sadya

Nice to meet everyone on this board. Sigh, finally a place with so many topics about books, that I will always have something to read, even when I''m not reading a book. I was born in Holland, but my parents are from Pakistan. I have two children, an 11-year old daughter and a son who is 9. My daughter shares my love for books and writing stories. My son loves books too but mostly likes them to be read to him. You could say we are into books a bit. I even go as far as telling people sometimes that I have a third child, a book. Yes, you can call me nuts. I like different kinds of books. Both Fiction and non-fiction, contemporary and classics. I have too many favorite books and authors to name them all. I'm looking forward to reading your views and theories about books I've also read and to find out about books and authors whom I don't know yet.

Some books don't really have a plot, but I still enjoy them because of the way they are written, they aren't really meant to have a story line, their purpose was something different. But I also like books with something I didn't expect. I remember 'Redeem the time' by Sue Frost. I couldn't predict the ending. There were different story lines coming together near the end. And just when you think you know all, there is another surprise. It tells the story of two women living in different times, but meeting each other when one is old and about to die, while the other still has a whole life to live. Their past is very interesting and their lives have more in common than the reader first thinks.

Agree with most of the responses here. But I never thought I'd come across a discussion about the necessity of reading a prologue or not!

I finished 'Forrest Gump' by Winston Groom recently, it was even funnier than the movie. First line: 'Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.' And first sentence of 'Gump & Co.': 'Let me say this: Everybody makes mistakes, which is why they put a rubber mat around spitoons.'

This one is from a Dutch book: 'Ik liep mijn ongeluk tegemoet, maar opgewekt.' Roughly translated as 'I went to meet my misfortune, but cheerfuly.' The book is 'Het Slotfeest' by Jacques Kruithof. I like this thread a lot. It drew my attention to many books from authors I don't even know, but I'm so curious that I can't wait to read them! Another one I like, simple yet very effective, is: 'Call me Ismael' from 'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville. It draws the reader in immediately.