| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 10:33:25 PM | Oh yeah, and if you want some great funny commentary on life, try almost anything by David Sedaris - but it's FAR better to listen to him on audio....
Santaland Diaries is really funny and his first big "hit". | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/12/2009 12:05:16 AM | Memoirs of a Geisha is one of my favorites, I also loved The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.
Water For Elephants--Except for the love story part (I usually hate those parts) I thought this book was really interesting. I don't know how true it was of the circus, but very interesting all the same.
Little Children--I liked this book, all the adults were unlikeable, kind of like real people. 
Children of Men--much better than the awful movie.
A Year of Living Biblically--apparently it's not possible to follow the Bible literally | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/12/2009 9:21:35 PM | All Jane Austen (especially Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park and Emma)
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Anna Karenina (bear with it, it's long, and the characters are all pretty much detestable in their way, yet somehow it's still worth it and makes a big impression.)
The Idiot
The Picture of Dorian Grey
The whole Anne of Green Gables Series (the first, third and fifth books in it are especially good) | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/12/2009 9:58:00 PM | Dawn:
No Country For Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy
have you read The Road? I read it before Oprah got her hands on it and stamped it with the big golden seal of O-ness.
Now don't get me wrong, I thought it was a really god book, brilliantly written, unable to put it down. It's the first book afterward I thought, "I kinda wish I hadn't read that". A few disturbing scenes still stick with me a good couple years later. And it's easy to imagine what happened in there REALLY happening.
I'd recommend it, but I kind of regret reading it. haha, how much nonsense is that. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/12/2009 10:21:58 PM | I also loved Water For Elephants. It was a wonderful book, love story and all. lol
I understand about the O-ness. Never have been a fan even though she has done a lot of good. And if she got people to read, that's great. But, I won't read a book with the big O on it.
I also understand your feeling about recommending something but could have done without it. I just watched Pan's Labyrinth. It was not what I thought it would be but it was highly recommended. An amazingly well told, visually well done movie and I would recommend it to adults. (It's not a kid's movie by any means.) But, same as you, some disturbing scenes, one extremely cold and brutal, that are going to stick with me for quite a while.
Back to books. I've started The Wheel of Time series, fantasy and so far I am hooked!! | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/12/2009 10:21:58 PM | "Superior passages", by Richard Coleman very very exciting about a guy who builds his dream sail boat and travels on Lake Superior. It's a page turner for sure
"The Alchemist" about a young mans incredible journey
"Eat, love and pray" excellant journey of self revealation
"Toxic Bachelors"a great book about men finding their way to healthy relationships very enlightning
"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold tragic story but I guess the ending is awesome I am reading this now so I don't know.
I have heard that "The Shack" is good I have not read it myself.
"Abduction" by Robin Cook its a sci fi really interesting. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/13/2009 6:19:37 AM | Lovely bones is a wonderful book.
The boy in the striped pajamas.
The stand-I love Stephen King.
The book Thief -Marcus Zusak.
Pulling your own strings- Wayne Dyer.
Anything by James Joyce.
The poetry of WB Yeats.
Goodnight Mr Tom-Michelle Magorian
Mathilda- Roald Dahl
Tales of a Raggy boy.
The Secret
Gardening the soul- SR Stanislaus
Anything by Charles****ns
Persuasion and p/p Jane Austin.
Shakespeare
Fantasy of David Eddings
So many books so little time. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/13/2009 5:15:47 PM | Persuasion by Jane Austen has the best kiss ever! IMO :P
And My sister and I read Anne of Green Gables when I was little... ever since then, I wanted red hair! Finally got it in college!
P.S. This is a great thread. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/14/2009 1:12:05 AM | Lots of great suggestions!
I love William Gibson. Try the Sprawl Trilogy, Neuromancer, Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/14/2009 9:29:44 AM | I love how charles****ns gets censored.
