This section displays portraits of three users as consumers. They portraits are derived from their reviews and comments on books displayed on the ABC’s “My favorite book” website Found Here.
Name: Michael Morgan
Subject: Oh, I get the point!
Remark:It took me about three years, on and off, to finish “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. When I finally did it was crystal clear to me, clearer than any revelation before or since, that the central theme of this infuriating book was if something is not working out, or is unfathomable, just forget it for a while and then give it another shot. It took me three years of leaving it (reading “Zen…”)alone for a while but I finally got the point and finished the book. And it works – don’t give up; just leave it alone for a while.
Portrait: The jumbled rubix cube represents the time when Michael did not understand the book, the complete rubix cube represents when he finally got it.
Name: John Palazzi
Subject:This book turned me vegiterian
Remark: After Reading “My Year Of Meat” by Ruth L. Ozeki, in which she describes how the meat industry (or parts of it, anyway) in the United States use hormones and other drugs to “enhance” the quality of the beef, and looking into the industry and how it works and the ammount of drugs they used in some areas of the industry, I turned vegitearian. I found the book, even though fiction and based on cerain areas of the industry, to be one of those life changing books that every one should read and carefully consider what they eat
Name:Annekr
Subject:Fave Book
Remark: I was given The Lord of the Rings by a friend about 5 years ago – I didn’t even open it then as I wasn’t into fantasy and was sure I wouldn’t like it! When the first of the movies came out I didn’t bother going to see it. Same with the second one! Before the third movie I was persuaded by my son to go and see it – if only because it was a movie event! Before I actually went to see it I dusted off my copy of the book and started to read – and what a fantastic experience that was! I have never had such a reading experience – the scope, colour, action of the story, along with the wonderful portrayal of all the finer and nobler human emotions such as love, friendship, loyalty – make it a truly remarkable novel. I am now on my third reading since December last year and am currently involved in an online discussion of the book with people of all ages from all parts of the world. I know that this is a book I will read many more times in my life. My only regret is that I didn’t get to it earlier!
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