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  1. saliotthomas

    Yet another "100 greatest books" list...

    whoua Jojo,long time no see. I think ABC got this list somewhere,with a few travel guides on Tadjikistan... :flowers:
  2. saliotthomas

    Yet another "100 greatest books" list...

    I think Mark is right.:flowers:
  3. saliotthomas

    Banned

    Dan Brown is our god,but Welcome anyway. We don't ban people,we use cattle prod,bamboo under the fingernails and flowers. And there is no warning. So guys here wish they were banned long ago....
  4. saliotthomas

    July 2009: Milan Kundera: The Joke

    Well thanks for the flowers Peder I'm an expert in neither of them(Nabokov 2 Kundera 4)but i really can see a link betwin them.Kundera as a strange way of constructing his novels and there styles are very different.But maybe certain novels i haven't read are a bit similar. I don't think if...
  5. saliotthomas

    July 2009: Milan Kundera: The Joke

    I feel so lonely... Where are the others who voted for this book or some guys vote for the sake of it. Damn them to hell.. Is there some bookies who take bets on the BOTM...???!!!:confused: I'll read it anyway because i like Kundera but if you guys feel like talking about another one...
  6. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In a benedictine monastery with men who lives for books,and aslo ,it seems ,die for them. Umberto Eco-The name of the rose
  7. saliotthomas

    Utopias and Dystopias

    There was also a thread about this awhile ago but --> http://www.bookandreader.com/forums/f25/dystopias-10484.html
  8. saliotthomas

    Who is your favourite author, and why?

    John Ringo.:flowers:
  9. saliotthomas

    Per Petterson: Out Stealing Horses

    This is a great book,not to long,and plainty happens all the way.Wild horse rides,the war,outdoor work,and the infinite lanscape of Norway. I like the slow construction of the story,the relations betwin characteres and their personality. The friend Jong not looking his father in the eye,then...
  10. saliotthomas

    I think I have just been mentally scarred for life.

    Coming from a guy working in a nuclear plant,i s'pose your close and not so close neighbourgs should wet their pants.
  11. saliotthomas

    Which books did you read in June?

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn-One day in the life of Ivan.. 4 Andrei Makine-The life of an Unknown man 3 +ou 4 Boualem Sansal-Le village de l'Allemand 4 moin Conn Iggulden-Genghis 3 et demi Frank cullotta 3 Thomas Bernhard -The Looser entre 1 et 5 Barjavel-le voyageur imprudent-at...
  12. saliotthomas

    July 2009: Milan Kundera: The Joke

    I started it. Seems nice. My French edition had an apraising prologue by Aragon. Somehow i have the feeling we won't be much discussing Kundera.
  13. saliotthomas

    Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind

    So now your ready for stieg Larsson Millenium.:D Spot on as always BG.
  14. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    I liked it.No very well written but interesting. In Norway,out stealing horses but not very successfull at it. Out Stealing Horses-Per Petterson
  15. saliotthomas

    Very calm...very very quiet...deadly

    I blame the parental security they've put on Libra PC.
  16. saliotthomas

    Very calm...very very quiet...deadly

    Around here. A few ghost,empty corridors,creaking doors....
  17. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    In the states near New York,i didn't kill my wife but i'm so damn stupid that everyone start to think i did. The blunderer-The great Patricia Highsmith
  18. saliotthomas

    Clive Cussler

    A fellow forumist has a very interesting blog about Cussler amazing writing gift. He goes step by step through Valhalla Rising and he is spot-on underlining the immense talent of Clive:D Here is an exemple If your interested in more here The Thriller in a Manila is the full thing. I love...
  19. saliotthomas

    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    I have mix feelings about this one,specialy after some time.I would be curious of your thoughts BG. I'm in Irak and a surgical strike has mistaken a weeding i my village with a terrorist gathering.But they apologize so no hard feelings.... The sirens of Baghdad-Yasmina Khadra
  20. saliotthomas

    Dan Simmons

    I will ... Did you finish Drood? I wanted to read the Dickens story first but i got a bad audi copy. And yes it is the vampire one.(sort of making a cure for aids with vampire blood...)
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