ahahaha...you may be thinking "nerd thread" but really, i have a point.

for this school year I need some good books and authors (dealing with whatever) aside from:

Mercedes Lackey
Robert Ludlum
Lois Lowry

My mom says I need to read other books for this year and i have no idea what!! help?!?!

thank you very much

-rito

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
The first page had me smiling.

and The Pact by Jodi Picoult, tragic and heartbreaking

how about dreamland by sarah desson

This isn't really a series or anything, but I thought "The Freedom Writers Diary" was a great read. Based on a true story and very inspiring, I don't know see what you think!

Moved here from Randomosity, but I would recommend posting on this more active thread.

Watership Down by Richard Adams is my absolute favorite book. I think it is crazy amazing that you can write a story where the characters are rabbits.
A close second would be The Outsiders. S.E Hinton at her greatest, even though it was her first book. I think she peaked way too soon because the rest of her books didn't have the same power as The Outsiders.

Read Jason Stein's "Hello Friend, My name is Melvany"

Why? Well because I said so. Really Why?

Its sooo funny! Stein wrote this when he was a soph/junior @ NYU...

The Crucible really wasn't that good, I think. And the movie was horrible.

Read the Crucible its a good book...A lot of accusations and disbliefs about Witchcraft.

Read the Crucible its a good book...A lot of accusations and disbliefs about Witchcraft.

Some of the books i've been reading during my travels have been:
Rights of Man and Common Sense by Thomas Paine(Probably the two most important writings in the history of this country, I’ve read these both many times and highly suggest anybody who wants to understand our countries history to do so too.)

Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (another one by Thomas Paine but a very good read)

No Logo by Naomi Klein (an interesting critique of globalization and some real good ideas for change)


Being And Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre (not an easy read for a person who hasn't had much education in Philosophy, but highly recommended.)

And for books I say to always stay away from,
WAR and FReakin PEACE, one of the most boring books known to man, I'm surprised I was able to get through it. This book gets my vote as the book that is more useful as a paperweight.
Anything by Steinbeck, sorry but I hate how he writes, with the exception of East of Eden.
The Great Gatsby, another horrible book that just drags on and on and on.

The Count of Monte Cristo was a really good book.

I hated Fahrenheit 451, Go Ask Alice, A Gathering of Old Men and That Was Then This is Now.

Required reading freshman year. Those books are the reason that I hated freshman year.

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I absolutely despised A Separate Peace

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Ah!!!!!!!!!!(crouches in the floor in fetal position) Don't ever mention that book again. We had to watch the movie, which was even worse. I would've paid to be the one that pushed (well, bounced) that idiot out of the tree. Thank god I didn't have a gun or I would've riddled the TV screen with bullet holes.

I love Ernest Hemingway's "A Farwell to Arms". Nothing but a story about one night stands, people getting blown to pieces by mortar shells, alcohol, and did I mention the sex? Required reading for this summer.


I hated Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God" It was almost as bad as a Mark Twain novel.(Mark Twain, one of the authors in hell. lol. ) Had to read that this summer, it was required.

Thanks for the advice, rito

ka applegate...i've read alot of her stuff (Everworld and the Remnants ones). Intersting author, though the books are kinda short.
i loved little women ^^;
Romeo and Juliet i find to be incredibly lame, same with the old man and the sea. gah. i also didnt like adam of the road.
STAY AWAY FROM ADAM OF THE ROAD.
gaaahhhh!!

-rito

I absolutely despised A Separate Peace and I was supposed to read Metamorphosis but just couldnt get over the fact that the dude was a bug and got bored and gave up. heh.

ka applegate
ben nova
robert jordan

i can give you some more i just can't think of them right now

Bah. I hated A Separate Peace, The Scarlet Letter, Huckleberry Finn, and Ethan Frome. They were all required reading books.. but damn, I hated them so much.

I remember reading Romeo and Juliet and The Old Man and The Sea my freshman year of high school. I absolutely hated those books, too.

Diana Wynne Jones:

-The Dalemark Quartet
-Dark Lord of Derkholm
-Year of the Griffin

My favorite book is the second book in the Dalemark Quartet (Drowned Ammett)

The Catcher in the Rye is my favorite book. I went through this period when I was about 13, when I compared all potential boyfriends to Holden, because in my eyes, Holden was perfect.

I realized later that choosing a boyfriend because he was like Holden Caulfield wasn't exactly wise.

I also love The Scarlet Letter. Hester is my hero.