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ultramega
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Sep 14, 2007 1:21 AM #58200
I've read The House of the Scorpion, it's a great book. I recommend it.
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Sep 14, 2007 1:23 AM #58201
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The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer

What Ash said. I read it a while back and it's pretty good.
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Sep 14, 2007 2:42 PM #58256
"Lies of Silence" is pretty good. It's about that Ireland troubles.
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Sep 14, 2007 4:08 PM #58267
I like Eragon, and football hooligan books.

But thats just me.
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Sep 14, 2007 4:32 PM #58272
The Bible is quite a good read.
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Sep 14, 2007 4:34 PM #58274
Penrod and Sam - Booth Tarkington

Aswell as his other book, Penrod (the first one).
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Sep 14, 2007 7:25 PM #58289
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The Bible is quite a good read.


Dunno, I'm not so into Sci-Fi.
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Sep 14, 2007 7:28 PM #58291
I find it more interesting than the book about the aliens that dropped bacteria on earth which somehow made humans.
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Sep 14, 2007 10:47 PM #58314
Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
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Sep 18, 2007 10:08 AM #59022
Who did Cthulu, cause those books are great.
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Sep 20, 2007 12:05 AM #59287
Oh yes, how did I forget it.

The Inheritance Trilogy. Eragon and Eldest - Christopher Paolini. The third book isn't out yet, though.

They are awesome books. The first one they made a movie out of last year. The book is MUCH better than the movie. They just totally beat the shit out of it and turned it in to crap for a film.

Bottom line: READ THESE BOOKS, NAO!
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Sep 20, 2007 12:39 AM #59293
The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier


It's about the Haitian rebellion and mixes magic up with reality, it's very fun. And a really short read too, it's like 180 pages.
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Sep 20, 2007 12:10 PM #59333
If you need to be very depressed for some special occasion you might find Good Night Mister Tom a very good read.
They made me read it when I was 7 years old for school. It has a part where the mum straps a baby to a pipe in the basement and the main character who is a 8 year old boy keeps it alive with his body heat and it dies in his arms.

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Goodnight Mister Tom (also Good Night, Mr. Tom) is a 1981 novel by Michelle Magorian. It follows a young boy named William Beech who is evacuated from London during the air-raids of World War II, and put into the care of an elderly reclusive man named Tom Oakley.
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Sep 20, 2007 12:26 PM #59335
What the ****.
7 years old reading a book like that?
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Sep 20, 2007 1:46 PM #59337
Yeah. It made me sick. Literally.

And then they made us watch the movie...

Now can you see why I changed schools?