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@ 08-04-2006 03:06 TheDom | 9,053 posts
| I'm tired of reading Mr. Popper's Penguins and Dr. Seuss books. While VERY good reads, I want a book actually takes a little effort to read. Something that will totally stretch my imagination and will make me think. Please, folks, recommend me some good ones.
Note: I am not talking about Harry Potter. |
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 0  @ 08-04-2006 03:16 xKissMyWristsx | 552 posts
| The Outsiders
or
Clover
or
I dont know what else. | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 03:16 random_guy | 7,534 posts
| What sort of books are you looking for? | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 03:17 nefariouslady_t | 11,509 posts
| On the Road by Jack Kerouac, everyone should read it when they are teenagers.
Library Journal
Though Kerouac's masterpiece is not out of print and likely never will be (it still enjoys more than 60,000 sales annually) Undoubtedly one of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century, this is the book that launched the Beat Generation and remains the bible of that literary movement. On the Road's publication in 1957 was a wake-up call to the American public that not all its youth were modeled after characters on Ozzie and Harriet: it portrayed Ivy League-educated white kids who smoked dope, hitchhiked, and frequented black jazz joints and Mexican whorehouses. It was the harbinger of the radical changes that would soon sweep society in the 1960s. | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 03:25 TheDom | 9,053 posts
| What sort of books are you looking for?
I don't know really...
something that will make me think or stretch my imagination... | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 03:30 random_guy | 7,534 posts
| I like/d Ben Elton's 'This Other Eden'
I'm not sure if everyone else will, but meh | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 03:58 Angel K | 858 posts
| If you're into mystics and fantasy (like dragons and fairies) Inkheart and Inkspell might be good books for you....if not, eh, I tried. | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 03:59 Chrisrocks53 | 
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| Ill second the Outsiders,
and Montana 1948. | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 04:00 Schigidy_Schwat | 252 posts
| To Kill A Mockingbird
Of Mice And Men
The Old Man And The Sea
Robin Hood | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 04:14 JewUnit | 8,152 posts
| The Outsiders was a very entertaining book..
I think I read it in grade 7.. for novel study.
I prefer the movie. | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 04:27 kalsonberry | 14,057 posts
| Following with the fantasy books:
Bartimeaus Trilogy
Eragon
Pendragon | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 04:28 Chrisrocks53 |
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* offtopic :
Kyle, the movie left out alot of parts in it
| | 0 @ 08-04-2006 04:29 TheDom | 9,053 posts
| Alright, no more fantasy because I hate that crap..
is To Kill A Mocking Bird that good? I tried reading it but got bored no even half way through... | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 04:30 Schigidy_Schwat | 252 posts
| i really liked it, it has some great characters | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 04:30 random_guy | 7,534 posts
| Dom, I'm not suggesting a fantasy one, if you want to try my suggestion out...I dont know if yo'll like it or not, though | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 04:31 FireWaterBurn | 28,885 posts
| I suggest buying The Alphabet of Manliness.
Was #2 on Amazon.com's best seller list and it hasn't even been released yet. get it when it comes out. | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 04:32 NightHobbit | 23,464 posts
| of mice and men is very imaginative, it give sbeautiufl descriptions its only a a short story.
flowers for algernon is excellent and the diamond of drury lane is too its more of a mafia type thing through the eyes of a playwright, it's also to do with the theatre. | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 04:32 Carinapink16 | 35 posts
| I dont have any favoritez. But I think Memoirs Of a Geisha s a good book. And the movie is also very good. | 0 @ 08-04-2006 04:39 Schatzi | 
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| To Kill A Mocking Bird actually is quite good. I didn't really like it at first when I read it at school but it's really moving.
I really like F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories. Particularly one collection that is Flappers & philosophers. I also thought The Great Gatsby was wonderful. But I hear Fitzgerald might really be an accquired taste.
Hm, one other book I really liked was Dracula by Bram Stoker I found it to be rather interesting all throughout the book.
Oh okay I lied one last book. I know everyone says to read the Da Vinci code but it seriously is just that great. | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 04:42 TheDom | 9,053 posts
| random - I looked up the book you suggested on wikiepedia, and it looks like a good read.
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I'll probably pick up To Kill A Mocking Bird again and try it out.
I was thinking about A Clockwork Orange.. is it any good?
..and William S. Burroughs seems like a good, weird author.. any suggestions? | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 04:42 Schatzi |
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| Oh & The Perks Of Being A Wallflower was pretty great too but it's just a good read not anything that would be a hard read or anything like that. | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 07:02 kalsonberry | 14,057 posts
| Clockwork Orange is a good book
you could also try Catch 22 | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 07:29 Molle_Rulz | 223 posts
| Catch 22 is an awesome book. So random yet surprisingly enlightening. Another book like it yet not is Fight Club.
If you want something to really get your mind ticking over have a read of Tad Williams otherworld series.
Molle | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 08:11 litjens999 | 2,191 posts
| Good books : Grisham - Edgar Alan Poe - Konsalik - McAlistar | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 20:21 postcards | 16 posts
| the perks of being a wallflower?
i second that notion.
but i agree that it's not much of a challenging read -
it's kind of like a modernized version of the catcher in the rye.
a clockwork orange is also an amazing book. | | 0 @ 08-04-2006 20:53 litjens999 | 2,191 posts
| at this moment i'm reading "The Broker" from John Grisham It's a very thrilling good book |
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