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Are there any books youve read recently (or long ago lol) that you recommend? Im in the mood for a good book!
Sooo many.......I LOVE books. Wuthering Heights is my all time fave. Stardust by Neil Gaiman. I just read The Night Circus and loved it. I also loved Cutting for Stone. Anything by Chuck Palahniuk is a win for me...Margaret Atwood too...and Scarlett Thomas and Mary Roach.
Hmmm honestly Im game for anything biographies, mystery, travel, classics.
Favourite kid book: The Secret of Nimh
Favourite adult book: 1984
a book that really had an impact on me in the last couple years is called Brother, I'm Dying.. it's a true story. and if you're okay with shedding a few tears go for it!
The Little Prince is my favorite book ever. It's little but I love it. Every message in it is important.
oh man is this the post for me. first of all, I'm soooo thrilled that someone said the secret of nimh. it's for kids, but it's really cool (nerd alert). this goes without saying, but if you haven't read harry potter, read them immediately. i can even send you the audiobooks if you want. if you like short stories/ethnic stories i recommend jhumpa lahiri - she has two or three I think, all of which are good. Kite runner and a thousand splendid suns are good. If you want something a little more on the edge of your seat, the hunger game series is borderline young adult, but well written enough to be worth it. if you wantt somethign more educational, shakespeare: who was he is about how a man other than william shakespeare is thought to be the real author.
The Time Traveller's wife - Audrey Niffenneger
We need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandra Dumas
A Thousand Splendid suns - Khaled Hosseini
A prisoner of Birth - Jeffrey Archer
The Book of Lost Things - John Connolly
These are the ones I can remember right now!
Here's a combo of my favorite books and recent good reads:
-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
-Jane Eyre
-Because It Feels Good: A Woman's Guide to Sexual Pleasure (nothing earth shattering learned, but it was written like I was talking to a friend adn so empowering!)
-pretty much anything ever by Margaret Atwood (especially Oryx & Crake, The Handmaid's Tale, and Surfacing) or Joyce Carol Oates (especially Faithless: Tales of Transgression, We Were The Mulvaneys, Sourland, and I Am No One You Know)
-The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (best book of last year!)
-Why We Love (and anything else by Helen Fisher!)
-Dress Codes
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. And the others that follow it!
The Power of One -Bryce Courtenay
It sound like a self-help book, but it's an amazing novel that takes place in South Africa during the 1930s-1940s. It is epic. I try to read it every few years.
It was adapted into a movie with Morgan Freeman as one of the leads. The movie can't possible cover all the ground that the book does, but its very good. They also added a girlfriend in the movie. :)
The book: http://www.amazon.com/Power-One-Novel-Bryce-Courtenay/dp/034541005X
The movie trailer: http://www.videodetective.com/movies/trailers/the-power-of-one-trailer/3626
1984 - George Orwell
Atonement - Ian McEwan
A Brief History of the Dead - Kevin Brockmeier
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Those are just a couple off the top of my head. :)
I LOVED The Hunger Games trilogy. I was on a cruise and couldn't put it down, reading it through for the second time. Just amazing.
The Help was also very good and gripping, a bit less intense.
Thank you so much for the offer lol but Ive already read them :)
These all sound great! Cant wait to go to the library! Fyi my all time fave was catcher in the rye by jd salinger
I am all over the place. My list (and I'm leaving MANY out, this is just off the top of my head)
Little Women
Interpreter of Maladies
1984/Animal Farm
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Catcher in the Rye
Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (amazing book about an autistic boy recommended by a fellow Bee)
Where the Red Fern Grows
Ethan Frome
Those are the just the few off the top of my head, but I tend to go for the juicy true crime novels, or the meaty human interest books. I was that nerd that LOVED every single Summer reading book in school, and many of them became life long favorites.
@ItsHollyAgain: +1 for Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks--it was my best book of last year, too!
This year's #1 read (at least so far, I do have 1Q84 on my to-read shelf...but I probably won't get to it until 2012) is The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern; I just loved it. Totally different from Henrietta but just as absorbing!
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland. I haven't read it in a decade, but I loved it so much.
Love, love, love little women! Speaking of classics Jane austen is prob my fave author. Ive read pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility. The bad thing is when i see a movie i lose interest in reading the book ie eat, pray, love :( i really wanted to read that one!
@BunnyBrideToBe: I have IQ84 on my nightstand at home. I have had a lot of problems getting into it. I'm hoping to read it over break.
@Mr.Smithsgirl and @KatyElle: What was it that you liked about Catcher in the Rye so much? It's just that I have never met another female who enjoyed this book, so I'm interested.
As for me, anything by Douglas Coupland is a win. Marge Piercy is another favourite.
@florence: Eeee, another Coupland fan! I read Girlfriend in a Coma first and found that none of his other books came even close to comparing to that one. I think I started (but never got into) GenX and Shampoo Planet....can you recommend another one for me, or was GIAC really the best one?
I also enjoyed Catcher in the Rye and remember asking for my own copy after high school. I remember finding humour in it, but I can't say I remember specific details so many years later. I think my parents worried that I wanted the book since apparently it's been found in the possession of a few famous killers over time, haha. They got it for me, and I turned out ok.
