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Discussion: Book discussion
Member Since: 6/23/2010
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Originally posted by doodledot13
I've just finished A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. Such an emotional book  |
YAS STAN FOR Patrick Ness
he's making a movie for it 
I want a movie for More than this too 
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Member Since: 8/18/2013
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Good lord I have a long list of physical books to read. I can't even get into the 70+ ebooks I have to read. 
I have:
Stephen King-
Black House
The Dark Half
Four Past Midnight
The Lovely Bones
The Cuckoo's Calling
Deception Point by Dan Brown
The Poisonwood Bible
The Girl Who Played With Fire
A Game of Thrones
Black Sunday
The Damnation Game
Timeline
We were the Mulvaneys
Brother Odd
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
All of these books look great
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Member Since: 5/8/2012
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is probably one of the best books I've read in a while.
Finally read Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist" last week, great book. Makes you look a bit differently at life.
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Member Since: 1/1/2013
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Let me not list all the books, poems, and short-stories I've read or this site will crash
Have a loooong list of books I still wanna read as well
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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I can't wait to read Stephen King's Mr. Mercedes June 3rd
And the king returns again November 11th with Revival.
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Member Since: 11/5/2007
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Originally posted by Callum
Just finished The Book Thief. If any of y'all have this book on your TBR and are unsure whether to read it, DO IT RIGHT NOW. The first hundred-or-so pages feel quite slow but by the end your feels are like all over the place. The characters are amazing and superbly developed, the writing style is so poetic and lyrical and just.. UGH
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My TBR list is kinda small, so I don't have much problems about it.  The Book Thief is really a great read. The story went so so perfect. It was so intense, dramatic, and dark (well, at least for me, because the setting was real sad). DO NOT WATCH THE MOVIE tho. It ruined the book. It made the book look like a Disney film, when it shouldn't be. 
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Member Since: 10/15/2011
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I mostly read indie horror. Authors like Scott Nicholson, Joel M. Andre, Vincent Hobbes, Brett Talley on my Kindle.
Reading the Game of Thrones series right now in physical books. A hundred times better than the series.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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I'm sooo in to contemporary romance right now but I'm reading a sci fi book by James Dashner and I'm hating it so far 
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Currently reading The Silver Linings Playbook. I'm not yet finished, but I bought Zusak's book and the Probability of Miracles. So excited to read both. 
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Member Since: 11/4/2010
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Marathoning Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley today for Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon.
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I just finished "The Probability of Miracles", and it's a great read. The ending was just Now, down with I Am The Messenger. 
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Originally posted by Callum
Marathoning Where Things Come Back by John Corey Whaley today for Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon. |
Tell us if it's good. I've been eyeing on that book but I'm not really quite sure the plot (at the back of the books) attracts me.
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Member Since: 11/4/2010
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Originally posted by -mUsIcLoVeR-
Tell us if it's good. I've been eyeing on that book but I'm not really quite sure the plot (at the back of the books) attracts me.
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It's really good. When I first started it I read 20 pages, put it down and forgot about it for like 2 months and I have no idea why because it's such a quick and easy read (I finished it in like 3 hours). The story is actually really good, it's kinda John Green-esque but it doesn't feel like a carbon copy and it's more thought-provoking and makes better use of symbolism than any John Green novel imo. It begins as two separate seemingly-unconnected stories but the characters' paths eventually intersect and for a while I had no idea how it was gonna happen so it was genuinely interesting and surprising when they did (plus the events aren't necessarily in chronological order so you find yourself trying to piece things together as you go along).
The only thing I'll say is that the ending was wrapped up too neatly and kinda came abruptly to me. One of the last chapters really had my heart racing but when I reached the final chapter I was like "..oh."
tl;dr: definitely worth a read but try to approach it with an open mind without taking other peoples' opinions too seriously.
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Am I the only one obsessed with classic books pre 1950s?
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Originally posted by lonnie
Am I the only one obsessed with classic books pre 1950s?
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I love classics! But I read most of the popular ones already so...
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Member Since: 6/28/2010
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Originally posted by lonnie
Am I the only one obsessed with classic books pre 1950s?
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No! Which classics have you read?
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Originally posted by brndksk
No! Which classics have you read?
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Almost all jane austen novels
Picture of Dorian Gray
Count of Monte Cristo
Nightmare abbey
Wuthering heights
Jane Eyre
Vanity fair
I'm pretty sure I'm leaving out a lot. What about you?
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Member Since: 6/28/2010
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Originally posted by lonnie
Almost all jane austen novels
Picture of Dorian Gray
Count of Monte Cristo
Nightmare abbey
Wuthering heights
Jane Eyre
Vanity fair
I'm pretty sure I'm leaving out a lot. What about you?
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Out of pre-1955 books I've read Emma, Northanger Abbey, Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, 1984, Animal Farm, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Mrs. Dalloway, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Titus Groan, The Secret Garden, A Confedaracy of Dunces, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Lud-in-the-Mist, Peter Pan, The Little Prince, The Day of the Triffids, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher In the Rye, She, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
I'm sure there are more obscure ones but I just can't think of them.
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Member Since: 1/2/2014
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Originally posted by brndksk
Out of pre-1955 books I've read Emma, Northanger Abbey, Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, 1984, Animal Farm, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Mrs. Dalloway, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Titus Groan, The Secret Garden, A Confedaracy of Dunces, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Lud-in-the-Mist, Peter Pan, The Little Prince, The Day of the Triffids, The Great Gatsby, The Catcher In the Rye, She, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
I'm sure there are more obscure ones but I just can't think of them.
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J.R.R wrote lord of the rings and hobbit before 1955?
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Member Since: 6/28/2010
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Originally posted by lonnie
J.R.R wrote lord of the rings and hobbit before 1955?
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The Hobbit came out in 1937, and LOTR came out in 1954.
By the way, what did you think of Wuthering Heights?
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