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Postby KC8t80 » Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:44 am

I was just wondering does anyone have any books they like to recommend or share what book they read recently? and if u can, give a brief synopsis about the book.

i'll start:

I just finished reading the Dead Zone by Stephen King..........it is about Jhonny Smith, a guy who gets into a car accident and slips into a coma for about 5 1/2 years only to wake up to find his world turned upside-down and on top of that......he can see the future and past events by touching things or people.......its a really great book from beginnig to end.
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Postby quirky » Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:46 am

Carrie Pillby by Carin Lissner.

Way funnier than Bridget Jones.
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Postby fluffy » Mon Dec 12, 2005 2:55 am

Julie Gregory's Sickened - about 'Muchausens by Proxy'.........very poignant, very sad...........but she made it!!!.........
A really fascinating read.........

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Postby justfacts » Tue Dec 13, 2005 2:40 am

Great Thread! I love to read and I am always looking for a good recommendation

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
It's a little graphic in the begining but the book is told by a girl who is in heaven, she is watching people trying to solve her murder. I read it in one night.
I also liked the DaVinci Code, I did not think I would but it was very good.

Jennifer Weiner and Jane Green are good writers when you are feeling more "Girly"
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Postby quirky » Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:57 am

The Color of Water - James McBride
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Postby quirky » Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:58 am

Population 485 - MichaelPerry

Really wonderfully written autobiographical work. He's a paramedic in a small town.
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Postby shelby » Tue Dec 13, 2005 10:29 am

reading and Jim are the number one things that i enjoy the most, i am hardly ever not reading or watching Jim, so a book that i have read recently that i would recommend is called " The Gun Seller" its by hugh laurie, its has a little of everthing in it, from spy to romance to thiller but it mostly has a lot of humour in it. it is so funny, i had to put it down almost every other page because i would laugh so hard, it has a very fast paced to it so it isn't a long read. the most part that i can say about it is, that the main character is named thomas lang, he used to be a scots guard but now he is unemployed and mostly for money he sells himself for bodyguarding people. but one day he gets offered to kill someone but he refuses to do it, but he decides to inform the guy that he was offered to kill a warning that some one is out to kill him. and because of his warning he gets in the middle of the reason why the guy is wanted dead. i have to warn that some scences in the book can get a lttle graph. if anyone does decides to read it, i hope they enjoy it as much as i did.
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Postby kasper » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:50 am

The Ring by Danielle Steel is a good book. Also, The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks(I think I spelled his name right...)

Both of those books had me crying though. So thats probably not something a guy would like to read. But they are good, none the less.
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Postby Guybrush Threepwood » Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:04 pm

Reading... ah ... loving it!
The last thing I read was "Faust". A little nice work by Goethe; really demanding but I liked it. But I guess you have to read it in German to get all the beauty out of it, like you have to read Shakespear in English.
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Postby Eskarpin » Wed Dec 14, 2005 5:21 pm

Books that i have liked a lot:

If you like the Simulations of computer and play of fantasy, I recommend you:
Ender´s Game (Orson Scott Card) : The land is seen threatened by the extraterrestrial species of the insectores. Conquering them, the humanity needs a military genius, and because of it the birth is permitted of Ender.

If the prehistory goes you:
The clan of the dig bear (Jean M. Auel) : Ayla, a brave and untamable
young woman whose history begins when, orphan of 5 years, is adopted for the Clan, a group of Neanderthales.

If you like the spiritual books:
The alchemist (Paulo Coelho) : Santiago, a young shepherd that a day abandoned its flock to go detras of its dreams and to know its destiny.

If you like more the of the type codigo gives vinci:
El último catón (Matilde Asensi) (sorry do not I know as will be called this book in
English) : The sister Ottavia, receives the assignment to decipher the strange tattooings appeared in the corpse of an Ethiopian: 7 Greek letters and 7 crossings.

If you not the books with many they frighten you paginate (some 1400) : The Pillars of the earth (Ken Follett) : Novel that us trasporta to the Middle Ages, to a fascinating world of kings, ladies, gentlemen. ... whose setting is the construction of a Gothic
cathedral.

If you like the novels that himself do not seem to no other:
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (Mark Haddon) : Christopher is an autistic boy that decides to initiate the search of the murderer that killed al dog of his neighbor.

Another in the Middle Ages:
The physician (Noah Gordon) : Robert J. he Strain a boy of 11 years he discovers that he has a strange one "gift" for the medicine.

If you like none of these books. ...... ask me :wink: :D
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Postby george » Wed Dec 14, 2005 5:44 pm

don't speak for books! mi am sick an d tired for all the university books! :lol:
i am a great fan of stephen king though, so i'll read the "dead zone", it's sound good! KC8t80 if you like king you should read the "dark tower", it's last part went on stores few weeks ago!
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Postby KC8t80 » Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:55 am

u can also list any comic books or mangas u may have read recently.
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Some books I've read....

Postby Canadian Jayne » Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:05 pm

It isn't Easy being green and other.... by Jim Henson's daughter
Very good little read and I think this bookd could help all mankind.

The Other Side of Me by Sidney Sheldon, it covers much of his life and his writing carrer, in many avenues, the path that takes him to his successful career, excellent book, very well written.
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Postby justfacts » Thu Jan 05, 2006 1:32 am

quirky wrote:Carrie Pillby by Carin Lissner.

Way funnier than Bridget Jones.


I have been looking for this book for a few weeks now and no one here has it. Do you still have it? If so would you sell or loan it to me? I found "Starting from Square Two" by Carin Lissner, do you know if that is good?
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Postby quirky » Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:32 am

For me....it was a book I just pulled off the shelf at the library.

I haven't read the one you mentioned....but her writing is great.
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