I have nothing but a simple THANX 4 U....
BASRA
To be quite honest I found "THE FIRM" a boring read........I watched the film instead.....I cheated..lol
Hey how come nobody mentioned STEVEN KING?.....We had enough horror last us a lifetime ey
PEACE
Trouble |
| Xoogsade | Monday, October 30, 2000 - 01:55 pm
my top five fave authors:
Danielle Steele
Dame Barbara Cartland
Jackie Collins
Sidney Sheldon
Xaviera Hollander
My top five worst and most hated:
Nurradin Farah
Nurradin Farah
Nurradin Farah
Nurradin Farah
Nurradin Farah |
| Basra | Monday, October 30, 2000 - 04:44 pm
Xoogsade looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
This is sad.I feel bad enough for everything i have ever said to you xoogsade.aaaahuh? You actually like Barbara cartland?The dame of Classical romance?The lady who shaped my romance expectations at age 13.aaaaahuh!aaaahuh! I need a tissue paper. |
| hebel | Monday, October 30, 2000 - 06:26 pm
Hakima can U pass me the sugar please?
.
.
Thanks. |
| FARIS | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 - 12:05 am
I read this book when I was 9 yrs old. 'NOT YET UHURU' ( NOT YET FREEDOM ). It is about the autobiography of JOMMA KENYATTI ( first president of kenya). This book also shows how the situation in Africa was in the late 40/50ties.
Really very nice book to read. |
| Hibo | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 - 04:39 am
Basra: so this is what u have been up with the weekend was gone....anyways its goo dto have Oprah... within Somali community....however sis u said it all for me...Jane Austin is my favorite writer of all times.....specially have u read" The Persuasion"...its great they have it as a movie too..John Grisham is great..I loved the parner...my aunt gave that to me as a birthday gift..i still treasure it...his other books r also..inspiring. Daniel Steel...romance is at her corner..she makes me cry anytime I read a book by her...specially" The promise"..it was just beautiful... How about Agatha Chrisie...she is well.. known for mysteries..
"Withering heights"...is also a good book...with all the unfairness in this world.
That is just a few of my collection... I am a book addict..so bare with me...
N Hey I forgot..Nurrudin Farrah.....his book..."gifts" is very nice...even his "Secrets" is not that bad..though its more fiction...than reality...but u gotta him the crdit for it....
How about my book..I think Its greall.." heart at the banks of thames river"..with all the poetry.........lol.. |
| Xaali | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 - 10:12 am
Basra, do books-on-tape count?
" All the women are white; all the blacks are men, but some of us are brave" This book which is a colletion of essays (can't rember the editors) touches upon issues of racism and sexism whereby african american women feel that when it comes to socio-economic policies, they as a group are neglected due to assumption that their needs are met by lumping them with white woman issues or with black men issues"
I used to read 'feminist type' books during my miltant years.........nowadays I read "chicken soup for old souls" lol!!
Good topic, great discussion. |
| T-GIRL | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 - 01:42 pm
Xoogsade
Dame Barbara Cartland suffered a stroke the other day...3 waaks ago infact....So its the older women that does it for you huh........Darn it I thought I had a chance...LOL
Xaali...
Chicken soup Ha ha ha ha lol.....atleast U read something. And I have recently come close to get the Books on tape thing.....but Id rather get a hands on experience and read rather than listen..I don't know....
Basra
Jane Austin huh....Very historic....Im impressed...LOL...Im finally LOL-ing U
PEACE
Trouble |
| Xoogsade | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 - 02:10 pm
T-Girl:
You bearer of bad tidings...I am completely shattered by this news. Dame Barbara has a special place in my heart and now she is no more.
Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. The paths to glory lead but to the grave...
This is sad. |
| Hakima | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 - 02:55 pm
yes, withering heights....yeah
Pride and prejudice...
Hebel...here...anything else :-) |
| Basra | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 - 03:00 pm
T-Girl
loooooooooooooooooooooool Dont you love that lady?..I mean Jane Austen! You know i have learnt manners from her.Wallahi...Ofcourse from hoyoo and Aboo and blah blah blah...but really how to behave in a class,manerism and ladylike has really been influenced by jane austen.She has made me a better young lady.loooooooooooool
Barbara cartland died you people ..looooool xoogsade i'm still under sereal moment.looooooooooool |
| Basra | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 - 03:01 pm
sorry!
