hey do any of you know of any good books to read it seem though i have a book project comming up and i dont want to read something crappy
no less than 250 pages
fiction
foreigh ,author

Are you asking for a book by a foreign author? If so, foreign to where?

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess if you're not in England that is.

Lucky Wander Boy

It's videogame-oriented, so you might enjoy it.

yes im sorry i meant foreigh to america

im actually in astronomy class right now
my teacher is a bitch

Went bookshopping today for the first time in ages...

The Vampire Lestat ~ Anne Rice

A Kiss Of Shadow ~ Laurell K. Hamilton
(I liked this book quite a lot. On the back it says :"Rich, sensual, brimming with dangerous magic, A Kiss of Shadows is a dazzling tour-de-force where folklore, fantsay and erotically charged adventure collide" So if you're into that kind of thing)

Fight club ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Can't wait to start reading Fear & Loathing

*bounces excitedly in her chair*

i attempted to read that the other day. gave up after the first page. the slang and language is too complicated to understand.

How foreign do you want? I mean, would something by Douglas Coupland, a Canadian, be alright? Actually, I read Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka this week, and really enjoyed it. He was a German, and although you'd (probably) have to read the translation, I should think that'd be okay.

edit: Having said that, Metamorphosis is a short story/novella, and it's only about 50 pages, so it's not suitable. How about Jane Austen? She's normally pretty simple to write about.

hah me too...i thought i was the only one

gone with the wind is excellent by the way, as is lord of the flies

I understood it. After a few chapters you figure all the German out. I read that during the summer in 2 days on top of school summer reading.
devochkas=girls
droogs=gang members
groodies=breasteses
krovy=blood
and so on. I can't remember it all. There are versions available with a glossary in the back.

you betta not be talkin bout ma daddy !

he is an astronomy teacher haha. well not yours i suppose.. that would be wierd

thanks for all the suggestions i actaully read the lord of the flies it was pretty freaky in a good way

lord of the rings
all of them
hobbit included

and about a boy.
i love that book.
mmmm

Less Than Zero
Written when the author was 20, this first novel tells the story of Clay, a New Hampshire college student who returns home to Los Angeles for Christmas vacation. Vignettes show Clay and his friends aimlessly traveling from party to party, doing drugs, having sex with one another, etc.


The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender, a stylistic technique that adds to the heart-wrenching earnestness saturating this teen's story. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school--how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs--but he must also deal with his best friend's recent suicide. Charlie's letters take on the intimate feel of a journal as he shares his day-to-day thoughts and feelings:


The Acid House (author of trainspotting)

Irvine Welsh novels are definitely not for everyone. He is the "champion" of the poor, uneducated urban junkies of Edinburgh (Scotland). Since he writes in the first person, his books are, in effect, stories about junkies as told by junkies. The language is vile, the stories are frequently disgusting and depraved. Yet all this shock treatment is not gratuitous; all the stories strike me as oh-too-realistic, as if Mr. Welsh has lived in the gutter with these misfits. After the shock wears off, one is generally left with a feeling of compassion for these poor addicts (there but the grace of God...).

The Acid House differs somewhat from the author's other novels. It is actually a collection of short stories, plus a novella. While remaining true to general cause (ie, the plight of the junkie), some stories are rather weak (fortunately, these stories are very short indeed). Others are most memorable, with very clever endings (..I refer you to Irvine Welsh's masterpiece, Filth, for a really good ending!).

wtf? your school makes you read over the summer!?!

Yeah it sucks. We have to read these horrible books.....I had to read 2 500 page books last summer and take notes on them.

man that sucks willies! hehe i just said willies hehe
anyhu we're meant to read a book every fortnight for english library class and on most we do essays but we never read them or else take like 3 months to read 1. we had from september til 1st december to read 2 books and do an essay on each. me and my mate read both like a 3 days before and then i took the day before it was due off to read them and then just sat on here all day hehe. ended up just guessing what happened! still aint got my grade back

City Infernal (sp?) by Eddward Lee

yeah, take something of kafka. he's a great writer. i love his novels and short stories. take "the trial". i'm not quite sure if it's really that long, but you should try it. there's even a film. i had a report about kafka some years ago. it was the only report ever which was fun to prepare.

