Book suggestion?

[Sharon]

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I know I enjoy reading, and I'm sure many, if not all of you, like to read too. Alright, so what books would you recommend? Here are a couple of books that I REALLY got into.

"Memoirs Of a Geisha" by Arthur Golden
"The Game" by Teresa Toten
"The Vampire's Violin" by Michael Romkey
"Sam's Letters to Jennifer" by James Patterson
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[lockely]

[glow=black,2,300]well i'm a bit of a science fiction buff..

'Ender's game' by Orson Scott Card - very good book.. you don't have to like sci fi for this.. everyone i know who's read it liked it!

'Blood music' by Greg Bear, this one is a bit science orientated.

'The Wrong Boy' by Willy Russell .. for all you artsy/music types.. great book. sad but funny [/glow]

[SusuPnk]

well right now im reading the biography of Malcom X
Its so far really interesting not only educational but really nice.
Just a suggestion.

Susu

[Sharon]

i'm sure some of you remember my 100 books in year challenge that i made myself. yeah, i kind of put that on hold. i hope i'll be able to pick it back up, and soon before it becomes impossible to complete the challenge anyway, any of yous have any book recommendations that are between 100-350 pages long?

[Laura]

Maybe this book isn't for everyone but "A Slipping-Down Life" by Anne Tyler is my favourite book. You could read it in a night ... I adore it. I love, love, LOVE when people incorporate music into stories/poetry and this was just a joy. I haven't found any books like it yet and the movie I saw years later was actually quite good ... one of my favourite movies too

[fightingirishman]

I really enjoyed "A Complicated Kindness" by Miriam Toews. It's so funny yet so tragic. I think it's about 250 pages. If you're into plays (which are extremely quick reads), I'd recommend "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" (but it works better if you've read Shakespeare's "Hamlet") or "The Real Inspector Hound", both by Tom Stoppard. There's "Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver, but that's 600 pages, though it is an easier read.

[chaosns]

I also strongly reccommend Ender's Game, but I also recommend; 1984 by George Orwell, lose this author; Whiteout, by Ken Follett, maybe kinda mature, watchout; and Cosmonaut by Peter Jennings, just wow, also kind of mature. There were alot of commas so I decided to use semi colons too.

[Sharon]

Thank you all for the suggestions, I'll definitely take them into consideration. I'm actually in the middle of reading 1984 (we're reading it in English class). Very interesting story.

[Absinthe]

I'd have to say that some recent ones I've read or some that I adore would have to be:


-Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
-Crank by [honestly can't remember the author]
-Cut by Patricia McCormick
-The Awakening by Kate Chopin
-Ferenheit 451 by Ray Bradburry


......I have many more that I can't think of at the moment....I'll add more at a later date.

[fightingirishman]

1984 is a good one. That reminds me that "Down and Out in Paris and London" by Orwell is a really good one. He actually gave up everything he had and lived in poverty in the two cities to write the book.

[bapiau]

I'm doing the 100 books thing too I've got about 11 done so far this year. Not exactly on target but I had a week off last week so I read 3 of them then. I'll make up my numbers over my 12 week summer vacation ^_^

Memoirs of a Geisha was brilliant wasn't it? I got so in to it I couldn't put it down.
Peter Pan is a great read for anyone who hasn't actually -read- the book. erm can't think of the other ones that I've read atm will post more later.

[Sharon]

hey bapiau, how'd the 100 books thing turn out for you?