I didn't mean to loool at Barbara Cartland's death news....Oh Caafi! |
| Basra | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 - 03:07 pm
Hibo loooooooooooooooool...sorry people i can't move on i guess, or i'm not that organised....Hi Hibo you like Jane austen too?.llooooooooool wondeful!....Although..'Persuation' would never have been the selection i would pick,goodness the whole story was average.I'm used to high class literary such as pride and prejudice and sense and sensibility and emma and Mansfield park and Northern aby and on and on..God..i can't really make up my mind about these mentioned.Which is my favorite.........which............ |
| Abdul | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 - 05:37 pm
Faris Stop right there !
That book "Not Yet UHURU" was written by Odinga and it was not an autobiography of Kenyatta.
It was a commentry on post colonial Kenya, how things never realy changed after independence (UHURU) The author writes "until every citizen enjoys the fruits of Independance we are "NOT yet Uhuru" its not the kind of stuff a nine year old will understand, this is a political book. |
| hooyo | Tuesday, October 31, 2000 - 06:48 pm
naa basra ma book shop ayaad furanaysa???!!lol |
| FARIS | Wednesday, November 01, 2000 - 12:05 am
Abdul,
It is possible to be wonder child at that age. It is in my gene. |
| Xaali | Wednesday, November 01, 2000 - 04:45 am
T-girl, many people would agree with you about the books on tapes not being the same as reading, but they come in handy when one is doing other things i.e during long commutes etc. I just finished listening to Geisha.
To all:
Any recommendation for good non-fiction books? |
| Poisonous | Wednesday, November 01, 2000 - 09:40 am
My all time best: Kama Sutra |
| GAABOW! | Wednesday, November 01, 2000 - 11:59 am
@BASRA
HOW COME YOU, YOU'VE JUST ASK US A QUESTION BUT YOU DIDN'T ANSWER BACK THE PEOPLE WHO REPLY TO YOUR INTERESTING TOPIC.
FAVOURATE BOOK
FAVOR NOTSIEEE
FAVOR BARBER
FAVOR GOSSIPER
IF YOU DO, PLEASE INFORM US
I WANNA KNOW WHAT U GOTTA SAY TO THAT.......
MY FAV... BOOK IS GO GOCOSHO BY SIYAAD BARE!!!
SIGHT I WAS JUST KID' |
| Waryaa--Ayuuto | Wednesday, November 01, 2000 - 02:17 pm
Salama...
Basra:
Are you compelling us {none fiction readers to READ, or else not to write here--I know you did not categorized fictional or non-fictional books, you only asked us what we have had read last}
Though, I read fervently and ardently sheer-non-fictional books. And there are mostly Religious books--namely, Islaam.
My favourite is the Qur'an Utmost and Utterly; second, Siiradii Nabiga {S.C.W.}; and any authentic Islamic books.
Also my passionate for reading goes to Newspapers; as a resident of Ontario, Toronto Star is number one choice, though Globe and Mail, with its traditional panel, still is attracting me to read.
Thirdly, politics {Of course, you guessed it--and think not that I AM that "OLD!" Some of you CAN/COULD be my fathers/mothers, who knows, Allahu Aclam!}
I only read--when it comes to fiction--one author's books--Sidney Sheldon. {You might have figured out my age by now}
I know, some of his books are dirty, but his suspense is killing me; his escapade is flipping me to the pages; his political adventure is ...well is well. Though, to some of you that Author may sound incongruous, however, it is, by all means, good enough to read his books--by jumping around and ignoring his silly sexual exploits.
That is, in short, the brevity of my choice as good enough, I guess.
P.S.:
"Why not with Encyclopedia!"
Yes, it is too!
Nabadeey--Quite Peace!! |
| Waryaa--Ayuuto | Wednesday, November 01, 2000 - 02:25 pm
Salama...
"Why bring religion into a general discussion..."
Africanii:
Islaam is not a mere Religion--IT IS A WAY OF LIFE! It encompasses everything we do, thus, how we Muslims/Moslims define religion has complete meaning from Western perspectives.
Again, A WAY OF LIFE! Whatever, we do, must their sequences have answers.
Therefore, whether it be in General/Islaam/Ila-Qosol/Baafin...etc, etc, forums:
Islaam is--will and must be--THERE!
