I guess im a big dork, but what is your favorite book? I dont have too much time to read because of school but i wanna buy some new books.![]()
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I guess im a big dork, but what is your favorite book? I dont have too much time to read because of school but i wanna buy some new books.![]()





Bah...my favorites (yes, this shows my nerdishness) are the Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings series. Stuff by Dean Koontz is good, too.
i love the book, The Devil Wears Prada.. sooo good..





Agree about Harry Potter. I started reading them this year and got absolutely hooked. Other than that, I recommend all the books by Candace Bushnell, the author of Sex and the City for great dishy reading. Or John Grisham for heavier, mystery type reading. I like true crime books and biographies as well.
I really enjoy modern classics like A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Valley Of The Dolls, Of Mice And Men etc. but it doesn't stop me from picking up the odd Jackie Collins trashy novel![]()
I just read "The lovely bones" by Alice Sebold.
It's an excellent book :-)
"The Red Tent" by Anita Diamant. Beautiful, amazing story based on the Bible and Jewish tradition. It tells the story of Dina, Jacob's daughter and the sister of his 12 sons, and her four mothers (his wives and concubines). It's very different from the Biblical account!



absolutely stephen king . most of his books , but you ll love THE STAND , IT, THE DEAD ZONE,
THE DARK TOWER saga... that man is something else




i just got done reading Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl. it's really good, it's about a food critic who went into disguise b/c she wanted to see if the food was good all the time, or only when she was there. it also has a few recipies.
There's a wild side behind every innocent face.
End violence against women.
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My all time favourites: Cat's Eye (Margaret Atwood), The Blind Assassin (Atwood again), 1984 (George Orwell), Atonement (Ian Maclellan), The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen), White Teeth (Zadie Smith), Middlesex (Jeffery Eugenides), Couples (John Updike), Family Matters (Rohinton Mistry), The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner), The Loop (Nicolas Evans), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Ok, the last two are guilty pleasures perhaps, but I'm pretty sure the rest are just objectively fabulous books. Can you tell I like to read? haha
oh god, edited because I just remembered (and cannot shut up about books!!), if you want some utterly amazing reading that's a little shorter (what I usually find easier to handle when I'm overwhelmed with homework and school reading), these are the ultimate in the the short story/ novella experience:
Oxygen (Annabel Lyon), The Best Thing for You (Lyon again), Natasha (David Bezmogis...that last name could be spelled wrong), Dubliners (James Joyce...and IMO, better than the somewhat overrated headaches that are his bigger works), and anything by Alice Munro, especially Hateship, Friendship, Loveship, Courtship and Runaway
enjoy!!
ANY of Stephen King's books. I'm partial to "The Stand" and "IT", however.
I've also gotten into the Harry Potter books myself, after my neice got me hooked on the first couple of movies. So far I've read all the books and I'm anxiously awaiting the next one. We're pretty psyched about the new movie as well, but we'll be seeing that when it hits DVD, not in the theaters.





Awww..what a party pooper! Mox is taking me to see the HP movie for my birthday (the movie comes out the day after). Woohoo!Originally Posted by Rhiannon
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"Rain of Gold" by Victor Villasenor, "Aztec" by Gary Jennings, "The Prince of Tides" by Pat Conroy, "Rebecca" by Daphne Du Marier, "Sophie's Choice" by William Styron. Jack London is also Da Man (Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf.)
Thanks guys.... i need to go to the bookstore![]()
The Crimson Petal and the White by Michael Faber, She's Come Undone and I kow this much is True, both by Wally Lamb.. and Slaptick by Kurt Vonnegut..
Of course I always have time for some Anne Rice or Stephen King
Please don't lick me, it tickles..
MY fav book of all time (for purely personal reasons of course) is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance.
I am usually a pretty light reader though. Stephen King, Dean Koontz, John Grisham, Terry Brooks, Anne Rice (especially in the Beauty series; WOW HOT!!!), Robin Cook, J K Rowling, and plenty others.
I just finished these two books on Sat (I read them both in the same day. I know I'm an addict!!!) But they were both pretty good and I look forward to reading more in the series.
Solomon VS Lord by Paul Levine (in the Solomon vs Lord series; next book out is Deep Blue Alibi comes out in Feb)
In Golden Blood by Stephen Woodward (The "violet series", this was the 3rd in the series)
I also read books about periods of history, and science as well. But light fiction is my fav.
I'm one of those readers that when a book "catches" me, I don't want to put it down till it's finished, then I want another want to magically come out by the time I get to the store to read more.
Sky Burial by Xinran - OMG what a f*cking amazing story - it's a true one and so incredible to me I couldn't put it down!!!!!
Xinran's other book The Good Women of China is amazing too. So very sad in parts and horrific, but easy to read and told so well!
I'm currently reading Bill Brysons travel books - they are so funny aswell as interesting, I can't stop till I've read them all!