OH, HOW I HATED TAKING NOTES ABOUT THOSE DAMN BOOKS!!!!

I'm glad I don't have to do that anymore.

yes i hate taking notes too but i not only have to do that but make up questions then a summary and clarify some paragraphs then i have to present it to the class with a diagram or poster , wich almost kills me, speaking in front of a class room , i get panic attackts not very severe ones but any is enough

I used to get those all the time until a few months ago. I had to get a doctor's excuse so I didn't have to do them because I would get really nervous the days before the report. One time I plucked my eyebrows out with my fingers.

wow thats realy something all i do is tell my mom im sick even though id probably have to do it the next day, what i do now is to repeat what im going to say the night before then go to class in the morning and when the teacher asks me to go next ill say i did not finsh it even though i did so weird i know
i mean i like doing the poster part it always looks nice but you cant even make me hold it up in front of the class(i give it to the teacher after school and say i just cant do it)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Charlie is a freshman. And while's he's not the biggest geek in the school, he is by no means popular. He's a wallflower--shy and introspective, and intelligent beyond his years, if not very savvy in the social arts. We learn about Charlie through the letters he writes to someone of undisclosed name, age, and gender, a stylistic technique that adds to the heart-wrenching earnestness saturating this teen's story. Charlie encounters the same struggles that many kids face in high school--how to make friends, the intensity of a crush, family tensions, a first relationship, exploring sexuality, experimenting with drugs--but he must also deal with his best friend's recent suicide. Charlie's letters take on the intimate feel of a journal as he shares his day-to-day thoughts and feelings:

I love that book^^^

Anything by Jonothan Safran Foer or Nick Hornby!

QUOTE(Breaking10 @ Sep 16 2005, 07:39 PM)

or Nick Hornby!

!!! yes!




anywho, im reading eragon right now
i've been picking it up in the bookstore for the past year and a 1/2 and now that the second one has come out it is on soft cover and only like, 7 dollars at target
i like it a lot so far


and i really like the drawing on the cover for some reason


and book two, eldest

A child called it - dave pelzer

David is physically abused at home by his mother while is father is powerless to stop her and his two brothers teasing him while they are obviously favored by his mother. She starves him, beats him and even at one point stabs him.

The Giver - Lois Lowry

A 12 year old jonas lives in a world where there are no feelings of love, hunger, pain, warmth ect. Its a perfect world & perfect familys.The Giver; an old man who keeps the memories of the world so none of the people can feel, he feels other peoples pain, sadness ect. Jonas is picked to be the reciever and the giver has to pass on all of his memories onto him.

White Oleander - Janet Fitch

Astrids mother murders her boyfriend and is sent to prison leaving astrid going from foster home to foster home.

Slow Death - Jim Fielder

David and his girlfriend Cindy kidnap rape and torture women in his "toybox" while videotaping it. The women who survived tell their story of what went on and the people of the community tell the stories of the women and david. its a true story and its really insane. A women named Patty Rust, an FBI agent, went into the trailor and then submitted all the evidence and that night she killed herself.

my mom read the prologue and asked me how i could read something like that haha, i only did because i wanted something to read on the airplane but its a really good book nonetheless.

oh my
i forgot about a child called it
sort of
theres 2 other books that continue the story
the lost boy and
a man named dave
i really enjoyed them even though they were terribly sad



another book that i wish i still owned is because of romek
maybe i just liked it a lot in 7th grade
but from what i remember
it was amazing

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MILDRED PIERCE!!!!AAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!MILDRED PIERCE!!!!!!!!!!!!

(I am only using caps because of the song...)

the book is good too.

Yes, Yes, Yes! I was JUST going to get on and say that! hahaha I love that book.

HeY

CODIGO DA VINCI



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I like Anne Frank..

But my fave book is..

Where The Red Fern Grows..I cried..

No.
Okay...

I particularly like the Bible!

what do you like about it

if you were serious.

The revelations are particularly interesting.