Books for the Summer

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by mooiced, Jun 27, 2007.

  1. mooiced

    mooiced Well-Known Member

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    What are some of the goods books that you had read in the past that you think was most memorable and would like to recommend to others? Please gimme a brief summary of the book you recommend!
     
  2. wind2000

    wind2000 Self Schemata

    What kind of books you like first?
     
  3. fearless_fx

    fearless_fx Eugooglizer

    Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows... less then a month till release date... omfg, im pumped
     
  4. mooiced

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    classic, non-fiction, hmmm...history oh and biography!!! horror...and gore story not that interested. Books like The good earth, pride and prejudice books like that....or books like anna karenina by leo trosky or Kite Runner. l books that you can learn something, inspiration.
     
  5. mooiced

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    ehh...harry potter......?!?!?!?!
     
  6. wind2000

    wind2000 Self Schemata

    Thats some heavy duty books right there. -what?
     
  7. mooiced

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    Yea that why i am asking ...books that are memorable.....
     
  8. philostrate

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    ditto!!! i'm waiting, waiting and waiting...btw it's releasing on my special day!!! lol

    how about the historian by elizabeth kostova? i have the ebook if you want...a nice read...about drakula..not the blood sucking creature by bram stoker but rather the history of how drakula came about

    reading Rule of Four by ian caldwell...nice too...
     
  9. honkiebonkie

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    IF you want intense action.. Matthew reilly books are the ones!
    They are really really really good. i really recommend them to you. The stories are so interesting!!
    My favourite ones are the scarecrow series..
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    Scarecrow agn! -coolio
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  10. brown_bear

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    im reading a 'spot of bother' by mark haddon at the moment and thats pretty good

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  11. joemickey

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    You can try some from russians writers
    Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich . A small book for me better than Gulaq.
    Dostoevsky - The Brothers of Karamazov
    Any novell from Allan Poe - maybe you will have a different idea about horrors books
     
  12. davu4eva

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    yeah HP7...real and the FanFic version should be both good reads...well cant say much cause i dont read much...mayb go online and read ebooks..lol
     
  13. xixi

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    Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky is a really nice one. The main character murders two people, and then becomes all crazy...it is very psychological, you follow is confused and crazy thoughts...(but it is
    pretty long...^^).

    Therese Raquin by Zola was pretty twisted, but it did leave a pretty deep impression. very pyschological too...The main character Therese kills her husband together with another man )and made it look like an accident) so that they can get married...it is not a criminal novel...the reader gets to follow how their lives changes after the murder.

    if you like plays, then i can recommed Miss Julie by the Swedish author August Strindberg. You can really sense the authors attitude towards women there ^^

    If you like books with witty quotes etc..then read Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Grey....and pay extra attention to Lord Henry and what he says...

    otherwise Orwell and Steinbeck are really good....and many other authors too ofcouse...
     
  14. mooiced

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    Thanks for the all the recommendation. I will take it into consideration when i am browsing through the bookstores. BTW anyone heard of Lolita?
     
  15. hiake

    hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

    Let's start with fiction since non-fiction is not everyone's cup of tea...

    My favourite fiction at the moment is His Dark Material trilogy by Philip Pullman, it is a fantasy whose film adaptation will be out in December (with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig!). The concept is kind of new and the writing/narration is brilliant.

    The Little Prince is my all time favourite, short and sweet and always have something new for me to learn from. Good for anyone from age 3 to 80, timeless classic.

    Detective books by Agatha Christie are amazing, topic varies but the suspenseful narration is always there in her writing. If you like modern CSI type forensics, try the Bones series by Kathy Reichs, Tempe Brennan is one tough damsel in distress (oxymoron? Not in the novels)

    If you are willing to invest LOTS of time, Discworld series by Terry Pratchett and anything by Neil Gaiman is super addictive, they are all fantasy you simply cannot stop reading!

    Two of my guilty pleasures includes A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket and Spiderwick Chronicles by Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi. ASoUE is one huge collection of humourous meta quoting and stylistic commentary. If you are an avid reader, you will find extra pleasure in hunting for references the author drops throughout the series, from Edgar Allan Poe to Virginia Woolf to Haruki Murakami, almost every single famed writers got a cameo in his pages.

    Spiderwick is one 5-volume teen series which I zipped through in one sitting, rich, descriptive narrations with fantastical creatures and vivid dialogue. It's one series I recommend to EVERY SINGLE person, and bonus is its film adaptation is coming out... soon -sweat

    These are all off the top of my head, if you can specify with more details what kind of books you are looking for (fiction, non-fiction etc) I may be able to provide more reading lists -^_^
     
  16. subaru3169

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    i just finish read "the crisis of islam" by bernard lewis.. good insight from an expert in the middle east.. and i read "tipping point" by malcom gladwell.. he has pretty good view on human nature and personal infrastructure
     
  17. hiake

    hiake Vardøgr of da E.Twin

    You mean the one by Vladimir Nabokov right? Just checking, afterall it become a popular name after the infamous novel -tongue2

    I didn't like it much, probably because its multitude of puns and word plays eludes me... -unsure Not to mention the writing style which can be loose and confusing at times...

    I see that Subaru suggested non-fiction. My last non-fiction read was Micromotives And Macrobehavior by Thomas Schelling, a book on the economics of personal choices a la Freakonomics style (but published a few decades before Freakonomics is but a thought in the authors' mind). Very interesting book, not to mention the author, Thomas Schelling, is a Nobel Prize Laureates in Economics for his contribution in the Game theory.

    Some other non-fictions I've enjoyed: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond, Wikinomics by Don Tapscott, The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (boring read in my opinion, new bottle for some ANCIENT wine), Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures by Vincent Lam (amazing award-winning book)... And of course, Freakonomics by Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner -^_^
     
  18. Phoenix

    Phoenix *~Though she be but little, she is fierce~*

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    Witch Child and Sorceress by Celia Rees, may not suit you cos its a teenagers book..lol..but its really good. =)

    Hannibal by Thomas Harris
    um..cant think of any more..but hope it helps..
     
  19. mooiced

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    Wow thanks hiake for the huge input! yea and thanks for the input guys! I read Freakonomics...i am trying to get my hands on the world is flat. Heard that was really good too, my pastor recommended to me.
     
  20. peachy

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    Try reading "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom. It's about an 83 year old man, Eddie, who dies and meets 5 people in heaven who all have a story to tell him that is connected to his life in some way. I really enjoyed this book a lot...It's a quick read since the book is rather thin :]