what book left a lasting impression with you? like, what book touched you? recommend a book that you think others should read and if you want to, give a brief review.

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this book is pretti popular...death be not proud ...i readit wen i wuz in 7th grd. it wuz a good book, but i dun realli like reading nonfiction so i didn't like it THAT much. but it's basically a father's memoirs about his dying son. and it's realli sad!!!! the boy has a brain tumor and he wuz realli smart and everything...well i think u shud read it

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go to bn.com and search for best reviews

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memoirs of a geisha - arther golden
a step from heaven - an na

wOoah does were good books..
the first onez an adult book.. japanese background.. realliEE good..
second onez a teen-kinda book..korean background.. made me crY >.<

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if anyone hasn't, they should read the Ender Quartet by Orson Scott Card...i love those books! They are so kul.

First one is Ender's Game, and they spring off from there...i don't remember the titles of all of them, hmm Children of the Mind is the last one, Xenocide is the third one adn i dun remember the second one.

There are also parallel books that he writes about another character in the same series. I've only read Ender's Shadow, but theres another called Shadow of the Hegemon.

They are fun to read!

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9-11 by Noam Chomsky

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i liked great expectations..
and a play called cyrano..

uhm..das all..i dont read much bOoks :satisfy:

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I've said it before in the forums.

The Perks of Being a wallflower by Stephen Chobsky is really good.

If you liked catcher in the rye you'll like this book. If you never read Catcher, get both :)

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i guess The Phantom Tollbooth would have to be my favorite book, but it's more of a book for younger ppl. so I like the hitchiker's guide to the galaxy

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i guess The Phantom Tollbooth would have to be my favorite book, but it's more of a book for younger ppl. so I like the hitchiker's guide to the galaxy

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phantom tollbooth! haha, yeah i remember that book. I read that in 4th grade, it's pretty good as i remember it.

Forbidden City is aight, we actually had that for an assigned book in my 7th grade class. It was the best book of that year though.

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i like the cay
great expectations
that one book..i forgot wut its called..but on the cover..it has a boy's leg..damn~ its on da tip of mah tongue tOo i think it starts with an M tho...>.<
i liked the hatchet..
tuck everlasting..
and a couple of summers ago..i was really into the V.C. Andrew's series~

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I really enjoyed reading The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. It takes place during the Great Depression. What's fascinating about this book is that it's sort of like two stories in one book. One part of the book focuses on one family, the Joads, through their struggle to move out to California in order to survive. The other follows the entire group of people who were affected by the Great Depression and decided to move west. The two stories supplement each other and I think it worked very well. The general story gave me information about the Great Depression that i didn't know before and the story of the Joads was an actual story. It's a fictional book, but the characters are very realistic. None of them are perfect, which I guess is what makes them so believable. I really liked the mother; she had a 'quiet strength' about her which I found awesome. This book is about people: who they are, how they struggle through difficult times with pride, how they relate to their family... arrghh. I'm so bad at putting my thoughts into words. To use the little summary on the back cover, this book is about 'the human spirit.' gOsh. Why couldn't I have thought of that. :P


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wOOps. Sorry to make this stupid post even longer, but I forgot a book. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a really good book. This is more about the social class.... segregation? I can't really think of the word I'm looking for. It's a pretty easy read; it seems to be geared toward the jr. high school level. The characters drew me in; I admit I have stereotypes about 'inner city' type of kids, the gangbangers, etc. This book kind of gave me a sense that people can't be classified into just one group. Well, I didn't realize it the first time I read it. I picked it up again a few weeks ago. I cried the first time I read it and I cried again when I read it a while blech.

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hot zone
of men and mice
how to become a millionaire in a week(?)
charlie and the chocolate factory( REALLY great book)

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the things they carried (a touching war story)
into the wild (true story about a man in seach of himself)

i read these books in winter quarter of my freshman year in college..i liked them very much =)

also..chinese playground is very good...its about chinese gangs

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the fountainhead by ayn rand...and also atlas shrugged is a good book. atonement is such a good book....you should read that one also.

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the bible


i think i've sat down and attempted to read the whole bible at least 5 times

so far i've memorized the first 3 words of the bible

"in the beginning..."

maybe im wrong on that too... damn wheres my bible

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The Stranger by Albert Camus

this book deals with the meaning of life. it not long and very easy to read. its very good so if you guys just want read something over a weekend i suggest this book.

theres lots of versions to this book because its translated from french. i suggest you to get the one with a darkish blue color.

hope you guys like it

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Les Miserables is an awesome book. You really get to understand the poverty stricken population of France. You even get a love story, to boot. I remember my entire class enjoying that book, too. We had some great discussions. I know some people are going to laugh at me, but I also thought the Good Earth was an awesome book. A lot of the kids in my class didn't like it, though. Well, it never hurts to try reading it!

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Bloodtide by Melvin Burgess - such a cool book, loved the style, and the plot was really unpredictable too
A Time to Kill by John Grisham
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
the 'Tomorrow' series by John Marsden
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (SOO GOOD!!! about philosophy...the first half is kinda boring but the whole thing is just so cool! a must read)

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