Book suggestions :D
 

Any really really good book recommendations?
Preferably those that are easy to find (Would be stocked in a library)

This is for AFTER i've finished reading the kite runner... been reading it for over a month; the longest i've ever spent on a book :(

Two books i've recently read which are really good are
'The color purple' and 'The rich shall inherit'

Also some all time good books are
'A child called it'
'The lost boy'
'A man named Dave'

^'The Color Purple' is a brilliant book, if a little depressing. Read it.

Uhm.. anything by Franz Kafka. I'm currently in love with this man. 'Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley is worth reading, I've just finished it.

I don't know, what kind of thing do you like to read?

Also, have a look at the 'What book are you reading..' thread, there are some good suggestions in there.

The guy who wrote the kite runner has written another book so maybe you could read it - its just come out.

I love Sebastian Faulkes book's like birdsong.

the contortionists handbook- Craig Clevenger
Invisible monsters- Chuck Palahniuk
Ham on Rye- Charles Bukowski

i'll write more later, but check those out, especially the first two

Thanks for the replies :D

I'm just looking for general suggestions... so if I ever see them when i'm browsing I know that it's been recommended... I'm a very BAD compulsive buyer when it comes to books/films

Sophie Kinsella for feel good rubbish that's funny xD
Michael COnnely writes really good crime books
Dean Koontz has some really good books out too but a few are a just a bit weird, his latest stuff is great.
Melvin Burgess - Junk, teenage book but deals with heroin addiction+being a runaway, being pregnant etc, amazing.
Marian Keyes for more feel good humour :)

There's loads more I can think of so I'll post again if I remember them.
Try amazon.com to find some you could rent from the library? If you search a book you like it will come up with a "people who liked this also liked...", could help you find books you would enjoy.
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depends on what kinds of books you like, but I'd recommend "The Living End" by Stanley Elkin, "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess, or "The Wall - And Other Stories" by Jean Paul Sartre

Bill Bryson's books are easy and light to read but they're interesting at the same time...
The Hobbit by Tolkien (its one of my favourite books, i never got on with the LOTR series!)
Any books by Rob Grant (one half of the writing team for Red Dwarf)
I'm the same as you :) I buy far too many books.
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I love Chuck Palanuik's books. Espeically Invisible Monsters.

He wrote Fight Club, so they're all kind of out there.

Not a big reader, but I would like to be!

I'd recommend Catcher In The Rye. ****ing great book!

I have good taste in books! (you should know that mike!)
so i recommend:
invisible monsters
brave new world
1984
handmaids tale
choke
generation x
freedom writers diary
letters from the inside (omfg amazing)
eva (but according to work its been discontinued- you can borrow mine if you dont mind having a book that's almost falling apart)
the diving pool (but it isnt out yet- i got a prerelease copy)
rebecca
metamorphasis
the secret history
fingersmith
AND finally- a clockwork orage (utterly amazing if you can persevere for long enough to understand the language)

ooh thats a hideously long list. sorry...

Nothing wrong with long lists :)
And of course I know you have an awesome taste in books and so are good for recommendations :D

I have the film of 'A clockwork orange' and have been meaning to watch it for donkey's years.... Is teh film as good as the book?

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the film is supposed to be very good (i haven't seen it yet as i'm afraid of tainting my memory of the book)
stanley kubrick right?
yes
it'll probably be easier to understand than the book
but if you get through the first chapter or so, its utterly brilliant

ALSO i forgot one:
lolita

let me know if you want to borrow any of these. OR if you want synopsises. OR if you want me to stop suggesting

Well I plan of finishing the bloody kite runner by sunday (Not that it's a bad book... it's just I really haven't felt like reading recently.... My head is abit odd at the moment)

If you could pick a few which are awesome that you could lend to me (Preferably not part of a series, I don't like reading things out of sequence) i'd love you even more :D

In Cold Blood.

It's my favourite book ever.

I suck at recommending books... But right now I'm reading One Hundred Years of Solitude and it's pretty good.

Have you seen the Kite Runner film yet?

Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs is insanely good ^^

Definitely check out Chuck Palahniuk. Invisible Monsters is probably my favorite, but they are all really good. Haunted is very gruesome, though.
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Water for Elephants by Sally Gruen...its a beautiful book. Its kind of like a fairy tale, its set back around the depression era and follows a train circus. Its so good, I had chills while reading the last like ten pages.

Animal Farm- George Orwell
Kafka on the shore- Haruki Murakami
The heart is deceitful above all things- J T Leroy

If you liked THe Kite Runner, you might enjoy A Thousand Splendid Suns by the same author.