Nabadeey--Quite Peace!! |
| Waryaa--Ayuuto | Wednesday, November 01, 2000 - 02:42 pm
Salama...
Oops:
When I read back, well, I discovered that I have common with a several people.
To begin:
Anonymous:
Quraanka Kariim--Yes, Above the Shelves.
Mr. Reader:
Sidney Sheldon. Yes, we have something in common--If Tomorrow Comes was his very first book that I grasped and read...it lead me to others.
Sweetgirl:
Siiradii Nabiga, So is it mine too? My second FAVOURITE, only beside the Qur'an.
Nabadeey--Quite Peace!!
Oops, Again:
If you, Basra, wanted to know what was the last fictional book I read:
"Tell Me Your Dreams!" By Who-Else-Besides-Sidney-Sheldon. {Not more than 300-pages in Hard-paper; Hyper-Collins, its Publisher, I guess} |
| Basra | Thursday, November 02, 2000 - 03:40 pm
Waryaa
Thank you for your wondeful brievity addition. lollol
GABOOW
Read above, you will see my book choices lollol are you attentive in class?.looooooooooooooool
Xaali
the tapes are convenient but not equal to books.Something about reading makes my world see butterfly and horses !!!! SUPERB!!!!!
T-girl which one of the Jane Austen books do you find most ground breaking?
Hakima
Yes PRIDE AND PREJUDICE......YES!
My favorite quote in the book?
This is when Mr. darcy proposes to Elizerbeth arrogantly,and elizerbeth from pure anger replies to him as.......
"From the very beginning -from the first moment, i may almost say - of my acuaintance with you, your manners ,impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance ,your conceit, and your disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form that groundwork of disapporabation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and i had not known you a month before i felt that you were the last man in the world whom i could ever be prevailed on to marry"
And....ofcourse Mr darcy said......"You have said quite enough madam."
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool |
| Xoogsade | Thursday, November 02, 2000 - 04:02 pm
Basra
I can read no longer in silence. I must write to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you with a heart more your own than when you almost broke it sometime ago by calling me a geek. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, arrogant and unfeeling I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Somalinet. For you alone I think and plan. Have you not seen this? Can you fail to understand my wishes? I can hardly write. I am every instant hearing something which overpowers me. You sink your voice, but I can distinguish the tones of that voice, when they would be lost on others. Too good, too excellent creature! You do us justice indeed. You do believe that there is true attachment and constancy among men. Believe it to be the most fervent, most undeviating in
Xoogsade |
| Macruuf--Waryaa--Ayuuto | Friday, November 03, 2000 - 11:00 am
Salama...
Basra:
So am I? Thank you in advance and reserve. Yeah, it was short and concise--brevity, LoL--albeit...its blathers.
Xoogsade:
"Lo, Lo, Where art Thou, O' Modern and Advanced Shakespeare?"
"Ay, is this a tragedical modern love, AH, affair, me-guesses; Ah, whert art Thou poor, yet unquarreled, Soul went for Basra Cadeey?"
"Behold, desperation, some-not-long-times, overcomes destruction of construction of, O' Oldie mysterious, Heart?"
Nabadeey--Quite Peace!! |
| T-GIRL | Friday, November 03, 2000 - 01:23 pm
Looks like Shakespeare is still alive and he is called XOOGSADE FARAX MACOW......
Macruuf Waryaa....
LOL....That was very artistic and dramatic of ya
Basra
I enjoyed EMMA and Masfield Park although they never get the props due to the fact that "PRIDE & PREJUDICE" AND "SENSE AND SENSIBILITY" are more famous and acclaimed. Did you know she died not very far from London.....The place was called Stevenage at the time but now it has a different name....About 2 hours drive.......
PEACE
Trouble |
| Basra | Friday, November 03, 2000 - 04:28 pm
Xoogsade looooooooooooooooooooooool
You have to tell me where you copied that letter.It is so familiar. lol....you incorporated a little i'm sure but Please...Please...Please do tell me..looooool Very Impressive !
"In view of this declaration, i believe the obligation is to give agreeable consent,but i cannot.I am not the woman for you and you are most certainly not the man for me.I am sure you are a gentleman of good character and nature,and i am sorry to have caused any discomforts and hope it would be of short duration."
That was the ending quote of Elizabeth.
