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dragonfly
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 |  Subject: Awesome books  Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:14 pm | |
| Okay, so I've gotten myself on a reading kick today and I just realized I've read everything I own, save for two books that won't make it through the night. Any suggestions?
Just to kick this off, I just read Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and they were both phenominal. Five stars. They are both about life in Afghanistan, one focusing more on brotherly connections and how the past can haunt you while the other focuses more on women's roles and how they connected with one another.
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MessiahForHire
Mischief and Mayhem
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| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:18 pm | |
| Well, what genre of books do you like to read? I have a few titles/authors for fantasy, but I got nothing else. :P
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dragonfly
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| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:21 pm | |
| I read anything and everything. It's not just for me, either, but for anyone who's looking for a good read. List away.
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MessiahForHire
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| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:27 pm | |
| Well as stated by myself many tims before, the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind is a wonderful series. :3 (First three books in order: Wizard's First Rule, Stone of Tears and Blood of the Fold)
The Gentleman Bastards Sequence (The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies are the only ones that are currently written) by Scott Lynch is also a great series.
I also think the books written Mercedes Lackey are a good read.
That's all I got for now. :3
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r1nn
Geeky Scarf-Loving Girls On The Internet
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| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:27 pm | |
| Um, knowing you, I bet you've probably read The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas. I'm reading it now, though, and it's an awesome book so far.
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Reitrenner
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Joined : 19 Nov 2007
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| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Fri Feb 22, 2008 9:36 pm | |
| Grab Civil Disobedience.
Greatest book ever written with a human mind.
No mortal should never in his lifetime go without reading this book. I have commited it to memory.
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Daestrum
Dwarf of Ironforge
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| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:20 pm | |
| | I'm afraid I couldn't be much help. I do not read modern literature. However, if you like the material by Poe, Hemingway, or Lovecraft, I could recommend some things... |
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dragonfly
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| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:21 pm | |
| I read anything I can get my hands on. Any and all recommendations are welcome.
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Daestrum
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| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Fri Feb 22, 2008 10:23 pm | |
| | dragonfly wrote: | | I read anything I can get my hands on. Any and all recommendations are welcome. |
Well in that case, may I recommend the entire Lovecraft and Hemingway collection? Poe is good as well, but some of his stories are a little out there. I highly recommend everything in the Cthulhu series. |
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tenderisthebestsexmachine
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| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:44 pm | |
| I recommend Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye
"Perhaps Bataille's most famous text, Story of the Eye is a tale of obsessive sexuality involving rape, necrophilia, coprophilia, fetish objects (particularly eggs and eyeballs), and half a dozen other types of deviance."
You can read it here! |
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Jack's Spirit
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Location : Australia
| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Fri Feb 22, 2008 11:59 pm | |
| A Song of Ice and Fire (series) by George R. R. Martin are some of the best fantasy books I've ever read, if you don't mind some rather graphic violence.
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Kairiki
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| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:00 am | |
| If you haven't read this, I definitely recommend Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. They're vampire novels (woot!) and they're different from the norm. Only reason I read them was cause my huge English project was done, but it was definitely worth it!
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tenderisthebestsexmachine
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| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:03 am | |
| You should also read Jane Eyre. It's hilarious.
Mr. Rochester = Stewie Griffin, the later years |
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Jack's Spirit
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| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:07 am | |
| | Kairiki wrote: | | If you haven't read this, I definitely recommend Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. They're vampire novels (woot!) and they're different from the norm. Only reason I read them was cause my huge English project was done, but it was definitely worth it! |
Read it, and eagerly awaiting Breaking Dawn in September. :) |
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Kairiki
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| | Subject: Re: Awesome books Sat Feb 23, 2008 12:21 am | |
| | Jack's Spirit wrote: | | Kairiki wrote: | | If you haven't read this, I definitely recommend Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer. They're vampire novels (woot!) and they're different from the norm. Only reason I read them was cause my huge English project was done, but it was definitely worth it! |
Read it, and eagerly awaiting Breaking Dawn in September. :) |
Yeah, I was like 'WHAAAT???' at the end of Eclipse.
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