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Stupid White Men by Michael Moore

All the Calvin and Hobbes books by Bill Watterson

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking

The Hole in the Universe by K.C. Cole

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

The Feynman Processor by Gerard J. Milburn

The Road to Arnhem by Donald R. Burgett

Absolute Beginner's Guide to C by Greg Perry

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

The Rogue Rogue by me!

 

I'll post more later

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ckcsaber Newbie

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The last book I really enjoyed was "A Confederecy of Dunces". The book is down-righ hillarious. I really recommend it if you want to read something that is not so main-stream.

 

"The Life of Pi" is a great book I just read it about a month ago. It deals with a persons faith and relationship with God during a horrible shipwreck, and its after-math. It is a survivor story, but it is done very differently. It is a fairly quick read.

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and everyone should read Mere Christianity even if you are atheist.

 

Ah another C.S. Lewis doing his thing book, that man was a genius

 

-Z

yaebginn Newbie

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Yeah he was good friends with Tolkien, too. Tolkien actually brought Lewis to Christ. a litle fun fact. I may read stupid white men just for laughs, but probably not. Yeah, the outsiders rocked, Se hinton is/was a great author. Her books are really short, though.

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Before reading the Outsiders, I had never heard of a greaser. Reading that book, when she described the greasers, it was like she was describing me. Except I don't have a bad home life. So now I can put myself in a class. Greaser :D

tFighterPilot Newbie

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Originally posted by yaebginn

I shall never read Harry Potter, but the others, I';ll check out the others next time I go to the library.

So you're gonna prejudice this like you prejudice everything else? :rolleyes:
sadisticmonkey Newbie

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Some people don't like Harry Potter, so what?

 

I've just finished a book called Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. I won't give anything away but its about the NSA and one massive country threatening virus.

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Originally posted by yaebginn

If I know a cookie tastes bad, I wont eat it. same with this.

And how do you know the cookie is bad? The trouble is that if you eat the cookie, you'll eat it thinking it's bad, which really gonna make it taste bad. Or maybe it will make it taste even better.
yaebginn Newbie

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I have no interest in reading...Catwoman the novel. it just doesnt interest me. same with harry potter. the stoty doesnt interest me. it may be good to some, but the stroy doesnt sound interesting. and the cookie is bad cause you can see whats in it. Like, if I am biting into a cookie and see it is made of beans. I dont like beans, so I wouldnt eat it. if someone who liked beans said it was good, good for them. and lets not turn this into a harry potter debate, please. it seems all my threads are now debates.

ET Warrior Newbie

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Originally posted by yaebginn

btw finsihed prey. it was pretty good, but timeline was better.

 

*attempts to maintain on-topic-ness*

 

Agreed, Prey doesn't even come close to being as good as timeline, though it's still a fantastic book.

 

And as for your Harry potter debacle..

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Harry Potter series - You can drop dead if you want to bash on it for being a "kiddie" book. This is an amazing story and you're a fool if you deprive yourself of it.

And I, of all people in the world, am the person to listen to about reading Harry Potter. Because I used to be one of the people who said, "no, I'm never going to read it because it sounds stupid and the movies were dumb"

 

I refused to read them for so long, they just weren't for me.

 

But finally my family convinced me to give it a try, and I read the first 4 books in one week. They are FANTASTIC stories, well written, and VERY easy to read.

 

You are, in fact, a fool to not even give them a chance.

 

Originally posted by yaebginn

dont bash it unless you've finished it.

That's from the NJO thread....kind of applies to the Harry potter series aswell neh? :xp:

tFighterPilot Newbie

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What about the 5th one?

 

Anyway, if you read it, read it in the british version. Why are there two versions anyway? Are americans so stupid that they can't read british english? :rolleyes:

 

Yeah, the movies suck

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I read the 5th on in a day, but I read the first 4 before the 5th had come out ;)

 

 

We have trouble with British English because all y'all have such strange phrases that hold no meaning in America. Phrases like 'taking the mickey' means nothing to Americans. ;)

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I ahvent bashed HP, though. I may read the first one, just to check it. maybe later. Is the Great Train Robbery any Good? cause they had that there, too under Crichton. Hes a great author, now one of my favs.

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