Recent content by JRakovan

try this http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=171136&x1=Y a romance novel, of sorts, the entire book is a phone conversation between strangers..it strays into confession, phone sex, story telling,etc a good book

personal favorites godfather death the red shoes the mouse, the sausage and the bird keep house the sisters who danced with death the devil's sooty brother the boy who did not know how to shudder mother holle these have various names, but you should be able to find them with the ones...

best seller Jonathon Strange and Mister Norrell by susannah clark..this is a nyt bestseller, and a reasonably well written book, as well as lots of fun, and thick as heck, which helps..i don;t know if it counts a s a blockbuster, but it is def. a bestseller, and still pretty good...

capitalism is not the salvation of humanity, you know the only thing she ever wrote of any value was "anthem' and that is because it is allegorical story about individuality and written at a sort of "young adult" level, so flaws can be overlooked, and it remains vague enough in the definition...

futures Huxley, brave new world future where we enslave ourselves through our own stupidity, complacency http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=411508&x1=Y the diamond age a victorian revival, nanotech and balkanization of the world...

i think people underestimate teens too much. I read 1984,brave new world and farenheit 451 when i was 11 and loved them

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try this a star called henry: first chapter excerpt: My mother looked up at the stars. There were plenty of them up there. She lifted her hand. It swayed as she chose one. Her finger pointed. —There's my little Henry up there. Look it. I looked, her other little Henry...

you should read samuel r delaney "stars in my pocket like grains of sand" as soon as you finish with "the left hand of darkness" http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=1079735&x1=Y stars in my pocket is a romance, a sci fi story and gender is much much more fluid, with relationships in...

seems a shame to get such joking replies so here are some serious ones first of all, the narnia books are christian as can be: http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=415125&x1=Y also try the screwtape letters and the great divorce...while not exactly fantasy or sci fi, they are...

his dark materials was pretty good...13 is old enough to read whatever you like, in my opinion..when i was 13 i liked tolkien, the amber books,those wretched david eddings books, heinlein

there is a similar passage in john crowley's "little,big" but the protagonist is male...sounds like a bodice ripper to me..what exactly wheere they doing to live forever?

without a doubt karamazov is the best...the idiot is pretty good as well..personally, i am not so much a fan of c&P..if you are looking for good russians you should read gogol and tolstoy as well

try this: http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=634399&x1=Y this is one of the best damn books ever written, and as depressing as they come from day of the locust ""Their boredom becomes more and more terrible. They realize they’ve been tricked and burn with resentment...

sirmyk you are missing one of life's few good and true pleasures if you do not read this book. Marquez is amazing, and the central conceit of "of love and other demons" is brilliant you are really missing something here..your "i will probably never read this book' is dismissive and...