[chica]

Originally Posted by Shoegal

Try to see if there are bio on the following infamous serial killers:

Andrei Chikatilo
Jeffrey Dahmer
Albert Fish
Eddie Gein
BTK
Zodiac

thanks shoegal, will look em up :-)

[chica]

Originally Posted by Tezza

Chica - Mao's Last Dancer is a really great read. I highly recommend it to anyone. It's a true story about a world famous classical ballet dancer, Li Cunxin, who spent his childhood in horrendous poverty with his family in China. One day he got a lucky break that changed his life...I won't say anything more as I'll give away the story!!!!!!
Li Cunxin is a great friend of mine as I'm also a professional dancer. Li is currently living with his family in Sydney Australia, after dancing for many years with the Australian Ballet Company, American Ballet Theatre and numerous other companies.

The book isn't just about dancing...it's fascinating reading about the culture and what life in China was like during that time. Just a biography of his whole life really.

My older brother isn't an overly big reader and doesn't know a thing about ballet, but he read the whole book from cover to cover in 2 days and loved it!
It's a great book for anyone!

tezza, got that down on my list of books to read

cheers

[chica]

Originally Posted by Vix

There are some amazing Indian writes that really deserve to be better known...I read a novel entitled 'River of Fire' which I would definitely recommend, but to back up my earlier point I can't remember the name of the author....'Anil's Ghost' by Michael Ondatjee (sp? author of 'The English Patient' is also worth a read)

Chica...'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' and 'Siddhartha' are two of my all time favourites as well!

read another one of kundera recently....'ignorance' but it wasn't like the other one... nothing to write home about!

i have just finished reading 'the house of blue mangoes' - i defintely recommend it... so much packed into one book.... an excellent read.

[lychini]

Cool thanksx, that book Mao's Last Dancer sounds interesting, will get that for the plane - want to read at some stage Jung Chang's latest bout Mao? One of the writers i like Joan Didion has a new book out but her memoir I might have to get a bit later xxx

[rNb99]

Well, I don't do much reading but I do enjoy reading the Harry Potter novels.

[Shoegal]

Interesting and for those with a taste for the dark side:

"...Or Not To Be" A collection of suicide notes by Marc Etkind

Sometimes, life is just too much.

[Valencia1]

I wonder how many readers really understand The Unbearable Lightness of Being. I've read it several times but still don't understand. Many years ago I met someone who understood and explained it (sorry I forgot his explanation) quite nicely. He (he was a philosophy major in university) explained the author was talking about philosphical ideologies.