Surprisingly it looks like this isn't already a thread, so go ahread and name you couple of favorite books. Mine, in order of favoriteness
Franny and Zooey-JD Salinger
Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger
Mother Night-Kurt Vonnegut
Dharma Bums-Jack Keroauc
Animal Farm-Geroge Orwell
As runners up... Maybe Heart of Darkness or The Old Man and the Sea
Favorite Books
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La Invencion de Morel, by Adolfo Bioy y Casares
Fight Club by Chuck Pahlaniuk
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, written by some dude.
Word Freak, by Stefan Fatsis (about competitive scrabble, kinda similar to the footbag scene)
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Robin Dunbar.
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle
Fight Club by Chuck Pahlaniuk
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, written by some dude.
Word Freak, by Stefan Fatsis (about competitive scrabble, kinda similar to the footbag scene)
Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of Language by Robin Dunbar.
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle
Fiction:
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahnuik
American Pyscho - Bret Easton Ellis
Valis - Phillip K Dick
Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
MacBeth - William Shakespear
A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Non Fiction:
Long Walk To Freedom - Nelson Mandela
The Sacred Balance - David Suzuki
On Equilibrium - John Ralston Saul
There are others but I forget. It's a little worrying that the first five mentioned are all about crazy people.
Invisible Monsters - Chuck Palahnuik
American Pyscho - Bret Easton Ellis
Valis - Phillip K Dick
Catcher in the Rye - J D Salinger
MacBeth - William Shakespear
A Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Non Fiction:
Long Walk To Freedom - Nelson Mandela
The Sacred Balance - David Suzuki
On Equilibrium - John Ralston Saul
There are others but I forget. It's a little worrying that the first five mentioned are all about crazy people.
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Harry Potter (all 5)
Ghost Boy
Their eyes were watching God- Zora Neale Hurston
Escape from Warsaw- Ian Serraillier
Kits Wilderness - David Almond
Things not seen- Andrew Clements
Touching Spirit Bear- Ben Mikaelsen
Currently reading- The House of the Scorpion. (almost done)
I like this topic, i need help. What books would you recommend for me. I know for X-mas i want to get a couple. I like fiction books mostly. Also books with a good meaning behind it. I'm 15 so i cant read college level books, something comprehensible. it would be much appreciated.
Ghost Boy
Their eyes were watching God- Zora Neale Hurston
Escape from Warsaw- Ian Serraillier
Kits Wilderness - David Almond
Things not seen- Andrew Clements
Touching Spirit Bear- Ben Mikaelsen
Currently reading- The House of the Scorpion. (almost done)
I like this topic, i need help. What books would you recommend for me. I know for X-mas i want to get a couple. I like fiction books mostly. Also books with a good meaning behind it. I'm 15 so i cant read college level books, something comprehensible. it would be much appreciated.
Ashley Danowski
"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well spent brings happy death."
"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well spent brings happy death."
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Catcher in the Rye is definatly a good book for any half sensible teenager to read. I read it last year 14/15 and it was epicly life changing. It is great if your looking for a book fuller of deep meanings and metaphors, but also if your just in a for a good read.
It is written is stream of consciousness, which basically means its written as the character thinks back and remembers things. Thus it is written in extremely simple language, that of a 16 year old.
BUY THIS BOOK
In fact the only reason I put Franny and Zooey ahead of CITR is because I like religious themed books.
It is written is stream of consciousness, which basically means its written as the character thinks back and remembers things. Thus it is written in extremely simple language, that of a 16 year old.
BUY THIS BOOK
In fact the only reason I put Franny and Zooey ahead of CITR is because I like religious themed books.
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If you like fiction you could try anything by Terry Pratchet in the discworld series... if you want a serious book though then don't go for them, because there pretty off the wall. There kind of like spoofs of normal fantasy stories like LOTR and such I guess...I like this topic, i need help. What books would you recommend for me. I know for X-mas i want to get a couple. I like fiction books mostly. Also books with a good meaning behind it. I'm 15 so i cant read college level books, something comprehensible. it would be much appreciated.
Dustin Rhodes
I would recommend some of the fantasy fiction set in the forgotten realms. It's got the magic of harry potter in a less modern presentation. Fun, light reading with good beating evil.Ashleygrlshreder wrote: What books would you recommend for me.
Richard Awlinson's has a nice avatar trilogy that was quite enjoyable starting out in shadowdale.
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wow, 3 of my favorite series right there. all i have to add is the ender series by orson scott card. i haven't checked if any new ones have come out yet, but will check tomorrow...crazydwarf wrote: Chronicles of Narnia
Harry Potter
Discworld Series
as to the disc world series, i have all but 2 books (Monster Regiment has just become available) of the 26 or so novels Terry Pratchet has done for it. i also have all the maps: Deaths Domain, The Streets of Ankh-Morpork, A tourist's Guide to Lancer and The Disc World Map. i really want "Nanny Ogg's Cookbook" which i haven't been able to get my hands on, and the disc world companion, just so i can say i own them all. i am dissapointed that he switched cover artists though. the last 3 have all had a different artist where as the first 20 odd had the same guy. Ash, if you're looking for a good laugh i recomend any of the books in this series.
some other favs
1984
Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas
Barroqanova
the outsiders
the instructions on KD.
L'Étranger
books i want to read
the art of zen and motorcycle maintenance
the Galaxy Hitchhiker series
some biographies i've been meaning to read
A.G.
Anybody who read the Narnia books should have caught on to the title of that video I made... ¬_________¬
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
-His Dark Materials trilogy
-Harry Potter (I'm still on the fourth with all the readings I have to do for my english class)
I don't read much and I'm really slow but I'm starting to appreciate it a lot more now! I can't put Harry Potter down! I can't wait for the fifth (and the fourth movie!!)
