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04-12-2007, 10:01 AM
|  | She Ain't Right For You | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: at sea
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| | Recommend me a novel Seriously……..the last “life changing” book I read was when I was 14 and back then I was such a “beat”  I thought it can’t get any better.
Mmm, I haven't read any good fiction for years….just autobiographies/bios. And some academic books.
Please save me.
Thanks x | 
04-12-2007, 10:10 AM
|  | She Ain't Right For You | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: at sea
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| | oh, hey!!
yeah, i've been seening it mentioned a lot in the press for what seems like forever.....(lol, how many times have u read it?)
okay, thank you, it's on my list  | 
04-12-2007, 10:22 AM
| | Registered Member | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: London
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Originally Posted by SisterMorphine (lol, how many times have u read it?) | Four. And I only bought it last summer. Every now and then I pick it up and read a random chapter.
And the end makes me cry everytime. Everytime. I know fully grown men that have cried at it too. | 
04-12-2007, 10:27 AM
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| | | Tender is the Night ~ F.Scott Fitzgerald.
OR
Out ~ Natsuo Kirino. | 
04-12-2007, 10:31 AM
|  | Nemesister | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Under a rock.
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| | | If you haven't read Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse 5', you should. | 
04-12-2007, 11:25 AM
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| | Best books I've read Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, about a little boy who's father dies in 9/11.
A Sunday at a Pool in Kigali by Gil Courtemanche and Patricia Claxton, about the Rwandan Genocide.
Kensukes Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo, a childrens book but beautifully written.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, about a boy growing up in Afganistan.
A History of Love by Nicole Krauss, about an old man and a young girl in New York who are inextricably linked.
Think thats all I can remember at the moment! Will add more when I have a look at home! | 
04-12-2007, 11:32 AM
|  | Du mußt Caligari werden! | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: vivian comma close
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| | | last best one i read was book of illusions, paul auster | 
04-12-2007, 11:53 AM
|  | Mrs. Cavill | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: London
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| | | Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland | 
04-12-2007, 11:56 AM
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| | | cosmos by carl sagan. <3
it's non-fiction. and it's awesome
highly recommended. | 
04-12-2007, 07:25 PM
|  | Part-time narcoleptic | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oxford and London, of the cold old UK
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by Dotty | I must agree. I can't see how anyone could dislike this book, its amazing.
Also I'd say go for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. They are both really readable books. | 
04-12-2007, 07:28 PM
|  | Phil Goff | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Westport, New Zealand
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| | | I'm trying to read 100 Years of Solitude at the moment, but I'm on holiday and having trouble finding the time. Sad. Let's race each other to the finish.
__________________ Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.
I escaped somehow. Let's go actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter | 
04-12-2007, 07:34 PM
|  | EXTERMINATE. | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: aotearoa
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Originally Posted by Insomnia Also I'd say go for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. | This really is such an amazing novel.
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MAN FUCKS WOMAN. SUBJECT VERB OBJECT. | 
04-13-2007, 04:18 AM
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Originally Posted by skyla25 Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland | All Douglas Coupland is good reading. | 
04-15-2007, 04:43 PM
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by SisterMorphine Seriously……..the last “life changing” book I read was when I was 14 and back then I was such a “beat”  I thought it can’t get any better.
Mmm, I haven't read any good fiction for years….just autobiographies/bios. And some academic books.
Please save me. | Morphine, have you read Autobiography of Malcolm X yet? One of the best bios I've ever read.
When I think of great novels that are great reads, 1984 comes immediately to mind. | 
04-16-2007, 08:33 PM
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04-16-2007, 10:04 PM
| | gratis | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: oblivion
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| | | middlesex by jeffrey eugenides. just go read it & you'll understand why. | 
04-17-2007, 08:20 AM
|  | low frequency version. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: London
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| | | for fiction, try the conquest by elizabeth chadwick, wuthering hieghts by emily bronte or junk by melvin burgess. | 
04-17-2007, 08:34 AM
|  | blah | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: London
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Originally Posted by A Loop junk by melvin burgess. | Isn't that something of a teenagers book?
I read it when I was fourteen, and loved it but when I picked it up again a while ago I hated every word. It isn't really relevant to me now as I don't have the same curiosities as I did then, so all the drugs, sex, prostitution and general scummy living was a bore and after reading the adult equivalents such as Irvine Welsh, his writing really doesn't compare.
Oh, yes. A recommendation; Filth by Irvine Welsh.
edit: I've just realised that you could well be a teenager, Loop. Sorry if I sound patronising. Or something. Gah. | 
04-17-2007, 08:45 AM
|  | low frequency version. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: London
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Originally Posted by Duchess Isn't that something of a teenagers book?
I read it when I was fourteen, and loved it but when I picked it up again a while ago I hated every word. It isn't really relevant to me now as I don't have the same curiosities as I did then, so all the drugs, sex, prostitution and general scummy living was a bore and after reading the adult equivalents such as Irvine Welsh, his writing really doesn't compare.
Oh, yes. A recommendation; Filth by Irvine Welsh.
edit: I've just realised that you could well be a teenager, Loop. Sorry if I sound patronising. Or something. Gah. |
im not a teenager but i read it for the first time when i was about 15. i re-read it at 18 then again at 20, and found i got more from it then... i still think the way its written is quite remarkable. | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode | |