Book Recommendations

inky · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 4025 **Location:**

Gladiator_RN wrote:

1984
Lord of the Flies

Stupid Piggy...

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Mark. · **Joined:** Mar 2008 **Posts:** 672 **Location:** Italy

inky wrote:

The Shadow Of The Wind sounds pretty interesting. Although I have to ask: is the original version in Spanish or English? The problem I have with a lot of translated books is that the art in the writing and certain things exclusive to the original text such as idioms get lost in the translation. This tends to happen a lot especially in novels.

Well, it's obviously in Spanish. I know what you mean when you say that in translated books certain expressions get changed for the worse. I read it Italian and honestly, I don't know if that was just the translator's skill, but book was awesome nonetheless. I'd give it a go, since it's -yes- thick ('bout 500 pages), but really easy to read.

inky · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 4025 **Location:**

500 pages isn't that bad. Although I normally have about... 250 pages of large textbook material to go through per week. I'll bookmark it for now. Thanks =p

Mark. · **Joined:** Mar 2008 **Posts:** 672 **Location:** Italy

inky wrote:

500 pages isn't that bad. Although I normally have about... 250 pages of large textbook material to go through per week. I'll bookmark it for now. Thanks =p

Oh, well..mother read it before I did and she was all like "Read this! Read this..it's awesome!"

I normally don't listen to what she says about books, but for once I had and still have to agree with her.

On a side note..has anyone ever read Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer? Brother said he liked it, but it's not really a genre I'm confortable reading with (herotic, FYI).

Mindy · **Joined:** Apr 2009 **Posts:** 654 **Location:**

Haven't read all replies so sry if these already have been mentioned.

the legandary ''The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy''

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and my second favorite ''Tales of the Otori''

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MasterKojito · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:35 pm

Tales of Otori is sick. I will have to reread it soon! :

Gladiator_RN · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:50 pm

inky wrote:

Gladiator_RN wrote:

1984
Lord of the Flies

Stupid Piggy...

Spoiler!

vietxboy911 · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 3236 **Location:**

cpinney wrote:

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derp

is this book any good? i might check it out at my library ( none avalible though now )

cpinney · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:24 pm

vietxboy911 wrote:

cpinney wrote:

Spoiler!

derp

is this book any good? i might check it out at my library ( none avalible though now )

yes it is good that is why i recommended it lol.

if you enjoy zombies you will enjoy this.

vietxboy911 · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 3236 **Location:**

cool man, i leik zombiez.

kobe-wan-kenobi · **Posted:** Thu Feb 10, 2011 11:08 pm

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Night by Elie Wiesel

Those are a couple of books that I really enjoyed. You won't regret reading any of these.

the.unseen. · **Joined:** Feb 2006 **Posts:** 1102 **Location:**

A Brave New World
Divine Comedy
1984
The Watch Men
V for Vendetta
Jane Eyre
The Aeneid
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Big Sleep
A Handmaid's Tale

Kraq · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2011 4:34 am

kobe-wan-kenobi wrote:

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Night by Elie Wiesel

Those are a couple of books that I really enjoyed. You won't regret reading any of these.

Haha, 4 of those book have been issued to me throughout school as mandatory literature. But, since I was such a ignorant fool about the school's views on books, I disregarded them.

Shomari · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 2341 **Location:** Limbo

Flowers for Algernon - A must read imo.

inky · **Joined:** Nov 2006 **Posts:** 4025 **Location:**

Flowers for Algernon is mindfucking me... I heard it from different places so many times before. I can't recall where I first it from, maybe a Led Zeppelin song? UGHHHH.. But it does strike me as something I would read. I'm definitely gonna' give it a try especially since it's just a short story.

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