Book Recommendations

2009-03-23 13:11:00

#1

Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|6967|Long Island, New York

I was gonna go to the DST thread, but I'm looking for specifics.

I've recieved a reading assignment for English to pick any book that was published after 1999. It needs to be somewhat short (200-300 pages) and able to be read within 2 weeks. I'm a pretty fast reader though. I was thinking about No Country For Old Men but I doubt I'd be able to finish it in time.

Good suggestions get karma,

Danke.

2009-03-23 13:11:28

#2

Kez: Member; +778|6132|London, UK

harry potter

2009-03-23 13:13:30

#3

FatherTed: xD; +3,936|6929|so randum

Subtle Knife.

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2009-03-23 13:13:54

#4

Eagle: Togs8896 is my evil alter ego; +567|7060|New Hampshire, USA

Being serious right now:

The Halo books

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2009-03-23 13:15:29

#5

Macbeth: Banned; +2,444|6015

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk who wrote Fight Club.

2009-03-23 13:19:32

#6

SonderKommando: Eat, Lift, Grow, Repeat....; +564|7089|The darkside of Denver

The True Story of the Bilderberg Group
By Daniel Estulin

Does a great job of explaning how power is influenced from the folks at the top down into various roundtable groups like the CFR/Trilateral Comission whose members have dominated our political parties for over 50 years. Well written, quick read too, bout 200 some pages with another 50 of footnotes, sources, and declassified documents.

2009-03-23 13:41:11

#7

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,991|7061|949

Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew Bacevich

Both not really light reading, but enjoyable. I finished Limits of Power a few months ago, it's a very good objective look at the last 40 or so years of American dominance. Hegemony or Survival is classic Chomsky, highlighting failures in foreign policy and American establishment hypocrisy.

2009-03-23 13:52:39

#8

blah: macaroni with cheeseeee; +111|6177|Croatia

Playing for pizza by John Grisham
Bleachers by John Grisham

They are both around 220 pages I read both of those in 3 days(3 days each book,I mean).
Playing for pizza is about an NFL qb who throws 5 interceptions in playoffs.Only offer he gets then is from a football team in Italy.It's a great book about football,friendship.Very heartwarming book.

Bleachers is a heartbreaking story about one of the most legendary coaches of high school football team from Messina,Messina Spartans.He is on death bed and his old players(most trophied team ever)came back to their childhood town to give him honors,as well the entire town.It's very retrospective,old friends chat about old times,old games,old loves.

I'd give them both 10/10

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2009-03-23 14:02:19

#9

Pochsy: Artifice of Eternity; +702|5972|Toronto

I've suggested it before on these forums:

Home Land by Sam Lipsyte

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A confessional bildungsroman for our time.

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2009-03-23 14:06:25

#10

baggs: Member; +732|6633

Any book at all? Like, does it have to be fiction?

2009-03-23 14:07:27

#11

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6899

A N Y T H I N G

By Dan Brown

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2009-03-23 14:12:02

#12

FatherTed: xD; +3,936|6929|so randum

Quick question.

Unless the pages were 2000km high and just as wide, and the print needed an electron microscope to read with, how would 200pages in 2 weeks ever be difficult?

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2009-03-23 14:14:00

#13

CammRobb: Banned; +1,510|6559|Carnoustie MASSIF

The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

2009-03-23 14:17:26

#14

h4hagen: Whats my age again?; +91|6782|Troy, New York

The Kite Runner - Hosseini Khaled: Absolutely amazing book, and one of the BBC's 100 books everyone should read. Great book. This is what I would pick - cannot stress enough that this is a fantastic book well worth the read, also, I imagine it would be enjoyable/ reasonably easy to write a paper on. About the right length and you will want to finish reading it once you start.

Others:
Snow -Orhan Pamuk: Won the nobel prize for literature

Empire Falls - Richard Russo

Those two might be a tad too long though. Go, now, and buy the Kite Runner.

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2009-03-23 14:18:53

#15

Mutantbear: Semi Constructive Criticism; +1,431|6394|London, England

Uzique wrote:
A N Y T H I N G

By Dan Brown

I started Angels and Demons today

rofl

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2009-03-23 14:20:45

#16

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|7050|London, England

Uzique wrote:
A N Y T H I N G

By Dan Brown

Oh yeah what was that book, Angels and Demons. I need to take a look at that, just for the sake of some good fiction though. Not gonna believe none of that crazy Jew/Roman/Catholic malarky

2009-03-23 14:22:52

#17

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,991|7061|949

h4hagen wrote:
The Kite Runner - Hosseini Khaled: Absolutely amazing book, and one of the BBC's 100 books everyone should read. Great book. This is what I would pick - cannot stress enough that this is a fantastic book well worth the read, also, I imagine it would be enjoyable/ reasonably easy to write a paper on. About the right length and you will want to finish reading it once you start.