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool |
| Basra lol | Friday, November 03, 2000 - 04:30 pm
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooool again
Xooogsade |
| Hakima | Friday, November 03, 2000 - 04:50 pm
lol @ Basra |
| amal | Saturday, November 04, 2000 - 06:30 am
lol@ basra |
| Xoogsade | Saturday, November 04, 2000 - 08:01 am
Basra I thought you were the expert on Austen's novels, Persuasion in this case. Persuasion which is what I am doing trying to convince you to open your heart a tiny bit and let me in? Or shall I waste away from the grief of unrequieted love? |
| Lady Basra | Saturday, November 04, 2000 - 01:40 pm
Xoogsade lol
Aaaahuh 'Persuation'.....i really didn't like that one but thanx for telling anyway ..lol.That was very requieted love..lol impressive loooool
Anyway book club i would love to share another piece of Pride and Prejudice.For those familiar to the book can greatly appreciate the memory,and for those new to the book can,but enjoy. lol.
This is a conversation between Elizabeth the main character of Pride and Prejudice and the annoying aunt of Mr.Darcy Lady Catherine de bourgh!She rudely enters her home and disrespects Elizabeth's mother and asks elizabeth to have a strawl with her in the garden.
Here it goes...its long..loooooool
"You can be at no loss,Miss Elizabeth Bennet, to understand the reason of my journey hither.Your own conscience,must tell you why i come."
Elizabeth looked with unaffected astonishment.
"Indeed,you are mistaken,madam.I have not been at all able to account for the honor of seeing you here."
"Miss Bennet,replied Her Ladyship,in an angry tone,"you ought to know that i am not to be triffled with.But,However insnicere you may choose to be,you shall not find me so.My character has been ever celebrated for its sincerity and frankness,and in a cause of such moment as this i shall certainly not depart from it.A report of an alarming nature reached me me two days ago.I was told that not only sister was on the point of being most advangeously married,that you,that Miss Elizabeth Bennet,would,in all liklihood,be soon afterwards united to my nephew- my own nephew- Mr. Darcy.Though i know it must be scandalous falsehood-though iwill not injure him so much as to suppose the truth of it possible, I insistanly resolved on setting off for this place,that i might make sentiments known to you."
"If you believe it impossible to be true,"said Elizabeth,coloring with astonishment and disdain,"I wonder you took the troubleof coming so far.What could your ladyship propose by it."
"At once to insist upon having such a report universally contradicted."
"Your coming to Longbourn,to see me and my family,"said Elizabeth coolly,"will be rather a confirmation of it,if indeed,such a report is in existance."
"If! Do you,then pretend to be ignorant of it?Has it not been industriously circulated by yourselves?Do you not know that such a report is spread abroad?"
"I never heard that it was."
"And can you likewise declare,that there is no foundation for it?"
"I do not pretend to possess equal frankness with you your Ladyship.You may ask questions,which i shall not choose to answer."
"Has he,has my nephew,made you an offer of marriage?"
"Your ladyship has declared it to be impossible."
"It ought to be so,while he ratains the use of his reasons.But your arts and allurements may,in a moment of infatuation,have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family.You may have drawn him in."
"If i have,i shall be the last person to confess it."
"Miss Bennet,do you know who i am?I have not been acustomed to such language as this.I am almost the nearest relation he has in this world,and am entittled to know his dearest concerns."
"But you are not entittled to know mine;nor would this behavior induce me to be explicit."
"Let me be rightly understood.This match,to which you have the presumptious to aspire,can never take place.No never.Mr.Darcy is engaged to my daughter.(lol) Now what have you to say?"
"Only this:that if he is so,you can have no reason to suppose he will make an offer to me."
Lady Catherine hesitated for a moment,and then replied.
"The engagement between them is of a peculiar kind.From infancy,they have been intended for each other.It was the wish of his mother and as well as mine.While in their cradles we planned the union:and now,at the moment when the wishes of both sisiters would be accomplished in their marriage,to be prevented by a young woman of no family connection nor fortune (lol)Do you pay no regard to the wishes of both his friends-to his tacit engagement with Miss De Bourgh-my daughter?Are you lost to the feeling of propriety and delicay?Have you not heard me say that from his earliest hours he was destined for his cousin?"
