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do it! then tell me about it and convince me to read it
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more book recommendations, please?!
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"An hour later they were on the road. He pushed the cart and both he and the boy carried knapsacks. In the knapsacks were essential things. In case they had to abandon the cart and make a run for it. Clamped to the handle of the cart was a chrome motorcycle mirror that he used to watch the road behind them. He shifted the pack higher on his shoulders and looked out over the wasted country. The road was empty. Below in the little valley the still gray serpentine of a river. Motionless and precise. Along the shore a burden of dead reeds. Are you okay? he said. The boy nodded. Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire."
Excerpt from Cormac McCarthy's The Road. read if you are a fan of post apocalyptic fiction, horror and humanity. |
not sci-fi. and don't give me something that reads like subculture cliche (i.e. tom robbins)
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Trainspotting. Not 60's 70's but I can't recommend it enough then after you've read that read the sequel 'Porno'. Do it. Do it now.
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Try Other Voices Other Rooms By Capote.
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall, (although it might fall a little bit into sci-fi but not much.) That is all I can think right now. |
Ignore this guy above
The book is a dollar TO BUY http://http://www.amazon.com/Trainsp...1008380&sr=1-2 Actually, if you haven't to kill a mockingbird then read that too. |
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i'm unfortunately not. really... trainspotting is good? i wasn't a big fan of the movie...and it's always weird to read a book post-movie. maybe? capote is a good idea. i've never read any. |
 This had me laughing through my cigarette-induced coughing fits... by Christopher Buckley... :) |
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i know it's unamerican, but i never liked it. i had to read it a few times in high school. maybe i never enjoyed it because it was a forced read? |
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Trust me, the book is soooo much better than the film. I saw the film before hand too but it doesn;t spoil it. Watch out though, it's in dialect but once you've get used to it then you'll love it. |
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Yeah I think if it's a forced read then you enjoy it a hell of a lot less. Take Shakespeare for example. Everybody hates him at school, but if you read it on you're own accord then you learn to appreciate his use of language and stuff. Sorry if that reads really snobby. |
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books are generally soooo much better than the films. thank you very much for the recommendation!! |
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but i loved a lot of the other forced reads: of mice and men... scarlet letter... crucible... and even shakespeare. something about mockingbird... i dunno. |
I found mice of men a bore actually.
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No problem and when (not if) you get through it tell me if you enjoyed it or not.
And to sell it even more have a gander  |
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wow... i always liked it. i just finished a secret history. anyone read that? |
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Hmm I guess it just wasn't something you enjoyed. I was the same with Lord of the Flies for me. It was alright I guess. Hey SynthethicalY, have you read grapes of wrath? If so what did you think? |
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