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While talking about all the awesome-ness of Harry Potter on @virtualmaster999 's "What do you do for fun/ to relieve stress?" thread, it got me thinking about how incredibly books can transport you to another world...

...and I realized how much we all need that right now as we do the countdown to December 1st!:nod::help:

So what are some of your favorite books? Favorite series?

A special shoutout to Amy Poehler's Yes Please and Tina Fey's Bossypants, both of which are especially amazing during this stressful time! :biglove:
 
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dent--girl7 said:
While talking about all the awesome-ness of Harry Potter on @virtualmaster999 's "What do you do for fun/ to relieve stress?" thread, it got me thinking about how incredibly books can transport you to another world...

...and I realized how much we all need that right now as we do the countdown to December 1st!:nod::help:

So what are some of your favorite books? Favorite series?

A special shoutout to Amy Poehler's Yes Please and Tina Fey's Bossypants, both of which are especially amazing during this stressful time! :biglove:
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Oh man those are the ones I've been meaning to read! Along with Mindy Kaling's new book. If I didn't still have to go to classes during this super fun stressful season I'd have more to contribute, but I really liked Freakanomics and Superfreakanomics.
Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None also always gets me :bookworm:
 
I'm looking for a realllyy good book series. Something with a lot of action and those "whaaaaaaaaaa" moments. Suggestions??


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hellofuturedentists said:
Oh man those are the ones I've been meaning to read! Along with Mindy Kaling's new book. If I didn't still have to go to classes during this super fun stressful season I'd have more to contribute, but I really liked Freakanomics and Superfreakanomics.
Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None also always gets me :bookworm:
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Ooh I need to look into Mindy's new book 🙂 and start Agatha Christie's Death On The Nile since I've been holding onto that for a while haha. I haven't read any of the Freakanomics, but I'm intrigued now that I've looked them up!
 
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I'm looking for a realllyy good book series. Something with a lot of action and those "whaaaaaaaaaa" moments. Suggestions??


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The Twilight series. Obvs.

Haha just kidding. Well you mentioned the Series of Unfortunate Events earlier, which I think has some of those moments. Hunger Games is relatively exciting. I remember the Artemis Fowl series and the Inheritance Cycle (with Eragon and some other dragons) were big when I was younger...I think they're more scifi...I can't really testify to how good they are though since I didn't read either of them haha. Honestly I'm looking for a good series too. Hopefully people have some suggestions!
 
I'm glad to see that other members enjoy reading too 🙂.

I very much enjoyed Warren Carroll's six volume history of the Catholic Church, and Father William A. Jurgens three volume set, Faith of the Early Fathers. Raymond Brown's An Introduction to the New Testament is also an excellent read. Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is a gem.

As far as novels are concerned, I would recommend All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, as well as Dante's Inferno, Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, as well as the works James Joyce.

The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams, as well as The Theory of Leisure Class by the economist Thornstein Velben. Classical writers besides the Church Fathers such as Plato, Cicero, Suetonius, Josephus, Tacitus, Aristophanes, Plato, Demosthenes, Plutarch, and Sophocles among others.

I also enjoy reading textbooks, in particular on theorem-proving mathematics such as point-set topology, real analysis, integration with measure, abstract algebra, and more recently, differential geometry. I also enjoy reading on topics such as microbiology, especially virology, as well as organic chemistry and physics.
 
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Inheritance Cycle (with Eragon and some other dragons)
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I read this when I was younger and really enjoyed it. I'd probably still enjoy them if I reread them too.

Frank22 said:
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is a gem.
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I totally agree! It's an amazing read for your inner nerd.

I also read a ton of Stephen King. Almost all of them are page turners. My favorites are The Long Walk, Firestarter and Dr. Sleep. They're all classed as horror, but really are just freaky paranormal.
 
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Wow there are so many books I need to read haha.

Some other good ones I just thought of are The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon, Stiff by Mary Roach, and Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science by Atul Gawande (I also want to read his book Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Perfection too, if any one has read it).
 
I highly recommend the Freakanomics Podcast if you have read the books, hell even if you haven't!

If you are into the classics, I highly recommend Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Non-fiction, I've been reading A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and also enjoyed the Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Interesting books include: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig and Demian, Steppenwolf, and Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.

Great biographies: Einstein by Walter Isaacson and Teddy Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle.

An awesome novel no one ever talks about but I recommend often: Last of the Just by André Schwarz-Bart

And the book which transformed me from a gun-obsessed high school grad who cared only about buying a bigger lift kit for his truck into a logical, aware, critically thinking college student: Plato's Republic
 
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I highly recommend the Freakanomics Podcast if you have read the books, hell even if you haven't!

If you are into the classics, I highly recommend Les Miserables by Victor Hugo and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Non-fiction, I've been reading A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn and also enjoyed the Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

Interesting books include: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig and Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse.

Great biographies: Einstein by Walter Isaacson and Teddy Roosevelt by Henry F. Pringle.

An awesome novel no one ever talks about but I recommend often: Last of the Just by André Schwarz-Bart
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Les Miserables and One Hundred Years of Solitude are profound works of literature.
 
Frank22 said:
Les Miserables and One Hundred Years of Solitude are profound works of literature.
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Have you read Ulysses? I am intimidated, I read Portrait of the Young Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, but felt that I struggled through them. When I glanced at Ulysses I shelved it for a time when I am hopefully better able to comprehend it.

Don Quixote is excellent, I am just 1/3 through it now! Have you read War and Peace? That was also a very profound bit of literature, some of the passages about the battles in Russia against Napoleon's armies gave me shivers.
 
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Have you read Ulysses? I am intimidated, I read Portrait of the Young Artist as a Young Man and Dubliners, but felt that I struggled through them. When I glanced at Ulysses I shelved it for a time when I am hopefully better able to comprehend it.

Don Quixote is excellent, I am just 1/3 through it now! Have you read War and Peace? That was also a very profound bit of literature, some of the passages about the battles in Russia against Napoleon's armies gave me shivers.
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My father has read War and Peace and strongly recommended I read it; I intend on doing so when I have more time, along with a few other works. I would also recommend Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury.

I have read Ulysses and it, like A Portrait of An Artist as a Young Man, is not without extreme difficulty. Stephen Dedalus is a character that few writers would be able to conceptualize, and it is speaks to the profundity of Joyce as a writer that he was able to synthesize such a convoluted narrative. Do not be ashamed to use outside resources while reading through the chapters to get a better handle on them if and when you attempt to read it fully.
 
I average about 2 books per month and over the past year or so, I'd recommend this over the rest

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bsal1 said:
The Captain Underpants series is definitely a good read.
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Did my cereal box book report on Captain Underpants in the fifth grade. Got a 100. I still own The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, and it's sitting on my shelf as we speak. I'm 22 years old. No shame 🙄

Scumbag_Steve said:
For fiction, Khaled Hosseini, who wrote The Kite Runner, has two other books, A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Mountains Echoed. All three are awesome, the last of which is unreal.
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I loveeeee Khaled Hosseini. His second and third books are great, but I still vote The Kite Runner as the best of the three. I cried.

I'm a big fan of Jodi Picoult books; I'm pretty sure I've read every single one that's published. Many of her plots center on legal and/or medical ethics with complicated relationships. Cheryl Strayed is a great author too as well!
 
I liked John green's books, especially looking for Alaska!

The forgotten garden by Kate Morton is good so far!
 
You mean there is something to read besides Biochem???? LOL

I'm reading a "free" book I found on BN via my Nook a while back. The free book was the first in the series and I'm reading the rest that I paid for. They are by Sarah Woodbury and it is her After Cilmeri Series. It's a time travel/Medieval series. It's a bit cheesy but the storyline is entertaining.

I want to read Tina Fey's book too. Maybe at Christmas?
 
Some of my favorite reads of all time...

Books: Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami), Kitchen (Yoshimoto Banana), The Name of the Wind (Patrick Rothfuss)
Manga: Holyland, Vagabond
 
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SXCoronado said:
I read a lot of dark fantasy novels in high school. Not much time to read these days, but my favorites were the Cirque du Freak series, Incarceron/Sapphique, Ari Berk's "Undertaken trilogy" (death watch / mistle child / lych way), & the Quarantine series
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Oh wow, I was a huge fan of Cirque Du Freak. Started reading it in 6th grade actually...how time flies!
 
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I think what I liked most about the series was that you could never place the year or even decade the story was taking place in!

Check out Incarceron and the Ari berk books. Berk's stuff is more gothic / lore based and Incarceron is more dystopian
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Game of thrones books are much better than the tv version in my opinion.

I would highly recommend the Chronic-wat-Cles of Narnia series! You'll never look at a lion the same way again after finishing the books.
 
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