"Yes,and i had heard it before.But what is that to me?If there is no other objection to my marrying your nephew, i shall certainly not be kept from it by knowing that his mother and aunt wished him to marry Miss de bourgh.You both did as much as you could,in planning the marriage;its completion depended on others.If Mr.Darcy is neither by honor nor inclination confined to his cousin,why is not he to make another choice?And if i am that choice,why may i not accept him?" (lol)
"Because Honor,decorum,prudence -nay, interest,forbid it.looooooooooolYes,Miss Bennet, interest;for do not expect to be noticed by his family or friends if you wilfully act against the inclinations of all.You will be censured,slighted,and despised by every one connected with him.Your alliance will be a disgrace;your name will never even be mentioned by any of us."
"These are heavy misfortunes,"replied Elizabeth."But the wife of Mr.Darcy must have such extraordinary sources of happiness necessarily attached to her situation,that she could,upon the whole,have no cause to regret."
"Obstinate,headstrong girl! (ooool)I am ashamed of you!I have not been in a habit of brooking dissappointments."
"That will make your ladyship's situation at present more pitiable,but it will have no effect on me." (loool)
"I will not be interrupted!Hear me in silience.(lol).My daughter and my nephew are formed for each other.They are destined to each other by the voice of every member of their respective houses;and what is to divide them?The upstarts pretensions of a young woman without family connections or fortune?Is this to be endured?But it must not.shall no be!If you were sensible of your own good,you would not wish to quit the sphere in which you have been brought up."
"In marrying your nephew i should not consider myself as quiting that speere.He is agentleman and i am a gentleman's daughter:so far we are equal.
"True.You are a gentleman's daughter.But who is your mother?Who are your uncles and aunts?Do not imagine me ignorant of their conditions."
"Whatever my connections may be,"said Elizabeth,"if your nephew does not object to to them,they are nothing to you."
"Tell me once and for all are you engaged to my nephew?
Though Elizabeth would not,for the mere purpose of obliging Lady Catherine,have answered this question,she couldnot but say,after a moment's deliberation," I am not."
Lady Catherine seemed pleased.
"And will you promise me never to enter into such engagement?"
"I will make no promise of that kind."
"Miss Bennet, I am shocked and astonished.I expected to find a reasonable young woman.But do not deceive yourself into a belief that i will give up.I shall not go away till you have given me the assurance i require."
Lady catherine,You have widely mistaken my character,if you think i can be worked on by your persuations as these.How far your nephew might approve of your inteference on his affairs i cannot tell;but you have certainly no right to concern yourself in mine.I must beg,therefore to be importuned no father on the subject."
"You have then resolved to have him?" (loool)
"Neither duty nor honor,nor gratitude,"replied Elizabeth,'Has any possible claim on me in the present instance.No principle of either would be violeted by marriage with Mr.Darcy.And with regard to the resentment of his family or the indignations of the world,if the former were excited in him marrying me,it would not give me one moment's concern-and the world in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn.You have nothing further to say,you have insulted me in every possible method.I must beg to return to the house.Elizabeth rose and stormed hurriedly to the house.
Lady Catherine yelling behind her said.
(loool)
"And this is your opinions.Very well i shall now know how to act.I take no leave of you,Miss Bennet.I send no compliments to your mother.You deserve no such attention.I am seriously displeased!
looooooooooooooooooooooool
Isn't this lady a whitch? loloooooooool So RUDE! |
| Fan | Sunday, November 05, 2000 - 12:07 am
To: Basra,
You got too much free time.
Peaceeeeeee. |
| SALSA | Monday, November 06, 2000 - 04:18 am
XOOOGSADE, ARE YOU THE PETRACHAN LOVER NOW??? LOL |
| gabardadow | Monday, November 06, 2000 - 10:27 am
"A LESSON BEFORE DYING"-by Ernest Gaines~ black author, subject: how to be a man, racist issues,death raw, difficult dicisions,love and etc. All set in segragated deep south in the sixties. (book's subject kinda similar to the movie--Green Mile staring Tom Hanks) bytheway this book is in oprah's club. the best book!
"Fifth Business"~dont remember the author!
subject: forgiving, how far would you go to repent from past mistakes, stigma, success etc. a great read! makes a person question lots of things they never thought of, enlightening!
