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Books anyone?
So, besides Iphones,Ipods,Tablets,Kindles,Computers and Laptops and any other of that stuff does anybody read?? I know I do, I mean not a ton but still... I made this discussion because I wanted to know if YOU read. Plus, if you do read I think I it would be cool to start commenting book recommendations! My first recommendation is "Spirit Animals". Have any ideas?
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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on -
A couple of questions for you:
Q1 - - Why is this in the GMM Discussions category? If you click in the top header OPTIONS box and choose "Edit Discussion" you can change the category to General Discussions where it will get more attention.
Q2 - - You listed only electronic reading devices in your question. Have you ever considered a real paper and ink BOOK? Bio-Optic Organized Knowledge – Y2K Compliant
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K-ModPermalink Reply by Alexis (Indigo Sparrow) on -
I was talking to a highschooler a few months back and I mentioned Y2K. He had no idea what I was talking about. It was the first time I realized that Y2K was no longer common knowledge...
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K-ModPermalink Reply by Alexis (Indigo Sparrow) on -
I love books! I don't have much time to read for fun right now, so my stack of "To Read" novels is growing.
A book series I would recommend is the Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker. He later wrote a fourth book and a spin-off series, but I never had the chance to read them.
I'm taking a literature class right now and one of the stories we've read was "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville. I thought it was a great short story, although it's not an adventure story like some of Melville's other stories (such as "Moby Dick").
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Permalink Reply by Nitzan (Waffletoast) on
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I think it's kinda sad that we need a discussion for who reads book. I guess reading is not as common anymore.
as for me, I read all the time, and I'm currently re-reading lord of the rings. and recommendations? hmm... one hundred years of solitude is a fantastic book (also, a nobel prize winner) but it's a pretty hard read so read it only if you think you're ready for it.
for a lighter book recomandation, I've recently read "american gods", and it's a very nice book that's based on some really cool concepts.
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Permalink Reply by Sunshine ( Muttation ) on
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Yes! Reading is my life!
I read The Hunger Games series
2/3 of Divergent series
2/3 of The Maze Runner series
The Fault In Our Stars
And sone if The House of Night series
For a light read try The Princess Plot, superr easy book that's fun.
Also have read 1/5 of the Percy Jackson series :)
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Permalink Reply by Rachel (Nezulupantro) on
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almost all of the books I was going to recommend are listed here...so ditto the hunger games, divergent, maze runner series. I read all of the books in each of those series and they were very good! TFIOS is a FANTASTIC book and a great stand-alone-book to read if you aren't looking to get into reading a whole series.
But to add to that list: Unwind (I only read the first book in the Unwind series, so I don't know about the rest), the Matched series By Ally Condie, the Legend series by Marie Lu, the Giver (also another series. I have only read the first book, but i'm about to start the second)
I read quite a bit... those are just a few of my favorites that first come to mind :)
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I also like books like Anne of Green Gables and Hidei :)
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Permalink Reply by 14zgyynwxrglk on
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Darren Shan books are cool and I was pleasantly surprised by the hungar games.
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Permalink Reply by Hannah (Liorse) on
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I absolutely love reading! But I don't have a whole lot of time for it anymore though because I have changed my school curriculum and it is a whole lot more work so I don't have have a lot of free time anymore. I still love reading a good ol' book though! And gumbo, I think they meant does anyone read instead of spending a lot of time on techy stuff. That's what I got out of it anyways. Of course, I could be wrong because a lot of times I am.
Book suggestions:
Everybody knows the chronicles of Narnia, but still some great books.
To race a dream. If you like horses, u will most likely like this book.
Cracker. It's a book about a dog who went to the Vietnam war. I think it's really good.
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Permalink Reply by Jamesocool on
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I love how people say reading is stupid. It is like argueing for anti education. " no more of dem reading things not no much of words and spellings "
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Permalink Reply by int 80h on
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I read classic and contemporary Sci-Fi
Authors like William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, Neal Stephenson are my favorite right now.
'Cryptonomicon' is one of my favorite books.
I've read 'Solaris' by Stanisław Lem in the original Polish. It's actually a great book, and very entertaining, the movie with George Clooney is a very feeble adaptation.
I've read 'Starship Troopers' by Robert A. Heinlein. Anyone who has seen the movie, will be surprised by the book. It is pretty much the same kind of cringing humor, but geared at a very different direction.
Things like '1984', 'Breave New World', 'War of the Worlds', yes, I've read those, but classic Sci-Fi is very different to things like 'Pattern Recognition'.
Here's something a little more entertaining: I got Tad Williams' 'Otherworld' used on Ebay. I payd ~1.50 for the most expensive book in the series, most books were just 1.00 Euro delivered. I was a bit astonished, that the second book in the series was a hardcover, that was actually signed! I started reading, and it became pretty obvious why the books, and even the signed copy was so cheap. It is advertised as Sci-Fi/Fantasy, or something along the line. It is the worst piece of work in any of those two genres, that I've held in my hands. I've since given the books away for free.
There is a very curios compulsion that drives me, never to throw books into the trash. I never get rid of books that way, I give them away or sell them for very little, no matter how dumb the book is - well, phone books and the likes, but that's not what I mean by 'book' in that sense...
As for Ebooks, I don't like them. I have a very decent device to read Ebooks on, though: A nice Google Nexus 7 FHD. The only Ebooks I care for, are technical books, of which I have quite a lot.
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Permalink Reply by Alan (Deerwolftaurus) on
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Since my native language is Spanish, I've read a lot of books in Spanish, but also some in english, for example the Lord of the Rings series and the Narnia first 4 books. But in Spanish there are a lot of great books, for example "The Inquisitor" (el inquisidor) and "The Sixth Way" (La Sexta Via) by Patricio Sturlese (Argentinian author), I don't know if there's an english version of them but if you know Spanish try to read them!
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