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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 18 2004, 01:52 AM (619 Views) | |
| Odorf | Sep 18 2004, 01:52 AM Post #1 |
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I know school for everyone is in and out , but there has got to be a time when you just need a good book to read, or maybe you want to tell someone about one go ahead here .. this is the best place ! |
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| Pearl Moss | Sep 18 2004, 08:24 AM Post #2 |
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I recommend the 'Tomorrow When The War Began' series by John Marsden. My fave books ever. They're just brilliant! Also any book by John Grisham. 'Falling Leaves' or 'Chinese Cinderella' by Adeline Yen Mah. Both incredibly touching books that are based on her life. Of course the 'Harry Potter' series by J.K Rowling. Definite must reads! 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' series by J.R.R Tolkien. Fantastic. |
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| Alassea | Dec 20 2004, 01:07 PM Post #3 |
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uhm, I'd reccomend : *Go ask Alice *secret Window *charlie and the chocolate factory *the Shining *Harry Potter(all 5!) and I'm sorry, but I really do NOT recoomend Lotr! it's sooooooooooooo long :rolleyes: :LOL: |
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| Pearl Moss | Dec 22 2004, 05:47 PM Post #4 |
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Haha, yes, it is long. And I must admit it is a little hard to read at the beginning but once you get into it I think it's fantastic. |
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| Hunter | Jan 29 2005, 12:15 AM Post #5 |
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I just got done reading "Eragon" by Christopher Paloini and it was AWESOME!!! If you like JRR Tolkein's books and JK Rowling's Harry Potter series then you'll like this too. Also "The Count of Monte Christo" I just finished reading that a little while ago and it was really good (but you have to keep up or else you get lost. |
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| ljh_wood | Mar 23 2005, 05:48 PM Post #6 |
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[size=1]Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story. Perhaps it is a story that accounts for Frank's survival. Wearing shoes repaired with tires, begging a pig's head for Christmas dinner, and searching the pubs for his father, Frank endures poverty, near-starvation and the casual cruelty of relatives and neighbors -- yet lives to tell his tale with eloquence, exuberance and remarkable forgiveness. [/size] :bee: :bee: |
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| Mud | Apr 10 2005, 03:23 AM Post #7 |
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Hmm... I wouldn't totally agree with you on that... I enjoyed it, non-the less, it's far to close to Lord of the Rings for my comfort. Lots of the names used in that book are very similar if not identical to Sindarin words used in some of the more "boring" Tolkien books. Allow me to... give some not very specific examples as I don't have either of the books with me. -Well, basic ones are like Orik, bad guys and very similar to Orcs and Uruk-hai, no? -Brom, name of some dwarf or something... -Alagaesia, far too close to some other word in Sindarin for a more historical name for ome place (Ok, it's been years since I've read the history books by tolkien) -Urgals, same thing about Uruk-hais -Elves... they have elves too! And Dwarves! -Carvenhall, Teirm, Farthen-Dur, Beor Mountains, all too similar... -Gil'head <--- this really annoys me as it's the name of an elf mention several times throughout Tolkien's books.... - Farthen-Dur '-dur' often seen in lotr, with DWARVES -Helzvog (Alagaesian god thing) Sounds rather like balrog and whatnot to me, well associated with mouantains and power.... These are just some basic examples... anyway, you're intitled to your opinion... Hmm... back on topic... Good books.... The White Gardenia -Belonda Alexandra was very interesting, though long... (about war) The Da Vinci Code -Dan Brown interesting as this book contains lots of already present ideas, his other books are good too, but the plots are too similar. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho very interesting, and very similar to The Little Prince. Got some very good philosophies.... Malarkey -Keith Gray (sp?) A teen book... but pretty good non-the less... True Believer - Virginia Euwer Wolf (sp?) A bit of light read.... My mind's pretty blank right now... |
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