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I did that too.

The Handmaid's Tale is kick-***.

Heh. I almost typed "tail".

Machiavelli's "The Prince", Sun Tzu "The Art of War", Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six", and just about any book on war tactics and strategy. By the way, "To Kill a Mockingbird", isnt that a little basic? It didnt have much of a plot, storyline, or anything. Yeah, its safe to say it sucked.

Grrr my computer is being a bizotch and won't let me noisemail you for some reason, so Ill try again later. just didnt want you to think i was ignoring you.

Hey, my AIM is Tweet30346, so you can IM me if you want.

well I read mostly all kids books, but thats okay cuz I'm a kid some of my favorites are:
1-City of the Beasts by Isabelle Allende
2-all of "The Chronicles of Chrestomanci" by Diana Wynne Jones
3-The Silver Chair, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
4-How Sleep the Brave (i can't remember who this is by)
5- and, of course I have to say the Harry Potter books, particularly the 2nd 3rd and 4th.

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3. 'white oleander' by janet fitch. truly original and you can feel astrids pain. also see the movie. maybe more for girls.

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I loved this book! But i never saw the movie

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5. 'speak' by laurie halse anderson. very blunt and true-to-life. i suggest this book more for girls too, its so awesome.

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I love this book!! It was sooooo good i couldnt put it down!

I just read this book 'War for the Oaks' By Emma Bull. It was probably the bestbook i have ever read! (And that's saying a lot! Hehehe) It's about faires so if your into faires you should read it!

Blessed Be
~Jade

The Stranger, by Camus is an awesome read for sure. how human's can grow disconnected and emotionless. kill even. i love the first and second parts very much, but hated the end terribly. well rage against the machine anyways.......

the best french existentialist authour, for me, is without a doubt Sartre. read his "Nausea". it moves slow but is a very rewarding experience. after all, real life is not that exciting to begin with; but his trancendence shines through to the readers imagination, and you feel alive by the end. for a minute.

The Hobbit rules, and Roald Dahl is more creative than Vonnegutte (sorry Kurt).

the best sci-fi writer today is (and please mark my words-and check him out immediately) William Gibson (he wrote the short story Johnny Nemonic. Nueromancer, Countzero, Mona Lisa Overdrive is the trilogy and opus of his career. love matrixs', simulatedstimulation, apparent sensory perception, cyberspace, jacking in, AI? look no further than him. cutting edge. petro.

You guys, you REALLY need to read The Stranger (l'étranger in it's native language) by Albert Camus. It was a book we read in school, and everyone loves it.



It's short (100) pages.

It's interesting (written in a foreign country) and exciting (murder in Algeria!).

It's easy to read.

It will open your eyes to what exactly is so terrible about society.

And it's a masterpiece, that is VERY highly acclaimed.

IT'S WORTH THE 4 HOUR READ!!!



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I haven't actually read the entire Bible yet, but I got a cool teen edition and it is my New Years resolution to have it read in a year

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i tried that... stopped halfway through genesis and skipped to the new testiment. got 3/4 of the way through that.

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i like the Dune series, tho i stopped on Children of Dune. i think i was too young to understand it [14], but ill pick it up again. Taltos by Anne Rice. thats the third book in a series, and i started with it, but its good. also by her: The Vampire Armand, heh, never mind. Silmarillion, Book of Lost Tales [1 and 2] and Lord of the Rings by JRRT. Piers Anthony, like em all, but my favourite is Geis of the Gargoyle and Gollum in the Gears. i cant think of anything else, tho doubtless theres more...

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My favs are Harry Potter (which the Catholic Church officially declared "ok"-even though I read them anyway...) and the Bible. I haven't actually read the entire Bible yet, but I got a cool teen edition and it is my New Years resolution to have it read in a year...

Slander- Ann Coulter. "Treason" takes the issue to fay, however.

Oh my gosh, The Stranger was a good book but it was so friigin depressing a couldn't stand it. It's one of those books that when you put it down its just like, "How rude!" and then you stay sad for a day or two. lol. But I am the kind of person who is deeply affected that way...

The Diary of an Emotional Idiot (can't remember the author's name) is hilarious. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, is great, as is anything (especially short stories) by Kate Chopin. I liked The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers), but most people don't. Almost anything by George Orwell is good; I really liked Down and Out in Paris and London, especially once I found out that Orwell lived in poverty for a year while writing it to make it realistic. I also liked The Book of Disquiet (written by one of Fernando Pessoa's many personalities), but it's prose and it's a bit hard to get through. Then again, I can read almost anything...I actually enjoyed Anna Karenina, even though many people assured me it was one of the most boring books ever written.

"Someone like You" by: Sarah Dressen is really good!

"Death To Be Not Proud" is good, it's sad though.

"The Women In The Wall" is interesting.

"Lilly's Crossing" is good, it's written from a child's veiw"

"Keeping The Moon" by: Sarah Dressen is good to anything from her is a good book

"Daddy's Little Girl" by: Mary Higgins Clark is good to. It's about a little girl who's sister was murdered. Anything from her is good to.

There's a lot more but that's all I could think of.
-JustMyself

Tell me if you've read these:


***Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse - Story about Buddhist journey, very enlightening.

***Planet of Twilight, a star wars novel - Even though it takes place after the Star Wars movies, it is really good, if you like a great plot and great action this is for you, it's very interesting. Well written.

*Genesis, by Paul Anderson - Very interesting concept on what will happen to our species in the future.

***The Stranger (or l'etranger in French) , by Albert Camus - Ever felt like society is terrible sometimes? This story demonstrates it so concisely, in a story format about a murder. And it's easy to read.

*****Hork-Bajir Chronicles, by K.A. Applegate - Magnificently written, a suspenseful, sad and beautiful story. For everyone, it's incredible.

perhaps, but you never noe whats ever going on with that foo'.

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Mein Kampf, A Clockwork Orange, The Godfather, The Prince, Art of War, The Inferno.

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You can tell Napoleon said mein Kampf and The Prince just to sound cool, they are both boring and I would bet anything he didn't read them. I can respect your admiring them for being such a huge part of history, but come on, you didn't stay up late reading going "ooh, I wonder what Hitler's gonna say next!".



Sorry, they aint good reads!

The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Here are a few really good books that I have recently read.

Someone like you-Sarah Dressen
That Summer-Sarah Dressen
American Holiday-Kate Cann
Princess Frog- cant remember the author

I'll stop now, other wise Ill just keep on going on and on.

ByE bYe