I also recommend the book written by Linda Lovelace, the woman abused into prostitution and porn (deep throat her most famous movie) by her man.... is called Ordeal . i just cried the whole time . it raises such a rage inside. i had to finish it after i started at 3 pm ...i couldnt even put it down to go to sleep at night....( i finished the book at 6 am )
ohh. how to make love like a porn star by jenna jameson is very very good...
^^ I'm considering reading that. I dig biographies about people who lead weird lives ('weird' in this case defined as away from the norm, no negative connotation meant). Mick Foley's autobio and Howard Stern's were pretty cool (Though the autobiographical content of Sterns was limited to about three chapters...
Tracy Lords had one out a year or two ago... I wonder if she admits dropping the dime on herself back in the 80's... Nah, i doubt it.
I've started reading more history lately. Winston Churchill is good, but a hard read.
For GREAT writing. The Power of One by Brice Courteney. You won't put it down.
If you like Sci Fi, the old Edgar Rice Borroughs series of the Martian Chronicles are good because they focus on character development and action not formula writing.
Dark Sci Fi would be Stephen Donaldson "The Gap Series"
Molly - if you love Jane Eyre, may I recommend Villette? As much as I adore Jane Eyre, I really think that Lucy Snowe kicks her butt all the way to Belgium.
Also:
JT Leroy - Sarah and The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
Kazuo Ishiguru - Never Let Me Go (you will not believe how perfect and beautiful this is)
Barbara Gowdy - Mr. Sandman and We So Seldom Look On Love
Mary Gaitskill - Two Girls Fat And Thin
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I'd like to recommend Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy for everyone who reads Harry Potter (like me!)
Jenny, have you seen the New York article on "JT Leroy"?
Right now I am working my way through William Boyd. I also have an abiding love for T. Coraghessan Boyle (start with the pot book for lighter reading, Water Music for seriously twisted historical fiction, the Kinsey book for sex).
Christopher Moore is really funny.
If it makes you feel any better, that book has been thoroughly debunked. Lovelace got taken in by the fundamentalist Christians and came out with a bunch of bullshit about how she'd been "victimized" in order to make herself feel better about having been a porn star. It has very little basis in fact. So don't worry, she wasn't raped on camera like you thought.Originally Posted by Cristalla
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Well, I have now. Honestly, I find it hard to believe. I mean there is no question that JT Leroy exists, like independently of other writers, but is "his story" true? Well, nobody can know that. But the whole conjecture is based on the early suspicion that he was, in fact, an alter ego of Cooper and seeing as he has certainly been seen in public, and frequently, since his early days as a wunderkind (I saw him in Toronto, actually, last year during the film festival), and he has certainly met people, I don't understand the idea that he doesn't exist, and there is really no reason to just assume he's lying.Jenny, have you seen the New York article on "JT Leroy"?
Plus, (I'm not sure - have you read Sarah?), it is really hard to believe that is the product of an elaborate farce. His journals, emails (because he seriously emails you back if you send him fan mail - like usually in about 2 hours) and all that - it just seems so genuine, you know? It would break my heart, on a real and personal level if he were a big liar. Although the books would still be incredible.
Chimo, on the other hand, of "Lola Says" - obviously a big fake. If that wasn't written by a 34 year old virgin I would eat my proverbial hat. Not really - I'm not even wearing a hat. But I would be shocked and surprised, nonetheless.
I have taught that the sky in all its zones is mortal and its substance was formed by a process of birth
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