Any good books out there?!??!

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Permalink Reply by Sierra Udland on October 22, 2007 at 8:57pm

Um... some of my favorite books are the five people you meet in heaven, Son Of the Mob, and then... like... Twilight series, and just yeah. Stuff =P.

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Permalink Reply by Christian on October 27, 2007 at 11:11am

valley of the dolls - jaqueline susan

me talk pretty one day - david sedaris

geek love - katherine dunn

clown girl - monice drake

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Permalink Reply by Christian on October 27, 2007 at 11:51am

A great book and this should probably go in the ecology group, but also a great business book for entrepreneurs:

The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken of Smith & Hawken.

It pretty much talks about how business can be sustainable in a "green" environment while making a profit. Nonfiction and educational. Hawken is a well-known environmentalist: http://www.paulhawken.com

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Permalink Reply by Kathy on February 3, 2008 at 7:19pm

1984 by George Orwell - an oldie but a classic

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini - an awesome book, now a movie, but we all know books are better

Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult - really amazing, and scarily realistic

Those are a few of my faves, hope you enjoy.
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Permalink Reply by Victor Alx. Carter on February 5, 2008 at 10:43pm

well if you like fiction with a really deep philosophical rush with antisacapation of not knowing whats going to happen next try out some of dean koontz books like Velocity.

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Permalink Reply by Simone on March 2, 2008 at 8:24am

im not really religious or anything but

LAMB. the gospel according to biff christs childhood friend by christopher moore

is absolutely genius. everyone should read it. once. or if you love it like me. like 10 times

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Permalink Reply by Vincent on March 2, 2008 at 8:10pm

My favorites are Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist which is a shorty but a life changer. I'm really starting to get into the Ernest Hemingway dude, I just finished his For Whom the Bell Tolls and I'm working on his The Sun Also Rises which I'm loving but I'm going through a classics phase right now so don't mind me. I wrote a book, I like to think it's pretty damn good. It's called After We're Free and I'll always email it to anyone who asks.

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Permalink Reply by LVS on March 5, 2008 at 2:13pm

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Amazing Autobiography of a Muslim women from Somalia who became a Politician in the Netherlands and is now under constant armoured guard in America. Pretty heavy and graphic reading at times so if you are a little squeemish I would not recommend.

The Assassins Apprentice by Robin Hobb.

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Permalink Reply by Vincent on March 5, 2008 at 2:19pm

I've heard of that. I'll have to check it out.

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Permalink Reply by LVS on March 5, 2008 at 7:53pm

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is an amazing writer. Its one of the first autobiographies I've read where I could not put the book down.

I really want to read her first book now - The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam. I've heard great reports about this one as well.

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Permalink Reply by cricket on April 4, 2008 at 8:12pm

haruki murakami - the wind-up bird chronicle
a very mundane life gets taken on a strange and very surreal journey that starts out with a weird phone call and a missing cat. murakami has this way of writing that is not pretentious and very beautiful..

chuck klosterman - sex, drugs, and cocoa puffs
collection of pop culture essays. awesome.

saul williams - she
the more sensitive side of my favorite slam poet. very palpable images on the struggles of being in a relationship and existing.

marjane satrapi - persepolis
coming of age in iran. graphic autobiography but doesn't fail to draw the reader in. the film is very good as well.

jared diamond - guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
very interesting take on the history of conquering nations/cultures. won the pulitzer.


i am a huge book nerd. it's way too easy for me to get carried away. :)

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