Hey, hey, I'm surprised to find an intellectual thread in here
May I join in?? I'm a book collector (ironically) more than I have time to digest them... I'm into the older fictions, rather than those bestsellers of our time.
I love American Literature (Henry James, Mark Twain, James Cooper Fenimore, Ernest Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald) and Modern English Literature (Evelyn Waugh, CS Lewis).
For a while, I was into American Chinese Literature (Joy Luck Club, Wild Swans) but then grew tired of the cliched plots of ABCs who tried to sensationalise their grannies' stories in wartime China.
So I switched to non-fiction such as "1421-the year China discovered the world" by Gavin Menzies or "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynn Truss...Also I'm always scouring for history books and biographies of famous figure at Borders. Anyone loves history books like me?
I'm rather disappointed with Dan Brown's Da Vinci's Code, like most of you...There are lots of errors that can be spotted by people who are familiar with Renaissance art history. I can't believe Brown didn't validate his facts before he published his book. Fancy him saying that Princess Di and Charles got married at Westminster Abbey!! Goodness gracious, it was her funeral lah! Then the so called "chalice" which he alluded to the pyramid at Louvre museum is also not accurate. And most of his conspiracy theories about the paintings are not original at all. *shake head*
I love American Literature (Henry James, Mark Twain, James Cooper Fenimore, Ernest Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald) and Modern English Literature (Evelyn Waugh, CS Lewis).
For a while, I was into American Chinese Literature (Joy Luck Club, Wild Swans) but then grew tired of the cliched plots of ABCs who tried to sensationalise their grannies' stories in wartime China.
So I switched to non-fiction such as "1421-the year China discovered the world" by Gavin Menzies or "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" by Lynn Truss...Also I'm always scouring for history books and biographies of famous figure at Borders. Anyone loves history books like me?
I'm rather disappointed with Dan Brown's Da Vinci's Code, like most of you...There are lots of errors that can be spotted by people who are familiar with Renaissance art history. I can't believe Brown didn't validate his facts before he published his book. Fancy him saying that Princess Di and Charles got married at Westminster Abbey!! Goodness gracious, it was her funeral lah! Then the so called "chalice" which he alluded to the pyramid at Louvre museum is also not accurate. And most of his conspiracy theories about the paintings are not original at all. *shake head*