[QUOTE=dislocated214]Can anyone give me a good book to read. Less than 250 pages please? I'm in 8th grade, and would want a book political or not. I'd prefer a realistic fiction book cause I got to do a book project. But I don't really care that much. Just something where I'd understand most of the words. I wanted to do Dance Of Days but I think its too long I'm getting bored with some of the writing.[/QUOTE]
I'm not sure exactly how long it is, but read [I]To Kill A Mockingbird[/I] it is a great book.

[I]Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead[/I] by Tom Stoppard
[I]Night[/I] by Eli Weisel

I have read [I]Night[/I] for school only but a few weeks ago. It was actually pretty good.

[B]FICTION[/B]
-[U]On the Road[/U] by Jack Kerouac....an amazing book that launched the Beat Generation
-[U]My Education[/U] by William S. Burroughs....a very personal book that compiles several dreams he had
-[U]Picture of Dorian Gray[/U] by Oscar Wilde....just read it.
-[U]God Bless You Mr. Rosewater[/U] by Kurt Vonnegut....a funny, genius tale about a crazy drunk who owns a multimillion dollar foundation
-[U]A Study in Scarlet[/U] by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....my favorite Sherlock Holmes book
-[U]Tom Sawyer[/U] by Mark Twain....everyone should read this at least once in their life.
-[U]Journey to the Centre of the Earth[/U] by Jules Verne....classic early sci-fi
-[U]The Martian Chronicles[/U] by Ray Bradbury....this was as much a political work as it was a science fiction work
-[U]Candide[/U] by Voltaire....a witty philosophical classic
-[U]Thus Spoke Zarathustra[/U] by Friedrich Nietzsche....one of the greatest philosophical works ever written byonne of the smartest men to have ever lived...
[B]POLITICS[/B]
-[U]In Pursuit of Justice[/U] by Ralph Nader....political genius
-[U]Profit Over People[/U] by Naom Chomsky....about corporations' quest for global power
[B]POETRY/OTHER[/B]
-[U]Howl and Other Poems[/U] by Allen Ginsberg....poetry genius of the 20th century
-[U]Selected Poems[/U] by William Blake....he was a better poet, in my opinion, than Shakespeare
-[U]The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe[/U] by Edgar Allen Poe....he'll give you chills
-[U]The Lords and New Creatures[/U] by Jim Morrison....Mr. Morrison was a very underrated poet, he was genius and deserves more credit..
-[U]The Complete Tales of Washington Irving[/U] by Washington Irving....very captivating short stories

[QUOTE=victimofreality]More good war books:
[I]Ghost Soldiers[/I] by Hampton Sides
[I]Guns, Germs, and Steel[/I] by Jared Diamond

I also enjoy reading Tom Clancy and John Grisham. It isn't high literature but enjoyable reads.[/QUOTE]
im reading bleachers by john girsham, isnt very good.

catcher in the rye bitches!

and anything jules verne

[QUOTE=futurehomelessman]catcher in the rye bitches![/QUOTE]
im reading it now

anything by franz kafka

[QUOTE=thepo][U]The Catcher in the Rye[/U] by J.D. Salinger

I love that book so much, it's genius. I'm reading Nine Stories by Salinger too. It's pretty good.[/QUOTE]
Nine stories are really good. You can analyze each of them forever. I prefer his short stories to catcher in th rye.

[QUOTE]-The Lords and New Creatures by Jim Morrison....Mr. Morrison was a very underrated poet, he was genius and deserves more credit..[/QUOTE]
I think Jim Morisson is so overrates nowadays. I find it retarded that someone is considered a genius poet if they "challenge the format" (meaning use random capitalization and line structure.) It is stupid that once anyone developes a cult following, anything they do is a genius. If I wrote any of the poems at exactly like his, I would fail english.

Anyway.... right now I am reading the book [I]Their Eyes Were Watching God[/I] by Zora Neale Hurston. Anyone ever read it?

Day of the Tryiffids- John Wyndam (not sure on spelling)
Is an awesome book

The best poets are John Keats and Philip Larkin.

Clockwork Orange

Candide is an awesome book. Voltaire was a genius. I also loved Of Mice and Men but other Steinbeck stuff (East of Eden, The Grapes Of Wrath) isnt as good. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby is a good book as well. The films better though.

[QUOTE=sketchyjoe]The best poets are John Keats and Philip Larkin.[/QUOTE]

The best poets are Allen Ginsberg and Oscar Wilde.

/\ Haha, both a coincidentially gay too! I'll diversify the list, then, by adding Sylvia Plath and William Blake.

a clockwork orange is great but it made me violent

Haha a book made you violent?

You're the kind of kid who makes it necessary for Mortal Kombat to have a rating.

The fact that I'm obsessed with Clockwork Orange (book, movie, and bands) frightens my mom and she is always telling me, "Can't you be obsessed with a less violent thing) I'm punk as f'uck.

[QUOTE=Brain Squirmin' Like a Toad]The fact that I'm obsessed with Clockwork Orange (book, movie, and bands) frightens my mom and she is always telling me, "Can't you be obsessed with a less violent thing) I'm punk as f'uck.[/QUOTE]
That's when you shout anarchy and punch her in the face!

fear and loathing in las vegas, a good book and movie. We got the neutron bomb(the untold story of LA punk) is a great book on the la scene in the 80s. It has some pretty funny stuff in there to. If you like the germs, black flag, X then this is a good book. A other good book on music scene stuff is American Hardcore. Its about the hardcore scenes and bands in america, 80-86.

[QUOTE=Brain Squirmin' Like a Toad]The fact that I'm obsessed with Clockwork Orange (book, movie, and bands) frightens my mom and she is always telling me, "Can't you be obsessed with a less violent thing) I'm punk as f'uck.[/QUOTE]
im starting to hate it because i am confused

[QUOTE=IFlogMyMolly16]That's when you shout anarchy and punch her in the face![/QUOTE]

That's when I yelled /\nArChY! and then slapped her with my britva, put on my bowler and strutted away.

[QUOTE=Brain Squirmin' Like a Toad]That's when I yelled /\nArChY! and then slapped her with my britva, put on my bowler and strutted away.[/QUOTE]
Stop your crazy talk, I haven't read that book yet.

[QUOTE=DOLEMITE]im starting to hate it because i am confused[/QUOTE]

Try getting a Nadsat translator online, they are simple to fine and will help you a lot.

[quote=Shaniqua]Stop your crazy talk, I haven't read that book yet.[/quote]

Well go read it!!!

I will after I make my mom steal it for me for Christmas!

[QUOTE=IFlogMyMolly16]I will after I make my mom steal it for me for Christmas![/QUOTE]

I thought you celebrated Kwanzaa?

[QUOTE=capri sun junkie]I thought you celebrated Kwanzaa?[/QUOTE]
My adoptive mother is white though.

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for the love of... suggest two books that i can do my english seminar on..i'm ****ing screwed
two books that somehow relate to one another
i don't have a thesis either....suggestions?