"American Dream"~by Arthur Miller
i think almost everybody's read this! lol
Shakespear's Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Romeo&Juliet,Julius Ceasar .. are also among one of my favorite books. even tho' i read them in high school,i still go back to reading them cos they are poetic,original, just plain shakesman oooh they give me the chills in a good way lol
jaw
bookfreakz! |
| Macruuf-Waryaa-Ayuuto | Monday, November 06, 2000 - 11:51 am
Salama…
Trouble--Nay, Boon-Girl {I detest to call you a very trouble-maker, even though you named yourself to be that}:
"How Trouble-Maker are you?"
I can smell the DESSERT--though, I am denying the laws of biology--that you are, instead, a big, blatant, conspicuous shy GIRL.
Now, I can sense that how bashful, reticent you are.
Basra--Buskeeti:
"Enough!"
I was shouting until my gullet had gotten XABEEB!!!!!
Sense it!--LoL!
See camal yaqeey, bed-story aasba dhaamo kaas, yaqeey.
Nabad Alla! |
| Xoogsade | Monday, November 06, 2000 - 01:18 pm
Gabardadow My goodness me you like Fifth Business. It is written by Robertson Davies, the bearded sage of Peterborough. One of the greatest novelists of this century in my opinion. And of course you have to read the last two books of the trilogy where he takes you on an every crazier ride through most of Europe and N America exploring all kinds of things(the theatre, Jungian psychiatry, British heraldry, the study of law at Oxford, its practice in Canada, the circus, magic) and finally he will reveal everything including how and why Boy Staunton dies. Of course Dunstable Ramsay(Old Buggerlugs) will be your companion throughout this whole wondrous journey.
Amazing, you just amazed me Gabardadow, forget Basra it is you I love now,looool!!!!!! |
| Xoogsade | Monday, November 06, 2000 - 01:21 pm
Salsa:
Is that a good thing?
If it is then consider me one. |
| Basra | Monday, November 06, 2000 - 06:02 pm
looooooooooooooooooool You loved me? How Romantic!
Fan WHATEVER!
Waryaa ?????????? |
| gabardadow | Tuesday, November 07, 2000 - 11:40 am
Xoogsade!!!!iloveyoutoo
looool i'm just delighted as you're that somebody else loves that book with me, myyyyyyyyy this truly amazing!
gosh you brought joy to my heart when u reminded me my all-time favorite protaginst DUNSTABLE RAMSY you betcha i'm gonna start on reading the other two books of the trilogy..cant wait to find out how snoppy BoY died or what the deal is with my boy PAUL,the magition.
thankssssss for reminding the good author's name i dont know how i could forget him! lol
heey you know what always had me thinking about that book? is the fact that old Danstable never got a life his whole life was centred on taking care of the old hermit! he was the driving force behind a lot life in that small town.
myyyyyyyyyy i could go on forever just talking about it!
yo Xoogsade plzz read a "lesson before dying" if u love fifth business u gonna love this one! plus i think it is better.
Basra girl what is this no comment about my books?since this is yo page, or is it because u never heard of any of them? if that's the case then is aight girly.
jaaaaw
bookfreakz |
| T-GIRL | Tuesday, November 07, 2000 - 01:25 pm
Hey NO LOVE.....Discuss Books....or I'll hand cuff everyone.....Where's my ammunition? LOL
MACRUUF WARYA AYUUTO
I don't even wanna start by your name AND WHAT IT MEANS ! ! ! .....Anyway..were U refering to me when U said ....the shy, conspicious stufffff?????? And how did you come up with that Oh Einstein? Or shall I refer to U as Frankenstein....young frankenstein Ofcourse....LOL
GABARDADOOW
"A lesson B4 dying"?????I don't know what U saw in that story but it depressed me imensely. I tried to catch the film and decided I'd rather hang from a tree up-side-down then finish it.
PEACE
Trouble |
| Basra | Tuesday, November 07, 2000 - 03:19 pm
T-Girl lool
Gabaaryoo lol its not that i didn't like your books picks,its that i DONT know them.And i hardly think i can enjoy them.I'm judging them as a very deep,melancholy,guys kinda books.But maybe i heard about 'Lesson before dying'!I can only judge by the tittle of the book in this case.lol.Looks tormenting. lol |
| Xoogsade | Tuesday, November 07, 2000 - 03:56 pm
T-Girl we can't help it, loool but you would know this bond if you had read Davies.
Gabardadow I am just so glad to find another Somali that shares my passion for the great man's novels. They are highly educational and enlightening about many things while being pleasingly diverting and highly readable.
