Books u like (2 Viewers)

[spin spin sugar]

if i had to recommend one only, it would be House Of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski cos its terrifying and i'm yet to meet anyone else who's read it... but everyone should

 

[Soma]

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides

Yeh Middlesex is great.

Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
Wilt - Tom Sharpe
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
A God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All books that I enjoy.

 

[spin spin sugar]

ive read confederacy of dunces, that was pretty good from memory. it was a comedy right?

 

[Soma]

Yeh it is. One of my favourites of all time.
The author killed himself because he couldn't get it published, his Mum worked after his death to get it published and it ended up being amazingly popular.

 

[glycerine]

asqy send me your copy of lolita i am lazy and broke

i'm currently reading 'striptease' by carl hiaasen i think its quite good. ive been reading it for like 4 months. don't have time to read atm

 

[glycerine]

i watched the 97 film of it ages ago... and i watched like 20 mins of the kubrick version the other night (i will finish it sooon...maybe after exams) but i've heard in both versions you really miss out on the prose and narration by humbert?

 

[spin spin sugar]

you can have mine erin, i wasnt a fan

 

[eViLnUt]

All of Matthew Reilly's books
All of Agatha Christies' s books
...yeh

 

[spin spin sugar]

i don't, i've read way more "boys book" stuff than that and a lot of my favourites are like that. it just didn't particularly stand out to me

 

[spin spin sugar]

you think it wasnt sexual complaining as well?

 

[MuffinMan]

edmond by David Mamet

 

[_Bushra_]

princess nevermore- dain curtis regan
the day after forever- erin skiffington

 

[moffat]

the bartimaeus trilogy- jonathon stroud

 

[devils_daughta8]

A walk to remember - Nicholas Sparks ...love love love it!

 

[devils_daughta8]

^ I'm from Port Macquarie High School...

 

[ahacohen]

Books Pplz Should Read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic- Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic ties the knot- Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic and Sister- Sophie Kinsella
Shopaholic Aboard- Sophie Kinsella
Confessions of a Shopaholic- Sophie Kinsella
Straight Talking- Jane Green
Babyville- Jane Green
Bookends- Jane Green
Little Earthquakes- Jennifer Weiner
In her shoes- Jennifer Weiner
Citizen Girl- Emma Mclaughlin
The Devil wears Prada- Lauren Weisberger
The Dirty Girls Social Club- Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez
See Jane Score- Rachel Gibson
No way to treat a first lady- Christopher Buckley
The five people you meet in heaven- Mitch Albom
Ella Enchanted- Gail Carson
Pop Princess- Rachel Cohn
Smart vs Pretty- Valerie Frankel
Running in heels- Anna Maxted
Stuck on you- Patti Berg
Unexpected blessings- Barbara Taylor Bradford
Blast from the past- Ben Elton
Ten men- Alexandra Gray
Everything happens for a reason- Kaulta Daswani
Dog Walker- Leslie Schnur
Deep end of the ocean- Jacquelyn Mitchard
Love rules- Freya North
Behind close doors- Susan Sloan
Every boy's got one- Meg Cabot
Ready or Not?- Chris Manby
Falling for you- Jill Mansell
Girls in love- Jaqueline Wilson
Lucy Sullivan is getting married- Marian Keyes
Milkrun- Sarah Mylnowski
Confessions of an ex-girlfriend- Lynda Curnyn
Faking it- Jennifer Cruise
For better, for worse- Carole Matthews
Simply Devine- Wendy Holden
As long as she needs me- Nicholas Weinstock
See Jane Date- Melissa Senate
Lucy's Launderette- Betsy Burke
Starting from square two- Caren lissner
Something borrowed- Emily Giffin
Daisy's back in town- Rachel Gibson
Trouble with Valentine's day- Rachel Gibson
Wedding season- Darcy Cosper
Don't know how she does it- Allison Pearson

 

[nwatts]

I'm bumping this thread a bit. Looks to be about 2 months old now.

Just wanted to add a few of my favourite authors,

Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex, The Virgin Suicides)
Michael Ondaatje (The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion)
Hunter S. Thompson (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, The Rum Diary)
Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum)
Nick Hornby (About a Boy, High Fidelity)

I'm also quite the George Orwell fan. I enjoyed 1984, as well as a good chunck of his published essays.

 

[Snow Pea!]

Ive read two markus zusak books recently.. and they were both REALLY good. They had the wow factor, for me anyway because i dunno.. they just did
they were.. "when dogs cry" and the "messenger"

i also recommend ppl should read
"saving francesca" by melina marchetta
and "my year of meat" by ruth ozeki.... a bit contriversial but a really good read

 

[adambra]

Yeh it is. One of my favourites of all time.
The author killed himself because he couldn't get it published, his Mum worked after his death to get it published and it ended up being amazingly popular.

Yes, excellent book.

 

[still waiting]

i love the books by janet evanovich especially the stephanie plum series the are easy reads....
i love john grisham book and james patterson as well and jodi picoult and paullina simons....