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Whats a good book to read?
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I cant say i have ever actually read a book on my own. I have maybe finished 5 books my entire life, one being each year of highschool and i think we read 2 in grade 12. And even those, its nothing i wanted to read, so i didn't enjoy it at all.
So something made me think about reading and i want to read a book this summer. But i have no idea what to read. Im 18, into pretty much all sports, hockey, golf, skiing to name a few, i really dislike anything about history or religion, so yeah... anyone think of something i would enjoy? Ill try to list all the books i have read:
to kill a mocking bird
life of pi
dessert storms (maybe its desert sands)
fahrenheit 911
thats all i can think of.
Thanks.
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Definitely a great book.
The movie is also great but the book is better, as you said.
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anything by vince flynn
he writes spy thrillers(not like tom clancy, fast killing bad guy type spy thrillers)
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I Am America and So Can You- Stephen Colbert, honestly hands down best book ever.
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I'm not much of a book reader either but I do enjoy reading books, just a very select few type.
Like I highly enjoy Chuck Palahniuk's fast paced style and Haruki Murakami is another one of my favorite authors
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I've been meaning to, but I generally dont like movies where I've read the book and vice versa
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read any kind of self help book, and i have a good reason for it. for one thing it will improve your attitude with whatever. the other is that if your applying for a job with a high end company one of the questions there asking these days is "what self help books have you read" and if you cant name 3 or more then they'll automatically send you out the door. I recommend 4 agreements, the game (yes it qualifies), the power of now... etc. all good books that will give you a different outlook and improve something about you.
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I want this in my threads, I love to read.
I'll give you a book name to, I read this in school this year, very very easy read, not that long, everyone in the class liked it.
the tribes of palos verdes by Joy Nicholson.
got this off google explaining the book a little.
Narrated by Medina Mason, a high school misfit who
moves to the exclusive Southern California community of Palos Verdes
only to watch her family disintegrate, it deals with all the familiar
themes of disconnected youth: drugs, sex, social problems and the sense
of living at right angles to the rest of the world. "I'm almost
fourteen," the book begins, "already in trouble at school, already been
kissed." Yet as "The Tribes of Palos Verdes" develops, Nicholson makes
Medina's concerns fresh. In seeking a place for her protagonist in the
world, she has discovered a brand new territory where adolescence leads
nowhere and remains its own immutable state of being.
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chuck pahlanuik - survivor, fight club, invisible monsters
charles bukowski - the postman
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try readint the book of I am legend by richard matheson..its awsome, and so much better than the film
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One book everyone should own:
"The Art of Looking sideways".
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by far the funniest book i've ever read:
Apathy and other small victories by Paul Neilan
i would be willing to bet money on this claim.
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Me talk pretty one day by david sedaris its a really funny book
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This was an absolutely great book and can be easily read in a day.
Also "Into the Wild," the book the movie was made after is soooo much better than the movie
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Catch 22 is great
so is Harry Potter
My Secret Garden is interesting. Its a big collection of women's sexual fantasies...
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well people already said anthem, which is by ayn rand who has some of the most insightful reading I've ever touched on....i would recommend atlas shrugged or the fountainhead by her, but they are pretty slow. 1984 has been said a lot, that book is so good, basically about a society where the upper class of society has complete control over everyone's life through surveillance and if/when you break the rules you're sent off to this place where no one knows what happens to you. Andddd also if you want something more recent, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is this book about a guy who explores the room of this recently dead old man, who in his house has a story about a film that was never made, about a house that gets a closet which is infinitely large and contains some unknown creature. And in the story there's week long treks exploring the closet and all this crazy shit happens. And then throughout the story the text is organized really unnaturally, at suspenseful parts there will be ten words to a page organized to promote claustraphobia and such. It was really interesting....I'd definitely recommend it.
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I am not one to argue, but siddhartha sucked dick
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Into the wild by Jon Krakauer
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