| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/10/2009 11:00:44 PM | I like having a list of future things to have a look at.
I just finished The Curious Incident of the Dog At Night. It was very innocently sweet.
I started another and I have a short line-up on the shelf to do after, but I'd like to add to the ipod list so I can whip it out when needed.
Currently I'm interested in fiction. So either classic lit (which I've hardly read any of relative to what's out there) or modern lit.
What did you absolutely fall in love with while you read it? | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/10/2009 11:12:02 PM | Just for fun read, Enslaved by Ducks by Bob Tarte.
Anything by Bill Bryson
The Known World by Edward F. Jones
Stiff by Mary Roach
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls (best book I've read in a long time) | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/10/2009 11:52:21 PM | I personally love Jane Austen... all of her stuff.
I'd also suggest reading
- "Memoirs of a Geisha"
- Dune (It's a long hard read, but great)
Some Classics...
- Alice and Wonderland
- Moby Dlck
- Jane Eyre
- Vanity Fair
- Anne of Green Gables (if never read)
Something I like to do is get all these on CD/Tape and listen to them during the winter as I cross stitch holiday gifts. Although I have actually read the Jane Austen books several times as well as listened to them on tape. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 7:53:50 AM | It's difficult to recommend books without knowing th eindividual you're recommending them for but here are a few of my favorites...
Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas - Tom Robbins - its a witty, sardonic, provacative & intelligent love story. Great book & lots of fun.
The Time Travelers Wife - AudryNiffenegger - Beautiful story and an incredible tearjerker
The Devil and Miss Prym or the Alchemist - Paulo Coelho -both quick books written very simply and offering great wisdom - all of his books are like that actually and all are well worth the read
The Percy Jackson series - Rick Riordan - I got this initially for my kids and loved the books. They're so much fun. It's about a little boy who finds out he's the son of a Greek God and all his adventures meeting the gods and monsters in present day America. Really a fun read with or without kids. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 8:30:41 AM | If you are interested in classic lit, read Charles****ns, the Bronte sisters (especially Wuthering Heights ), and though I not overly fond of her, millions of people are: Jane Austen. I love Virginia Woolf and did my MA thesis on her and Mary Shelley who wrote Frankenstein .
I am not much into modern lit, but I like John Fowles and early John Updike.
Also, if you like fantasy, it is worth your effort to explore series of novels written for young people: The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper, the Prydain Chronicle by Lloyd Alexander, and the Narnia Chronicle by CS Lewis. And, of course, LOTR.
Sci-Fi classics, A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller, Robert Heinlein's books, and The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis.
Some of my favorite books of all them is a series by Robert Holdstock, the first one is Mythago Woods --they are fantasy. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 10:08:38 AM | i tend to enjoy sci-fi/fantasy more than regular fiction.....but i offer 2 suggestions..........anything by alan dean foster and espically the "pern" books by anne mccaffery
anne mccaffery is such a wonderfull storyteller, that even though its sci-fi........while reading her books...you wouldnt be surprised to look out your window and see a flight of dragons in the sky...........if i might suggest.start with "the masterharper of pern".......i think you'll be hooked | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 10:34:21 AM | | I would recomend a few. Jodi Picoult and Mary Higgins Clark are two of my favorites, so i would recommend then to anyone. | |
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Posted: 7/11/2009 11:01:19 AM |
Stiff by Mary Roach Am reading this book right now, and loving it. Non-fiction, but she is hilarious...also try Bonk and Spook.
In any discussion of fiction, I must highly recommend anything penned by Tom Sharpe.
Outrageous satirical romps - deliciously naughty and splendidly textured. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 12:58:28 PM | | some of recommended favorites include the howling,the light in the forest,the yearling and the lord of the flies..........all very enjoyable and spectacular reading but i suggest the howling the best:D | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 2:16:04 PM | I haven't read The Curious Incident... but since you described it as "innocently sweet" you may enjoy something by Alexander McCall Smith. He's written several series, and all of them have a combination of being gentle yet witty.
Classics: For social satire, Austen's Pride & Prejudice hits the spot. Or the Three Musketeers for adventure and romance. Don Quixote for something to last the rest of the summer, and it will give you a bit of everything: adventure, romance, tragedy, insanity, comedy, and, of course, chivalry at its maddest. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 2:25:02 PM | For something different, how about Lives of the Monster Dogs.
I can't remember who wrote it, but I read it ten years ago and remember doing so; and I still remember what it was about. That means it was a good book because I usually forget them after a couple of years. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 3:10:49 PM | Depends on the genre:
Fiction: The Bone People by Keri Hulme, Not well known but a very well written book though a bit sad.
Science Fiction: The Foundation series by Isaac Asimov. Find something that lists them not by the order he wrote them in but by the order they should be read. He started in the middle. Include the Robot series with them. And of course, the Hitchhiker series by Douglas Adams for some sci-fi comedy.
Fantasy: David Eddings, The Belgariad series, then The Mallorean series. Same characters in both but different stories. Read the Belgariad first. I got so involved I actually cried when certain characters were killed.
There are so many more! | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 6:40:43 PM | Shakespeare's Sonnets are a nice read before bed. I used to read a different one each night before I went to sleep.
... that lead to some very interesting dreams! | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 7:01:22 PM | | Stephen King if you like spooky. John Grisham, Sidney Sheldon are good too. Out of Captivity, Surviving 1,967 days in the Columbian Jungle, this one is non-fiction but it's good. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 7:02:29 PM | These are the ones that stand out from my recent reading:
Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl
No Country For Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy
The 2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom, by Alexander McCall Smith (plus any of his No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series)
Three Bags Full, by Leonie Swann
The End of Lieutenant Boruvka, by Josef Skvorecky
The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid
Memories of My Melancholy Whores, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Blind Faith, by Ben Elton
In general, anything by Ian Rankin, Carl Hiaasen, Marth Grimes, or P.D. James. | |
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 7:15:10 PM | The Sunday of Life
ISBN 0811206459
Eva Luna
ISBN 0553280589
100 Years of Solitude
ISBN 0060883286
V
ISBN 0060930217
Are We Having Fun Yet?
ISBN 1560971495
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| What books would you recommend to me?
Posted: 7/11/2009 10:24:48 PM | "good reads" for me - nothing all that substantial:
"Swimming the Channel" by Sally Friedman - sooo sad, but a great story
"Talk Before Sleep" ( I call this one "chick lit" - anything by Elizabeth Berg if you like this one)
"The Year of Magical Thinking" - Joan Didion
"The Red Tent"
For something a little more powerful
"The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
"Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time" by Greg Mortenson - not the best written book, but a really good story abut one man trying to make a difference
"The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street" by Naguib Mahfouz and Sabry Hafez - perhaps a bit dated, but an interesting look at the lives of women in Egypt. | |
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