Maybe not the best book of all time, but certainly the best book I've read in a long time.
(I'll bet AI's Ender would agree )</strong><hr></blockquote>
Oh yes I definitely agree! I read that book in 10th grade english when we got to choose a book to read out of a bunch that she had. I'm glad I picked it. I also read a book about a guy that went up to Mt. Everest with a tour group that was very good. I can't recall the name at this moment. I enjoyed Ender's Game.
I had not read 1984 until I was out of college. It REALLY freaked me out then. I suggest re-reading it when you are 25 or older. Great book, as is Brave New World, by Huxley.
Breakfast has the best ending I can remember in a book.
However I think I may go pick up "god bless you Mr. Rosewater" tomorrow form the school library (il have to return it next week, but that should be enough time for a Vonnegut book ).
Looks like Ill have to put off finishing "Return of The King" again.
On the lighter side, two of the better books I've read in the last year or so:
Fearing and Loathing in Las Vegas - HST -(puts the movie to shame)
and
The Lost Continent - by Bill Bryson
I read the latter while taking a road trip across country, and it had me in stitches. Great stuff. Another great book by Bryson is "A Walk in the Woods." A must if you like to go hiking, or have ever lived in the deep south....
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Close second A Modest Proposal by Swift (yes I know It's really a short story, but it had me rolling the whole time)
And of Course, the Harry Potter Books.
What I'm reading now: Single Variable Calculus: Early Transcendentals by James Stewart (my Calc II final's coming up soon).
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mine's still 100 Years of Solitude (AP English Lit) (yes I know its translated from Spanish)
<strong>how about the best book you were forced to read?
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A Separate Peace, by john knowles?
shit, that was a long time ago...
but a great book nonetheless
Of Mice and Men
<strong>how about the best book you were forced to read?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, and countless others which I hated being force-fed, but now love to bits.
<strong>Ender's Game
Maybe not the best book of all time, but certainly the best book I've read in a long time.
(I'll bet AI's Ender would agree
Oh yes I definitely agree! I read that book in 10th grade english when we got to choose a book to read out of a bunch that she had. I'm glad I picked it. I also read a book about a guy that went up to Mt. Everest with a tour group that was very good. I can't recall the name at this moment. I enjoyed Ender's Game.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Umm....can't think right now.
A calculus book? For fun? Jesus what a nerd!
Introduction to Algorithms-Cormen et. al
Neural Networks an Fuzzy Systems-Bart Kosko
Affective Computing-Rosalind Picard
Introduction to Partial Differential Equations-Walter Strauss
The C Programming Language-Kernighan and Ritchie
Fuzzy Logic-Lofti Zadeh
Universality in Chaos-Citanovic
Optimizing PowerPC Code-I can't remeber the author
and countless others
1984 - George Orwell
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Hitchiker's Series - Douglas Adams
The Incarnations of Immortality series - Piers Anthony
Moby Dick-- Melville
Independent People-- Laxness
A Farewell to Arms-- Hemingway
Gravity's Rainbow-- Pynchon
Laughter in the Dark--Nabokov
100 Years of Solitude-- Marquez
Wise Blood--Flannery O'Connor
Light in August--Faulkner
Waterland--Graham Swift
Kristin Lavransdatter--Sigrid Undsett
Just a dozen of my faves of the last hundred years (or so). And no, I never was forced to read them. :cool:
Mandricard
AppleOutsider
Hitchhiker series was brilliant.
Have you read breakfast of champions? If so, how would you say it compares to Cats cradle?
Maybe I'll have to stop by the book store this weekend and pick it up.
I have read "God bless you, Mr Rosewater" though and it is a pretty good book. Good ending
I like the way Vonnegut writes. I really should read more of his books.
Orwell is still my favorite though.
Mandricard
AppleOutsider
Into Thin Air
Good book.
The Grapes of Wrath is still one of my all time fav's.
However I think I may go pick up "god bless you Mr. Rosewater" tomorrow form the school library (il have to return it next week, but that should be enough time for a Vonnegut book
Looks like Ill have to put off finishing "Return of The King" again.
ATLAS SHRUGGED-Ayn Rand
Fearing and Loathing in Las Vegas - HST -(puts the movie to shame)
and
The Lost Continent - by Bill Bryson
I read the latter while taking a road trip across country, and it had me in stitches. Great stuff. Another great book by Bryson is "A Walk in the Woods." A must if you like to go hiking, or have ever lived in the deep south....
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