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Registered: May 18, 2006
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My library is starting a teen advisory group next. Our first meeting is coming up and we're supposed to think of books to reccommend buying. Anyone know of some good books?
It must be lovely to wake up in the morning and understand everything.
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Registered: February 05, 2005
Posts: 928
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Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
If god existed he'd be right winged
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Registered: December 27, 2006
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Shadowstorm!!!! Shadowstorm just came out! I love Paul Kemp. He is so good! Ahem. Alright, this book is fantasy, and it's a Realms book (that is, Forgotten Realms, Faerun, and all around D&D campaign setting world), but Kemp is by far the best Realms author I've seen. Read his first full novel: Twilight Falling and you'll see. You'll fall in love with the characters, and the story! (and then your favourite characters will die, but that's not his fault) After three books starting with that one, you'll be dragged into the Shadow War, with the herald beginning: the Shadow Storm. It's insanely cool. The second book (Shadowstorm) opens up in Cania (Hell Level 7) and Mephistopholes. Holy Hell! I have never seen an author describe a devil so perfect as Kemp does. The full series: Twilight Falling Dawn of Night Midnight's Mask Shadowbred Shadowstorm [book three forthcoming]
...a Wandering Star for whom the black darkness has been reserved forever...
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Registered: August 21, 2007
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"Fever: 1793" is very good and "The hiding place" is one I love!
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Registered: January 22, 2005
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I'm reading up for University application, so I thought I share what I've read so far over this summer: Silas Marner - George Eliot, As You Like It - William Shakespeare, Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad, The Father Brown Stories - G.K.Chesterton, The Liar - Stephen Fry, The Crucible - Arthur Miller, Jill - Philip Larkin, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain, A Very Short Introduction to Literary Theory - Culler (OUP), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K.Rowling, Little Women- Lousia May Alcott Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare The Waste Land - T.S.Eliot Daisy Miller - Henry James Ode (on a favourite cat drowning in a tub of goldfish) - Thomas Gray A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce Sold as a Slave - Olaudah Equiano Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard - Thomas Gray Don Juan - Lord Byron The Deserted Village - Goldsmith Arcadia - Tom Stoppard The Dumb Waiter - Harold Ibsen The Rainbow - D.H.Lawrence The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories - Christopher Booker Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Only simple and quiet words will ripen of themselves. For a whirlwind does not last a whole morning, nor does a sudden shower last the entire day.
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Registered: April 15, 2003
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If you're on a Hamlet kick and you also like absurdist existentialism, check out Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead too.
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. Frederick Douglass
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Registered: August 17, 2001
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I second the two Libba Bray books and Hattie Big Sky. Ophelia's pretty good, but if you read that one, either know the Hamlet story or read it along with Hamlet. For older teens, Looking For Alaska by John Green and A Northern Light by Jennifer Donnelly are both really good reads. Oh, and I also second the last 3 on Crzy's list.
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Registered: February 25, 2007
Posts: 943
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Twilight- Stephanie Meyer New Moon- Stephanie Meyer Eclipse- Stephanie Meyer Blue Bloods- Melissa De La Cruz Masquerade- Melissa De La Cruz Bloodline- Kate Cary Bloodline A Reckoning- Kate Cary A Great And Terrible Beauty- Libba Bray Rebel Angels- Libba Bray This Is All- Aidan Chambers Hattie Big Sky- Kirby Larson Ophelia- Lisa Klein The Mortal Instruments- Cassandra Clare If you need more just ask.
"With regard to exellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it."-Aristotle
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Registered: July 26, 2003
Posts: 5005
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A Clockwork Orange [Anthony Burgess] The Book Thief [Markus Zusak] The Kite Runner [Khaled Hosseini] A Thousand Splendid Suns [Khaled Hosseini] Girl With A Pearl Earring [Tracy Chevalier] To Kill A Mockingbird [Harper Lee] Fahrenheit 451 [Ray Bradbury]
What if what you think is great, really is great, but it's not as great as something greater?
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Registered: July 21, 2007
Posts: 24
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quote: Originally posted by Kate127:
My library is starting a teen advisory group next. Our first meeting is coming up and we're supposed to think of books to reccommend buying. Anyone know of some good books?
"Attaining the Worlds Beyond" by Michael Laitman is the most exciting book, from all books I have read. Here is free eBook version http://www.kabbalahmedia.info/mekorot/eng_o_ml-sefer-at...he-worlds-beyond.pdf
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Registered: June 14, 2007
Posts: 36
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Books and music are the best thing in this world
I LOVE MARKUS ZUSAK
I Am The Messenger
Book Theif
I don't remember the author but worriors of Alvana is great------don't read the seaqual it's horrible.
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Registered: June 10, 2007
Posts: 2
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Dharma Bums - Kerouac
The Sun also rises - Hemingway
anything by Samuel Beckett
White Noise - Don Delillo
A Clockwork Orange
Nausea - Sartre
Notes from the underground
Hesse
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Registered: December 24, 2006
Posts: 28
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Anything and Everything by Dan Brown he is absolutly amazing and I think that his books are not just fun - cant put them down kinda books but also very educational and make you think kind of books...Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons are my favorite
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Registered: May 29, 2007
Posts: 55
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The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf The Hours - Michael Cunnigham Animal Farm - George Orwell The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
" ... if you want to be free, be free because there's a million things to be." Cat Stevens.
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Registered: June 06, 2007
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Ishmael is a really good book so is Eugine grandet 1984 is awesome ... hmm let's see soo many well of course there's Night and angela's ashes and omg how could i forget a World Lit only by Fire biy william manchester omg ... gustave flaubert's Madame Bovary is really good
of course Frankenstein
six characters in search of an author - pirandello
kafkas metamorphosis
the jungle
SPEAK is a really good one
KRIK KRAK! is amazing like ... seriously
a dolls house by Ibsen lmao the diary of fredrick douglass surprisingly really good lmao and short
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Registered: January 16, 2003
Posts: 12687
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First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide By Samantha Power
"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
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Registered: May 18, 2006
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I'm reading The Book Thief. It's really good.
It must be lovely to wake up in the morning and understand everything.
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Registered: January 01, 2003
Posts: 192
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The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold The Handmaid's Tale-Margaret Atwood Light In August-William Faulkner As I Lay Dying-William Faulkner
~Stop listening for mistakes in other peoples choice of words, instead of the meaning behind them.~
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Registered: May 18, 2006
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quote: Twilight
Best book ever.
It must be lovely to wake up in the morning and understand everything.
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Registered: December 20, 2004
Posts: 952
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Twilight
I'm confused... about life. and life hates me.
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