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e5th3r

e5th3r

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recommend me your favourite book!.. please..

i've just realized that i have not read a decent book in an extremely long time.. and i miss it! i want to start reading again, but i never know which books to read. i hate renting them at the library, so i end up spending 30 bucks on a book i wont read after reading the first page. (due to boredom)..

so basically, what do u recommend? which book did u most enjoy. Author and Title.

P.S. IM ONLY SEVENTEEN!!! so please.. nothing TOO challenging.
 
Do you have any particular genre or subject in mind? Recommending a book to someone is like recommending a music track: depends on your tastes.

:)
 
Don't use your age as an excuse for avoiding a challenge. I was probably smarter (at least in terms of drive and raw brain power) when I was 17 than I am now. Surf Amazon for topics that interest you and then read *lots* of books, not just one :)
 
right now I am reading books by Jeff Noon. he's a great fiction writer. his books are very futuristic and twisted. part science-fiction and part avant-garde edge. currently I am reading Nymphomation and I finished one of his books titled Vurt a couple weeks ago. Vurtuality

They are great stories. Futuristic, lewd, witty and infectious.

Vurt takes place in a near-future Manchester, England, where life moves at high-speed velocities. Much of the story takes place inside the mind of the protagonist whose moniker is Scribble and whose mission is to relocate his long-lost sister Desdemona who has disappeared inside an alternate reality created by sucking on the hallucinatory Vurt-drug that one accesses by swallowing color-coded feathers.
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http://www.altx.com/amerika.online/vurt.html
 
The Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Green Mars, and Blue Mars) by Kim Stanley Robinson are my favourite books. I guess they could be considered a challenge but the awareness you will have of today's problems and where they are leading is well worth it...
 
a great book.. it looks huge, and it is, but that's because it has so much damned good stuff in it. it's really easy to read, and you will learn so much, and the adventure is just great.

cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
 
DigitalDuality said:
it breaks my heart to see you're underage... anyways,

Dan Brown- -Da Vinci Code, Angels and Demons
Chuck Palahnuik- Choke, Lullaby, Survivor, Diary
Tom Robbins- Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Skinny Legs and All, Jitterbug perfume
Huxley- Brave New World
Orwell- 1984
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i'll second these as well as white oleander, which i read when i was 16, so that was around your age.

the catcher in the rye is amazing... and my friend has been telling me to read this book called "pledged" --- its about sorority life and i guess it's super interesting (even though i'm not into greekness or anything like that)
 
Yeah, I read White Oleander when I was 15 or 16 too. It isn't hard to read when you get into the rhythm of it. Oh yeah, an easy, quick one to read is A child called it by Dave Pelzer (or something similar). It isn't long. . I read it in like 3 hours.
 
oh, also read pure sunshine by james... tenderness by cormier... and the giver (lowry) and night (wiesel) if you havent already. those were staples in the adolescent lit class i took, even though i felt they were a little too easy, but still very good!
 
IF you like sci fi, I really enjoyed the Watchtower series by Stephen King about 10 years ago. Didn't seem like any of his other writings, don't normally enjoy him too much.
 
Phillip Pullman, Northern Lights trilogy. Fantasy, without the spaceships, did nothing but read it, 'twas beautiful and got me thinking.
 
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Phillip Pullman, Northern Lights trilogy. Fantasy, without the spaceships, did nothing but read it, 'twas beautiful and got me thinking.
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good words spoken.. "the golden compass"... "the subtle knife"..

right now im reading alice in wonderland/through the looking glass, which i found a copy of randomly upon returning from a khole. it's so much better than i remebered.
 
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