The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo trilogy is really good. Sent from my SPH-D710VMUB using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher The perks of being a wallflower by Steven Chbosky Memoirs of an Addicted Brain by Marc Lewis The Electric Kool-Aid acid test by Tom Wolfe (and cowritten by Ken Kesey) We also have a section for books my friend, with tons of great suggestions http://forum.grasscity.com/bookshelf/ I love books man.
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If you liked it there is a companion novel to it. 'Ender's Shadow' it's the story from Bean's perspective with a few chapters on Bean's origins. I thought it was a great read.
I just started the Lord of the Rings the other day. Never read it... I think I saw the first 30 minutes of the first movie, but that's it. So it's actually new to me, and I'm enjoying it so far. I want to watch the movies once I'm done reading them. I just started reading more frequently recently. So I don't have a ton of books under my belt yet, but I've enjoyed everything I've read so far. -- Sherlock Holmes They're not all very good, but I'm a sucker for this stuff. I have a kindle, so it's just super easy to quickly plow through one of the short stories, so I find myself reading them a lot. -- The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story -- The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story I'm grouping these together because they're both by Richard Preston. They're sort of true "thrillers" about virus, I guess you could say. Might sound boring, but once you start reading about how fucked up people become once infected Ebola (The Hot Zone), it gets intense. I'd start with the Hot Zone, then check out his other books if you like it. -- Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Carl Sagan was a great man, and this book really gave me a lot of thought-provoking material that I hadn't before considered/realized. He's great at writing very informatively without being the slightest bit boring. -- The Omnivore's Dilemma Great book that gives you a look into the food industry, if you're into that. Edit: I almost forgot about DMT: The Spirit Molecule. DO NOT WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY, I think it's horrible. But the book is great.
1984 by George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949. The Oceanian province of Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain) is a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and publicmind control, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (Ingsoc) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as thoughtcrimes. Their tyranny is headed by Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist. Big Brother and the Party justify their rule in the name of a supposed greater good." REALLY GOOD BOOK
I'll have to check that out. There is also another book or two about Ender I want to read. Sent from my SPH-D710VMUB using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Somme Mud, by EPF Lynch is what I'm reading now. It's possibly the best book on the First World War, for mixing present tense with first-person narrative. Be aware, it's not an easy read though, but if you can get through it, it's really quite trippy. Edit: Misspell a word. We can't have that, darlings.
1000000% Yes!!! High school wouldnt have been the same without this book!!! Also check out Pop Kids by Davey Havok, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or anything by Hunter S thompson, Then the classics like Lord of the flies, of mice and men, On the Road, also if you like poetry check out Allen Ginsberg.
I just finished The Alchemist. Really chill book and i read the whole thing stoned. You should check it if you havent already read it
I was 15 when i first read ginsberg. It was the poem America, it totally opened my mind! I dove right in after that. <3 that man!
tell that to my trig teacher in 2 weeks not looking forward to this class lol trying to prepare shit, 1 week i gotta get crackin man
Ya Orson scott card books are a fucking trip. There's about 7 in the series. Ender's game was never meant to be part of the series it was added as a preface. So if you want to get into the nitty gritty keep readin! just like other guy said read 1984 kinda eye opening considering now the gov can spy on you in your house through your tv or kinect. Mind freak!! ooo ooo