Dimitri Carl - ProfilesArchive

About Me

PM me then I'll tell you who I am.

My Interests

Martial Arts, swimming, badminton, rowing, football and reading.

I'd like to meet:

You

Music:

Classical (Opera/Orchestra), Classicpop (Mario Frangoulis, Josh Groban, etc.), Latin, Jazz and Broadway.

Movies:

Y TÃº Mama Tambien, Belle Epoque, El Crimen del Padre Amarro and any latin movies.

Television:

Saber y Ganar, Comedy Central, Will and Grace, Survivor, Fear Factor, Amazing Race, Believe it or Not, Telediario (TVe), Talk Asia (CNN), BBC news, French Movies (TV5), Alias, F1/Ultimate Fighting Challenge and Sports (ESPN, Star, Solar )

Books:

My favorite authors are: 1. Andrew M. Greeley, I've been reading his novels since my High School days. My ultime fave are An Occasion of Sin, Thy Brother's Wife, Patience of Saints and Cardinal Sins of course 2. John Grisham, I have read all his novels oops except for The Broker. My fave among his novels are A Painted House, A Time to Kill, The Partner and Skipping Christmas. 3. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, How I wish someone will give me a spanish version of his novels. 4. Milan Kundera 5. John Sandford for his Prey Series.... 6. Anne Rice for her Vampire Chronicles 7. Tolkien 8. Scott Turow for Pleading Guilty, The Laws of our Father, Burden of Proof and Presumed Innocent 9.Harper Lee for To Kill A Mockingbird 10. Pearl S. Buck for The Good Earth 11. Andre Dubus III for House of Sand and Fog 12. Mary Higgins Clark almost all of her novels 13. Wilbur Smith for Rage and Golden Fox 14. Caleb Carr for The Alienist 15. Leo Tolstoy for AnnaKarenina and War and Peace 16. F. Sionil Jose for Viajero 17. Lualhati Bautista and of course 18. Bob Ong for his LMAO storiesAside from novels I also read self-help books i.e. Psycho-cybernetics, Roadless travelled series, Essential Managers, Books of Dale Carnegies, Stephen Covey, Spencer Johnson; Philo books i.e. Robert Greene's 48 Laws of Power, Machiavelli's Principles, etc.

My Blog

The Lost Boy by Dave Pelzer

Part 2 of 3 book series about the life of an abused child. Here Dave tells us about the life of parentless child who transfer from one foster home to another. How he seek attention. How he show-off s...
Posted by Dimitri Carl on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Child Called 'It' by Dave Pelzer

Sometimes I asked myself why some parents loved to create another human life and at the same they loved hurting them either physically, emotionally or both. As Lad who grew-up in a country side and w...
Posted by Dimitri Carl on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

HOUSE OF SAND AND FOR by ANDRE DUBUS III

Last December 20, 2004, my friends and I went to SM-Manila to buy some Christmas presents for our loveones. As usual my friends were late and I had eaten my brunch in a Japanese restaurant when they a...
Posted by Dimitri Carl on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Loves Music Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark

A couple of weeks ago, while I was waiting for our turn to practiced martial arts in YMCA-Makati my friends and I were watching TV. If Im not mistaken it was TV-Patrol World. Though I didnt really ...
Posted by Dimitri Carl on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Last Juror by John Grisham

Another novel of Grisham, about Willie Traynor, who came to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year the 23 year old found himself the owner of Ford Cou...
Posted by Dimitri Carl on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Deception Point by Dan Brown

This is the 4th novel of Dan Brown that I have read. As expected it is truly a page-turner. Unlike his other 3 books this time I am not that so disappointed with the ending and the twist is hmm accep...
Posted by Dimitri Carl on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Dead Languages A Novel by David Shields

A first novel of David Shields that I have read and I want to read more of his works in the future. The story is about a boy who grows up stuttering so badly that he comes to worship words. Instead of...
Posted by Dimitri Carl on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Viajero by F. Sionil Jose

This is my first time to read an English novel written by a Filipino author. I bought it not because someone recommended it but because of its title. It looked like interesting in a Spanish title hu...
Posted by Dimitri Carl on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Little Bit

i was kinda hesitant to tell you should i let you know? i was never really like this before need i say more? or maybe i'm confused when you are near me i don't know what to do or i should ...
Posted by Dimitri Carl on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Way You Look at Me

no one ever saw me like you do all the things that i could add up to i never knew just what a smile was worth but your eyes say everything without a single word 'cause there's something in the w...
Posted by Dimitri Carl on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST