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Apr 29 '07 by swimmergirl66
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hey guys. I need a book.

so I just finished Count of Monte Cristo. I badly need a new book. any suggestions?

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PuterBoy on Apr 29 '07 at 8:29pm

How To Eat Fried Worms.

swimmergirl66 on Apr 29 '07 at 8:29pm

I think I read that in 3rd grade.

margolove on Apr 29 '07 at 8:30pm

I love The Count of Monte Cristo.

PuterBoy on Apr 29 '07 at 8:30pm

Still good.

Polyester Jones on Apr 29 '07 at 8:31pm

...mm...you'd probably enjoy

A Dirty Job -- Christopher Moore

or...The Princess Bride...or

Survivor -- Chuck Palahniuk

thatwheel on Apr 29 '07 at 8:32pm

serious: what is the what

disturbing: torture the artist

funny: the cheese monkeys

classic: anything hemmingway

Rambunkcious on Apr 29 '07 at 8:34pm

secret life of bees, white oleander, lovely bones, plainsong

swimmergirl66 on Apr 29 '07 at 8:35pm

I was thinking about reading The Princess Bride.

secret life of bees has been on my list for a while too.

PuterBoy on Apr 29 '07 at 8:36pm

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

jackanapes on Apr 29 '07 at 8:40pm

Mark Helprin's "Winter's Tale" is my favorite book ever. The best novel ever is "War and Peace."

FionaB on Apr 29 '07 at 8:47pm

The Way the Crow Flies

By Ann-Marie MacDonald

I just finished it...I loved it!

beautifully written...

deathcabfortom on Apr 29 '07 at 8:49pm

Have you ever heard of Arthur's Big Nose?

Best book ever.

Answerthatandstayfashionable on Apr 29 '07 at 8:50pm

yes, but puterboy is in 3rd grade.

bhoomika on Apr 29 '07 at 8:51pm

what kind of books do you like to read?

I m currently reading this...

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

PuterBoy on Apr 29 '07 at 8:51pm

Your a little late to the diss.

LornaGertrude on Apr 29 '07 at 8:53pm

American Gods -Neil Gaiman

lyevil on Apr 29 '07 at 8:55pm

read some stephen king

Malcolm Man on Apr 29 '07 at 8:55pm

I second Torture The Artist

LornaGertrude on Apr 29 '07 at 8:59pm

i second lovely bones

nightshade88 on Apr 29 '07 at 9:02pm

If you like the "long" factor, try Tolstoy --- War and Peace or Anna Karenina. Those are very enjoyable classics.

Rambunkcious on Apr 29 '07 at 9:10pm

go ask alice is good too, ive read it like 5 times

valorandvellum on Apr 29 '07 at 9:27pm

The Adventures of Tin Tin

...

No, really.

swimmergirl66 on Apr 29 '07 at 9:45pm

I'm the kind of person who likes books well written. I love classics. well written as in books like to kill a mockingbird, count of monte cristo, & Fahrenheit 451. I'm the kind of person who will read harry potter 20 times over because I think they're really good, even though I'm not a harry potter nerd. I like the sisterhood of the traveling pants series.

I just really really like to read.

iPear on Apr 29 '07 at 9:46pm

you made it sound like books were a rare commodity, like diamonds or eskimos.

swimmergirl66 on Apr 30 '07 at 3:50pm

were?

good books are rare.

shirtflirt on Apr 30 '07 at 3:52pm

Chronicles of Tao

Lhiiiz on Apr 30 '07 at 3:53pm

Hiroshima by John Hershey

amaliaslash on Apr 30 '07 at 3:54pm

i always recommend catch 22 (joseph heller). it's my faaavorite.

but if you like fahrenheit 451, i'd suggest reading some more dystopian society books! such as 1984 (george orwell) and handmaid's tale (margaret atwood).

Seastarr on Apr 30 '07 at 3:55pm

Running with scissors.

The physician.

Seastarr on Apr 30 '07 at 3:56pm

amaliaslash on Apr 30 '07 at 3:58pm

also, life of pi (yann martel), house of leaves (mark danielewski), and still life with woodpecker (tom robbins) are more of my favorites.

and reading anything by umberto eco will fill your mind with a better vocabulary and a better base for words in other languages...his stuff is deep with intelligence and a lot of mixed elements. he's a more recent author, but i think his stuff is classic.

SheepMan22 on Apr 30 '07 at 3:58pm

hey swimmergirl what kinda books do yyou like i own a bookstore maybe i will be nice and send you a book or 2

SheepMan22 on Apr 30 '07 at 4:08pm

or not

lemonalle on Apr 30 '07 at 4:09pm

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

PacificLight on Apr 30 '07 at 4:11pm

Better -- Atul Gawande

Complications -- Atul Gawande

Blink -- Malcolm Gladwell

Tipping Point -- Malcolm Gladwell

Non-fiction represent!

myspacetom on Apr 30 '07 at 4:12pm

wait, you liked the sisterhood of the traveling pants, but you say good books are rare?

hmm..

rudra on Apr 30 '07 at 7:37pm

oooh - Umberto Eco - Name of the Rose is a pretty good read (and gentle introduction to Eco), Foucault's Pendulum is filled with so much history and little factoids that it takes a long time reading it in bits to try to absorb it all -

interesting non-fiction:

Stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers - Mary Roach

fiction - anything by George Orwell, HG Wells, Huxley, Phillip K Dick, William S Burroughs...

Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Collapse - Jared Diamond (reading it now)

rudra on Apr 30 '07 at 7:38pm

hmm - got cut off:

more non-fiction:

Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Collapse - Jared Diamnod

rudra on Apr 30 '07 at 7:39pm

fucking touchpad LOL

jackanapes on Apr 30 '07 at 7:41pm

I'M "deep with intelligence." Hahahaha. Sorry, I'm also an ass.

Seriously, read "Winter's Tale." It's probably the best piece of American fiction in the last twenty years.

juliejeremiah on Apr 30 '07 at 7:44pm

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Mordecai Richler

Who Has Seen the Wind - W. O. Mitchell

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh

Girl, Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen

tracerbullet on Apr 30 '07 at 7:45pm

Try "The Count of Monte Crisco: 100 Old Fashioned Recipes"

The Wee Straggler on Apr 30 '07 at 7:49pm

I just picked up Brave New World on Saturday, I'm ashamed of myself for not having read it yet.

I second Catch22, I love that book. It's a very difficult read though, and corrupts the minds of youths.

polemicchem on Apr 30 '07 at 8:01pm

Confederacy of Dunces!

schleb on Apr 30 '07 at 8:02pm

If you liked it, you should read The Man in the Iron Mask.

schleb on Apr 30 '07 at 8:02pm

Maybe Scarlet Pimpernel?

rudra on Apr 30 '07 at 10:14pm

the bell jar - sylvia plath

prozac nation - elizabeth wurtzel

girl, interrupted - susanna kaysen

one flew over the cuckoo's nest - ken kesey

drmtama2 on Apr 30 '07 at 10:16pm

anything by...Chuck Palahniuk

:)

PuterBoy on Apr 30 '07 at 10:17pm

I suggest The Wonderful Life of Rosie O' Donnel.

You're gonna hate it.

4 days later

swimmergirl66 on May 05 '07 at 3:38pm

thanks for suggesting something I won't like. it really helps.

thanks for all the suggestions, guys! I'm gonna have a busy summer!

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