Looking for a good read.

NO_SILK_4_ME · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 1016 **Location:**

I'm looking for a new book to read; a book that is deep, thought-provoking, and most importantly, can keep a 15 year old entertained. All the reading material at school is a load of crap, besides Huckleberry Finn, which was only entertaining due to its racism.

I've been looking for a book about an army veteran who tripped on a mine and got his limbs and most of his face blown off and continues to try to communicate by banging his head on walls with Morse code. I can't seem to find the book, since all the damn search results give me material on Nick Vujicic....

It'd be great if any of you have read the book I tried to summarize above, but overall, any recommendations on a good read would be nice. Thanks!

theblindarcher · **Posted:** Sat Jan 03, 2009 6:59 pm

try some porno magazines

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rek · **Posted:** Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:12 pm

All quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

NO_SILK_4_ME · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 1016 **Location:**

theblindarcher wrote:

try some porno magazines

I try that, but it's just too time consuming, I spend endless hours on just one page. I need a faster read.

!G4! · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 598 **Location:**

LOL. ^_^

Read Maximum ride " The Angel Experiment "

Nice Book.

Mr.Ganji · **Posted:** Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:31 pm

any Chrichton or Dan Brown novels

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

Any of the Hannibal books. So good.

cin · **Posted:** Sat Jan 03, 2009 7:52 pm

Mr.Ganji wrote:

Dan Brown

i just read da vinci code.

terrible movie, but AWESOME book. i love it now.
and i just bought 3rd book of heritage series

satman83 · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 9541 **Location:** London

Okay

your 15, and you want a good book that can keep your attention?

'World War Z' - Max Brooks

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1231012386/ ... stripbooks

being turned into a film sometime next year...also one of the most thought
provoking books i have ever read.

exality · **Posted:** Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:38 pm

I read a good book but i cant remember the name. If someone can help you with the name i think its a sieries of 3 and a movie.

Summary: IIRC, A group of austrailian(sp) kids go camping and when they return their parents have been captured and theres like a war going on. I cant go on much further without runing the book. I kinda want to read them again so help!!!

Believer · **Joined:** Apr 2008 **Posts:** 36 **Location:** Neverland

Best book in the world:
The Naked and The Dead - Norman Mailer.

700 pages. Took me one week to read the first 20 pages, and three days to read the rest.

Alterran · **Posted:** Sat Jan 03, 2009 10:41 pm

i just read a book for my english class

A Place To Stand and its pretty good (a bit graphic)
i suggest you try it

OTG · **Joined:** Oct 2008 **Posts:** 1060 **Location:**

Try Working Poor. Especially if you work a minimum wage job and haven't had the greatest of life. You'll love it. It's my all time favorite book.

DonBebek · **Joined:** Oct 2008 **Posts:** 433 **Location:**

Oh well I never read books but the only one I liked that I HAD to read for school was 'Catcher in the rye', i hope I wrote it correct although it's nothing extraordinary.

nitrofreez · **Joined:** Dec 2007 **Posts:** 313 **Location:**

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

Warrior Class - Dale Brown

Azilius · **Joined:** Oct 2006 **Posts:** 4236 **Location:** CS:GO

Ashikiheyun · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 1821 **Location:** CMA

Catcher in the Rye was a great book.

Oh and the book about the soldier who uses :banghead:

to communicate LOL I heard about that book as well, can't remember it's title though.

Suggestions:

Cather in the Rye

Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

As someone said, Michael Crichton is one of my favorite authors (R.I.P.

) Of his I'd suggest Eaters of the Dead, The Andromeda Strain, Next, and yes, Jurassic Park.

The Master and Commander series by Patrick O'Brian, but then again I was a weird 15 year old who loved 17th century naval history, so yeah, might not be your cup of tea.

Ummm, I can't think of any other books atm, I may edit or post later.

Good luck!

Snoopy · **Posted:** Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:05 am

exality wrote:

I read a good book but i cant remember the name. If someone can help you with the name i think its a sieries of 3 and a movie.

