"Call me by your name" & other good books

[owenix]

Thanks for the recommends... I'll try the first one

 

[Star020]

World of Warcraft: The Shattering
in German World of Warcraft: Weltenbeben

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Maybe you think this Book is just for those WoW-Freaks out there, but I think that everyone who like fantasy stories may also like this Book.
Once I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down until I finished it. The story is very exciting and you can understand the story even if you not a World of Warcraft Freak.
Anyone who likes Warcraft needs to read this book, it clears up many things in the transition to the new World of Warcraft expansion, Cataclysm.

 

[blinkZam]

Aline Sax - We, Two Boys


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Escaping from their burdensome poverty, twin brothers Adriaan and Alexander’s family emigrates from Belgium to New York City. Unfortunately, things don’t go according to plan, and Adriaan is the only one who eventually arrives in America. Alone in the city, he becomes overwhelmed and grows homesick. But before he can prepare for his trip back, he finds a reason to stay—an American boy named Jack. Powerful and strikingly honest in its portrayal of adolescent homosexuality, this is an engaging example of how some accidents can happen for the best.

my favorite <gay> book.


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Thanks XMan101

 

[dummaque]

I've read most of Augusten Burroughs's books- Running With Scissors, Dry, Side Effects, Magical Thinking, A Wolf at the Table, and have his latest laying around somewhere. Surprised I didn't see anything he has written mentioned elsewhere on this thread (unless I missed it)?

 

[smallsleepyrascalcat]

The best book I read in the last weeks: The Gruffalo

And I'm not kidding

 

[pete123]

why not try "how long has this been going on'' by Ethan Mordden
might be difficult to get a copy, but it is a very good (and long) read

 

[CottonCandyKiss]

I love JL Langley and KA Mitchell the most among the authors are Samhain books. Their styles are very cute and intriguing!! I've checked our a few of yours suggestions, yes, even amidst my crazy last year in college!!!! Damn yoou allll!!! hahaha <3 But thank you so much for the suggestions though. However, some of the books are hard to find :S

 

[jfl]

what books are you currently reading ?

Hi just wondring what books your currently reading or any good books you can suggest. Thank You

Have a Nice Day

 

[gb2000ie]

Hi just wondring what books your currently reading or any good books you can suggest. Thank You

Have a Nice Day

Do audio books count?

B.

 

[Haplo]

Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose.

I had to read and watch it for school some years ago... I don't know who played the blind old monk but he was good, he was damn creepy... Have you read Eco's latest novel?

As for mystery novels I have to recommend Elizabeth George, I love her books! :heart:
For more serious books definitely Jodi Picoult. I read all those I could find in the library, I own "Nineteen minutes" and they're all well-written, deep, realistic...

And, about "19 minutes", I also have a weird curiosity about Columbine... :? Except for webpages, I could get a book about it, but I have two options...
Anyone has read, or heard about, Dave Cullen's book and/or Jeff Kass' one?

 

[slimjim]

Just finished re-reading this... fantastic :thumbs up:

 

[prinz4ming]

Read this book and was totally overwhelmed by it. Was depressed for a good few days, but was so worth it!

A Fine Balance by by Rohinton Mistry.




This was recommended to me a couple of years back and I thouroughly recommend it onwards.. here are some reader reviews from Amazon:

This is a truly great book. It chronicles the story of 4 individuals from very different sectors of the Indian Caste system.
Not only does it accurately portray the political and social situation in India in the 1970s,it reflects the predudices within the upper castes and the fatalistic attitude of the lower castes, formed from their religious beliefs that suffering is their destiny and the reward will be in the afterlife.
This story is overwhelmingly sad and also shocking as the reader can identify the ethical question of human suffering for a possibly laudable goal (in this case it is population control). However, the novel is also uplifting in a peculiar way; that individuals who struggle so hard to exist in appalling conditions can find joy in their lives is humbling. It also allows the reader to identify with the predudices and to see a situation from another side. Maybe at the end of the book, the reader feels that they have grown a little in spirit and have the capacity to be a 'better' person as a result.
For me, the mark of a great book is one that remains with you long after the back page is read. This is such a book.
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This novel is really fabulous. Mistry is a spectacular storyteller with a wonderful way of writing about the minutiae of daily life and weaving it into a wider picture of what was happening in India in the mid 1970s. The story is incredibly depressing - I kept turning the page in the hope that things wouldn't get any worse, but they inevitably did - but the ending provides some sort of closure and a sense of the main characters gaining some happiness in their lives. I cannot recommend this novel highly enough. Please read it!




See also

 

[pete123]

another great read are the jasper fforde novels, i might have recommended them before
if so sorry

 

[lou]

the classic book-Jerome David Salinger "Der Fänger im Roggen"

I like the german author Frank Goosen "Pink Moon" reminds me of a cat

 

[slimjim]

 

[explrrrs]

As much as I love my Moby Dicks and Tale of Two Cities, I do like my novels. I'm a sucker for romance novels, Nora Roberts, Sandra Brown, Jane Anne Krentz, Amanda Quick. heh. Such graphic scenes with some hot men, I simply block out the heroine and stick myself in. LOL

 

[madguy7]

Joe hill, the son of steven king has some great books out. The first one I would recommend is Locke and Key, which is really a graphic novel, but it has a great story.Or you could wait until the tv show comes out on Fox later this year. Next would Horns by Joe Hill again. A great read! Or wait til the movie comes out, some time next year.

 

[whatsdamadder]

The Secret History by Donna Tartt is an amazing read! I highly recommend it!

 

[slimjim]

Pratchett (of Discworld fame) and Gaiman (of Sandman fame) may seem an unlikely combination, but the topic (Armageddon) of this fast-paced novel is old hat to both. Pratchett's wackiness collaborates with Gaiman's morbid humour; the result is a humanist delight to be savoured and read again and again. You see, there was a bit of a mix-up when the Antichrist was born, due in part to the machinations of Crowley, who did not so much fall as saunter downwards, and in part to the mysterious ways as manifested in the form of a part-time rare book dealer, an angel named Aziraphale. Like top agents everywhere, they've long had more in common with each other than the sides they represent, or the conflict they are nominally engaged in. The only person who knows how it will all end is Agnes Nutter, a witch whose prophecies all come true, if one can only manage to decipher them. The minor characters along the way (Famine makes an appearance as diet crazes, no-calorie food and anorexia epidemics) are as much fun as the story as a whole, which adds up to one of those rare books which is enormous fun to read the first time, and the second time, and the third time.…

 

[slimjim]