Just because there was a forum for Books You Hate
Anyway, I like Death in Venice, and generally books written by men. I just prefer their writing style.
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Post: #219244  , Sun 22 Feb 09, 4:18PM |
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a fantastic book.
As is Sophie's World. And Memoirs of a Geisha. And Empress of the World.
I just like books in general.
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Post: #219248 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 4:31PM |
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The Things They Carried is pretty fucking brilliant.
I also like almost any book about World War II.
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
- Maya Angelou
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Post: #219251 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 4:35PM |
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Hmmm...I like too many books
Wicked was really good.
I also liked the older Stephen King books like Carrie and Pet Cemetary.
Night was really compelling. I like almost any Holocaust book though.
I admit that the I liked the first 3 Twilight books too.
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Post: #219254 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 4:50PM |
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^^ Carrie and Pet Sematary are awesome!
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Post: #219256 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 4:58PM |
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^ Yup. I'm one of the few people who actually checked out books over the summer to read. >< I'm sucha nerd I know
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Post: #219257 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 4:59PM |
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Holocaust books FTW!
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
- Maya Angelou
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Post: #219259 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 5:01PM |
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:: Alexx
:: QA8 High Householder | |
You guys I am dead serious, you have to read some books my Pulm-Ucci. She is just completely amazing. The likes of which I've never seen in modern litature, she wrote:
The Body of Christopher Creed
What Happened to Lani Garver
The She
The night my sister went missing
We all die. The goal is not to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.
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Post: #219268 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 6:15PM |
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I really loved Angels and Demons by Dan Brown; it's so much better then The Da Vinci Code.
And Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. I think I've read that book somewhere around a hundred times since I discovered it in the fifth grade. lol And then that book led to me loving the book Robinson Crusoe, because Hatchet is just like a modern-easier-to-read version of Robinson Crusoe.
"You're the happy-go-lucky misanthrope!"
-Elvira Kurt
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Post: #219273 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 6:41PM |
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pretty much anything by sarah dessan
and the devils arithmetic i love the theme of the holocaust
its not hard to make it through a day if you can make it through the moment
----"No man's land? Do women live there?"----
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Post: #219276 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 6:46PM |
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^ My brother just read The Devil's Arithmetic and made me pretty much read it for him cause I'm the smart one in the family =P It was really good but the movie with Kirsten Dunst (sp)was wayyyy different
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Post: #219281 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 6:55PM |
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i have never seen the movie but they norm ruin books with movies anyway
omg sisterhood of the traveling pants 2 movie sucked major ass
its not hard to make it through a day if you can make it through the moment
----"No man's land? Do women live there?"----
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Post: #219284 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 6:57PM |
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I love too many books to list but my favorite non fiction to date is Persian Pilgrimages~Journeys Across Iran by Afshin Molavi and my favorite fiction book is *thinks* I can't think of a book on it's own but anything by Will Hobbs and Gary Paulsen... I love adventure books. I spend a lot of time outdoors with my parents in the summer doing camping and hiking fishing and stuff so I can really imagine myself in the situations the characters in the books are in.
"So paint it black and take it back. Let's shout out loud and clear." -"Welcome To The Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance
“Taking the first step with the good thought, the second with the good word, and the third with the good deed, I enter Paradise.”-Persian Proverb
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Post: #219297 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 7:19PM |
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Too much...
But "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold will forever hold a place in my heart.
Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility—it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us.
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Post: #219327 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 8:38PM |
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^^ me and joshhyyy were talking about this in another forum
isnt lovely bones horrific?
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Post: #219329 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 8:41PM |
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It's a wonderful book.
Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility—it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was once deemed impossible. From the airplane overhead to the phones in our pockets to the choir girl putting her arm around the metalhead. As hard as it is for us to see sometimes, we all exist within the realm of possibility. Most of the limits are of our own world’s devising. And yet, every day we each do so many things that were once impossible to us.
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Post: #219336 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 8:57PM |
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:: Inky
:: QA8 High Householder | |
I like old fashioned books, i think many nowadays lack originallity.
Dune for me is a spectacular book, definitely the best in it's genre
Wuthering heights is another favourite, if not a bit depressing
The mortal engines Quartet is the best set of books i've ever read, so cool 
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Post: #219345 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 9:27PM |
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:: jdg369
:: QA10 Community God | |
Watchmen
The City and the Pillar
Ender's Game
And anything Nietzsche or Marx. ;]
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Post: #219349 , Sun 22 Feb 09, 9:38PM |
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Dylan-
I don't generally like books/stories written in that style, but I have to admit "The Things They Carried" was pretty rad. 
I'm a huge Harry Potter freak, and I love Terry Pratchett's Discworld series as well. I also love pretty much anything written by Neil Gaiman. "Good Omens" was a collaboration between those two men and it's one of my all time favorites.
That being said, I have a huge weakness for anthologies of comic strips like Get Fuzzy...
"If you plant lettuce, and the lettuce does not grow well, do not blame the lettuce." --Thich Nhat Hanh
"You see what you wanna see, and you hear what you wanna hear. You dig?" --The Rock Man, "The Point"
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Post: #219884 , Tue 24 Feb 09, 5:58AM |
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Warlock by Oakley Hall
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The book of the New Sun series by Gene Wolfe
My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Gravities Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Ghormenghast series by Mervyn Peake
The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series by Douglas Adams
Slaughter house five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Republic by Plato
Battle Cry of Freedom - James McPherson
The Price of Glory - Alistair Horne
Charile Wilsons War by George Crile
and I could go on lol.... but I think I'll stop there
Don't ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what. No matter... where. Or who, or who you are with, or, or where you are going, or... or where you've been... ever. For any reason, whatsoever. - Michael Scott
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Post: #219893 , Tue 24 Feb 09, 6:39AM |
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How to know when you like a guy.
Lez-be-honest
Three's A Crowd... or is it?
Lily Helena Knight
Things that grow
Just so.
My new life
Trip to the zoo!
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