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05-13-2008, 05:02 PM
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| The Yiddish Policeman's Union was good. it's by micahel chabon. | 
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05-13-2008, 05:27 PM
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#17 | | Senior Member
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| fizix, I used to love The Little Prince! I completely forgot about that.
Other than that, LOTR, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and As I Lay Dying. | |
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05-13-2008, 06:22 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: NY, NY
Posts: 1,216
| Favorite books include...
the first half of Lolita (for me, it loses the beauty of its language in the later parts), The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, anything by G.G.Marquez, The Little Prince...
I'm currently reading Obama's The Audacity of Hope and I'm not a huge fan of his but it's really, really good. Great combination of explaining political theories and history and personal anecdotes and position statements. | |
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05-13-2008, 06:56 PM
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| bringing down the house lol | |
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05-13-2008, 07:40 PM
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#20 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 52
| Fiction: I absolutely love To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.
Nonfiction: Biko, by Donald Woods & Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer | |
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05-13-2008, 08:27 PM
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#21 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 424
| I second Ender's Game and The Picture of Dorian Gray! I also really like what I've read of Amy Tan, Octavia Butler, and Isabel Allende because I'm a sucker for "ethnic fiction" or whatever, whether or not it's my ethnicity. Um... Orson Scott Card is my idol, although I generally prefer his older work (I've heard some of the newer stuff, like Empire, is pretty bad.) Ender's Game is classic, but some of my other favorites are Enchantment and Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (yay, allohistory!).
I followed Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl religiously. Some of the "hip" books I really enjoyed were Life of Pi, White Oleander, and The Thirteenth Tale. | |
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05-13-2008, 08:46 PM
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#22 | | Junior Member
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Posts: 38
| i will always love Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie just because. although if you're looking for more "serious" literature...actually i'm not really sure what's considered serious lit because i can't even pretend to be well-verse on this kind of thing. i just read whatever looks interesting, haha. but yes...
everything by Haruki Murakami.
everything by Kurt Vonnegut.
Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Enormous Changes at the Last Minute by Grace Paley
Peter Pan and Wendy by J.M. Barrie
Adverbs by Daniel Handler
The History of Love by Nicole Strauss
& I'll second (third?) The Little Prince.
obviously i can't pick a favorite. -__-; | |
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05-13-2008, 08:47 PM
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#23 | | New Member
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Posts: 27
| I just read "I Am The Messenger" by Markus Zusak. I really liked it--it was kind of quirky and cool. I thought it was muuuuch easier to get through than The Book Thief, which kind of dragged at times. | |
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05-14-2008, 06:31 PM
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#24 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Nowhere USA
Posts: 178
| A Great Abd Terible Beauty
Rebel Angels
The Sweet Far Thing
They are all by Liba Bray
The Singer of All Songs
The Waterless Sea
The Tenth Power
They are all by Kate Constable
Those are just six of my favorites I could go on and on. | |
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05-15-2008, 06:22 PM
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#25 | | Member
Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 424
| I also have a thing for historical fiction in which famous artists are prominently figured, but the story is told from one of said artist's intimates. If that makes any sense. So, Tracy Chevalier's Girl With a Pearl Earring by Rita Charbonnier. | |
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05-15-2008, 06:36 PM
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#26 | | Junior Member
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| Savage Inequalities. I first read it in middle school and it still leaves me in awe. | |
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05-15-2008, 06:38 PM
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#27 | | Junior Member
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Fiction: I absolutely love To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee.
| In middle school, we did a project about that book. I, of course, was more interested in counterstrike then school so I spent the last day before the project rushing to finish it up. I read a few cliffnotes on the internet about it, and set about doing my project...I hadn't really paid attention, so on accident I titled the project "HOW TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" lol | |
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05-15-2008, 06:48 PM
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#28 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 118
| Me gusta -
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- Chinese Cinderella
- The Royal Treatment
- The Kite Runner
- Twilight
- The Other Boleyn Girl
- The Overachievers
- The Bell Jar
Currently reading: Born Confused | |
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05-15-2008, 06:57 PM
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#29 | | Member
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Posts: 424
| Oh, if you like speculative fiction, you've got to check out a Nebula Awards showcase at some point in time. It's good if you don't have a lot of free time for recreational reading because it's all short stories. If I start on a novel and, you know, like it, I sort of feel like finishing it in one sitting, but with these you can read a story and then do something else for a while... | |
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05-15-2008, 08:35 PM
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#30 | | Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 380
| A few more:
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom | |
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