any good books lately?

[ladywithafan]

Hi everyone--

I was wondering if anybody has read anything good lately? I just finished reading a couple of Dean Koontz novels. I also am reading this book my friend gave me called He's Just Not That Into You. It is ok so far. so if you have read anything good, please share :)

[zvezdy]

They have a small library of books in town, and one of the three or four shelves is almost covered in Angela's Ashes, so I'm reading that one. It's pretty good so far, very funny, but I know it's gunna get worse. :)

[PEACE FROG]

I don't do much fiction, but I read alot of magazines. Favorite being Mother Earth News. I did read a book last month though, it was Plan B by Lester brown. It's about what is happening to our planet enviromentally and otherwise, informative but not a really happy book :( . Perhaps with a dose of Sponge Bob between chapters it's bearable. :D

[perseidchild]

Radical Simplicity by Merkel (New Society Publishing)
Love in Action by Thich Nhat Hanh (Parallax Press)

[Ride Asthetics]

"Eaters Of The Dead" True Story That The Movie "The 13th Warrior" was based on, definatly a good read

[NeverNeverLand:)]

The last book I read was abarat by clive barker a nice fantasybook for the younger ones.

[monkeygirl1954]

Favorite books this year: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (memoir of white girl growing up in Africa); Breaking the Limit by Karen Larsen (woman rides her motorcycle alone from NJ to Alaska and back); Ten Stupid Things Women Do To Mess Up Their Lives (I haven't done 10 things, but the primary thing this book tries to make you see is that happiness is within yourself, and you can't look to others for it). About to read the What the Bleep book and Beginner's Guide to Quantum Psychology and Suzanne Somers' Sexy Years.
Favorite films: Garden State, What the Bleep, and Sideways.
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[Chixor]

Books I would definitely reccomend are:

The Seven Songs of Merlin, T.A. Barron -- easy
Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis -- hard
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradburry -- horror
A Ring of Endless Light Madeline L'Engle [don't watch the movie!!!!] --easy
The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck -- sad
Old Goriot, Honore de Balzac -- thought provoking
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas -- great

[DogMan72]

I would recommend "Brave New World" Aldous Huxley, "Angels and Demons,
The DaVinci Code" both by Dan Brown, " Lame Deer Seeker of Visions" Lame Deer. "The Prophet " by Kahil Gibran, Lau Tzu <Tao Te Ching, all of the Celestine Prophecy series, "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman. Whatever you choose enjoy:)

[theREALsun]

favorites this year:

Wheel of Life by: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
A Million Little Pieces by: James Frey
Da Vinci Code: Dan Brown
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Dave Eggers
The Fifth Book of Peace by: Maxine Hong Kingston
Brown by: Richard Rodriguez

i finally read and was very satisfied with:

Franklin: An Autobiography
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings: Maya Angelou


i know there is more, i can think back to the earlier months.....
hmmmm......

[toman]

Right now I'm reading a book by David Brin, called 'Kiln People'. It's sort of a fantasy/mystery about a futuristic scenario where real people don't have to do anything they don't want, because technology has been developed to create duplicates of yourself, which only last for one day... Kind of an odd concept, but it makes you think a little bit.

[LWB]

I just finished reading The Rabbit Factory by Larry Brown. Larry is a local boy who had a heart attack and died a few weeks ago.