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  • Jayvis
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    • Nov 2005
    • 5430

    #1

    Does anyone here have a good Novel to recommend?

    I'm really looking for a new book to pick up next time I hit Borders. Let me know of something you like. A little description of what the book is about would be great.
  • Deej
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    • Jun 2005
    • 24386

    #2
    Well what do you like in the past? or is this "just gimme a book to read" type thing?

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    • Jayvis
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      • Nov 2005
      • 5430

      #3
      I'm into everything.

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      • Jace
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        • Jan 2004
        • 35562

        #4
        A Million Little Pieces

        just finished it...fucking AMAZING....it sucked me in so bad i skipped work and read it in one day

        http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/038...lance&n=283155

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        • Jace
          FBOP Class Of 2013
          • Jan 2004
          • 35562

          #5
          here is a blurb

          The electrifying opening of James Frey's debut memoir, A Million Little Pieces, smash-cuts to the then 23-year-old author on a Chicago-bound plane "covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood." Wanted by authorities in three states, without ID or any money, his face mangled and missing four front teeth, Frey is on a steep descent from a dark marathon of drug abuse. His stunned family checks him into a famed Minnesota drug treatment center where a doctor promises "he will be dead within a few days" if he starts to use again, and where Frey spends two agonizing months of detox confronting "The Fury" head on:

          "I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag filled with mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can."

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            • Dec 2004
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            #6
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            • Jace
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              • Jan 2004
              • 35562

              #7
              the first page of A Million Little Pieces

              I wake to the drone of an airplane engine and the feeling of something warm dripping down my chin. I lift my hand to feel my face. My front four teeth are gone, I have a hole in my cheek, my nose is broken and my eyes are swollen nearly shut. I open them and I look around and I'm in the back of a plane and there's no one near me. I look at my clothes and my clothes are covered with a colorful mixture of spit, snot, urine, vomit and blood. I reach for the call button and I find it and I push it and I wait and thirty seconds later an Attendant arrives.
              How can I help you?
              Where am I going?
              You don't know?
              No.
              You're going to Chicago, Sir.
              How did I get here?
              A Doctor and two men brought you on.
              They say anything?
              They talked to the Captain, Sir. We were told to let you sleep.
              How long till we land?
              About twenty minutes.
              Thank you.
              Although I never look up, I know she smiles and feels sorry for me. She shouldn't.
              A short while later we touch down. I look around for anything I might have with me, but there's nothing. No ticket, no bags, no clothes, no wallet. I sit and I wait and I try to figure out what happened. Nothing comes.
              Once the rest of the Passengers are gone I stand and start to make my way to the door. After about five steps I sit back down. Walking is out of the question. I see my Attendant friend and I raise a hand.
              Are you okay?
              No.
              What's wrong?
              I can't really walk.
              If you make it to the door I can get you a chair.
              How far is the door?
              Not far.
              I stand. I wobble. I sit back down. I stare at the floor and take a deep breath.
              You'll be all right.
              I look up and she's smiling.
              Here.
              She holds out her hand and I take it. I stand and I lean against her and she helps me down the Aisle. We get to the door.
              I'll be right back.
              I let go of her hand and I sit down on the steel bridge of the Jetway that connects the Plane to the Gate.
              I'm not going anywhere.
              She laughs and I watch her walk away and I close my eyes. My head hurts, my mouth hurts, my eyes hurt, my hands hurt. Things without names hurt.
              I rub my stomach. I can feel it coming. Fast and strong and burning. No way to stop it, just close your eyes and let it ride. It comes and I recoil from the stench and the pain. There's nothing I can do.
              Oh my God.

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              • pornguy
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                • Mar 2003
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                #8
                I actually enjoyed the Harry potter books.
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                • DateDoc
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                  • Feb 2005
                  • 14243

                  #9
                  The Camel Club by David Baldacci - Excellent read as most of Baldacci's books are.

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                  • Marshal
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                    • Jun 2005
                    • 15227

                    #10
                    The English Patient...
                    the book is great! (though the movie is better) ;)
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                    • smack
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                      • Mar 2002
                      • 10652

                      #11
                      anything by hunter s thompson.

                      i just finished generation of swine, and am currently reading 'fear and loathing on the campaign trail 72'. really everything he wrote was excellent, if you're into copius amounts of drugs and political commentary.
                      Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.

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                      • reynold
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                        • Oct 2002
                        • 51271

                        #12
                        Originally posted by nettrust
                        The English Patient...
                        the book is great! (though the movie is better) ;)
                        I never thought they got that from a novel.

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                        • Deej
                          I make pixels work
                          • Jun 2005
                          • 24386

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Jace
                          the first page of A Million Little Pieces
                          I've heard of this. Also, this first page is intriguing....may have to snag it. thanks for the tip

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                          • Honeyslut
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                            • Jan 2001
                            • 6436

                            #14
                            http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/044...books&v=glance

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                            • bbe
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                              • Feb 2005
                              • 110

                              #15
                              Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

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                              • chaze
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                                • Aug 2002
                                • 9774

                                #16
                                "the lost road" if you like sycology books.

                                Imagica but it's long "clive barke" also his great and secret show is really good.
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                                • reed_4
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                                  • Jul 2005
                                  • 9640

                                  #17
                                  Read the complete book of LOTR.

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                                  • aiken
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                                    • Jun 2003
                                    • 204

                                    #18
                                    Depending on your taste, either Name of the Rose or Foucault's Pendulum, both by Umberto Eco. NotR is historical fiction set in a monestary in the 1300's (?),, Foucault's is modern. Both get at cool issues about who you can trust and whether belief contributes to or creates reality, and both are just damn good page-turners.

                                    Cheers
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                                    • aiken
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Jun 2003
                                      • 204

                                      #19
                                      Originally posted by bbe
                                      Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
                                      Hey, how was that compared to Everything is Illuminated? I liked EiI, but found it kinda slow. Parts were hilarious and entertaining (the translations, especially), but parts were really plodding for me. Is ELaIC any quicker?

                                      Cheers
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                                      • onno
                                        Confirmed User
                                        • Dec 2003
                                        • 732

                                        #20
                                        Dumas Club - By Arturo Preze Reverte

                                        http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067...lance&n=283155

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                                        • polle54
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                                          • Jul 2004
                                          • 4626

                                          #21
                                          try not reading...

                                          waste of time if it's not a programmering book or something like that.
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                                          • C_U_Next_Tuesday
                                            WW4L
                                            • Oct 2002
                                            • 10581

                                            #22
                                            Running with scissors...excellent read.

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                                            • dissipate
                                              The Dirty Frenchman
                                              • Nov 2005
                                              • 8904

                                              #23
                                              Just finished reading "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown (also wrote the da vinci code)

                                              Angels and Demons was great... with a great big "holy shit i didnt see that one coming" ending.

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