Summary: IIRC, A group of austrailian(sp) kids go camping and when they return their parents have been captured and theres like a war going on. I cant go on much further without runing the book. I kinda want to read them again so help!!!

I think the book might be called A Killing Frost by John Marsden:

Synopsis:

Spoiler!

exality · **Posted:** Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:10 am

Snoopy wrote:

exality wrote:

I read a good book but i cant remember the name. If someone can help you with the name i think its a sieries of 3 and a movie.

Summary: IIRC, A group of austrailian(sp) kids go camping and when they return their parents have been captured and theres like a war going on. I cant go on much further without runing the book. I kinda want to read them again so help!!!

I think the book might be called A Killing Frost by John Marsden:

Synopsis:

Spoiler!

YOUR MY HERO! endcaps.

Yes that was an awesome book. *Goes to library*

ThatBluePerson · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 1647 **Location:** Earth

nitrofreez wrote:

Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card

Warrior Class - Dale Brown

Eww don't read Ender's Game... that piece of bullocks...

I just finished reading in one sitthing Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe it was good.
Or try Troy by Adele Geras, great book.

I haven't read much for the past three years so I can't tell you of other good stuff out there.

Jstar1 · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 4757 **Location:**

cin wrote:

Mr.Ganji wrote:

Dan Brown

i just read da vinci code.

terrible movie, but AWESOME book. i love it now.
and i just bought 3rd book of heritage series

the movie was god awful, how the hell is tom hanks playing robert langdon

did you read angels and demons? the storyline is similar (murder in the beginning, clues to some artifact, etc) but the twists are better and theres like 3 in row that hit you in the face at the end

Kirkaldi · **Joined:** Jul 2008 **Posts:** 3083 **Location:** nyc

The Seventh Tower: The Fall by Garth Nix

TOloseGT · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 7129 **Location:**

peter f hamilton's Pandora's star

antics · **Posted:** Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:31 am

rule of the bone
the perks of being a wildflower
^both books are the catcher in the rye of our generation

or catcher in the rye
i enjoy books about troubled teens dealing with drugs, seck, and failure

dom · **Posted:** Sun Jan 04, 2009 7:36 am

Have you read Elie Wiesel's Night? It was a required reading when I was around 15 and I remember liking it a lot - in fact half my class, including me, finished it in one night and none of us were readers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_(book)

NO_SILK_4_ME · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 1016 **Location:**

dom wrote:

Have you read Elie Wiesel's Night? It was a required reading when I was around 15 and I remember liking it a lot - in fact half my class, including me, finished it in one night and none of us were readers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_(book)

nice link >_>

No, i haven't read it yet. I checked our reading list awhile back, but it was just yada yada..you know, edgar allen poe, shakespeare, and something about transcendentalism and romanticism...i'll look that up.

Quote:

Oh well I never read books but the only one I liked that I HAD to read for school was 'Catcher in the rye', i hope I wrote it correct although it's nothing extraordinary.

Really? I thought that was banned from most libraries and schools due to...THE DAMN TRUTH. The banned books always seem to be more interesting...

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Okay

your 15, and you want a good book that can keep your attention?

'World War Z' - Max Brooks

http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1231012386/ ... stripbooks

being turned into a film sometime next year...also one of the most thought
provoking books i have ever read.

It seems interesting, not a cookie cutter war story.

Heading to Borders tomorrow, thanks guys. Suggestions still welcome.

Feudal_lord · **Posted:** Sun Jan 04, 2009 9:41 am

Iread this 1 week ago and realy liked.I am sure you would like this one if you are interested in history...

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greeneye · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 516 **Location:**

Hey TR! Well for entertaining books try some Joseph Wambaugh, Stephen King or Jack Higgins (yea, yea they are a bit old authors) and if you're a bit into fantasy, try the Inheritance Cycle books of Christopher Paolini.

But for thought-provoking, John Updike and the classics never let me down...=P

Grimjaw · **Posted:** Sun Jan 04, 2009 10:18 am

Try Watership down. It starts off a bit slow but gets better and better. I read it as well after ShizKnight recommended it to me a while ago. :)

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