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dude8604

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I have to read a book for my Contemporary Literature class. It can be fiction or non fiction; the only restriction is that it has to have been written after 1990. I have to have one by tomorrow, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
 
Originally posted by: dude8604
Any other ideas? The ones you're recommending sound good, but nothing yet that interests me.
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What kind of books are you interested in?

An Instance of the Fingerpost - Iaen Pears, something like that
 
I'm interested in any REALLY good books, and science fiction, but I like other kinds as well. Books I liked: Enigma, The World According to Garp, and some others I can't remember.

How is Fight Club? A few people have told me to read it (btw, I haven't seen the movie).
 
Really good books:

Shogun by James Clavell
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
Trinity by Leon Uris
Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
The Stand by Stephen King
The Republic by Plato
Beyond Good & Evil by Friedrich (sp?) Nietzche

There you go. That is a good collection of books from a bunch of different genre's/kinds of writing. I've read them all and will vouch that they are all very good.
 
Originally posted by: datalink7
Really good books:

Shogun by James Clavell
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
Trinity by Leon Uris
Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
The Stand by Stephen King
The Republic by Plato
Beyond Good & Evil by Friedrich (sp?) Nietzche

There you go. That is a good collection of books from a bunch of different genre's/kinds of writing. I've read them all and will vouch that they are all very good.
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uhh...written after 1990.
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: datalink7
Really good books:

Shogun by James Clavell
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein
Trinity by Leon Uris
Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
The Stand by Stephen King
The Republic by Plato
Beyond Good & Evil by Friedrich (sp?) Nietzche

There you go. That is a good collection of books from a bunch of different genre's/kinds of writing. I've read them all and will vouch that they are all very good.
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uhh...written after 1990.
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Doh... I rememberd that for my first post but not my second. I must be getting old 😛

How about Ishmael? I forget the author.
 
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
American Rhapsody - Joe Esterhaus
Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot - Al Franken
 
Any comments on Fight Club or other books by that author? They sound interesting, at least from their summaries.
 
Originally posted by: dude8604
Any comments on Fight Club or other books by that author? They sound interesting, at least from their summaries.
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fight club is a good book. as always there are some differences from the movie. the author (chuck palaniuk) has some other good books. i just finished the one called choke. i liked it a lot, i read it in like a day. he also has a new book out, i think it's called diary. don't know about it though.
 
I was going to recommend Timeline by Michael Crichton. I googled it because I couldn't remember how to spell the author's last name and discovered that it's coming out as a movie on November 26th. The book was fantastic, trailers look good. If you don't remember who he is, he wrote: Jurassic Park; Twister; The Lost World; Coma... to name a few.
 
If you dont mind dealing with a book thats like the first part in a series, but it's also extremely long, I can recommend

George RR Martin's: A Game of Thrones.
 
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