Recommend a good book for me!

[duragezic]

I need to read another book this quarter for school. I could randomly go pick a book but I would kind of like to enjoy it to. Not really in to anything in particular. Can be any type of book, and preferably 250-350pgs.

 

[minendo]

1984 by George Orwell.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Jack: Straight From The Gut

 

[Dznuts007]

1) Fast Food Nation

2) The Millionaire Next Door

 

[flavio]

Check this one out!

 

[Aves]

Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time

 

[Cuda1447]

Originally posted by: minendo
1984 by George Orwell.

How does that compare to "A brave new world" I read a brave new world and didnt particularly enjoy it. I heard they are similar.

 

[PsychoAndy]

I'm gonna assume that you're in high school, so i'd say you should read The Grapes of Wrath. Good enough for school and good enough to reference during an AP exam.

 

[flavio]

What didn't you like about Brave New World? They're really only similar in their view of the future.

 

[Anubis]

Dean Koontz - Seize The Night, Fear Nothing, Watchers

Enders Game
Stranger in a Strange Land
Dune
2001 a space oddesy
The Art Of War

 

[Cuda1447]

Originally posted by: flavio
What didn't you like about Brave New World? They're really only similar in their view of the future.

It just seemed to slow to me. Maybe me watching the movie during the time I was reading the book ruined it for me. The movie was teh suk.

 

[ed21x]

House of the Spirits- Isabel Allende.

the most amazing book ever

 

[conjur]

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Time and Again - Jack Finney
Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

 

[DaveSimmons]

These are actually pretty good reads despite being capital-L Literature:

Homer - Odyssey
Uncle Tom's Cabin
any Mark Twain - Puddinhead Wilson, Prince and the Pauper, Tom Sawyer, etc.

 

[nater]

I would recommend the last two books I read, I thoroughly enjoyed both of them..Anthen by Ayn Rand, and A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean (I thought it was better than the movie, for what it's worth)

 

[flavio]

I'll second Stranger in a Strange Land.

also...

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut

 

[no0b]

Black Hawk Down

You will be able to read it in 48hrs not becuase it is short or easy to read but becuase you are forced to read it.

 

[TourGuide]

A GAME OF THRONES by George R. R. Martin. Perhaps a bit longer than your page restrictions, but certainly worth the read. Entertaining in an interesting sort of way.

 

[MainFramed]

Frank Peretti, The Wounded Spirt

 

[chiwawa626]

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

An autobiography of growing up in early harlem, starts out in gangs and stuff, changes his life...really cool book

 

[no0b]

If you want a book to mind fvck you read

Kurt Vonnegut's: "Mother Night"

I'm not sure if it will meet the requirements of 250 pages but its a good read to kill a few brain cells.

 

[exp]

I prefer dark comedy myself...

At the lower limit of your page range: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

At the upper limit: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

 

[MaxDSP]

Ill go ahead and second the recommendation for Fast Food Nation

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: aves2k
Stephen Hawking - A Brief History of Time

Hell yeah!
BTW, I saw House of the spirits mentioned... read that book, and you will wish your eyes were torn out. WORST BOOK EVAR!

Kurt Vonnegut's Slughter House 5. And Cats Cradle aint bad.

 

[numark]

Originally posted by: flavio
What didn't you like about Brave New World? They're really only similar in their view of the future.

I disagree. 1984 is a reverse utopia, one where everything is tightly controlled and the people are generally oppressed. Brave New World is a straight-up utopia, where people are controlled by happiness (through the soma). They're in fact pretty much polar opposites when it comes to their predictions of the future.

Edit: Can't spell worth anything at 12:30 AM at night