RE: Book Recommendations?
January 21, 2015 at 4:30 pm
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January 21, 2015 at 11:02 pm
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January 22, 2015 at 1:03 am
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(January 21, 2015 at 2:30 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Yeah, I read Angela's Ashes and loved it (thanks, Mom, for the great B-Day gift!). Did you read 'Tis? It lacks the impact of its predecessor but was a good read nonetheless. The friend that recommended Angela's Ashes walked up to me two days after I started it and laid down 'Tis and said, "For when you're done." The last page of Ashes did it for me. He wrote a third memoir called Teacher Man about his time teaching at Bedford-Stuyvesant Vocational High School as an Irish immigrant with crusty eyes and all the children not giving a fiddler's fart what he told them. Oh man do I love those books. 
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 (January 20, 2015 at 2:27 am)Roxy904 Wrote: Whatever... I don't know; I read mostly fiction, I suppose, and this ranges from classics to YA novels. But I am trying to read more nonfiction. Besudes, I kind of need to break out of my comfort zone (easy-to-read fiction) a bit. I don't think people generally follow other peoples advice on books because everyone is into their own thing, but two fictional books that I loved that I can't imagine anyone not liking are The pet semetary. The shining. Also IT by stephen king even though the ending pissed me off a bit. But all these are by Stephen King and those are the kind of books I like. Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them. Impersonation is treason.  RE: Book Recommendations?
January 22, 2015 at 2:07 pm
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 (January 22, 2015 at 2:14 am)paulpablo Wrote: I don't think people generally follow other peoples advice on books because everyone is into their own thing, but two fictional books that I loved that I can't imagine anyone not liking areI'm a King fan, but his novels can be hit-or-miss. He does have a number of short-story compilations that I enjoyed very much, though. Night Shift and Skeleton Crew stand out, but I don't think there's a bad one in the bunch. With his short stories he usually avoids the excess words and dragged out scenes that can make some of this novels a chore at times.
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Stephen King: I've got a new idea for a book! A bunch of characters could have some weird stuff happen to them, with seemingly no good explanation, and just when you think a major plot twist is going to blow your mind... Bam! Demons and ghosts and spirits and stuff. Again.
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