Time for a good book!!

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With all this free time I have to wait for my app to be sent, get interviews, get accepted etc I feel like reading a good book! That's something I haven't done for a very long time (unless you consider text books good reading😱)

Any recommendations? Could be anything... classic, sci-fi, adventure, some kind of dental book perhaps:laugh:...
 
What is this "free time" you speak of?


Illusions by Richard Bach.


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highly recommend Jeffery Deaver's novels, such as "The Blue Nowhere" and any of the Lincoln Rhyme series (such as The Empty Chair, The Vanashed Man and The Coffin Dancer)
Or his recently released book The Sleeping Doll was good too, but not as good as the above ones imo

Harry Potter's latest book will be coming out soon : )
 
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Marching Powder, A Long Way Gone, The Damage Done.

All true stories and some of the best books I have ever read.
 
a suitable boy-vikram seth

a thousand splendid suns-khaled hosseini

the fountainhead-anais nin(this is what i re-read while this time last year)

complications-a surgeons notes on an imperfect science(or really anything atul gawande writes, hes brilliant)
 
Check out I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. Read it before the movie comes out.
 
hawaiiguy24 said:
With all this free time I have to wait for my app to be sent, get interviews, get accepted etc I feel like reading a good book! That's something I haven't done for a very long time (unless you consider text books good reading😱)

Any recommendations? Could be anything... classic, sci-fi, adventure, some kind of dental book perhaps:laugh:...
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You can read the Harry Potter series if you haven't started yet. Or, if you're like me and you have already read the series, re-read all of the books in anticipation for the seventh and final book in the series.

I also suggest the Ender's Game and Bean series by Orson Scott Card.

If you want more sci-fi, I also suggest "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (it's the book that Bladerunner is based on) by Philip K. Dick. He also wrote the book that Minority Report is based on.

I'm not a bookworm... I'm a booksnake. :-D
 
John Twelve Hawks second book of the series the Traveler comes out tomorrow. If you liked the Matrix you'll love this.
 
QuackDentist said:
You can read the Harry Potter series if you haven't started yet. Or, if you're like me and you have already read the series, re-read all of the books in anticipation for the seventh and final book in the series.

I also suggest the Ender's Game and Bean series by Orson Scott Card.

If you want more sci-fi, I also suggest "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" (it's the book that Bladerunner is based on) by Philip K. Dick. He also wrote the book that Minority Report is based on.

I'm not a bookworm... I'm a booksnake. :-D
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So if Nagini,the cup, locket, diary, and Voldemort are the first five horcruxes, then what are the last two? I say Harry's going back to Godric's Hollow(Godric was also the first name of Griffyndor) where his parents lived and he'll find another one there.


Okay that sounded way way too nerdy
 
Some good suggestions!

bruin; catch-22 = best book ever! Hilarious! The epitome of black comedy. I might just re-read that one...

quack; Enders Game/Enders Shadow is great too... It's been a while since I've read those.
The "electric sheep" book also spawned a cool screen saver that creates fractals in a server that uses your computer while it is idle to generate them. Try doing a google search for "electric sheep". I had it for a while on my computer but it was too much for my computer to handle so I had to take it off. It requires a lot of processing power...

Does anyone like to read Oliver Sacks? How bout Don Delillo?

Any others? How bout classics? I feel like I need to catch up on some of those...
 
hawaiiguy24 said:
With all this free time I have to wait for my app to be sent, get interviews, get accepted etc I feel like reading a good book! That's something I haven't done for a very long time (unless you consider text books good reading😱)

Any recommendations? Could be anything... classic, sci-fi, adventure, some kind of dental book perhaps:laugh:...
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"Complications" by Atul Gawande is a good read
 
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Anemone said:
So if Nagini,the cup, locket, diary, and Voldemort are the first five horcruxes, then what are the last two? I say Harry's going back to Godric's Hollow(Godric was also the first name of Griffyndor) where his parents lived and he'll find another one there.


Okay that sounded way way too nerdy
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Go to Rowling's site. I think she already said that some of the horcrux theories, like big V, are false...ahh, can't wait till the new book, and the movies looks awesome!
 
hawaiiguy24 said:
With all this free time I have to wait for my app to be sent, get interviews, get accepted etc I feel like reading a good book! That's something I haven't done for a very long time (unless you consider text books good reading😱)

Any recommendations? Could be anything... classic, sci-fi, adventure, some kind of dental book perhaps:laugh:...
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You can't go wrong with any of the following (if you haven't read them yet):
Tolkien: The Hobbit, LOTR trilogy
Harry Potter books
Kerouac: On the Road
Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
Bryson: A Walk in the Woods
 
a book i am currently tearing through that i suggest to all future health professionals:

the house of god by samuel shem.

written in the 70's, it's about the author's experience as a 1st year intern working at "the house of god" which i think is some hospital in boston.
 
"The Women With A Worm In Her Head" Pamela Nagami M.D.
"Pox: Genius, Madness, and the Mysteries of Syphilis" Deborah Hayden
"Aequanimitas" William Osler

I just started Aequanimitas. Well worth reading, but then again I grew up in an environment where anything Johns Hopkins was a cut above the rest, making Osler pretty much god incarnate.
 
The Law of Attraction and someone else mentioned Don Quixote...excellent choice.
 
i just finished Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy, well worth the read
if you want a good laugh read Sellivision by Augesten Burroughs, actually pretty much anything he writes is good
 
Anemone said:
So if Nagini,the cup, locket, diary, and Voldemort are the first five horcruxes, then what are the last two? I say Harry's going back to Godric's Hollow(Godric was also the first name of Griffyndor) where his parents lived and he'll find another one there.


Okay that sounded way way too nerdy
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If that sounded nerdy, I shall keep what I wanted to say to myself...
 
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