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the original trilogy is the best.. enders shadow is very weak, in my opinion, and also revisionist to the degree that it destroys the work of the original trilogy as for children of the mind, i know i read it but i recall nothing. this is not a good sign

ok the bees also represent things like Jack's alcoholism..ie something that he thinks is dead is not, comes back to life, harms his son....see? Jack deciding to let the boiler climb in pressure is a fairly self explanatory metaphor...building pressure, again repressed things, ignored things...

well, i suppose it depends on her reading level but i would suggest watership down, it is engrossing, exciting, has no wizards or elves, is good on a lot of levels, kids can read it as an adventure, adults get more allegory out of it, and depending where the kid is, she can get something out of...

really bizarre take on the genre not too long ago, i read the hollow chocolate bunnies of the apocolpse..it was a lot of fun, and really strange..the basic premise is a string of murders in "toy city", which is a sort of gritty, noir-ish toytown, populated by gollies, dollies, clockwork toys...

you might also like Anthem by Ayn Rand ( i would normally not reccomend her, as her politics are atrocious, but this is a pretty good book),a nd definately a distopia http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=504219&x1=Y there are some very strong elements of this sort of thing in the "the...

got it the book you are looking for is one of the "bill the galactic hero" series by Harry Harrison http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=426897&x1=Y

corn has stalks, wheat has shafts

first of all, don't bother with John Saul. It is really really horrible poorly written dreck, the bottom of the heap, really..it is really excruciating even to read..sort of like hitting yourself in the head with a hammer Dean koontz has alright ideas, but the man cannot write. King is a...

from www.shutitdown.net some excerpts from "Curiouser and Curiouser": Fact, Fiction, and the Anonymous Author of Go Ask Alice. ... Go Ask Alice was originally published in 1971 with the authorship credited to Anonymous. There is noindication that any one besides "Alice," herself had...

everyone seems so crazy about amazon and i just don't get it. I get everything from www.booksxyz.com first of all, it is cheaper and secondly, all of its profits go to schools, instead of lining some corporate guy's pocket I think the small, local bookstore will always be around..at...

i only suggested a clockwork orange because i was under the impression we were talking required reading for high school students for grown ups, read 'darkness visible"

i would say it is backlash, much like the fixation on amputees in the late 60's early 70's..thankfully that went away, perhaps this will as well

Endymion You know this place, a road stretching forever in strict one point perspective, the merciless grid of crops; corn, soybeans, weeds, white gravel roads and dust that hangs in the air forever. Then the bruised sky turning and rolling, the distant scream of a train and the day dying, the...

try these Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry A great twisted Delerium tremens of a novel, a hallucinatory, poetic, fractured look into the soul of an eloquent, cultured drunk on his final day...I cannot reccomend this one enough..one of the great overlooked writers, and undoubtably this is...

oh yeah, and how could i forget the crying of lot 49 http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=411621&x1=Y

Waterland an incredible, engrossing, funny,tragic, detailed novel that involves the geography of the english fens, the mating habits of eels, beermaking, WW1 trench warfare, family history, meditations on the nature of history, romance,insanity and the philosophy of teaching and manages to...

"I've already placed an order for 'Umberto Eco Foucaults Pendulum'.I hope its good.Care to tell the synopsis of it." something along the lines of "peep not through keyholes lest ye be vexed" or "when you stare too long into the abyss, the abyss stares back" or somesuch... basically, a...

in the crazy very very old school "practice bugging your eyes out and attempting to get people to do your will" school of books there was a great old series called "universal magnetism"..leatherbound, suggested weird eye exercises..loved them also, "from mesmer to christian science" was...

Dan Brown couldn't write a grocery list anyway:in the genre you are looking for there is plenty of good stuff..very very good stuff first try umberto eco, the name of the rose http://www.booksxyz.com/profile.php?bid=395104&x1=Y umberto eco foucaults pendulum...

short list of highschool required reading Lord of the flies Catch 22 Franny and Zooey The Sirens of Titan Miss Lonelyhearts Brave New World 1984 A Clockwork Orange Do Androids dream of electric sheep? I would give an entirely different list tomorrow, most likely..these seem to be...