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Recommend a good, short book

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Shadow Conception

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I'm about to head out to the library to pick up two books for my summer reading list. Recommend a non-boring, short (<300 pages) book that I can read in a couple of days, preferably with strong/controversial themes so a good essay can be written on it.

Thus far, I've decided on Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; I've been dying to read it for ages, and it seems perfect for a 10th grade summer reading. I may re-read 1984 by George Orwell, but I'd rather not squeeze the pleasure out of it by being forced to write an essay on it.

I like books with darker themes, like Orwell novels.

Any suggestions?
 
Oops, didn't read that second sentence.
I'll go with Dead Man Walking then, forgot how long it is though.
 
Here's a quick funny read from Dennis Diclaudio, a writer for Comedy Central. "The Paranoid's Pocket Guide to Mental Disorders You Can Just Feel Coming On."

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You'll get some good laughs out of it
 
Match your first two criteria (length, essay material), but most don't address your theme:
Flowers For Algernon
Slaughterhouse Five
Neuromancer
2001
 
Blackwater - interesting read about the privatization of the Iraq War

Hell's Angels - by Hunter S. Thompson.

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - great history of the 1960's.
 
I've also wanted to read Brave New World. Picked it up two years ago, got bored, returned it. I'll borrow it again.

Originally posted by: waggy
green eggs and ham.
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I probably could and BS the essay about racism or something. Not a bad idea for a last resort.
 
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K Dick - awesome book, raises big questions, blade runner is based on it.
 
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