Favourite Books/Recommendations

Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser :shifty
I don't know, I've been reading through excerpts and certain chapters of it, because I need to do research on slaughterhouses, for a term paper. But it's a surprisingly good, and I like that I now know a bit more about what goes into the meat of McDonald's or Burger King's food.

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Princess Pernicious:

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Brighton Rock-Graham Greene
Had to read it for AP Lit, LOVED IT!

What is that about?

It's about this mob in England. The original leader is murdered by a rival mob, so this teenager takes over, but he murders one of the guys from the rival mob and spends the rest of the book trying to cover his tracks by murdering one of the guys from his gang and marrying a girl,even though he hates her, just so she can't testify against him in court.

It's really good.

That sounds really good, thanks for the description. I'm going to have to add that to my 'to-read' list. :)

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the king.:

1984, by George Orwell.
It's such a sad, shocking, scary, thought provoking book.
I couldn't put it down! I've read it twice now.
The vocabulary, the imagination of it all...
amazing. Absolutely amazing.

Agreed. 1984 is one of the best books I've ever had to read for school.

Oh, that book is amazing. It freaked me out so much, the whole rewriting history part of it. I was in some sort of trance for about a week xD;

Anywho, onto the whole reccing thing.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Even though it's a kid's book, it's so gorgeous.
Peter Pan, by I can't remember who. His writing style is really sweet.
Anything by Agatha Christie. She's a genius. I can never, ever guess who the murderer is.
The Inheritance cycle by Christopher Paolini. There's three so far, Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr, and there's going to be one more. And in the third one there's a Doctor Who reference. It made my year.

:tehe:

Another rec, The Last Days and Peeps, both by Scott Westerfield.

His conception of vampires is sooo much better than Stephenie Meyer's.

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His conception of vampires is sooo much better than Stephenie Meyer's.

It's not that hard to be better than hers :file:

So I'm not spamming, Exodus by Julie Bertagna is interesting. It's set in the future, when we've melted the ice caps and everything is drowning.

Emily.:

Mmmm.
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde.
The ultimate classic, for me at least. About a man, Dorian Gray, who gains eternal youth while a potrait of his ages. Also well worth the read, mainly because it's one of the best books... ever, but also because it looks very impressive on any reading list. :tehe:

I completely concur.
Wilde has such a way with words, and the descriptions are nothing less than breathtaking. The characters are so well put together and the theme is so sinister and really draws you in as a reader.

xD edit; double post.

The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, was brilliant.
I've always loved his work =] a beautiful, sad book.

The Book Thief is set in Germany, during and post-World War II. The story is told from the point of view of Death, a reluctant collector of souls, who does not enjoy the job appointed to him. One of the few pleasures he has is in the story of the book thief, Liesel Meminger, whom he encounters three times. Liesel's story begins when she and her brother are sent away by their mother to the Hubermanns, a foster family. - wikipedia.

Define Normal by Julie Ann Peters.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
The Old Kingdom Series (Abhorsen Series in North America) by Garth Nix.
The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. These books defined how vampires are now. Rice is the first to have beautiful vampires - not Stephanie Meyer.

I just finished reading the book 'Tithe' by Holly Black. It's a quick read (I finished it in a few hours) but it's very good.

Here's an excerpt from the summary @ bn.com:

Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms -- a struggle that could very well mean her death.

Black is very good writer. She's paints a picture in your head.

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The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak, was brilliant.

That is a brilliant book
The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal by Thomas Harris.
They're both so much better than the movies

Yet again

I'm goingto say The Dark Tower

It's epic

The Twilight saga - Stephenie Meyer,
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon,
The Georgia Nicholson diaries - Louise Rennison,
Harry Potter series - J.K.Rowling,
Silent to the Bone - E.L.Konigsburg, (Amazing Book)
and plenty more....

Shade's Children by Garth Nix

Good plt, not the best, memorale characters, you could probably read in the space of a few hours if you put yur mind to it.

Brisingr by Christopher Paolini.
Or any of the inheritance series really.
They're all that good. :yah

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

...assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature.

Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

[Takes place during WWII in Germany] The protagonist is Trudi Montag, the Zwerg (dwarf) who becomes the town's librarian. A perennial outsider because of her deformity, Trudi exploits her gift for eliciting peoples' secrets--and often maliciously reveals them in suspenseful gossip.

1984 by George Orwell

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow.

...and many many more. Those are just my favorites right now.

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

...assorted characters chase each other around in search of the world's most important and dangerous substance, a new form of ice that freezes at room temperature.

Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

[Takes place during WWII in Germany] The protagonist is Trudi Montag, the Zwerg (dwarf) who becomes the town's librarian. A perennial outsider because of her deformity, Trudi exploits her gift for eliciting peoples' secrets--and often maliciously reveals them in suspenseful gossip.

1984 by George Orwell

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

"Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a "Feelie," a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow.

...and many many more. Those are just my favorites right now.

'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess

'The Catcher In The Rye' by JD Salinger

'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath

'1984' by George Orwell

'Smashed' by Koren Zailckas

'Bloodletting' by Victoria Leatham

Vincent Price:

'The Catcher In The Rye' by JD Salinger

Yes :cheese:
It's such a good book. I can see why it's so popular

Um,
Twilight Saga-Stephenie Meyer (Anyone who hasn't read that should...NOW!)
The Host-Stephenie Meyer (I really loved it. It was awesome, Re-reading it now)
Harry Potter-J.K.Rowling
Eragon-Christopher Paolini (I only read the first one. It was pretty good)

I think there is a lot more but I'm brain dead at the moment...

Morrigans Cross
The Dance Of The Gods
And
The Valley Of Silence
All By Nora Roberts and all part of the Circle Series. (Book one, two and three.)