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#121
05-14-2008
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I'd recommend the Interview with a Vampire. Also, the Vampire Lestat. If you are in to that sort of thing.
Classic lit Shakespeare Greek Trilogies To kill a mocking bird (that is something I recommend to everyone.) Watership Down (it's a story about rabbits. But it doesn't feel like it. There is so much personality in these little creatures that you forget they are rabbits. It's really good.) Moby Dick. Yes the white whale. It is extremely long, and highly annoying but it's good. There is so much hidden symbolism and back stories. I'm looking for something more recent though. 
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#122
05-20-2008
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I don't know if anyone has suggested these, but...
No particular order. 1. The Twilight series (Stephenie Meyer) 2. The Host (Stephenie Meyer) 3. The Pendragon series (DJ MacHale) 4. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) 5. The Artemis Fowl series (Eoin Colfer) 6. The Supernaturalists (Eoin Colfer) 7. The Giver (Lois Lowry) 8. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom) 9. The Warriors series (Erin Hunter) 10. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell) I can't think of any more off the top of my head... but I enjoyed all of those. Tuesdays with Morrie was an excellent book. I've just gotten back into Pendragon, and The Host just came out. Gone with the Wind is a classic. It's about 1,037 pages long, if I remember correctly, and I read it in about a week. A school week, too. But I really enjoyed it... once I got past chapter four. And I never saw the movie, so I wouldn't be able to compare them... Here are a few mangas if anyone wants suggestions for manga: 1. Absolute Boyfriend (Yuu Watase) 2. Alice 19th (Yuu Watase) 3. YuYu Hakusho (Yoshihiro Togashi) 4. Shaman King (Hiroyuki Takei) 5. Dr. Slump (Akira Toriyama) And there's a few more I need to look up the authors for... Oh, and I book I haven't read but want to read is called Eats Shoots and Leaves.
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#123
05-22-2008
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I am currently having it shoved down my throat... trying to read it gives me a headache, though I am having an easier time understanding it than the others in my class...
But I will say that it isn't that bad. I like it more than Romeo and Juliet. R&J is just too... well-known, I guess. I have to use spark notes to really understand it, though...
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#124
05-31-2008
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It all depends on what you like
Personaly i find lots of different storyies facinating with my favorite probably being fantisy and sifi (note I like long series) so I recomend Enders game Dritz trilogy The wheel of time if you like the wheel of time series you have to read mistborn and elantris these are books made by the author who is going to finish the series also the sword of truth the seven towers lord of the iles (may be spelled wrong) manga wise D gray man claymore shaman king rave master fairy tail black cat hunter x hunter o-part hunter i also agree with Kurama in Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury) The Giver (Lois Lowry) to be honest in the end i just love stories
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#127
06-20-2008
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YES!!
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#128
06-21-2008
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Wow. I'm shocked that this thread is still alive. I would have expected it dead 10 months ago.
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#129
06-21-2008
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It's one of the better things that you will read in high school. I had to go through the torture of reading horrible books like Beloved, The Scarlet Letter, Night and Great Expectations.
Anyway, back on topic. It was recommended a while back that I read The Kite Runner. I know recommend it to people too. Brilliant book. I also recommend Breakfast at Tiffany's. Great read.
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#130
06-21-2008
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Well, here's a few "must read" books:
- George Orwell's 1984 - Alex Haley's Roots - Alex Haley's Autobiography of Malcolm X - Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth - Mumia Abu-Jamal's Live From Death Row - Karl Marx's Das Capital: Volume One through Three
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#132
06-30-2008
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hmmmm
cris ryan : alpha force series is fun to read then there is the chronicles of darkness: wolf brother, spirit walker, soul eater ........ umm also the magician guild trilogy but i guess it depends on what you like
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#133
07-08-2008
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"13 Reasons Why" by Jay Asher. Trust me. It's a magnificent book, and it'll really get you thinking about life.
"Christine" by Stephen King. (Watch the movie, too. It's pretty good.) "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown. "The DaVinci Code" by Dan Brown.
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#135
07-19-2008
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Blind Faith by Ben Elton is good. Past Mortem.... gets kind of wierd but is good too.
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#136
07-25-2008
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A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving. Read it for required summer reading; loved it.
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#138
07-28-2008
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Would anyone read a book if I wrote one and it got published?
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#140
07-29-2008
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Well, I doubt any fanfiction I wrote would get published... but you know I love it when people read my fanfictions!
I was talking about a novel, though... I have a few ideas. I even started a little bit of one. The others are just... ideas, so far. I was curious to see if anyone would actually be interested in anything I wrote...
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#142
07-30-2008
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That's true. The same would go for me.
I think I'll tell you about some of them - somewhere else - if you're interested (in hearing about them, that is).
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#143
08-01-2008
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I have a few series/novles that I rather enjoyed, Plus a few manga I think are worth mentioning too.
Books: The Legend of Drizzt (R.A. Salvatore) The Bartimaeus Trilogy (dont know the author, sorry) The Wheel of Time (Robert Jordan) Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card) The Twilight Series! (Stephenie Meyer) Some Shakespeare stuff is pretty good too! And a few manga I think are good. Naruto Bleach Yu-Gi-Oh ( it actually isnt bad at all) And thats about it.
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#144
08-01-2008
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I just read The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver... it wasn't bad, I suppose. If you don't mind religion. (I do, but overall, I still don't think it was too bad.)
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#145
08-06-2008
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I really hate religious novels. Most of them feel all preachy and and annoying, like the whole book was just an excuse to promote a certain religion. I know this (usually) isnt the case, but I'm paranoid about people trying to convert me. I'm happy as an Atheist <img src='/images/emoticons/smiley7.png'>
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#146
08-10-2008
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Then here's a tip: Try to avoid a book called "A Lesson Before Dying". I hated it. (And almost every character was super-religious. Especially the Reverend. Ugh.) And the main character had a really random, huge conversion during the last, like, five pages... it was so forced and OOC. And I even started to like it... until the end. The end was so bad.
On another note, here's a book that everyone should read: The Gospel According to Larry.
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#147
08-11-2008
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has anyone suggested the inheratence trilogy or the belgariad series yet?
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#148
08-15-2008
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I think someone did suggest the Inheritance trilogy (probably several people)... but I don't know about the other one.
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#149
10-24-2008
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Bartimaeus trilogy!
1000000 times better than Harry potter in every way.
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