Others:
Snow -Orhan Pamuk: Won the nobel prize for literature

Empire Falls - Richard Russo

Those two might be a tad too long though. Go, now, and buy the Kite Runner.

Kite Runner is over 300 pages too. Great book though. Superb (albeit sad) story.

2009-03-23 14:23:09

#18

presidentsheep: Back to the Fuhrer; +208|6390|Places 'n such

Mekstizzle wrote:
Uzique wrote:
A N Y T H I N G

By Dan Brown
Oh yeah what was that book, Angels and Demons. I need to take a look at that, just for the sake of some good fiction though. Not gonna believe none of that crazy Jew/Roman/Catholic malarky

I dont believe in Catholics either... Never seen one
#edit: on topic: Darren Shan books are pretty good and you can read em in like a day

Last edited by presidentsheep (2009-03-23 14:24:06)

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2009-03-23 14:25:23

#19

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|7056|UK

FatherTed wrote:
Quick question.

Unless the pages were 2000km high and just as wide, and the print needed an electron microscope to read with, how would 200pages in 2 weeks ever be difficult?

That's what I was thinking. 200 pages is like one or two days.

2009-03-23 14:28:59

#20

FatherTed: xD; +3,936|6929|so randum

liquidat0r wrote:
FatherTed wrote:
Quick question.

Unless the pages were 2000km high and just as wide, and the print needed an electron microscope to read with, how would 200pages in 2 weeks ever be difficult?
That's what I was thinking. 200 pages is like one or two days.

It's not even that adam dearest. But i read obscenely fast, so i dunno

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2009-03-23 14:31:30

#21

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|7056|UK

A "day of reading" = reading for a short while before I go to sleep. Not spending the day reading.

2009-03-23 14:31:36

#22

Mekstizzle: WALKER; +3,611|7050|London, England

Depends on how many hours a day you spend reading, the guy has school etc.. and all his Jew classes and all that, so he probably would have to space it out over two weeks

2009-03-23 14:32:48

#23

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,991|7061|949

FatherTed wrote:
liquidat0r wrote:
FatherTed wrote:
Quick question.

Unless the pages were 2000km high and just as wide, and the print needed an electron microscope to read with, how would 200pages in 2 weeks ever be difficult?
That's what I was thinking. 200 pages is like one or two days.
It's not even that adam dearest. But i read obscenely fast, so i dunno

Probably Dr. Suess books though

I read about an hour or two a day. I usually go through about a book a week. I've been reading my current book for over a week though because it's got some substance to it. I read really slow though; sometimes I reread pages a few times to better understand. I'm all about reading comprehension and knowledge retention.

Then again, I watch my brothers read these stupid fantasy books by R.A. Salvatore in like a day and a half, so maybe I just read reallllly slow.

2009-03-23 14:35:29

#24

FatherTed: xD; +3,936|6929|so randum

@adam ye same innit safe

@mek lol jew classes

@ken i read books that have nice pictures in and pop up bits and big words that arent big and more pictures and happy dogs and stuff thats nice like flowers and the sun and not much punctuations and sometimes i read more than one in a day and i get a gold star which i stick in my gold star book its nearly full because i read lots of books so soon ill need to get a new gold star book.

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2009-03-23 14:49:53

#25

h4hagen: Whats my age again?; +91|6782|Troy, New York

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
h4hagen wrote:
The Kite Runner - Hosseini Khaled: Absolutely amazing book, and one of the BBC's 100 books everyone should read. Great book. This is what I would pick - cannot stress enough that this is a fantastic book well worth the read, also, I imagine it would be enjoyable/ reasonably easy to write a paper on. About the right length and you will want to finish reading it once you start.

Others:
Snow -Orhan Pamuk: Won the nobel prize for literature

Empire Falls - Richard Russo

Those two might be a tad too long though. Go, now, and buy the Kite Runner.
Kite Runner is over 300 pages too. Great book though. Superb (albeit sad) story.

Yah, easy/ enjoyable read though, shouldn't be much of a problem.

Last edited by h4hagen (2009-03-23 14:50:20)

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