Topic: Book Recommendations
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Tue 10/06/09 10:36 AM

Just be adventurous....Find what you think would appeal to you, or just chance it. Ya' got nothing to lose.:tongue:


I actually said what appeals to me. Not that it will stop me from reading other books. I guess I just give a little info when I recommend books to others, that's all. Be it about the author or book.

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Tue 10/06/09 10:38 AM
I feel the less you know goin' in, the more surprised you are...the better....:tongue:

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Tue 10/06/09 10:44 AM

I feel the less you know goin' in, the more surprised you are...the better....:tongue:


:smile:

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Tue 10/06/09 10:47 AM


I feel the less you know goin' in, the more surprised you are...the better....:tongue:


:smile:
drinker :tongue: Trust me. It's not like yr buyin' stock or anything...:tongue:

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Tue 10/06/09 10:51 AM
Riverworld, Phillip Jose Farmer

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Tue 10/06/09 10:56 AM

Riverworld, Phillip Jose Farmer
Nice choice, Quiet! drinker :tongue:

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Tue 10/06/09 11:10 AM
Edited by Quietman_2009 on Tue 10/06/09 11:10 AM
just for singme, since she wanted some background

Riverworld is just that, a world with one river running all the way around it

and one day every single person who ever lived on earth wakes up on the banks of the river

Jesus, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, King John, Joe the Plumber, Edgar Alan Poe, Hitler, Charles Lindbergh, Richard Burton (the explorer)

everyone

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Tue 10/06/09 12:01 PM

just for singme, since she wanted some background

Riverworld is just that, a world with one river running all the way around it

and one day every single person who ever lived on earth wakes up on the banks of the river

Jesus, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, King John, Joe the Plumber, Edgar Alan Poe, Hitler, Charles Lindbergh, Richard Burton (the explorer)

everyone


Thanks :smile:

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Tue 10/06/09 12:01 PM
Anything written by Dean Koontz is pretty good. And Chronicles of Amber is really good.

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Tue 10/06/09 12:25 PM

Anything written by Dean Koontz is pretty good. And Chronicles of Amber is really good.


:thumbsup:

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Tue 10/06/09 03:07 PM
Replay by Ken Grimwood

Jeff Winston is a middle aged man who has a heart attack and wakes up twenty-five years earlier in the past. He awakens to discover he has the knowledge of the future and only he seems to remember it. Along the way he changes history and makes thought provoking choices and meditations on those choices.


He dies again at the same age twenty five years later and has to relive it all again. After a while these cycles, or replays, begin to drive Jeff over the edge....

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Tue 10/06/09 03:41 PM
"The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

It is about a journey of a young shepard in search of his personal legend.

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Tue 10/06/09 03:54 PM
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - It's the story of a man who said he would stop the motor of the world and did.

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Tue 10/06/09 04:05 PM
"Where"s Harry" by Steve Stone

Steve Stone remembers his years working with Harry Carey....

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Tue 10/06/09 05:55 PM
One of the most well written books I've ever read...

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey.
"This brilliant and daring debut... catapults Carey immediately into the top rank of fantasy novelists.... an assured and magnificent book that will appeal to both male and female readers." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

and anything by Chuck Palahniuk seriously... man wrote

fight club

pygmy

stranger than fiction

choke

all brilliant books!

he's gritty and strong and very very unforgiving with his writing. I absolutely love it.

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Tue 10/06/09 06:52 PM
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini or
A Thousand Splendid Suns by the same author.


Both are terrible tragic stories beautifully told.

The Kite Runner was made into a movie that totally sucked.




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Tue 10/06/09 07:40 PM

I'd like to see some book recommendations here. You can recommend something you really like, or others can ask for recommendations.

What I like to read the most are mysteries/thrillers or fun chick lit type stuff. So, does anyone have a recommendation along those lines?
The Delta of Venus, The Story of "O", Nana, Nausea (Satre), I could on and on , read is what I do

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Tue 10/06/09 07:41 PM
Edited by NeptuneWoman on Tue 10/06/09 07:45 PM
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I feel the less you know goin' in, the more surprised you are...the better....:tongue:
ditto, ditto, ditto, it's like I give you the thrill instead of you grabbing that thrill and rolling in it and living it all for yourself it's could be called an anticlimatic move. Get it first hand and some of the books I have suggested will take you there......................

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Tue 10/06/09 09:34 PM
if you like mysteries....

i can enthusiastically recommend books by Dick Francis
and of course the Rumpole series by John Mortimer

endless fun reading...well almost endless

flowerforyou

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Tue 10/06/09 09:38 PM
The Bride Stripped Bare - 'Anonymous' (Nikki Gemmel)

The Book of Rapture - Nikki Gemmel