Recommend a book for me to read.

Mo0o

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I just finished A Prayer for Owen Meany. someone suggest a book, any book any subject as long as you think it's interesting
 

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If you are looking for a pretty funny read (providing you enjoy his humor and can take what he says Tongue in Cheek), the new Maddox book isin't half bad. Unless you're looking for something serious, in which case nevermind :p
 

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If you liked Owen Meany, you'd probably like other John Irving books-- The World According to Garp is probably my favorite of his books.
 

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anything by terry pratchett or robert e. howard.
lensman series by e. e. "doc" smith
dune series by frank herbert
mars series by edgar rice burroughs
fafhrd and the gray mouser series by fritz leiber

just a few good ones
 

Mo0o

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Originally posted by: MrsJello
If you liked Owen Meany, you'd probably like other John Irving books-- The World According to Garp is probably my favorite of his books.

i think i screwed myself for Garp. I read the Irving's comments in the back of Meany and he kind of gave away the ending to Garp.
 

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http://www.amazon.com/Oath-Khassan-Baie..._9/104-0821074-3575162?ie=UTF8&s=books

The Oath by Khassan Baiev. Amazing story of a surgeon in Chechnya, eye-opening and a must read.

"Russia's war against Muslim separatists in Chechnya turned Baiev from a cosmetic surgeon into a real-life Hawkeye Pierce. As he shows in this understated, honest memoir, the change "took some getting used to": he faced constant obstacles, such as poor supplies, not to mention occasional bombing campaigns-one of which placed him in a coma. And as the only doctor in a city of 80,000, he once performed 67 amputations in 48 hours."

He was educated in the Soviet Union and was a wealthy, practicing plastic surgeon before going back to Chechnya to help.