| CatGurl14 27.06.2005 19:43 |
I'm bored with what books I have. I mean there's over 20 of them I still need to read but I don't want to start them yet. Any reccommendations? I've barely started reading a book for my first days of college this fall, but I want something else to read to balance out its depressingness. So, please send me any reccommendations. |
| KillerQueen840 27.06.2005 19:45 |
THE GREEN MILE!!! It is the best book I've ever read. |
| wstüssyb 27.06.2005 20:27 |
Odd Thomas, by dean Koontz, Love his books. |
| deleted user 27.06.2005 20:44 |
If you want something humorous/light-hearted, read anything by Helen Fielding. She's written the Bridget Jones books, as well as the books "Cause Celeb" and "The Overactive Imagination of Olivia Joules." |
| Mr.Jingles 27.06.2005 20:56 |
George W. Bush recommends 'Where's Waldo?'. He says it will keep you damn busy. |
| Robin 27.06.2005 21:24 |
I just finished reading Black Creek Crossing by John Saul. He's my favorite for the scary stuff. |
| Benn 28.06.2005 09:35 |
1 - The Godfather - Mario Puzo 2 - Anyway Anyhow Anywhere - The Complete Chronicle Of The Who - Mett Kent / Andy Neill 3 - My Autobiography - Martin Johnson 4 - Star wars - Tales From The Bounty Hunters 5 - The Last Godfather - Mario Puzo 6 - Dear Boy - The Life Of Keith Moon - Tony Fletcher 7 - It - Steven King 8 - Led Zeppelin - The Concert File - Dave Lewis |
| geeksandgeeks 28.06.2005 12:45 |
<font color="lime">KillerQueen840 wrote: THE GREEN MILE!!! It is the best book I've ever read.Amen to that! Here are some authors I've been reading recently. I'd recommend almost any book by these people. -Hubert Selby (new favorite) -Lisa Scottoline -James Patterson (especially the Women's Murder Club books - 1st to Die, 2nd Chance, 3rd Degree, and 4th of July) -Peter Straub -E. Lynn Harris -F.X. Toole -Robert Bloch -Jonathan Kellerman -And, as always, Stephen King -Peter Straub |
| Queenleaf 28.06.2005 13:03 |
Yeah read the book Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! It's hilarious! :) what type of boooks do you like? Scifi? Fantasy? Mystery? Westerns? Cheap romances? :) |
| CatGurl14 28.06.2005 17:30 |
Thanks for all the suggestions, and to answer your question Queenleaf, I just want a good fiction story that would keep my attention for awhile, especially while I'm reading Angela's Ashes. |
| Queenleaf 28.06.2005 17:59 |
hmmm... Not sure. You could try Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy Sayers... It's a mystery though obviously. But I love it. No books are really coming to mind... |
| deleted user 28.06.2005 18:33 |
Wir Kinder Vom Bahnhof Zoo EXCELLENT |
| Erin 28.06.2005 19:20 |
Heeeeey Savaaanaaah! :-) |
| Victoria 28.06.2005 19:55 |
I'd reccomend The Count Of Monte Cristo, which happens to be my favorite. ;) |
| SergeantPepperDG 28.06.2005 20:04 |
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut! I think "Cat's Cradle" may have been my favorite so far. |
| Megamike The GREAT 28.06.2005 20:38 |
wst&#252;ssyb wrote: Odd Thomas, by dean Koontz, Love his books.Hey William, have you read 'From The Corner of His Eye' by Koontz? He has another book I really love called 'False Memory' Koontz and Grisholm are among my favorite writers.. besides the obvious Stephen King and Larry Flynt... ;-) Ok.. maybe not Flynt. |
| Gunpowder Gelatine 28.06.2005 20:58 |
The Birth Of Venus and Mapping The Edge by Sarah Dunant. She's an amazing writer! I like The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, too. |
| Saint Jiub 28.06.2005 21:08 |
Hi - Anything by Mark Twain. Will we be seeing you in Cleveland? |
| Mr.Jingles 28.06.2005 21:11 |
Any book by Ann Coulter or Sean Hannity. Those pages make great toilet paper. |
| CatGurl14 28.06.2005 21:23 |
Rip Van Winkle wrote: Will we be seeing you in Cleveland?Sadly no :( The convention is the same day I move into my college dorm. and Heeyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Erin ;-) hehe |
| Saint Jiub 28.06.2005 21:48 |
College is overrated - All you get is a piece of paper after 4 years ... LOL Bummer ... Good luck in college |
| geeksandgeeks 28.06.2005 22:37 |
Mr.Jingles79 wrote: Any book by Ann Coulter or Sean Hannity. Those pages make great toilet paper.*SHUDDER* |
| Erin 29.06.2005 09:07 |
Mr.Jingles79 wrote: Any book by Ann Coulter or Sean Hannity. Those pages make great toilet paper.*High Five* |
| Fenderek 29.06.2005 10:08 |
Try Chuck Palahniuk- especially Choke or DIARY. Nice stuff. That's the guy that wrote Fight Club, later made as a great kick ass movie... |
| YourValentine 29.06.2005 10:22 |
Everything fictional by John Irving except 'Setting Free The Bears! |
| -fatty- 2850 29.06.2005 14:09 |
Shut Yer Pus by Scott Simpson. |
| Queenleaf 29.06.2005 16:20 |
CatGurl14 wrote:What day is that? I never read it... Are you going to EKU? I think you told me where but I forgot.Rip Van Winkle wrote: Will we be seeing you in Cleveland?Sadly no :( The convention is the same day I move into my college dorm. and Heeyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Erin ;-) hehe |
| Erin 29.06.2005 18:41 |
fatty wrote: Shut Yer Pus by Scott Simpson.I'll read it if you send me an autographed copy..;-) |