Ashley -- I really really really enjoyed the His Dark Materials that I listed here, I think it's by Philip Pullman. It's a sci-fi/fantasy similar to Harry Potter (in that it takes place in a modern world -- actually, it's very similar in other aspects too). It's super cool and I cried
I think it was the first book where I actually found it difficult to stop reading!
-Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
-His Dark Materials trilogy
-Harry Potter (I'm still on the fourth with all the readings I have to do for my english class)
I don't read much and I'm really slow but I'm starting to appreciate it a lot more now! I can't put Harry Potter down! I can't wait for the fifth (and the fourth movie!!)
Ashley -- I really really really enjoyed the His Dark Materials that I listed here, I think it's by Philip Pullman. It's a sci-fi/fantasy similar to Harry Potter (in that it takes place in a modern world -- actually, it's very similar in other aspects too). It's super cool and I cried
I think it was the first book where I actually found it difficult to stop reading!Word Andrew!!
I had all the first 25 discworld books - but I don't really know what's happened to them. The discworld series is really good and on so many different levels. I feel like every time I reread one of the books I get a new joke or reference. Small Gods is probably my favourite discworld book - but I really like a lot of the books involving the Watch for their references to politics - and the ones involving the Magicians for their references to science - especially physics. Terry Pratchett seems like the most well read person in the world - I am sure that everything is a reference to some real event or theory.
I don't mind the Narnia series - although C.S Lewis' strong christian beliefs are fairly obvious and I felt like he was preaching at me in the last book.
I don't like the Harry Potter books at all - I find the characters way too stereotyped - but I guess I'm not really the target audience.
I don't think very many books have made me cry. The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki did - there was a quote from his daughter at the Rio environment summit. The other book was a short story by Philip K Dick called "Breakfast at Twilight" - which is probably the most powerful anti war story I have read. Oh also a book of quotes from Australian soldiers who fought in Vietnam also made me cry. I guess three books is probably a fair bit for a guy - even a "metrosexual" like myself
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I had all the first 25 discworld books - but I don't really know what's happened to them. The discworld series is really good and on so many different levels. I feel like every time I reread one of the books I get a new joke or reference. Small Gods is probably my favourite discworld book - but I really like a lot of the books involving the Watch for their references to politics - and the ones involving the Magicians for their references to science - especially physics. Terry Pratchett seems like the most well read person in the world - I am sure that everything is a reference to some real event or theory.
I don't mind the Narnia series - although C.S Lewis' strong christian beliefs are fairly obvious and I felt like he was preaching at me in the last book.
I don't like the Harry Potter books at all - I find the characters way too stereotyped - but I guess I'm not really the target audience.
I don't think very many books have made me cry. The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki did - there was a quote from his daughter at the Rio environment summit. The other book was a short story by Philip K Dick called "Breakfast at Twilight" - which is probably the most powerful anti war story I have read. Oh also a book of quotes from Australian soldiers who fought in Vietnam also made me cry. I guess three books is probably a fair bit for a guy - even a "metrosexual" like myself
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Yeh I've only read enders game but that was really good...wow, 3 of my favorite series right there. all i have to add is the ender series by orson scott card. i haven't checked if any new ones have come out yet, but will check tomorrow...
darn, I'm not as cool as you or Andrew, I havn't even read them all yet, I think I have like 2 or 3 to go...I had all the first 25 discworld books
Yeh I have to agree with you there Erik that was a great trilogy, I should have put it on my list.-His Dark Materials trilogy
It's cool to see all these books that I really enjoy on other people's lists too.
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Well it does come through a bit. Sorta like Rudyard Kipling, talented but just a bit too theistic and proud about it to really appeal to me.
Douglas Adams - the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy is a brilliant series (despite petering out into mediocre vitriole by the end) and his other books are right up there too; meaning of liff and the deeper meaning of liff are hilarious as is the dirk gently series.
Tolkien - What can i say, i've read them (LOTR and Hobbit) three times (just begining the fellowship for the fourth) and i still can't word how intensely i connected with those books. A rainy day, a warm bed and the lord of the rings...
Michener - Poland, Texas, Chesapeake, Alaska, Space... If you want an epic novel based in a factual historical setting James A Michener is the man.
Shakespeare - Get around the "ye olde" crap and he's a remarkably effective writer. I prefer Lear to MacBeth. I prefer any of his tradgedy to a midsummer nights dream.
Orwell - For all the 1984 fans you HAVE to read Animal Farm. That book gave me chills.
Theirs so many more but i could very well be here all night listing them so i'll stop myself.
Douglas Adams - the hitch hikers guide to the galaxy is a brilliant series (despite petering out into mediocre vitriole by the end) and his other books are right up there too; meaning of liff and the deeper meaning of liff are hilarious as is the dirk gently series.
Tolkien - What can i say, i've read them (LOTR and Hobbit) three times (just begining the fellowship for the fourth) and i still can't word how intensely i connected with those books. A rainy day, a warm bed and the lord of the rings...
Michener - Poland, Texas, Chesapeake, Alaska, Space... If you want an epic novel based in a factual historical setting James A Michener is the man.
Shakespeare - Get around the "ye olde" crap and he's a remarkably effective writer. I prefer Lear to MacBeth. I prefer any of his tradgedy to a midsummer nights dream.
Orwell - For all the 1984 fans you HAVE to read Animal Farm. That book gave me chills.
Theirs so many more but i could very well be here all night listing them so i'll stop myself.
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