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by Hey who's got some good book suggestions? I want to start reading more and if anybody has any books they really like, if you could post the name of the book, the author, and a brief description, I'd appreciate it. Also, any books from the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society that you really like too. Thanks guys
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In Light of India by Octavio Paz. One of my aaaaallll time favorite books! If you like stuff about, religion, culture and history it's a good book. The book gives an overview of india's religion, culture and political history through te poetic eyes of Octavio paz. LOved this book!!! definitely 5/5 *****
Brave New World, by: I don't know and can't look it up cause I gotta go to school. It's a dystopia book about what the world would be like in a perfect society..but it's really not perfect. If you like that try 1984 if you haven't read it and a ClockWork Orange.
I read Brave New World (by Aldous Huxley) and 1984 (by George Orwell) back in high school... both good reads. I would also suggest, seeing it's 007 week, the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming... notably From Russia With Love, Moonraker, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and You Only Live Twice. If you think "Well I saw the movies" FORGET IT! The books are much better and except for OHMSS are NOTHING like the film versions... oh, theocratically the Proclaimers book is outstanding as well as any of the Year Books!
ahhh high school... brave new world should have a pg-13 rating
i started to read brave new world and my brain melted and oozed out of my head. 1984 was soooo good but very long. Clockwork orange was beautiful but takes some effort to get past the strange language used
Brave New World really confused you? I do remember the begining not making sense at first but once you're past the first chapter it all falls into place and it's simply AMAZING. I do love 1984 because it's the first dystopia book I read and there is something about it that's depressing yet wonderful all at the same time. However, I would say Brave New World is just as good or even better. Clockwork Orange is just funny and awesome (I saw the movie before I read the book) but the language is a bit hard to get used to especially when your book doesn't come with a glossary.
no it jus bored me. like it bored thru my brain
I would say "The Best Non-Required Reading of 2001" I think it's called...AWESOME book of short stories. One in there is about a guy, a writer, who just walks into a dot-com company one day and starts working, says he's a "project manager", even though he doesn't know anyone and doesn't really have a job. It's very good though. Until people get laid off ... :)
mmm.. I just finished "Solaris" by Stanislaw Lem which was made into a movie thats being released this Friday I think. From the ads its seems NOTHING like the book, but oh well. The book was kinda slow-going but interesting. Its about an ocean planet who's sea is "alive"
Also I'm a big fan of Kurt Vonnegut, of the books of his I read I loved:
Slaughterhouse 5 - horrors of WWII from an American's viewpoint (sorta scifi, depends how you look at it)
Cat's Cradle - reckless technology (sci-fi-ish)
Mother Night. - Mother Night is one of my all-time favorite books. wow. its about paradoxes, spies, propaganda and Nazi Germany. (straight fiction)
also Sphere by Michael Chrichton was really good but I read it before I saw the movie, so if you saw the movie it would ruin it for you.
Its basically a sci-fi novel about something they find under the ocean that shouldn't be there.
I have Cat's Cradle up in my room because I was supposed to read it for my History final project last year but I read Brave New World instead..is it definetly worth making time for?
"Cat's Cradle" for a History class? that sounds kinda far-fetched. I could understand "Slaughterhouse 5" but Cat's Cradle isn't that deep into History, just a few mentions of the Manhattan Project and stuff. hmm.
Actually, it was for my final project. One of the choices was read three dystopia books (or watch six dystopia movies) and write a paper where you would explain which you thought would be most likely to happen for the United States (because it was US history) or what mixture of the books would be most likely to happen. Reading three novels in a week was cool.
Dean will say yes that it's awesome but I think it's just ok. I got really mad at the stupidity and madness in the end. Definitely read Mother Night. But, read some of his other books first. I read Mother Night first and now all of his other books just don't cut it.
I suggest that you read just cheap steamy romance novel about love in the war town south during the civil war
OUR TOWN ... haha yea right... Cantebury tales by chaucer is pretty good. wish i had time to pick it up again. but i've been watching alias.
Yo! Our Town is THE book! We acted that out in my 7th grade class and I got to play Emily..oh the memories.
