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the story of Robinson's adventure on an island,And in it there is a person whose name is Friday,like here.--

So somepeople often ask some other people like what book you will take if let you be alone on an island.when i listen these kinds of thing,I said,"obviously,the Defore's book is my favorite."

So, Daniel Defoe, huh? That's a really good choice.

For me, it would be The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown or Mirall Trencat by Mercè Rodoreda (Catalan author)

yes,Defoe,sister, :D

espania....

Davenci is homosexual,suspected,like Shakespere....etc..

I knew about Da Vinci, but not about Shakespeare

Anyone who has ever read Qur'an would say this is the book I would take with me.

there was book, from USA, which was very wonderful! it is

<gong with the wind>

You know what? About Margaret Mitchell's book, Gone With the Wind... Now I'm not sure about the book, but when the movie was made, it wasn't really well accepted in the USA, because of the portrait it made of the slaves. According to it, the slaves lived happily in their masters' mansion, and this was not so. The slaves were really ill-treated in the South, had to work all day and didn't have any rights. The utopic portrait the movie makes about slavery in the Southern States (like I said, I don't know about the book because I haven't read it) really upset the people. So now the movie is not very much on the American televisions.

really? then the author was idealizing the slaves' lives in South America! when I read the novel, I felt that the slaves had been well-treated in South USA. further, this novel was so attractive. at first, my little sister recommended it for me, and she said:"I already read it for 6 times! if you won't read it, you will miss the best novel in the world!"

it seems that the reality is always far from the ideal and imagination.

I love it too!!~~I have got this movie and whenever I have time,I watch it .
Captain Rhett Butlar is the man who is the most perfect in my mind~~~
Some time I just wish I could dance with him and touch his face and be with him.... :P

daniel defoe .... i havn't read his book but heard about it... and hope to read it ............. .. so should i take that book?/
good to read?

I have got the book "Gone with the wind".I have read it many times,but i do not know the ending of this story.Finally,the person whom Captain Rhett loves is?Scarlet or Melaine?

babyghost wrote:I have got the book "Gone with the wind".I have read it many times,but i do not know the ending of this story.Finally,the person whom Captain Rhett loves is?Scarlet or Melaine?

Babyghost, you read the English version? . Have a nice day!!!

He ) that's nice... and what about Scarlett? do u like it too? )

sorry to be a lil off the topic but I just wanted to correct the previous statement about my beloved Shakespeare. Yes, he did have a homosexual relationship with a man but he was bisexual because he liked women too. But Da Vinci was only homosexual and he was antisocial and introverted.

illusion wrote:sorry to be a lil off the topic but I just wanted to correct the previous statement about my beloved Shakespeare. Yes, he did have a homosexual relationship with a man but he was bisexual because he liked women too. But Da Vinci was only homosexual and he was antisocial and introverted.

I didn't know Will was bi and had a homosexual relationship!

Dixie wrote:

illusion wrote:sorry to be a lil off the topic but I just wanted to correct the previous statement about my beloved Shakespeare. Yes, he did have a homosexual relationship with a man but he was bisexual because he liked women too. But Da Vinci was only homosexual and he was antisocial and introverted.

I didn't know Will was bi and had a homosexual relationship!

I've read some books on him and that is 100% true. Well, at least they say it is. But I think every genius has his own somber secretes.

illusion wrote:sorry to be a lil off the topic but I just wanted to correct the previous statement about my beloved Shakespeare. Yes, he did have a homosexual relationship with a man but he was bisexual because he liked women too. But Da Vinci was only homosexual and he was antisocial and introverted.

Oh my god, do you think it is really SO important ??!
Two great men, with so big talents, with so much gifts for mankind...
Only this matters to my mind

Ksju wrote:

illusion wrote:sorry to be a lil off the topic but I just wanted to correct the previous statement about my beloved Shakespeare. Yes, he did have a homosexual relationship with a man but he was bisexual because he liked women too. But Da Vinci was only homosexual and he was antisocial and introverted.

Oh my god, do you think it is really SO important ??!
Two great men, with so big talents, with so much gifts for mankind...
Only this matters to my mind

Yeah, I think it does matter. Because if they had been ordinary, they would've been probably less gifted. Besides for instance Shakespeare wrote some of his sonnets dedicated to a man not a woman, and if he hadn't been in love with the him, then probably we would've not been able to read them now...

Love is still love
no matter to man or to woman.
They were so gifter NOT because they were 'not ordinary' in sexial aspect !!!!!

So all homosexuals are more gifted than normal people !!! What a mad idea