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Peardrops
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Posts: 9430
 | September 24th, 2006 at 02:57pm Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
It's the most amazing book I have ever read in my entire life. From the blurb:
"Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is an inventor, amateur entomologist, computor consultant, Francophile, letter writer, pacifist, amateur astronomer, natural historian, percussionist, romantic, Great Explorer, jeweller, origamist, detective, vegan and collector of butterflies.
When his father is killed in the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Oskar sets out to solve the mystery of the key he discovers in his fathers closet. It is a search which leads him into the lives of strangers, through five boroughs of New York, into history, to the bombings of Dresden and Hiroshima, and on an inward journey which brings him ever closer to some kind of peace.."
I really can't recommend this book enough. Jonathan Safran Foer is my favourite author. Another of his books is Everything Is Illuminated which is a little harder to follow but is still just as good. If it gets too hard for you then don't fret as Everything Is Illuminated has recently been made into an independent film by Liev Schreiber starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hutz (the singer from Gorgol Bordello.) |
Knoxy
Shoot Me, I'm A Newbie
Age: -
Gender: -
Posts: 32 | September 24th, 2006 at 04:26pm PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahearn
A womans husband dies and leaves her little messages each month which she has to follow out. its amazingly written and will just make your heart melt lol! its being turned into a film later this year! |
a-dawg.
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 7070 | September 24th, 2006 at 05:17pm Knoxy:PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahearn
A womans husband dies and leaves her little messages each month which she has to follow out. its amazingly written and will just make your heart melt lol! its being turned into a film later this year! God, I hated that book. Cecilia's nice enough though. |
Canadian_saint
Idiot
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Posts: 546 | September 25th, 2006 at 05:00am Knoxy:PS I Love You by Cecelia Ahearn
A womans husband dies and leaves her little messages each month which she has to follow out. its amazingly written and will just make your heart melt lol! its being turned into a film later this year!
Thats my friends fav book, she left it for me last timeshe came over, I never read it though  |
The Valiant!
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: -
Gender: Female
Posts: 8725
 | September 28th, 2006 at 07:46pm The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath |
snow job.
Geek
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 188
| September 28th, 2006 at 11:37pm Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway. |
Right_Profile
Idiot
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 567 | October 15th, 2006 at 08:53pm Tangerine or Crusader by Edward Bloor
I suppose they're kind of for 12ish and up, but they're amazing reads nonetheless. Tangerine involves a middle school soccer player with a very twisted brother. Crusader is about a teenage girl and an arcade game, but it's better than I just made it sound. |
Reality Is Due
Post Whore
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Posts: 24506
| October 16th, 2006 at 06:54am -Any book by Sarah Dessen
-The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
-The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
-Hate You by Graham McNamee
-The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
-Sloppy Firsts and the other two sequels (Second Helpings and Charmed Thirds) by Megan McCafferty
-Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
-A Time For Dancing and the sequel The Farther You Run by Davida Hills Hurwin
-The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
-Pretty Little Dirty by Amanda Boyden
-My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Those are some of the many books I recommend  . |
Wob
King For A Couple Of Days
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 2964
| October 16th, 2006 at 03:23pm The Lottery(Beth Goobie)
About a girl, Sal Hanson, and her story as the Lottery ''victim''. The Lottery being this weird process of chosing one who will be shunned by all students in the school for one year. That person also has to do all the dirty job for the one who preside over it, the Shadow Council.
It's a very good book. Canadian, too.
Also:
1984 (George Orwell)
The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
[classics, much? xD]
Or, in French:
La petite Marchande de Proses - [_______________]
Et si c'était vrai... (Marc Lévy)
The book that inspired the movie 'Just Like heaven' with Reese Witherspoon. Except the story in the book has many, many differences. And I preferred by far the book.
Cosmétique de l'Ennemi (Amélie Nothomb)
A whole book which is only one dialogue? I say: Genius. |
lyrical_mess
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Posts: 5236
| October 18th, 2006 at 04:43pm Elske by Cynthia Voight
On Fortune's Wheel by Cynthia Voigt
Son of the Mob
Bloody Jack by Caroline Meyer
The Skin I'm In
A Parallel Universe For Liars. |
cactus.
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Posts: 6442 | October 18th, 2006 at 08:00pm Out of JD Salinger's Nine Stories I'd recommend Teddy. It's great.
Actually, you can try all nine  |
paperwings.
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: 16
Gender: Female
Posts: 6926
| October 30th, 2006 at 11:13pm The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
A Child Called "It", The Lost Boy, & A Man Named Dave - Dave Pelzer
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Flowers For Algernon - Daniel Keyes |
HolleeHysteria
Falling In Love With The Board
Age: -
Gender: -
Posts: 6275 | November 1st, 2006 at 01:18pm "Junk" by Melvin Burgess. Its about a teenage runaway called Gemma and her boyfriend Tar and how they get hooked on Heroin. Its amazing... it really opens your eyes to drugs. |
The Fool On The Hill
Had A Life Before GSB
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Posts: 25942 | November 1st, 2006 at 03:56pm Mick Harte Was Here -  I don't know who its by, but its both sad and hilarious. |