And right now I'm reading Rules of Civility by Amor Towles. I really like it.
@BunnyBrideToBe: iQ84 is on my "need to read" list, too.
@florence: I think at the time that I read it I just really related to Holden. I was kind of a loner, I felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere, couldn't do anything right, my family had major expectations for me and I was letting them down. It tapped into that really awkward transitional time in my life where I was sort of inching towards adulthood and rebelling from it at the same time. Looking back I think that book resonated so much with me because I jumped into adulthood way faster than I needed to. I left home at 19, dropped out of college, went and worked 2 jobs to pay for an apartment. While my peers were having fun and enjoying their youth I was in a constant state of rebellion, and I wish I'd just slowed down. I never stopped to realize that I wasn't going to get that time back. That's why the book is so popular, most people can relate feeling that way at one time in their life or another, but I think (in general) females do tend to follow more conventional roles than men, focus on their education, focus on doing the right thing. So that could be why not as many females find a connection to Holden Caufield.
Just one! My favorite book is Jane Eyre. The story is lovely just a little dark. The language is poetic. The characters are distiguishable and well formed.
ALL TIME FAVORITE HANDS DOWN.
@mink: OMG Yes! I love the Power of One, I have two copies so I can loan it to people and not lose mine! Have you read the sequel? Not nearly as good but still enjoyable.
Def the rebel in the character and finding yourself
I think A Thousand Splendid Suns is my favorite, followed closely by The Kite Runner. My favorite book I've read recently is Room. In high school I loved A Tale of Two Cities if you're looking for a classic.
I love the Lovely Bones, it's always been one of my favorites. I love the beauty that comes of out the darkness in that novel.
I also have read the Harry Potter series like 20,000 times.
I also love the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (it's a fantasy series, goodness I'm starting to show my dorkiness to you guys!)
As far as classics, I love Pride and Prejudice or Anne of Green Gables.
@ItsHollyAgain: I looooved Henrietta lacks too!! Yay for another Atwood fan!
@KatyElle: loved dog in the night!
I also want to add anything by F Scott Fitzgerald. I also loved The Art of Racing in the Rain. Love Story by Erich Segal. For chick lit, Jen Lancaster and Emily Giffin are great!
I liked "the plague" by Albert Camus better than "the stranger". If you like his book, maybe try Alas, Babylon by pat frank, or The Unit by ninni holmqvist, or brave new world.
Looooove books. Like all pp I also loved Jane Eyre ...and Villette.
@BunnyBrideToBe: I have 1Q84 on my library wish list. Can't wait to try his books.
I've always been an avid reader and I love dystopian novels: The Giver (ever since 3rd grade), A Handmaid's Tale, Oryx & Crake, Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, The Martian Chronicles, and Breakfast of Champions are some of my favorites.
@KatyElle: Thanks for your explanation. I found the book incredibly frustrating, although my teenage years (which is the time I read the book) could be described in quite the same way as you did yours. I always find people's diverse reactions to the same novel really interesting.
@Juliepants: How about All Families Are Psychotic? Or Life After God? And since you are also Canadian, have you heard Coupland read Player One for the Massey Lectures on CBC? I believe the podcasts can be found on the CBC website. Also, his documentary Souvenir of Canada is hilarious.
A few of my favorites from when I was younger: The Great Gatsby, Franny and Zooey (JD Salinger), A Wrinkle in Time.
More recently I liked Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. I also love anything by Richard Yates.
Classic favorite: Catcher in the Rye
Humor favorite: I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell and his 2nd book Assholes Finish First by Tucker Max
ALL TIME COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN FAVE: Chad Kultgen's The Lie (Average American Male is awesome too though).
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer...all day, erryday. I have never read a book that has made me feel so much. Just do yourself a favor and read it.
And yes, they're making a movie out of it that will probably ruin the book for me. It's coming out either later this month or January. But I'll probably go see it anyway. It's total Oscar bait: starring Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, John Goodman, Viola Davis, etc. etc.
My favorite quote from the book:
"I had never told her how much I loved her.
She was my sister.
We slept in the same bed.
There was never a right time to say it.
It was always unnecessary.
The books in my father’s shed were sighing.
The sheets were rising and falling around me with Anna’s breathing.
I thought about waking her
but it was unnecessary.
There would be other nights.
And how can you say I love you to someone you love?
I rolled onto my side and fell asleep next to her.
Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, Oskar.
It’s always necessary.
I love you,
Grandma"
@KatyElle: The Curious Incident... is a GREAT book. It just bugs me that the dog on the cover gets messed up every time I move it in the bookshelf!
Catch 22 is my all time favorite.
I also love trilogies - I am a fast reader and I love when there is more book to be had :) Some of my favorites are The Golden Compass and the The Knife of Never Letting Go, et al.
@MissIntent: Just researched it. Tandia is out of print in the US! It's selling for $25 on Amazon.com.
Booo! I clearly need to work on the rest of Courtenay's books.
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