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| Tematy | | wiadomości | Ostatnia wiadomość | | | 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : What We Are Reading - Classics | | 287 | alcottacre, niedziela 4:23am |  |
| 50 Book Challenge : TheGoodbyeGirl's 2009 | | 36 | TheGoodbyeGirl, środa 2:17pm | |
| 999 Challenge : The Library Nook | | 37 | KellReader, grudzień 4 | |
| The Green Dragon : Steamthread | | 55 | MrsLee, listopad 23 | |
| A Pearl of Wisdom and Enlightenment : Books on Wisdom and Enlightenment. | | 72 | ecohealth2003, listopad 15 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : ashley21's 2009 book challenge | | 15 | ashley21, listopad 12 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Trystorp's Books in 2009 | | 88 | tymfos, październik 26 | |
| Book of the month club : September books | | 7 | tjsjohanna, październik 7 | |
| BBC Radio 4 Listeners : What books have you read because of radio 4 | | 26 | digifish_books, wrzesień 28 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : PK's 2009 Booklist (starting 2/1/09) | | 15 | pkmccann, wrzesień 9 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Dreamyflo's joining the challenge 2009 | | 20 | dreamyflo, lipiec 2 | |
| History at 30,000 feet: The Big Picture : History Books That Had the Most Impact on Me | | 39 | Doug1943, czerwiec 18 | |
| Books that made me think : George Orwell and Aldous Huxley | | 19 | Erinys, maj 31 | |
| TBR Challenge : SmanosBubbles's TBR/TBF Challenge | | 11 | SmangosBubbles, maj 25 | |
| Literary Snobs : No sacred cows--bad books by good authors | | 158 | GeoffWyss, maj 8 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2009 : AlcottAcre's 2009 Reads, Take 4 | | 284 | TadAD, maj 3 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You Are Reading the Week of 28 February 2009 | | 179 | Sarah79, marzec 14 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : WHY are you reading now? | | 115 | JimThomson, luty 10 | |
| Book talk : LT Best Literary Fiction | | 4 | TheCriticalTimes, grudzień 2008 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Schez's | | 2 | billiejean, listopad 2008 | |
| Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night : What scary book are you reading right now? What do you think of it so far? | | 326 | jseger9000, lipiec 2008 | |
| Girlybooks : A Dozen Years of Nominees | | 84 | avisannschild, czerwiec 2008 | |
| Drzemiący: 50 Book Challenge : Books read in 2007: MrStevens | | 59 | 1Frog1, grudzień 2007 | |
| Drzemiący: Book talk : Another Silly Game To Play (new thread - the last one was getting entirely too long) | | 443 | Mr.Durick, grudzień 2007 | |
| Drzemiący: Book talk : Mentor Me: Suggested Reading and Such......... | | 21 | vpfluke, październik 2007 | |
| Drzemiący: The Green Dragon : Island | | 19 | MrsLee, wrzesień 2007 | |
| Drzemiący: List Five Books Parlour Game : Islands | | 21 | SueDNim, sierpień 2007 | |
| Drzemiący: Read YA Lit : March Discussion--The Giver | | 38 | MrStevens, czerwiec 2007 | |
| Drzemiący: Book talk : ?? Book Challenge | | 4 | MrStevens, maj 2007 | |
| Drzemiący: Combiners! : Is the Aldous Huxley issue one of these??? | | 3 | bookishbunny, styczeń 2007 | |
book 42 was Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs
book 43 is The Island by Victoria Hislop ... very effectively to show how the looks of the American dream can be deceiving. Another very good Alice Hoffman book.
The Island by Victoria Hislop - a families story of love, hope and survival
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E Pearson - recommended by others on LT.
Best books ... ... starting place!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_steampunk_works
Items in my catalog I've tagged steampunk:
The Island by Tim Lebbon
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
The Court of the Air by Stephen Hunt
Steampunk by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer
Mainspring ... ... Eventual: 14 Dark Tales by Stephen King
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown
The Island by Victoria Hislop
Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Tribulation Force by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Nicolae by T ... I can't believe no one has mentioned Aldous Huxley's book Island. This is Huxley's last novel and in effect an answer to his own earlier work Brave New World. ... knowledge of the show. (Watch it! It's really good!)
I haven't started The Neverending Story yet, but I have started Island (got bored, abandoned it. When I finish my sister is going to borrow it.) and Lolita (three attempts at reading so far, always give up around page 20).
I ... The Neverending Story, Island and Lolita are on my wishlist but I am adding Some of Us Really Do Watch for the Plot just for the name alone. ...
