The one book everyone should read?!?
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Fantasy reading is nice but read something with a purpose! Marathon..... by Jeff Galloway!0
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I just came here because I want to see how many people say 50 Shades of Grey....
I have a funny story on the "50 Shades of Grey". I have not read the book but work in a medical clinic with 9 dr's. One nurse loaned the book to another nurse and it was sitting on her desk. Her dr saw it on her desk and put a post-it note on the book that said "dirty book". A different nurse came by and put her own post-it note on the book that said "Instruction book for men". We all got a good laugh out of it.
I certainly f@#$ing hope not.0 -
The girl with a dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson is very gripping a thriller :-)
If you aren't an avid reader, this won't work for you....took me over 150 pages to get into it....it's like the with ALL 3 of those.
A Game of Thrones, fantastic.
Enders Game (the sci-fi book for people who don't like sci-fi)
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (a must)
And for some seriously well done post-apocalyptic 80's throwback (can you get all the 80's references in this book?) Ready Player One by Earnest Cline. Toppled Enders Game as my favorite all time book.
Love all those books!!!! I am obsessed by Game of Thrones! If you aren't an avid reader anything by John Grisham and Sephen King are good starts.0 -
"Me Talk Pretty One Day" by Dave Sedaris.0
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50 shades of grey for sure :P
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some of my favorites are dystopian novels which are :
Ender's Game
Mazerunner (the trilogy) by james dashner
Unwind by Neal Shusterman (it a trilogy too, book 2 just came out)
Divergent (trilogy) by Veronica Roth
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50 shades of grey for sure :P
everyone needs a christian grey
Otherwise, who would tell me what and how much to eat? I'd be lost...0 -
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut0
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I think I'm one of the only women in the world that HATES 50 Shades. My favs are the Hunger Games Trilogy. Water for Elephants is good too.
Nope. You're not.0 -
C.J. Box or Lynwood Barclay are both great crime thriller writers0
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The girl with a dragon tattoo by Stieg Larsson is very gripping a thriller :-)
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(((((At KIT8806))))) I also enjoyed Mortal Instruments! If you liked that you would also enjoy The Blue fire sega serries by Scott Prussing, The Stained Series by Ella James, and I just started book two in the Midnight fire series by Kaitlyn Davis!0
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50 Shades of Grey is HORRIBLE! That said, on to my book list!
- Anything by Terry Pratchett but my fav is Good Omens which he wrote with Neil Gaimen - My hubby loves his books more than I do!
- If you like fantasy/sci-fi with mystery thrown in - look up Tanya Huff, she writes a variety from vampires and gouls to future marines in space to fantasy medieval stuff (NOT Twilight crap)!!!
- I liked Game of Thrones too and I've heard most guys that have read it do too :-)
- If you haven't read any Tolkien try the Hobbit first - its way shorter than Lord of the Rings and will ease you into it!
- Charles ****ens and Mark Twain are old fav's and Moby **** is a classic.
- I like the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books but I agree they took awhile to get to the meat of the story in each one.
- I loved the Bourne movies (all of them) but I couldn't get into the old Robert Ludlam books, you may like them, very heavy cold war stuff - I don't know about the new ones written by a new author - I haven't checked them out.
- George Orwell, Animal Farm or 1984
- Fahrenheit 451 is cool and twisted
As you can tell I'm more of a classics lover :-)
PS - I love Harry Potter and Anne Rice too but I don't think those are "heavy" reads!0 -
LOL love the edits on my above post!0
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i like Shakespeare plays.. and literature that normal people would find boring.
favorite is
one who flew over the cuckoo's nest
MAN'S SEARCH FOR A MEANING!!!!
lord of the rings trilogy & hobbit, cant forget them
and all other books i have read i love.0 -
50 Shades of Grey is HORRIBLE! That said, on to my book list!
- Anything by Terry Pratchett but my fav is Good Omens which he wrote with Neil Gaimen - My hubby loves his books more than I do!
- If you like fantasy/sci-fi with mystery thrown in - look up Tanya Huff, she writes a variety from vampires and gouls to future marines in space to fantasy medieval stuff (NOT Twilight crap)!!!
- I liked Game of Thrones too and I've heard most guys that have read it do too :-)
- If you haven't read any Tolkien try the Hobbit first - its way shorter than Lord of the Rings and will ease you into it!
- Charles ****ens and Mark Twain are old fav's and Moby **** is a classic.
- I like the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books but I agree they took awhile to get to the meat of the story in each one.
- I loved the Bourne movies (all of them) but I couldn't get into the old Robert Ludlam books, you may like them, very heavy cold war stuff - I don't know about the new ones written by a new author - I haven't checked them out.
- George Orwell, Animal Farm or 1984
- Fahrenheit 451 is cool and twisted
As you can tell I'm more of a classics lover :-)
PS - I love Harry Potter and Anne Rice too but I don't think those are "heavy" reads!
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The Life of Pi
Anything by George Orwell
Hitchikers guide was very good
Game of Thrones is amazing
Celestine Prophecies (the first one, the rest get a little preachy)
The BFG - Roald Dahl
The Lorax
Oryx and Crake & The Year of the Flood - Margaret Atwood
Hunger Games (the movie sucked however the books are awesome)
The Iliad
Count of Monte Cristo (huge book but very easy to read)
No Logo
Wicked
Fahrenheit 451
The Scarlet Letter
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Picture of Dorian Gray
God is not Great
Brave New World
Satanic Verses
I only put a few authors name's in case you didn't recognize the title, if you want I can message you the rest of the authors0 -
Siddhartha by herman hesse , the hithhikers guide to the universe, seat of the soul by gary zukov, fear and loathing in los vegas by hunter thompson, art of happiness by the dalai lama0
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The stone angel by Marguerite Lawrence.....a must read....and don`t skimp and watch the movie dammit!
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Siddhartha by herman hesse
Yes, that was a very good book too0
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