Without spoiling your future enjoyment Paul eventually becomes Magnus Eisengrim the world's greatest illusionist and magician. But the ordeal he goes through to get there is so horrible and cruel and degrading and criminal that you almost throw the book away because it is so hard to stomach. You will find out how he meets the horrible looking Swiss woman and many things besides.
Dunstan Ramsay of course is the fifth business. He is the figure in the background of everyone's life. Not the hero. Just the Best supporting actor. And of course you know in the first book he realizes he is not the Hero even in his own life story!!!!
But a great guy anyway.
I will read this lesson b4 dying book. I will give you my impressions when I finish it.
bye |
| Basra | Wednesday, November 08, 2000 - 08:25 am
Elizabeth says :
"I can never be driven to marriage unless i am profoundly inlove.Matrimony has vast majority of faults that cannot be endured by those not inlove.It is such love that prevent us from insanity in terms of adverse complexity.That is why i say,my man should not be short of that who is witty,intelligent,tall and dark,Handsome and preserves less attachment to his mother." looooooool |
| gabardadow | Wednesday, November 08, 2000 - 12:36 pm
t-girl lol
..sometimes it is refreshing to get a good dose of depressing stuff makes ya apreciate life better u know. but i am glad u stopped just in time, i sha'nt like to see you hanging from a trea up-side down lol
Basra
ya right they're kinda spooky lol
but good drama u know and very suspensful
Xoogsade
lol do u see that the girls chickened-out on me they starting to think i'm weird
they termed my books as "guys book" lol
this what makes me apreciate u all the more cos simply my xaawaleeyz dont get it why these books are great reads.
yeah poor soul Dunstable had it hard lol you would think the person realy exists for me but that is me i get personal with my characters cry wit them yell at them if they do sometin' stupid or just beat the crap outa them by just throwing the book on the wall lol my uh fifth business copy was all beat up,some pages were all haging out from the book cos the arrogant BOY Staunton kept making me pissed loooool
aight i be waiting for your rxn on that book.
ooooo girlssss? i do read some romances u know?
i aint all that stone-hearted amazone queen lol
my favorite romance author? Sandra Brown..check her out if y'all dont know her yet. |
| Xoogsade | Wednesday, November 08, 2000 - 02:06 pm
Gabardadow
There is nothing wrong with getting in touch with your "guy side". I get in touch with my feminine side enough times(but I come up empty!!!!) to help me better understand the smarter half of humanity( Am I sucking up enough?!!!)
Anywhooo I tried finding a copy of that book at my local library on the way back from work but they don't have it and I am too broke to buy one(I blew all my money this weekend on things better left unsaid. The rent is paid up at least loool). Anyway I have to read it some other time unless you will send me your copy some way or the other..
btw since you are into guy books have you read anything by Elmore Leonard. They made some of his books into great movies and I plan to check him out when i get the chaance..
tata!! |
| Basra | Thursday, November 09, 2000 - 08:30 am
tata! |
| notbychoice | Thursday, November 09, 2000 - 09:05 am
basra:
that says it all about xoogsade!(tata)
xoogsade
i do have a couple of guests about your lack of cash(I know that u don't want me to make it public)
believe me...I can keep a secret.
Have I said too much?oups |
| RICHGIRL | Friday, November 10, 2000 - 02:30 pm
How come no one mentioned JACKIE COLLINS?...Just wondering |
| Basra | Friday, November 10, 2000 - 03:56 pm
RichGirl
Jackie Collins is a vile Author.Her dirty litrature are disgusting.I have a talent on scanning books in few minutes and i can point blankily describe the type of a book and its component.Dirty! Naturally i can respect your choice and recommend NO for me. loool Absolutely No Thank you! lol |
| Kid Rock | Saturday, November 11, 2000 - 07:56 am
The best book i read was shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in high school.I was never the same. |
| Abdallah | Saturday, November 11, 2000 - 08:01 am
Sydney Sheldon's if tommorow comes.
I have never to this date seen any character so magnifiying as Tracey Whitney and also Jeff stevens.It is as compleling as the wonders of Egypt's Pyramid's architecture.I have to ask you all readers to get this book. |
| gabardadow | Saturday, November 11, 2000 - 03:34 pm
Xoogsade~
acuudka i'm glad you came out empty after trying to explore your famenine side, good lord or you be like telling stories that peepz on JERRY SPRINGER tell lol,the thing doesnt exist bro loooool
i getcha money problems are universal lol
save!peny by peny each day untill ...nah just kiding..
