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oh shnapple tree aka Chad is a girl, has been a member since December 10, 2005, has scored 265 submissions, giving an average score of 4.26.

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Mar 18 '07 by oh shnapple tree

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book fiends:

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AsStarsGoOut on Mar 18 '07 at 5:48pm

party monster!

oh shnapple tree on Mar 18 '07 at 5:49pm

:)
i have yet to read!

miss mraz on Mar 18 '07 at 5:50pm

anything by chris crutcher, specifically whale talk and the sledding hill, and the gospel according to larry by janet tashjian.

Spinachlegs on Mar 18 '07 at 5:50pm

high fidelity.

cassiepaige on Mar 18 '07 at 5:50pm

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=cassiepaige

^those are all of my favs

canceromega on Mar 18 '07 at 5:51pm

Faust by Goethe!
I love Faust.

AsStarsGoOut on Mar 18 '07 at 5:51pm

still life with june is amazing

oh shnapple tree on Mar 18 '07 at 5:52pm

whale talk seems interesting, but sledding hill seems better :)

but the gospel according to larry sounds best of them all...

Rambunkcious on Mar 18 '07 at 5:52pm

i could go on for days about books

margolove on Mar 18 '07 at 5:53pm

Pale Fire (Nabokov), any Vonnegut, East of Eden (Steinbeck), Catch-22 (Heller), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde)..

cassiepaige on Mar 18 '07 at 5:54pm

I don't think I have an absolute favorite book. All books by Emily Giffin, Rachel Cohen, and Sarah Dessen are good.

But I also like Stiff (just finished last night, there is something amazing about reading what they do with dead people), Crank, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, and about a bajillion more.

miss mraz on Mar 18 '07 at 5:56pm

oh shnapple tree,
you don't want to miss out on any of those, trust me. those books made me get back into reading!

oh shnapple tree on Mar 18 '07 at 5:58pm

oiiii, cassiepaige:
i just looked through some of the books, and Contents Under Pressure by Lara Zeises looks pretty good...

Sarah Dessen + Rachel Cohen are also a fantastic writers, and i have yet to read Kurt Vonnegut's many books... (they look damn good)

I didn't espically like Crank, the Memory Keeper's Daughter looked good...

(and so forth)

oh shnapple tree on Mar 18 '07 at 5:58pm

miss mraz:

i'm ordering some on the library right now! :)

oh shnapple tree on Mar 18 '07 at 6:00pm

AHHHH!
Stiff Life With June sounds amazing XD

ohyoustealher on Mar 18 '07 at 6:01pm

http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=matineeidol

not necessarily all favorites, but I made this thing a few months back at work, so it was all I could remember at the time

oh shnapple tree on Mar 18 '07 at 6:06pm

ohyoustealher:
wonderful book taste! :)

yr red scare on Mar 18 '07 at 6:07pm

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison; Dogs of Babel, Carolyn Parkhurst; The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho; Middle Sex and Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides

cassiepaige on Mar 18 '07 at 6:10pm

Contents Under Pressure was really good, I read it about three years ago.

squeegebeckenheim on Mar 18 '07 at 6:11pm

MARGO! i attempted to start reading East of Eden this week, but i did so at jury duty and was not successful. i really REALLY do want to read it though.

special k on Mar 18 '07 at 6:12pm

i used to be in love with most of the anne rice books, until i stopped, and now they're not the same.
memiors of a geisha
confessions of a dangerous mind
the little friend
the green mile
a million little lies
a corner of the universe
speak
catalyst
feed
in the forests of the night
demon in my view
kissing doorknobs
brave new girl(not sure if that's the title)
feeling sorry for celia
the ladie who liked clean restrooms
the catcher in the rye
edgar allan poe is great
and there is probably more that i cant think of at the moment...

special k on Mar 18 '07 at 6:14pm

ive been meaning to read the perks of being a wallflower, as well as faust, and i also loved and then there were none(aka ten little indians)

i started reading a million little pieces
and i also like omerta alot.

oh shnapple tree on Mar 18 '07 at 6:14pm

Middlesex sounds good, as does Virgin Suicides.

and Invisible Man!

cassiepaige on Mar 18 '07 at 6:14pm

I have my local library's page up and now i am saving books that sound interesting. I really shouldn't because my To Read pile is already too large.

oh shnapple tree on Mar 18 '07 at 6:17pm

special k:

I've read Kissing Doorknobs; it was great
Memoirs of a Geisha was also really good, it's still a favorite

a few months ago I had the Catcher In the Rye, but had to return it before I could really get very far into it...
Edgar Allan Poe is always great

Feeling Sorry For Celia is also a favorite...
and so forth!

