good books

Requiem for a Dream is hard work, horrifically depressing but still so worth it, and the film is the best film ever made so watch that too! If you're looking for something much lighter/easier, read the Edge chronicles. Children's books but the illustrations are beautiful and the fantasy world is so detailed and...like well thought out. It seems real

Divergent- very similar to the HUnger Games : )

I read HUNGER GAMES yesterday, just the first book. could not put it down. Ready for number 2.

The Sookie Stackhouse series. There have already been so many books written it will keep you satisfied for a while.

There is a trilogy out - 3rd book still not released. It's called Matched and #2 is called Crossed. It's a totally different type of world in the future like the Hunger Games. Very cool!

The Fault in our Stars by John Green. Great book but I bawled like a baby!!

Delirium and Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver

I'm reading The Thirteenth Tale, which is very entertaining. If you want more serious/heavy material, then I loved the memoirs Girl in a Green Sweater, Blue Nights, and Reading Lolita in Tehran. Jodi Picolt's stuff is always good to read. The Passage was supernatural/sci fi and really good, and I can't wait for the sequel 2012 to come out later this year. Gosh, I'm a HUGE book nerd and frequent flyer at the public library. I've got the Hunger Games and Game of Thrones series on my Kindle, but I just haven't started reading them yet.

The Fifty Shades of Gray trilogy. It is on the best seller list and they are turning it into a movie. Great read for women

The Passage by Justin Cronin

LOVED the Stieg Larrson trilogy!!!

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OK...has anyone read 50 Shades of Grey? I have never heard of this book until yesterday...then it seems like it is all that people are talking about. Is it worth the time to read?

Please do NOT waste your time. My book club picked it, otherwise I'd never look at it twice but trust me, there is better porn out there

If, conversely, you are looking for a good book, let me suggest "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein. That book was worth the time!

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Gillian Flynn's two books are awesome. I also love Laura Lippmann. I just started "Into the Woods" by Tana French and I'm getting into it. Everyone talks about the hunger games but I just can't bring myself to read it. I'm not into futuristic societies and I don't want to read about teenagers.

My fiance wrote a novel and had it published. It's called "Tired of Sex" by D. Camfield. You can find it in hardback, paperback, and ebook (Nook & Kindle) format. He describes it as a modern day Catcher in the Rye. An homage to the modern generation of young adults.

http://www.amazon.com/Tired-Sex-Daniel-L-Camfield/dp/146286953X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335462825&sr=1-1
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tired-of-sex-daniel-l-camfield/1102096203?ean=9781462869541

"I start to wonder if I might not be the worst possible human imaginable. But then I think that I'm not any worse than anyone else living in this building, this city, this country, this reality. This realization does not soothe me. It only makes me feel worse."

Success is a right. Sex is easy. The world is there to inherit.

Mark Brock is a rich, attractive Californian with the world at his fingertips. He is completing his Master's at Lockean University in southern England. He is twenty-two years-old, and will soon have a fast-tracked career to complement the wealth he has inherited. Amongst his fellow students and coworkers in England, he has the charm of a foreigner, the easy appeal of one from a warmer land. A modern-day Gatsby living with American bravado in the European culture... and he is doing his best to throw it all away.

Mark has learned to become an incredibly bitter, detached individual. His parent's are cold, choosing to travel the world rather than see their own son graduate. Mark and his younger brother regard each other with equal levels of disgust. Even escaping that life in California, Mark can only find his new home mundane.

The morning after his birthday, he wakes up in a strange room, naked, no memory of the night before. As with everything else in life, he accepts the situation. He leaves without trying to find out who he slept with. Days blend into weeks, weeks into months His final year of university in England is a cycle of self-destruction, a never-ending night of parties, wealth, and casual sex.

He has everything anyone could ever want, except one thing: a sense of purpose, of self-worth. An afternoon in the pub seems more productive going to class, than finishing his dissertation. Life is stuck on fast-forward.

Most of his time is spent with a best friend who is a loathing addict, or with a dangerous and aggressive drug dealer who Mark finds simultaneously repulsive and fascinating. The rest of his time is spent desperately searching for a new lover, someone special. Someone that he could call the one. Mark is never hard-pressed to find a new partner. But while women are more than happy to sleep with the charming Californian, none of them will spend any intimate time with him. Women will have sex with him, but won't have dinner with him. He simultaneously wants to feel wounded and to feel that this is what he deserves, that he is unlovable.

But ultimately there is no epiphany. Hiding in the beds of strangers is just another drug used to numb himself from the pain of Emily, the ghost of his past. Falling in love soon becomes another addiction. More and more he just grows numb to the cycle

Despite his efforts at self-destruction, he still graduates with honors, and quickly finds a faceless corporate job. This is the cycle that Mark traps himself in. Another business meeting. Harder and harder drugs. Another cocktail in another bar. Another bed with another stranger. Both love and heartbreak are found on Facebook, in the clubs, at drunken office parties. And even as he watches his own soul die, an onlooker at a horrible accident, he can't seem to bring himself to stop it.

Mark's life becomes a dizzying spiral of desperation as he looks for answers in all the wrong places. The harder he searches for meaning, the more horror he sees and commits. Things grow more dangerous, and before long Mark is not only harming himself, but those around him. As his numbness grows, he tries to blame the drugs, the alcohol, the sex. But deep down he knows he can't blame those things. It is something that is innate in him. Something far worse. But it's all he knows.

what about the game of thrones series? by george r.r. martin? i have been hearing about this book a lot recently

My Dad has read them and absolutely LOVES them. He loaned me all of the books in the series so far. I would like to tell you I've read them and I enjoy them..but truth be told I haven't even started them yet. But for what it's worth, I have heard very good things about the books by more people than just my dad.

Books I really like are World War Z, Zombie Survival Guide, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and I Am America and So Can You (only suggested if you like Stephen Colbert). Other than that the books I read and I was like "this was okay" are The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo triology, Go Ask Alice and We Need to Talk about Kevin.

As I said, my Dad loaned me The Game of Thrones series, but he also loaned me a TON more. I may have more suggestions when I get through it.