What should I pick up that's not fantasy or sci-fi related? I've been reading nothing but those for the last year and need something fresh!

All Quiet on the Western Front

Raptor Red

[ 01-06-2003: Message edited by: G.L. Ryuujin ]

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G.L. Ryuujin got all f'ed up on Angel Dust and wrote:

All Quiet on the Western Front

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Uggghhh.

Sad book. Sad movie, too.

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Frog was listening to Cher while typing:
not fantasy or sci-fi related

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Shit, that rules me out.

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Frog enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
Headed to the library tomorrow and intend to use the ten item limit!

What should I pick up that's not fantasy or sci-fi related? I've been reading nothing but those for the last year and need something fresh!

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The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker. it's a Psychology book and the language is pretty academic, but it's a good read.

Germinal

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

20,000 leagues under the sea

Moby-dick

I kid! I kid!

Haven't read much of his poetry, though. But I've never been one for poetry.

Could pick up a western or two. Those can be entertaining.

On of the all-time greats, and one of my favorites ever.

The Razor's Edge

It - Stephen King (EVIL CLOWNS SCARE DETH!)

If you are really bored, try picking up some of essays and writeing from Enlightment age thinkers/writers. Locke, Voltiare , Montesquieu, and so on..Can be dry, but if you can, the stuff they do write about is pretty spiffy, I found Locke spiffy cause after reading his stuff, alot of things about the government made a great deal more sense.

Island of the Blue Dolphins -Scott O'Dell

Too Deep for Tears -Kathryn Lynn Davis

The Journey of Eleven Moons -Bonnie Leon

Yes, it's in English.

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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael said:
It - Stephen King (EVIL CLOWNS SCARE DETH!)

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Reading it right now. We all float down here, Deth.

1984
All is quiet on the Western Front
Red Badge of Courage
To kill a Mocking Bird
Gullivers Travels
Seawolf
Of Mice and Men
The King and I
Twenty Thousand Leauges under the Sea.
Moby Dick
The last castle. (the original not the Movie version)
I will think of others soon I am sure.

Red Dragon: Thomas Harris

Moon Music: Faye Kellerman

Lord Of The Flies: ???

edit: had to add the last one

[ 01-07-2003: Message edited by: ~*~Beaukat~*~ ]

Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove (Alt History .. some may call it fantasy)

Yeah

If you want to read something different try Johnny Got His Gun. That has to be the saddest, most disgusting book I've ever read. Very deep reading that will change the way you think about things.

BTW: Lord of the Flies is written by William Golding.

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From the book of Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael, chapter 3, verse 16:
(EVIL CLOWNS SCARE DETH!)

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EVIL CLOWNS SCARE ME TOO DETH!lolololllololl

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Lyinar Ka`Bael had this to say about Robocop:
A Separate Peace

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Sucked. I loathe that book

Civil war with an Uzi thrown in here and there..

The Ten Thousand, Michael Curtis Ford
Ressurection Day, Brendan DuBois

The first, is one I'm readin at the moment.. slightly anachronistic view of the greek warriors.

The other, is one that I read last week. Its a what if, on if Kennedy hadnt been killed in Dallas, and the cuban missile crisis hadn't ended so nicely.

Oh, and for amusement..

Jimmy the Wags, by James Wagner.

True stories about a private detective, and some of his more interesting cases. Not a novel, but great toilet reading. the stories all balance to the right length.

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[ 01-08-2003: Message edited by: Black Mage ]

The "World War" series are quite good, again, alt history, this one of WW2, very good read. =p

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Grendel painfully thought these words up:
Sucked. I loathe that book

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I had to read it my junior year of high school, but I actually enjoyed it. Just not how it ended

And I already read Timeline, nem you bish!