| CatGurl14 30.06.2005 20:16 |
Queenleaf wrote: What day is that? I never read it... Are you going to EKU? I think you told me where but I forgot.Yeah I'm going to EKU on the 17th of August. Seems so far but so close. *sigh* Where are you going again? And I wish I didn't have to read Angela's Ashes, I wanna read something else. |
| deleted user 30.06.2005 21:33 |
Better get used to reading stuff that you don't want to read, Savannah. Unfortunately, that is a huge part of going to college! |
| geeksandgeeks 30.06.2005 23:35 |
<font color=purple>Miss James wrote: Better get used to reading stuff that you don't want to read, Savannah. Unfortunately, that is a huge part of going to college!True even in high school. Lord of the Flies... *smothers William Golding* *also smothers Charles Dickens* *and Herman Melville* *and Ernest Hemingway* *and Herman Melville again, then has him drawn and quartered* |
| CatGurl14 01.07.2005 14:16 |
<font color=purple>Miss James wrote: Better get used to reading stuff that you don't want to read, Savannah. Unfortunately, that is a huge part of going to college!Thank you for the warning Alli. :) I started the book last night, it's sooo boring but I'll manage, I'm also reading a book of neat short stories to balance it. |
| Banquo 02.07.2005 03:51 |
Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson. Blisteringly funny take on hiking the Appalachian Trail. |
| dragonzflame 02.07.2005 19:37 |
At the moment I'm reading The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Really, really good book although depressing. It's one of the only books that's ever made me cry. I can't actually remember the last time I did cry in a book. Also Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy (also depressing), Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson (although you've probably read that and it's also depressing) and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (also depressing). I don't seem to go in for cheerful stuff...although I have been reworking my way through the whole Anne of Green Gables series which is a bit nicer. |
| DarkQueen 02.07.2005 21:07 |
Tales of The Otori trilogy - not worth missing!! Oh yeah, and check out Streets of Laredo by Larry McMurtury as well - it's a pretty good western... |
| Queenleaf 03.07.2005 10:15 |
CatGurl14 wrote:West Texas A&M University Canyon Texas (near Amarillo) violin performance dorms open August 24th but I'll probably have to go a couple weeks early. I'm going down to sign up for classes early early Wednesday morning. My flight leaves at 6.45 :<Queenleaf wrote: What day is that? I never read it... Are you going to EKU? I think you told me where but I forgot.Yeah I'm going to EKU on the 17th of August. Seems so far but so close. *sigh* Where are you going again? And I wish I didn't have to read Angela's Ashes, I wanna read something else. new Harry Potter book about to come out... We'll all have some good reading material then! :) |
| CatGurl14 03.07.2005 11:33 |
Queenleaf wrote:new Harry Potter book about to come out... We'll all have some good reading material then! :)Oh yeah! :D I'm going at midnight on the 15th with a friend to get it. :D |
| Rockyuk 04.07.2005 03:31 |
Totally forgot about the new potter book! Ordered it Agggges ago off amazon. Last 1 I got it around miday, stayed up all night and had finnished by the next morning. I get really absorbed in those books. Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass (in that order) by Philip Pullman. Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen (in that order) by garth nix. All great books. |
| dragonzflame 04.07.2005 18:35 |
Ohhhh...Harry Potter... It isn't made available here until 11:01am so I'll go out sometime in the afternoon until all the queues have abated slightly and get it then. I'm beginning to count down...only 11 days to go :-D |
| SergeantPepperDG 04.07.2005 19:06 |
I just finished The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time. It was required SUMMER reading for honors English. We were actually assigned two books- Curious Incident and The Bean Trees. Luckily, both were very good. My mom was giving me a hard time about starting them, because she thought I wouldn't have them finished in time for school. I ended up finishing both of them in less than a week. Curious Incident was so good, I started reading on Saturday night, and finished on Sunday morning. |
| My Melancholy Blues 04.07.2005 19:55 |
yes, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time was good. Well...I think that math problems given in the story were interesting. But while I thought over each of them, it prevented me reading the rest of the story, which was kind of annoying. |
| SergeantPepperDG 04.07.2005 20:36 |
Luckily, I didn't understand any of the math in the book, so I didn't spend time thinking it over. The only math related stuff I understood was the quadratic formula. |
| My Melancholy Blues 04.07.2005 20:58 |
Yeah, I ignored some formulas I couldn't understand after spending much time. I usually don't like to see some sorts of formulas especially... |