oh shnapple tree on Mar 18 '07 at 6:19pm

OH!
special k:
also, A Million Little Pieces + My Friend Leonard are HUGE favorites of mine. I really don't care if parts aren't true, I still thought the books were damn good.
and Perks of Being a Wallflower was great. If you liked that, Pieces was pretty good, too.

cassiepaige on Mar 18 '07 at 6:20pm

I started Catcher In The Rye, and didn't like it at all. I tried my hardest to get into it because it seems like everyone has read it, but I couldn't.

oh shnapple tree on Mar 18 '07 at 6:21pm

cassiepaige:
from what I read, it was okay, but I have to agree with what I did read of it.

icebar on Mar 18 '07 at 6:23pm

Catch-22, The Catcher in the Rye, A Separate Peace, Love That Dog, The Princess Diaries

oh shnapple tree on Mar 18 '07 at 6:29pm

A Separate Peace sounds good.

I have yet to read the Princess Diaries... :)

Jexwell on Mar 18 '07 at 6:30pm

The Perks of being a Wallflower, Running with Scissors, The Picture of Dorian Grey, The Cheese Monkeys, Blood & Chocolate, The Metamorphisis, Magical Thinking, The Hours, anything by Douglas Coughlin

cassiepaige on Mar 18 '07 at 6:40pm

Anyone read all of the Hitchhikers Guides? I tried to, but never finished.

flourpower on Mar 18 '07 at 7:12pm

I just read The Picture of Dorian Grey last weekend. Totally freaked me out, but it was sooooooo good. Anything by Oscar Wilde is good.

My favorites are:
The Great Gatsby (duh)
Catch-22
The Second Sex
Jane Eyre
any Ray Bradbury anthology
The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson (another favorite author)
and probably a zillion more I forget at the moment...I have trouble keeping track b/c I tend to choose books carefully and therefore love most of them.

margolove on Mar 18 '07 at 7:15pm

nicole! Finish it! It's really my favorite Steinbeck so far.

margolove on Mar 18 '07 at 7:16pm

oh, and I completely forgot about my love for Fitzgerald.. I love The Great Gatsby and his other work as well :)

phones on Mar 18 '07 at 7:18pm

The amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Micheal Chabon is my new fave book
The day of the Triffids
Valis- Phil Dick

I really wanna buy Ricky Jay's 'Cards as Weapoms'

special k on Mar 18 '07 at 7:18pm

jexwell: ive read blood & chocolate, i forgot all about that. titles always escape me.
ive also read the silver kiss, i do believe they are by the same author.
and please note: i mentioned feed as a favorite.
i made a mistake.
i meant to list thirsty, feed is the sequal and i did not like it at all.

thanks!

phones on Mar 18 '07 at 7:18pm

Weapons, dammit, weapoNs

special k on Mar 18 '07 at 7:19pm

of mice and men was a fantabulous book aswell.
:)

margolove on Mar 18 '07 at 7:20pm

I liked Of Mice and Men but I really think East of Eden beats the crap out of it (if they were to, you know, square off).

Partly I'm just prejudiced because East of Eden is much longer whereas Of Mice and Men took me maybe ninety minutes or less to read, meaning I probably didn't absorb much of it or get very invested.

special k on Mar 18 '07 at 7:22pm

i have yet to read east of eden.
i read of mice and men in class, so i remember going through that book line by line everyday.
it made me appreciate it so much, and we also watched a few different movie versions of the book.

cassiepaige on Mar 18 '07 at 7:24pm

I read Feed and didn't like it at all.

Ellen Degeneres has some hilarious books, if you like her style of humor.

special k on Mar 18 '07 at 7:25pm

yeah, i didnt like feed either.
that was a mistake, i meant to list thirsty instead.
so sorry for any confusion.

read confessions of a dangerous mind!

special k on Mar 18 '07 at 7:26pm

cassiepaige, have you ever heard of maddox?
if so- you should read his book the alphabet of manliness.
it's hilarious.

Jexwell on Mar 18 '07 at 7:34pm

specialk

i just didn't like silver kiss as much.
but blood and chocolate was amazing.

cassiepaige on Mar 18 '07 at 7:38pm

I looked up Alphabet of Manliness, my library doesn't have it but I will request it next time I go in. They don't have Confessions of a Dangerous Mind either, I will request it though.

Going to the same library since before you could read has perks, the librarians get to know you and let you pick out books for them to buy :)

cassiepaige on Mar 18 '07 at 7:39pm

I just looked up Blood and Chocolate on Amazon, since it takes place in the state I was born I would deff read it. I am going to go reserve that now.

Jexwell on Mar 18 '07 at 7:41pm

my library will do that for everyone anyway.