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    Which is the...

    I'd say Perks of being a Wallflower has been the worst book i started this year. I only made it about 30 pages in and it was just so unoriginal and annoying that i had to stop. I can understand that the style is similar to Catcher in the Rye, just with the narration by a young man, but at least...
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    Clockwork Orange: Movie Vs. Book

    the problem with the movie is that it leaves out the last chapter, and the last chapter makes the entire thing make sense. It changes everything about the rest of the book: while the debate about free will vs. 'the greater good's safety' remains intact but the perspective changes. book wins...
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    What Do You Want to Read Next?

    After i finish "return of the king", I'm going to read "Love + Sex with robots" by David Levy.
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    I've just entered Mordor with Sam, Frodo, and Gollum
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    What did you read in May?

    The Stand by Stephen King: liked it but it's still second to the Tailsman as far as the his works i've gotten to read Life of Pi : it was good but not life altering or anything like that Perks of Being a Wallflower: couldn't get into this book. it was a bit too immature for me and tried to...
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    Heaven & Hell novels, any recommendations?

    I don't know if this would fit what you're looking for but The Screwtape letters by C. S. Lewis is an interesting look on hell and the ways people could end up there. it's also a quick read (a little over 180 pages if i remember correctly).
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    Worst or most disappointing book?

    Moby Dick : i know it's a classic and an epic but by the time i finished reading that novel i didn't want to read a classic again. of course, i have read classics since but i had a lasting bitter taste for the book. If i had to describe what i didn't like it would have to be the constant...
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    Banned books

    the fact that Annie on my Mind was banned in my home town makes me want to read it.
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    Where are you? (in the book you are reading) - please read 1st post

    I'm in the Boulder Free-Zone with Mother Abagail trying to outsmart the Dark Man
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    The first sentence in the book you're reading

    "Hapscomb's Texaco sat on Number 93 just north of Arnette, a pissant four-street burg about 110 miles from Houston." The Stand by Stephen King
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    March 2008 Reads

    A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway On the Road The Stand - King (100 pages in...)
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    Favourite Narnia Adventure? (and not so favourite)

    lol if they keep taking as long with each of the films i might actually have kids to take to the movies
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    Favourite Narnia Adventure? (and not so favourite)

    my favorite is a tie between "the magician's nephew" and "the horse and his boy"...which is annoying because as the last two of the series written they won't be made into movies for a very long time and will be the first ones cut if the films don't do well. In "magician's nephew" i really loved...
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    Best Fiction of the 20th Century

    *Catcher in the Rye (not on original list) The Great Gatsby 1984 (we'll meet in a place where there is no darkness) Catch 22 The Grapes of Wrath (to be read) Animal Farm Slaughterhouse Five (so it goes...) Brave New World To Kill a Mockingbird On the Road (currently reading) A...
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    Best book you've read so far in 2008

    Atonement. i got into the book so much that when i finished it I had no idea what i wanted to read next because everything seemed to be dull in comparison
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    how long

    it use to take me forever to finish a book. it took me about three months to finish War and Peace and smaller books still took me around a month but because i have a job where i can sit and read for six hours straight I can finish a 400 page book in a day.
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    books on your to read list.

    Silas Marner The Stand The Kite Runner On The Road House of the Dead Life of Pi and that's just the books i have bought already...
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    Suggest just one book to read.

    agreed. The Master and Margarita is one of those really unusual books that stays with you. not because you can relate to it but because there is so much interesting stuff happening throughout. it's a short story but i would also suggest The Overcoat by Gogol.
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    the books that changed your life!

    I agree. I've never felt my world view expanding more than this book. I have been able to apply so many things from Brothers Karamazov to the way others around me act and the way I want to live my life. also: To Kill A Mockingbird : I saw the movie when I was very young but the subplots...
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    best book title ever!

    I haven't read it, but "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" is a title that just makes me laugh.
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