Have you just finished a book you would like to highly recommend and talk about.. this is the thread for you!
Try keep it in line with books that you have just finished and thought were amazing reads.
This month so far I have completed two books that I would like to recommend:
The rule of four - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomsan
Blurb:
Reviews:
"A stunning first novel; a perfect blend of suspense and a sensitive coming of age story. If Scott Fitzgerald, Umberto Eco, and Dan Brown teamed up to write a novel, the result would be THE RULE OF FOUR. An extraordinary and brilliant accomplishment—a must read." —Nelson DeMille
"Profoundly erudite ... the ultimate puzzle book." —The New York Times Book Review
"This debut packs all the esoteric information of The DaVinci Code but with lovely writing reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History... a compulsively readable novel." —People, Critic's Choice/4 Stars
"[A] Da Vinci Code for people with brains." - Independent (London)
This is probally one of the most thought out fiction books I have come across. I really had to read this one slowly to absorb everything that is thrown at you. Its a really intelligent publication.
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Blurb:
Reviews:
“Stunning…a complete work of literature that succeeds in exploring the culture of a previously obscure nation that has become a pivot point in the global politics of the new millennium.”
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Like Gone with the Wind, this extraordinary first novel locates the personal struggles of everyday people in the terrible sweep of history.”
- People
“Poignant…The Kite Runner offers a moving portrait of modern Afghanistan, from its pre-Russian-invasion glory days through the terrible reign of the Taliban.”
- Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A)
Just like 'Wild Swans - Three daughters of China', blew me away, so did this book. You really dont have a clue about their reality until you experience a bit of it through their eyes and word.
What books have you just read that really moved you in some way? Please post blurbs and reviews and give your opinion
Try keep it in line with books that you have just finished and thought were amazing reads.
This month so far I have completed two books that I would like to recommend:
The rule of four - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomsan
Blurb:
Code:
An ivy league murder, a mysterious coded manuscript, and the secrets of a Renaissance prince collide memorably in THE RULE OF FOUR — a brilliant work of fiction that weaves together suspense and scholarship, high art and unimaginable treachery.
It's Easter at Princeton. Seniors are scrambling to finish their theses. And two students, Tom Sullivan and Paul Harris, are a hair's breadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili—a renowned text attributed to an Italian nobleman, a work that has baffled scholars since its publication in 1499. For Tom, their research has been a link to his family's past — and an obstacle to the woman he loves. For Paul, it has become an obsession, the very reason for living. But as their deadline looms, research has stalled — until a long-lost diary surfaces with a vital clue. And when a fellow researcher is murdered just hours later, Tom and Paul realize that they are not the first to glimpse the Hypnerotomachia's secrets.
Suddenly the stakes are raised, and as the two friends sift through the codes and riddles at the heart of the text, they are beginning to see the manuscript in a new light—not simply as a story of faith, eroticism and pedantry, but as a bizarre, coded mathematical maze. And as they come closer and closer to deciphering the final puzzle of a book that has shattered careers, friendships and families, they know that their own lives are in mortal danger. Because at least one person has been killed for knowing too much. And they know even more.
From the streets of fifteenth-century Rome to the rarified realm of the Ivy League, from a shocking 500 year-old murder scene to the drama of a young man's coming of age, THE RULE OF FOUR takes us on an entertaining, illuminating tour of history—as it builds to a pinnacle of nearly unbearable suspense.Reviews:
"A stunning first novel; a perfect blend of suspense and a sensitive coming of age story. If Scott Fitzgerald, Umberto Eco, and Dan Brown teamed up to write a novel, the result would be THE RULE OF FOUR. An extraordinary and brilliant accomplishment—a must read." —Nelson DeMille
"Profoundly erudite ... the ultimate puzzle book." —The New York Times Book Review
"This debut packs all the esoteric information of The DaVinci Code but with lovely writing reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History... a compulsively readable novel." —People, Critic's Choice/4 Stars
"[A] Da Vinci Code for people with brains." - Independent (London)
This is probally one of the most thought out fiction books I have come across. I really had to read this one slowly to absorb everything that is thrown at you. Its a really intelligent publication.
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Blurb:
Code:
THE KITE RUNNER
Over five years on the New York Times bestseller list, and published in 42 different languages.
Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable, beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir and Hassan nonetheless grow up in different worlds: Amir is the son of a prominent and wealthy man, while Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant, is a Hazara, member of a shunned ethnic minority. Their intertwined lives, and their fates, reflect the eventual tragedy of the world around them. When the Soviets invade and Amir and his father flee the country for a new life in California, Amir thinks that he has escaped his past. And yet he cannot leave the memory of Hassan behind him.
The Kite Runner is a novel about friendship, betrayal, and the price of loyalty. It is about the bonds between fathers and sons, and the power of their lies. Written against a history that has not been told in fiction before, The Kite Runner describes the rich culture and beauty of a land in the process of being destroyed. But with the devastation, Khaled Hosseini also gives us hope: through the novel's faith in the power of reading and storytelling, and in the possibilities he shows for redemption.Reviews:
“Stunning…a complete work of literature that succeeds in exploring the culture of a previously obscure nation that has become a pivot point in the global politics of the new millennium.”
- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Like Gone with the Wind, this extraordinary first novel locates the personal struggles of everyday people in the terrible sweep of history.”
- People
“Poignant…The Kite Runner offers a moving portrait of modern Afghanistan, from its pre-Russian-invasion glory days through the terrible reign of the Taliban.”
- Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A)
Just like 'Wild Swans - Three daughters of China', blew me away, so did this book. You really dont have a clue about their reality until you experience a bit of it through their eyes and word.
What books have you just read that really moved you in some way? Please post blurbs and reviews and give your opinion
