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Book Recommendations?
I need help with book recommendations. I don't like romance, mystery, or sci-fi. I have recently read Anna Karenina, Lolita, some biographies.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Thanks for the suggestions.
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Re: Book Recommendations?
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The "Shopaholic" books. They're fun if nothing else.
Jane Austen's novels
[QUOTE]Anna Karenina made me want to slit my wrists.
Posted by AmoroAgain[/QUOTE]
Definitely.
Also, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Reading the OED, Secret Life of Bees, Running With Scissors, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
[QUOTE]Anna Karenina made me want to slit my wrists.
Posted by AmoroAgain[/QUOTE]
I found it interesting. Not so much Anna's story as Kostya's story. I thought it was interesting how the peasants were portrayed. It made it easy for me to see how communism would sound like a great idea.
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a very simple and quick read, but amazing story.
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Posted by ohwhynot[/QUOTE]
That made me laugh! Actually, a really good book I read was Bitch. I thought it was interesting.
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[QUOTE] A Great and Terrible Beauty
Posted by Blueyed228[/QUOTE]
I love this trilogy. The last one killed me.
Her books include:
-Bitter is the New Black
-Brights Lights, Big Ass
-Such a Pretty Fat
-Pretty in Plaid
And she has a new one, My Fair Lazy that I've not read yet. I'm going to her book signing in a few weeks and will buy it then.
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Book Recommendations? : I found it interesting. Not so much Anna's story as Kostya's story. I thought it was interesting how the peasants were portrayed. It made it easy for me to see how communism would sound like a great idea.
Posted by luckyme502[/QUOTE]
Well sure, if you've never read any Russian Lit before, but it's depressing as fuckall. Which is also pretty standard if you've read russian lit.
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Also, Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time if you want something that you can analyze to death but is still a fantastic read (I am a massive literature nerd).
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Every so often I go to this list and pick out a few to read:
http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html
Catch-22 is one of my favorite books, ever.
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Book Recommendations? : Well sure, if you've never read any Russian Lit before, but it's depressing as fuckall. Which is also pretty standard if you've read russian lit.
Posted by AmoroAgain[/QUOTE]
I sort of like Dostoyevsky. In small doses. Cause again with the wrist-slitting thing.
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Book Recommendations? : I sort of like Dostoyevsky. In small doses. Cause again with the wrist-slitting thing.
Posted by msmerymac[/QUOTE]
That's probably why it took me 2 months to read it instead of my usual days. I just couldn't handle all that depressing crap.
So I'll go with the YA series I just finished, City of Bones, City of Ashes, and City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments trilogy) by Cassandra Clare.
OP, do you like Russian literature? If so I recommend Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It's one of my all time faves but I do love me some Russian lit, so I realize not everyone else is going to love it.
Otherwise I read a lot of sci fi and fantasy sewwwww that's about all I got, ha ha.