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Recently I've decided to start reading a bit. It seems like I'm always so busy that it's just nice to sit down once in a while and read. Anyways I just got done reading "The Catcher In The Rye" which I thought was an OK book.

Does anyone know any books that aren't too difficult to read, but are very good or have good plots?

1984

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Does it hurt to look where you should be making certain topics?

I just bought 1984 and The Age of Spiritual Machines. I thought they'd go good together.

Other good books: Farenheit 451, Slaughterhouse Five. If you like SNL "Live From New York" is a good read. It's compiled completly of interviews. That's all that come to mind right now, I'm too tired to think.

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anyways...

1984, Animal Farm, Cats Cradle, No Great Mischief (Alistair Macleod), On The Road...

Havenstar.


well, i liked it.

I haven't read any really "good" books in a long time. I don't have alot of time during school so I usually just read entertaining ones. I'm almost done with Mary Higgins Clark's Second Time Around. I love all her books. I'm about to start the fourth book in Dean Hugh's second series. I doubt anyone here would be interested in those though. The first series, Children of the Promise, is really good. He's a mormon author, but it's not really preachy. It takes place during WWII and traces what happens to a mormon family from Salt Lake. They are my favorite.

One of my favorite books of all time is A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

Ahem. The previously mentioned books are good books, I've read most of them, but they don't compare to:

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER

Honestly, if you've ever felt like an outcast or loser, this book is for you. Trust me on this, read the book. You shant be disappointed.

If you're a biology fan you should read "Darwin's Radio" by Greg Bear. It's a good book, and I'm really not a big fan of biology.

Alan, I'm going to get that book tomorrow when I go to the library. Watch my library not have it.

'flowers for algernon' excellent book and an easy read about a mentally retarded man who through science becomes a genius. make sure you get the novel though and not the short story.

Che guevara's guide to guerilla warfare.
The fall of the Duke of Duval.

these are the only two books i'll ever read....books are evil.

'the corrections' by jonathan franzen is what im reading now, and its excellent

anything by nick hornby is awesome: high fidelty, about a boy, how to be good, fever pitch
american psycho and rules of attraction by bret easton ellis are also really good, though quite graphic (especially psycho)

Dabekk wrote:'flowers for algernon' excellent book and an easy read about a mentally retarded man who through science becomes a genius. make sure you get the novel though and not the short story.

I read that too! It wasn't bad, wasn't super amazing though.

How big is the actual novel? (just in case I read the SS)

Robert Louis Stevenson's <i>Treasure Island</i>, all the way. Perfect summer reading.

I'm now reading Robert Graves' <i>I, Claudius</i>, which is also very, very good.

Dabekk wrote:'flowers for algernon' excellent book and an easy read about a mentally retarded man who through science becomes a genius. make sure you get the novel though and not the short story.

i read that in grade 9, i think. cried like a baby at the end.

^ wuss.

it was sad!

i am not a wuss!

okay, so i am. but still. it was sad!

Leviathan...

not easy reading by any measure but very good

the unbearable likeness of being
love in the time of cholera

and

Cash by Johnny Cash