I'll go see what Elmore has to offer but be warned there's outside chances that i might not like it i mean my interest are in big drama books i dont realy term my books as "guys book" see i dont think i would like sometin' grusome that is all action and no emotions or drama,tho' i gotta say i dont mind action in drama just not action alone.
anywayzz since ya liked fifth business wit me i feel this book must be something akin to that
i'll see to that and let you know what i think of it.
jaaw |
| Basra | Saturday, November 11, 2000 - 05:27 pm
gabarlol
You surprise me! lol
Abdalla
That book was one and only book Sydney ever wrote exquisitely.Did you watch the movie of it?Super!
Romeo & Juliet
So cliche`! lol |
| Anonymous | Sunday, November 12, 2000 - 08:53 am
a quiver full of arows its so sad. |
| Basra | Sunday, November 12, 2000 - 10:32 am
Mr Darcy says to Elizabeth :
"What think you of books? Said smiling.
"Books oh!"no.I am sure we never read the same books,or not with same feelings".Said Elizabeth.
"I am sorry you think so;but if that be the case,there can atleast be no want of subject.We may compare our difference opinions".
"No- I cannot talk of books in a ball-room;my head is always full of something else."
"The present always occupies you in such scenes-does it?"Said he,with a look of doubt.
"Yes,always,"She replied,without knowing what she said,for her thoughts had wandered far from the subject,as soon afterwards appeared by her suddenly exclaiming," I remember hearing you once say,Mr. Darcy,that you hardly ever forgave,that your resentment once created was unappeasable.You are very cautious, i suppose,as to its being created."?
"I am,"said he,with a firm voice.
"And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice?"
"I hope not."
" It is particularly incubent on those who never change their opinion,to be secure of judgement properly at first."
"May i ask to what these questions tend?"
"Merely to the illustration of your character,"said she,endeavoring to shake off her gravity."I am trying to make it out."
"And what is your success?"
She shakes her head, "I do not get one at all.I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.
looooooooool - Hope that person gets the point! |
| SALSA | Monday, November 13, 2000 - 03:01 am
BASRA SIS, ARE YOU STUDYING A LEVEL ENGLISH OR AN ENGLISH DEGREE?? YOU SEEM TO KNOW A LOT ABOUT JANE AUSTEN. HAVE YOU EVER READ ANYTHING BY EDMUND SPENCER OR SIR THOMAS MOORE? HIS (MOORE) BOOK 'UTOPIA' TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN INTO ENGLISH IS VERY GOOD TOO, HIGHLY RECOMENED.
XOOGSADE, YEAH IT IS. |
| Basra | Monday, November 13, 2000 - 08:16 am
salsa Thank you! Thank you! I have been bugged to read Eutopia for quite sometime.Can you please tell me a brief synopsis of the book.I only have a vague idea,its about the gap between the rich and the poor and the struggle of morality and kindness,Please hint to me if i'm right?! Thank you! |
| Poisonous | Monday, November 13, 2000 - 10:14 pm
Loads BS here.
Poison |
| Abdul | Tuesday, November 14, 2000 - 10:36 am
'Somali silhoutte' by Kenneth Jude.A depth view of the Somali tragedy and insights.A new publication. |
| Basra | Wednesday, November 15, 2000 - 07:39 am
Abdul i made a research on the book but i could not find its record.Can you kindly tell me where i can find a copy? Sil'vousplait Monsieur! |
| SALSA | Saturday, November 18, 2000 - 02:24 pm
basra you are right on. as the name suggests, utopia, is paradise. they all go off to seek the perfect society, where land is shared and everyone is equal, time is spend in prayers and work to benifit all. anyways, it is a deeply moral book, you just have to read it. it was written 500 years ago and it's still around, so it msut be good, try to get past the first few pages, it may seem difficult but you will soon adapt to the style, enjoy it! |
| analyzer | Sunday, November 19, 2000 - 01:38 am
i think i will go with the last one i read not necessarily the greatest but good one..
"MOTORING WITH MOHAMMED" BY ERIC HANSEN...
I bought at my school library auction for $1.00.....and it's about journeys to Yemen and the red sea...and its visual depictions are similar with Xamer's......so, it may shake your daydreamin' fantasies of OLD XAMAR.... |