SO does emily****nson
And Phillip K. Dick
Wait, I guess he doesn't get censored. O.o' | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/14/2009 10:31:15 AM | Some of my own recommendations are:
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
Dear Fatty - Dawn French
With Nails - Richard E Grant
Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
Anything by Tess Gerrison if you like murder stories | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/14/2009 11:10:38 PM | "The Devil in the White City". It's non-fiction that reads like fiction. About Americas first serial killer who stalked fair goers at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. I don't usually read about serial killers but this one was fascinating. Can't think of the author, but at one point both Tom Cruise and Leonardo DiCaprio were both trying to get a movie made from the book.
Have to agree with the lady who suggested anything by Bill Bryson. The funniest man alive.
For fantasy I recommend "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever". At times it is actually better than "Lord of the Rings".
Hard to find nowadays but the Silver John novels and short stories by Manly Wade Wellman are pretty enjoyable. He is a guy that wanders the Appalachian Mountains running into all kinds of trouble with Druids, witches and other no gooders. Lots of fun. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 8/3/2009 2:54:46 AM | try any books by Richard Flanagan..he's an australian journalist.
And I loved lots of the stories in "Birthday Stories" a collection with one story by Haruki Murakami, and other authors. I especially liked author Lynda Sexson, William Trevor.
Alexander McCall Smith is another author I really like. I heard him speak also and he was absolutely delightful. He was so excitable and enthusiastic!
"The Hours" by Michael Cunningham.
The madonnas of Leningrad" by Debra Dean, was great I thought.
I like author Chuck Pahlownik, too.
"platform" Michael Howellberg.
What about "the Jane Austin Book Club", sweet.
Margaret Attwood "the handmaid's tale." | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 8/3/2009 2:58:31 AM | Yep I like Dean Kootz too. HAve you read Thomas Berger's books..thye have a similar feeling I think, but very different type of books.
How about "adventures of an artificial woman" love that book! | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 8/3/2009 4:40:09 AM | The best read so far this year was Through Black Spruce.
Currently reading The Time Travellers Wife, excellent book.
Anything by Miriam Toews is a great read, ie: A Complicated Kindness
The Secret Life of Bees
As hard as I tried, I just couldn't get through Three Cups of Tea...BORING
Most books by Pat Conroy..ie: Beach Music and the Great Santini
Life of Pi
Lullibies for Little Criminals
Angela's Ashes
If you want a fun read, check out Freakonomics..... | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 8/3/2009 9:56:18 PM | the twilight books are so girlie, but i love 'em. :(
right now i am into historical fiction. 'the last boelyn' is really good. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 8/3/2009 11:17:03 PM | I was at Chapters and checked out a bunch you guys have recommended (I had a list). Then i went to the sci-fi section which iève never really gotten into, although i like sci-fi tv and film, and this one, forget the name now but a space opera, caught my eye but when i went to the library the first two pages were like reading a different language. Then Brave New World by Aldous Huxley caught my attention so i took it out. Ièm liking it, but have only read a couple chapters because I was visiting family.
Would you like me to give you the 5 minute play by play on my daily life too. sheesh. sorry, bit Èlong windedÈ
È=quotations, stupid keyboard. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 8/4/2009 12:00:30 AM | Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)might be apropos for the times.
Once health care and energy collapse, then maybe Logan's Run (1967) by Nolan and Johnson might make good strategic reading.
Both pretty prophetic. Dystopia...Long live dystopia!
I guess Fahrenheit 451 would round that list out.
Hmmm..I guess Brave New World falls into the same category...Dystopia. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 8/4/2009 12:29:06 AM | I'm reading "Emergency" by Neil Strauss. It's great.
As for fiction...I'd suggest...
Anthem by Ayn Rand
The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson
What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 8/4/2009 12:42:39 AM | | Recently I was given a copy of The Shack by Wm. Paul Young. For me, it was the best book I have ever read and I now give it to friends and people that I think just need it so to speak. Let me know how you like it if you do read it. For me it was quite powerful and so far everyone I have given it to has given positive feedback. I even have a friend that is a teacher at the college level and had the students read it and then had book discussion on it. Enjoy! | |
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