I need to get a book to read for school

Noss. · 2008-09-10 20:24:00

NS community i need to find a book preferabley about skiing, my teacher said it could be anything by the way Thanks for any replies

ski_DC

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good luck with that, i dont know of any books about skiing. try something by tim o'brien like Going After Cacciato or The Things They Carried. theyre both novels about the vietnam war and are excellently written, as well as fairly entertaining.

Sep 10 2008 9:16PM

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blindside

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yeah I read going after cacciato for my english class last year and I really enjoyed it.

Sep 10 2008 9:20PM

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mmmmm...Pie

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Damn. I was gonna recommend The Things They Carried. Also, if you haven't read it, Fight Club is an amazing book.

Sep 10 2008 9:21PM

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GuerillaInDaMist

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i read the herman maier book. it was alright if ur into a guy talking about himself and how hard he tried for 250 pages

Sep 10 2008 9:22PM

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fsscott

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cliffords the shit

Sep 10 2008 9:23PM

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BootySpunk.

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catch 22 is a sick book

Sep 10 2008 9:28PM

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Klick_2_klaim

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The great and secret show.

its out there, in the ether man, whoooooaaaaahhhh

Sep 10 2008 9:54PM

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tjsnover

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i just read the satire "the clouds"....ABSOLUTE FUNNIEST PLAY EVER...im dead serious

Sep 10 2008 9:55PM

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TheQuailman

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Fight Club

hands down

you won't be disapointed

Sep 10 2008 9:56PM

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shabinka

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Fight Club is a book as well? I love the movie, Edward Norton is a fucking bad ass. I might go read it actually.But book wise, for my AP English class we read the Kite Runner for summer homework, it's actually a great book.

Sep 10 2008 10:00PM

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WinterStick

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Everyone's recommending Fight Club, which is an excellent book, but also anything by that author (Chuck Palahniuk) will not disappoint you.

Sep 10 2008 10:16PM

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R.Fahey

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If you haven't read Angels and Demons or The Davinci Code by Dan Brown I suggest you do it.
There's always "The Audacity of Hope" by Barack Obama. I was entertained.
And, the Autobiography of Malcolm X is kinda powerful.

Sep 10 2008 10:41PM

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Jamie_Baril

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wait till the 20th and get brisinger, by christopher paollini

Sep 10 2008 10:56PM

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ghosfacekilla

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Into the wild if you havnt red it

also climbing literature is like as close as ull get to skiing and most of its super cool
Touching the Void
Into Thin Air
Addicted to Danger

Sep 10 2008 10:59PM

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jfoley019

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here is a couple other books to read or think about

Rules of Attraction (?) About a New England College in the 80s (lot of drugs and sex also made into a movie
Choke (by the same author of fight club) about a sex crazed person who chokes in places to get money movie is coming out soon
Hair Styles of the Damned (?) About a punk in the 80s quick read
Fear and Loathing Las Vegas (hunter s) drugs and craziness in Las Vegas also a movie
I am Charlotte Simmons (tom Wolfe) about a freshman college student who goes to college in PA from back country of NC, gets depressing at the end but makes you think
Electric Kool Aid Acid test (tom wolfe) about the grateful dead and the merry pranksters

They are all good reads

Sep 10 2008 11:12PM

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CraigAK

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educate yourself about avalances and read an avalache book, it could end up saving your life

Sep 11 2008 2:43AM

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Alex_G

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Harry potter is the SHIT!

Sep 11 2008 2:48AM

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hellomynameisjef

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into the wild, jack london books are good to

Sep 11 2008 3:16PM

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Burrito

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - extremely clever writing
Hamlet by William Shakespeare - easily his best
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams - hands down the funniest book I've read

Anything from the "... and Philosophy" series. These are collections of essays, articles and papers written about elements of pop culture. Books in the series include Seinfeld, Star Wars, Harry Potter, South Park .... with my favorite being The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh of Homer. They are intellectual essays written by philosophy professors. They're not dumbed down in any way, they're entertaining and they'll really make you think.

Sep 11 2008 3:57PM

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