I like Alexandre Dumas-anything by him, but my fav is the Count of Monte Cristo. Definitely one of the best books I ever read. The movie was almost nothing like the book which is 10,000 times better (I was so mad that the movie was so crappy in comparison)! I also really liked The Caine Mutiny but i forget who wrote it.
SciFi faves
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Arthur C. Clarke: Rendezvous with Rama
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheight 451, The Illustrated Man (short stories)
Isaac Asimov: Nightfall, Foundation, Caves of Steel
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
Carl Sagan: Contact (the book was, of course, better than the movie. i did enjoy the movie though)
Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Suspense/Spy stuff/Adventure
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Robert Ludlum: The Bourne Identity
Clive Cussler: Treasure, Night Probe
Fantasy
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J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings
Easy
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Norton Juster: The Phantom Tollbooth
Taro Gomi: Everyone Poops
man, so many more books.... i'll leave you with this list for now.
i did really like the phantom tollbooth. i read it in like 4th grade though...haha...and i worry about any book called "everyone poops"
Phantom tollbooth. thanks ian for reminding me about that book.
man.. i read that book in 5th grade i think. and i loved itt....
clearly my school was more advanced that thai's
well 5th or 2nd.. i dont remember alright.. but i went with 5th.. sounded nicer. it might have been 3rd actually.
I like James Joyce, "Ulysses" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". "1984" is my all-time fav. I've read it about 7 times. I loved "On the Road", Kerouac; "The Maltese Falcon" Dashiell Hammett; "Cat's Cradle" and anything Vonnugut; "Point Counter-Point" Huxley; "Farewell to Arms" Hemingway; "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" Ken Kesey; "Catcher in the Rye" or anything JD Salinger. The last book I read was "The Way of all Flesh" by Samuel Butler and to be honest, I couldn't get through it, it was too midwest-frontier-y to me. All the others I listed aren't like that, they really held my interest.
Supposedly Catcher In the Rye is not good unless you read it before you're eighteen. Otherwise people find it dumb and childish. If you do read it as a teenager though, most everyone can relate to the protagonist in some way.
Is Portrait really good? For my Lit class this year we were supposed to read four books during the summer and then we spend all year disecting them. Portrait is the last one we do and I haven't read it yet, though supposedly from what I heard in class..it's horrible.
Prisoner of Time by: Caroline B. Cooney. its really good about 2 people who go back in time to the um... past and they fall in love with some rich people in the past. it sounds kinda wossy but its really good
Welcome to the Ark by Stephanie S. Tolan.
It's about this girl who is supposed to be a genuis and her parents have a million dollar company by teaching others how to raise their kids to be genuis's. she hates it though and her parents place her in a psychological place for kids. It's about the 3 other kids she meets there and how they have this bond with other kids all around the world who are "abused" by the world but are accepted by eachother. it's one of my favorite books. it says some stuff about mind powers but it ends up they are talking about character strength so don't be thrown off by it.
The Bourne Identity
such a good movie and book. a little confusing but its a series and you get to understand it all. very nice.
i forgot about this one. It's really a book of poems but they just crack me up. I've had the book since the 3rd grade so it might seem really simple but they're all just so cute. It's called If you're not here, please raise your hand.
Any of the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle or Hardy Boys books would be good!
Just thought of one you really should read: Learn PHP in 21 Days
haha. very funny. but don't you mean "Learn Linux Kernel Hacking in 24 Hours"?
thanks for all your comments guys! but i just realized that i'm WAAAAAY to lazy to actually go to the library, get a book, and read it!
yea i couldda told you that...
actually this helps me becaue i can't seem to find any good fiction books latelely and i am getting bored of science textbooks.
by the way, i was kidding, i definitely wanna check some of these out
i actually wasn't kidding... i never read any of these books
I love this journal so much. Books are the best!!
how about the Dune series? frank herbert wrote six dune books. the original has alot more detail than the movies, so don't be turned off if you've seen them.
Ok, I'm adding "Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson. I forgot how incredibly great this book is. You have to be a little techno-savvy, ok maybe very techno-savvy, but its also got lots of history stuff in it (WWII), a couple love stories, and treasure hunting.
try learning how to read first
ouch... low blow
whip him some freshness!