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I'll start with these:
Like Water for Chocolate
100 Years of Solitude
those are good. 100 years didn't quite end the way i wanted it to. it seemed like a lot of suspense and build up for nothing. and though i couldn't hear that one girl screaming for aureliano, it still annoyed the hell out of me. but i finished it so there must've been something to it.
Jurassic Park!
Alien vs Predator: PREY
Lord of the Rings trilogy (read in high school, before the movies)
Green Eggs & Ham. I love how the whole thing ryhmes, page after page after page....
lmao!
Good call, Lloyd - don't forget "Cat in the Hat" too
i do not like them in a house
i do not like them with a mouse...
i do not like them sam i am
i do not like green eggs and ham
i've never read the alien books, although they sound good. that's up my alley. they're good?
Yeah! Very suspenseful. Good stuff.
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Haunting- Shirley Jackson
The Shining-Stephen King
i like lord of the flies for some reason,also, to kill a mocking bird :)
both of those are great books.
i've never read the haunting. it's good?
the giver ...
iv read also the lord of the flies but not to kill a mockingbird
i read lots of books but i forgot all the titles ...ahh well ...
i know i read lord of the rings the second book .
So far it is Nivens "Ringplanet", very adventurous and easy to read.
The Haunting is great. The origional movie with Julie Harris was the first "scarey" movie that I ever saw, (I was about 5) and it satyed really close to the book....the remake with Cathere Zeta-Jones is good, but strayed reslly far from the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by misombra
Shirley Jackson also wrote "The Lottery"...which you may have heard of. Her books aren't 'graphicly' scarey...she allows your own imagination to work with it.
I recently read this short story! And I was going to search for it and post it here! I was SHOCKED to read it. Shirley Jackson knows how to create that SICK FEELING inside readers...Quote:
Originally Posted by Vanilla Gilr
...I won't give it away, but check it out if I interested you.
Oh, GREAT choices!Quote:
Originally Posted by RSK
Also I will add to my list:
Their Eyes Were Watching God
i've never heard of that. what's it about.
btw i'm not really into scary books per se. i'm most into historical fiction and science fiction. and of course the classics...
It's a great book, nice lil love story.Quote:
At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work.
Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:
"It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment."
One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."
Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices. --Alix Wilber
Some of my favorite are:
Any book by Dan Brown (DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons and he has two others as of now)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Utopia
Shakespeare- Othello and Twelfth Night specifically
Yes, To Kill a Mockingbird is a definate classic
that sounds good. wright DID write with a lot of those stereotypes in mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tone
another book along those lines is a short one called passing. i can't remember who wrote it but it was a really great story about these women who were able to pass as white women during segregation. they lived like affluent white women. very good.
Kiss me.
I must have you - NOW
wow. i never knew literacy was such a turn-on for you.
::kisses tone passionately::
It is.
That... and you.
:D
Good call.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tone
I just remembered why I liked you.
I'd also add Catch-22 to that list.
Picture of Dorian Gray.
You asked for books, but I'de like to add in comics. I've read and re-read Asterix and Obelix (the whole series) many many times and never tire of it :-D
picture of dorian gray... what's that about?
I dont read/
well, good for you. you've just messed up your chances with tone.
LOL that made me laugh ;D
It's about a man who gets so caught up in his looks that he basically destroys his whole life. A portrait is made of him, and as soon as it's finished, he realizes that he can't look as great for the rest of his life as he does in the painting. So in effect, he makes a deal with the devil, and he continues to look as young and handsome as ever as the portrait ages. Cool stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by misombra
Adding to my list, books I read in my younger years:
Fahrenheit 451
The Giver
hmm that sounds familiar. is it old. i think maybe i've read something like that. i can't recall.
i read a story a long time ago about a colony that had developed on the moon. the people there depended on the earth for basic necessities. well one day a man took his daughter to see the "earthrise" and the earth was in apocalypse.
i can't remember the author or the title so if anybody knows of it, do tell please...
It was written by Oscar Wilde in 1890. So yes, pretty old. Also, I believe the character was in A League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. I never saw the movie, but I heard they had some representation of him.
I saw that movie and yes I remember him being in it!
Any Vince Flynn Book. But, particularly his latest, "Consent to Kill"
i've heard this is good from other people too. it's on my "to read" list for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Misery
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Originally Posted by misombra
Yea, it's excellent, but don't just jump in on the series and read "Consent to Kill" if you haven’t read at least 2 of the other books in the 7 book series. You need some background info on the characters to really appreciate the book.
when the league of extraordinary gentlement came out, this lady at work told me that the Dorian Grey character in the movie was based off a book she'd read called "the golden key" and I read the book and loved it..but, of course, dorian grey had his own book. I read it too, it was pretty good, but the golden key rocks.
Then of course, there is Harry Potter. That just kicks ass...
Yay!! Nomas is back just in time to make the season merry!
there hasn't really been any good fiction lately. where is the creativity?