8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (finished 05-17-09)
9. In Awe by Scott Heim
10. Island by Aldous Huxley
11. At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
12. The Meaning of Night: A Confession by Michael Cox
Alternates (aka I still have another 80-ish to ... Huxley's Island let him down. Rushdie's worst is Grimus, but that was his debut novel, so he can be excused. I've enjoyed all of Italo Calvino's books except the Castle of Crossed Destinies, which I could barely finish, despite it being particularly short. Can't think of any more. Not doing so badly, it's all been work lately, but squeezed another couple of reads in
15. The Island by Victoria Hislop
16. After Dark by Haruki Murakami ... than what it is - this girl's views on what was happening in Iraq at the time it was happening; highly recommended
145. Island by Aldous Huxley - I found this book disappointing, and could not honestly recommend it to anyone unless they were determined to read all of Huxley's books
146 ... I have finished the vastly disappointing Island and am now on to Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb and his sister Mary Lamb. ... however fancifully. Animal Farm, Jude the Obscure, War and Peace, Dune, Huxley’s The Doors of Perception and Island, No Exit, The Stranger, the syllabus of 11th grade AP American History, Shakespeare, The Old Testament, Carl Sagan’s The Cosmic Connection, Middlemarch, a ... Currently reading Island by Aldous Huxley. ... have not had time to post my completions!!... So:
EarthLords was finished around the 15th... and I began
Book 7 - The Island by Peter Benchley
Start Date 3/20/09
Completed on 3/30/09.
Now... I'm ready to pick up another one. An easy ready, but not a "sucker" - you know... ... Actually that title is wrong, innit? No article.
ISLAND it is... I dunno if I consider Aldous Huxley a "good" writer any more--after reading BRAVE NEW WORLD and, over the past few days, THE ISLAND, I am deeply unimpressed. As a fiction writer, he'd make a very good librarian.
Still, as a book to shut down my brain and put me to sleep after a hard day of ... I'm hoping to finish Eden Close by Anita Shreve and Island by Aldous Huxley (not exactly thrilled by either of them so far (about 135 pages into both), but hopefully they pick up soon).
After those two I shall do some more 'started, but never finished reading books':
Everything Is Illum ... Have finished The Island by Victoria Hislop ... of notables:
from many years ago -
Seth Speaks by Jane Roberts
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Island and The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
Let Me Explain by Teillhard de Chardi ... ... I recently read Sacks's The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and I really enjoyed it! Did you read that too? If so, is The Island... just as entertaining? I'm considering adding it to my tbr pile! ... of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
6. The Magus by John Fowles
7. Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
8. Island by Aldous Huxley
9. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
10. The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
Use touchstones! With that feature we should get an ... ... by James Ellroy
43. Never Let Me go- by Kazuo Ishiguro
44. A Clockwork Orange- by Anthony Burgess
45. Island- by Aldous Huxley I've got about a hundred pages of Island left. I dunno. I like it. In fact it's one of the best Richard Laymon books I've yet read (In the Dark is better though).
At the same time I have to say it's too long. Like it's overstayed its welcome. Is it just my imagination or do most Richar ... I'm reading Alistair MacLeod's amazing No Great Mischief because I ordered it off ABE last week along with Island and NGM came first. I read Island last year - it was left behind in a studio I stayed in on Shetland, and seemed like the right book to be reading when there. I'm going back to S ... ... Billy
Gina B Nahai, Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith
Christine Pountney, Last Chance Texaco
Jane Rogers, Island
Shauna Singh Baldwin, What the Body Remembers
Zadie Smith, White Teeth - shortlist
Elizabeth Strout, Amy and Isabelle - shortlist Hello Again, I've now read, The Island VICTORIA HISLOP and The Book Thief ZUSAK MARKUS I truly love Radio 4s 'Book of the week', But not as much as I love 'Librarything', its the best toy I've ever played with. Island by Aldous Huxley Many years ago I read a book called Island which was a series of essays on what music different rock critics would take with them if they were to be stranded on a deserted island.
So I pose this question to you.
A couple of limitations. No shipbuilding manuals. And you cannot create ... ... Families:
The non-biological families is a common theme in Utopian societies. Two examples are Walden Two and Island. 1984 is another famous one. It deals with the theme of non-attachment. In some religions it is important to remove your attachment to all worldly things to ... ... I tend to feel cheated with these types of books. I am more of a Flowers for Algernon plot type person.
4.
Title: Island
Author: Aldous Huxley
Notes: Another book based on a utopian society. I heard that Huxley got the idea from Walden Two but I haven't confirmed this statement. ... ... a lot. o.O
1. The Chocolate War
2. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
3. I am the Cheese
4. Island
5. Life of Pi
6. Piano, Guided Sight-Reading
7. The Remains of the Day
8. The Secret Life of Bees
9. Speak
10. Stargirl
11. The Time Traveler's Wi ... Pawleys' Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
Island by Anne Rivers Siddons
Sullivan's Island by Dorothea Benton Frank
Island by Aldous Huxley
Island by Richard Laymon
Island by Thomas Perry
Island by Jane Rogers
The Island by Victo ... Fixed. The books had been combined somewhere along the line; they're now separated again.
After Many A Summer and Island are now free! Free!!
(What's with all the abuse flags suddenly appearing in Talk??)
Edit: and disappearing again. Weird. Of course, Brave New World, but you may have already read that. I got more out of it than Island. I thought it interesting that our minds rebel against a world where, as in 'Brave', everybody has a niche and crime and disease is almost non-existent. Where many saw 'Brave' as a Dystopia, I ... Has anyone here read Island by Huxley? An interesting contrast to BNW. It was many years ago but I remember how surprised I was by this book since I had read the other one shortly before.
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