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09-22-2011, 01:15 PM | #1 |
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My Reading List (help me sort, add good reads, apparently Dystopian/Sci Fi)
I've got a new Nook Simple Touch and a monster reading list. Of course it is as much fun to find and sort my "to read" list as it is to actually read the books.
If you'd be so inclined as to help me sort what I should read next, I'd like to sort my "to read" pile into something like a schedule. Recently Read (in the last year)
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09-22-2011, 04:46 PM | #2 |
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1. Harry Potter series. Done.
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09-22-2011, 06:53 PM | #3 | |
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09-23-2011, 02:05 AM | #4 |
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One Second After is a monumentally depressing novel. i'm a 33 year old man with a heart of stone but it almost had me in tears.
dystopian...hmmmm... The Road by Cormac Mccarthy Earth Abides by George Stewart. those might be more post-apocalyptic than dystopian but they're good reads. 1984 by George Orwell is a must for dystopian fans, as is Farenheit 451. |
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Oh yes. 1984 is one of my favorites. I've read it many years ago.
No uplifting hope in the end of One Second After? If it's all doom and gloom than I can leave it. To Read
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I could probably move it up the list but scrapping everything else is not likely.
I have an eight year old son who will eventually like to read these. I just want to get through the whole series before he asks to start to make sure of what he's getting into. |
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Perhaps someday I will look them up. So, thank you for the suggestion. |
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Wasn't tying to suggest you scrap everything else. Just that you should start them next as they are great.
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09-23-2011, 12:35 PM | #11 |
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Since you are currently reading The Name of the Wind, you had might as well throw The Wise Man's Fear onto your to read list - assuming you want to continue with the series.
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If you like the Burroughs "Mars" series, you will almost certainly enjoy Leigh Brackett's works of that type. She was consciously inspired by the works of Burroughs and was a better writer. A good volume to start with the Fantasy Masterworks volume: Sea Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories. It contains some of her best writing and there isn't a weak work among the twelve stories and short novels included.
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the time machine, h.g. wells the running man, stephen king as richard bachman lord of the flies, william golding cat's cradle, kurt vonnegut |
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