I just read "To Kill A Mockingbird." It was so rockin...I literally, couldn't put it down. (I know it sounds oh-so corny but it's true!) What books do you guys think are the best?

I tell you to read "My Heart Will Forever Go On" This lady blogs. The medical field caused her kid's death. She was on a blogradio and she has a private email at pljmk@aol.com she will write and send you a signed copy, maybe free. I heard she is writing a novel for the teens.

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U just gave me something to read this summer. Thank you lots!!!

You're welcome. Just be prepared to cry. A LOT.

Everyone can think that i'm completely dumb for this but honestly, Where the Red Fern Grows is my favorite book.

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Best book I've ever read: As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann. It's a beautiful gay love story between two soldiers in the New Model Army during the English Civil War, one of which being the schizophrenic narrator of the story.

It's virtually unknown, which is grossly unfair.

U just gave me something to read this summer. Thank you lots!!!

Best book I've ever read: As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann. It's a beautiful gay love story between two soldiers in the New Model Army during the English Civil War, one of which being the schizophrenic narrator of the story.

It's virtually unknown, which is grossly unfair.

28 Stories of AIDS in Africa by Stephanie Nolen - it inspired me.

The Old Kingdom Trilogy (Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen) by Garth Nix - this is not usually my type of book, but I couldn't put them down.

The Shackby Will Young - it meant a lot to me as a Christian, but I have Muslim, Jewish and Atheist friends who have read it and loved it too.

A thousand splendid suns by ... I can't quite remember, Khaled Hosseini I think? the same author of The Kiterunner, anyway.
A MUST-READ!

I loved "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. It was great! It's amazing that this man (1894-1963) brought up so many ethical and moral issues and still makes the characters seem like they could be real people. Also, some of the issues are ones that humanity may face in the near future.

I will teach you how to be a better poster: stop posting.

"Yeah, I agree teaching is a challenging profession, but it can be one of the most rewarding careers.
It's some times a difficult professional to enter when you have to take a teacher certification like the Praxis II test. It takes a special type of person to be a teacher and be successful at it."



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Harry Potter series, definitely. They have everything you want and are always entertaining.
Also, The Giver, anything by Bret Easton Ellis, Everything Is Illuminated, Crime and Punishment, The Outsiders, The Catcher in the Rye, Cirque Du Freak, Speak, What Is The What, Slaughterhouse Five

harry potteeeeeeeeer definitely

right now im reading Steven King's "Cell" and its crazy. I like it but then it grosses me out but then I pick it bad up it's pretty good I guess thats just how all Steven King's books are like.

btw........ "a long way gone. memiors of a boy soldier." THAT is the best book ever! it really opened my eyes

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"""It's a love letter from the Lord"""
___Do my ears deceive me... or is it actually echoing idiocy in here?

you really shouldnt make comments like that without knowing the backgroud of what the other persons opinion is based on. .....(sigh) i just realized that that is major hypocrasy (however you spell that) becuase we all do that anyway. ah well...

btw..did anybody else think that paris hilton vid was halarios???

I read "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Huckleberry Finn" my Sophomore year in high school. I thought they were very important books in helping somone to understand what the culture, attitudes, and atmosphere was like back then for both whites and blacks. The characters in the books also have a strong influence on helping the reader to become more tolerant of differences.
However, here in my ignorant, low-class town of Renton, Washington, people are going insane and protesting to have these books banned in the schools. Why? You guessed it... because they include the "n-word". Of course, that's what blacks were called back then. I'm not saying it's right, but it's historically accurate, and the authors only use those terms to show the important change in the main characters' attitudes towards people of a different race.
But those are my comments. It's awesome being able to fill your mind with the great works of literature, and these staples of important writing should not be taken away from students!

I'm reading Gulliver's Travels by Swift.

It's brief, but the names are what get me. Wonderful piece of satire, I must say.

Also, you all should read "A Modest Proposal" by Swift. I found it quite amusing: "Babies: The Other White Meat"...

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I just finished this amazing book called I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. It is so good!

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I read that! Cuase I was going to England so my mom decided we shold read some books that took place in England. (?i dont always understand her) I liked it, but when I looked at the movie it looked sorta dissappointing, so I didn't watch it.

awwww i love shakespear i didnt really think anyone else read his work without being forst to. im reading a book right now called signiture killers i like it but it may be to boring and brutal for everyone else

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A Midsummer's Night's Dream

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I like that book too. It was great.

Oh my god, I just finished this amazing book called I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. It is so good! Its a girl's journal in early 20th century England. She lives in an old castle with her family. Her stepmother, Topaz, who is an artists model, her sister Rose and her father, a writer struggling to follow up the worldwide success of his first book. Its got love, sibling rivalry, class differences and just about everything else.

I want to see the movie.