The Good Books Thread/ATARnotes Book Club!

[Camo]

The hungry caterpillar.



Anyone remember the books they read growing up?

I remember the first book I read was where the wild things are.

[Readinya]

"Perfume: The Story of a Murderer" - By Patrick Suskind Thriller, historical

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 1985 literary historical cross-genre novel (originally published in German as Das Parfum) by German writer Patrick Süskind. The novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meaning that scents may carry. Above all this is a story of identity, communication and the morality of the human spirit.

I read this book when I was 10. It was gruesome.


Obernewtyn Chronicles - by Isobelle Carmody Sci-fi/fantasy

The Obernewtyn Chronicles is a series of science fiction and fantasy novels by Australian author Isobelle Carmody. The series has a post apocalyptic setting, and depict a world long after its destruction by a global nuclear holocaust.
The series' protagonist, Elspeth Gordie, is a young girl with mental powers condemned by the series' main antagonists, the governing body known as the Council, and the religious authority, the Herder Faction. The novels deal with themes of responsibility, duty, prejudice, discrimination, tolerance, and human and animal rights.

Books by Robin Hobb Fantasy
I absolutely love the Farseer Trilogy and the Tawny Man Trilogy. <3


Or if you're desperate, just grab any thick-ish looking book. That's how I discovered some of my favourite books in the library

[JellyDonut]

Flowers for mo'fucking Algernon

[liuetenant]

READ:

Night--Elie Wiesel<--awesome! So tense and suspenseful! it's a true story...set during WW2, nazi concentration camps, about a him and his father and their struggles....it was a really great read!

Water for Elephants--Sara Gruen<--this is surprisingly not bad. i haven't watched the movie, and probs will not intend to because books tend to turn out worse when transformed into their movie counterpart   The prose is fantastic! Read it! :O

[HERculina]

The messenger by Markus Zusak was gooooood!

[funkyducky]

@Readinya:

Isobelle Carmody <3 = my childhood. (+ harry potter, etc.) She was my favourite author when I was little

Also, @hercules, Markus Zusak is awesome. The book thief is so good, but I've yet to read any of his other books.

Currently working my way through Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics (short story collection)

[HERculina]

ohhhh i havent read the book thief yet, might try read it in the holidays!
we had to read The Gathering in year 8 by Isobelle Carmody, but i didnt really enjoy it ^^
OHHH
VAMPIRES ACADEMY IS GOOD TOO! BETTER THAN TWILIGHT HAHA

[ninwa]

Farseer Trilogy. Still my favourite series by far.

I had to read Perfume for uni and holy shit did it creep me out. We also watched the movie. Ugh.

[Readinya]

Farseer Trilogy. Still my favourite series by far.

+1! I love the Fool <3

I had to read Perfume for uni and holy shit did it creep me out. We also watched the movie. Ugh.

Imagine how I felt when i was reading it when I was 10 years old!!

[Lasercookie]

A few of my favourite books:

Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Mark Haddon
Boy and Going Solo, Roald Dahl
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, Richard Feynman

[burbs]

I'll write reviews later... but:

Great Gatsby
Lolita
Perfume
A Fraction of the whole
The Beach
Harry Potter
The Finkler Question


Also: When reading Lolita in public spaces, keep a notebook handy and pretend to scribble stuff down and go 'interesting tactic.... must try that'


more later... tired.

Few more:

Wind up bird chronicle
finkler question

[Menang]

Oooh @OP: I'm just about to read Never Let Me Go, heard it's quite awesome.

My all time favourites are The Hobbit and Roald Dahl's short stories, they're pretty epic.

I also enjoyed Albert Camus when we read him in 1/2 lit, so props to the poster who suggested him.

A guilty pleasure would defs be the Hunger Games, soo pumped for the movie release coming up!

[funkyducky]

^ I'm getting hunger games soon ahhh children's literature <3

 I've wanted to read Camus' 'The Plague', but I'm trying to get a copy of the French...maybe I should get a french and an english version so I can translate properly rather than having to grab a dictionary every 10 seconds.

Also The hobbit <3 sparked my childhood (and ongoing) love with fantasy literature. I read it when I was 6 (to be fair, my copy had lots of pictures) after I'd just read Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone, and the two made me LOVE reading, fantasy books especially. I tried to read LOTR after that but it was too much. Finally got around to reading that when I was 10. I've also read the silmarillion, and I have a copy of the children of hurin, never got around to reading it...I'll add that to my waiting list.

[ninwa]

Farseer Trilogy. Still my favourite series by far.

+1! I love the Fool <3

I had to read Perfume for uni and holy shit did it creep me out. We also watched the movie. Ugh.

Imagine how I felt when i was reading it when I was 10 years old!!

I think I love Farseer so much because it's like the only book I've read that doesn't have a happy ending...

And what the hell were you doing reading Perfume at 10?!??!

[aabattery]

Gifted Hands - The Ben Carson Story

It's an autobiography of Ben Carson, an American neurosurgeon (one of the best in the world) - it's an amazing book!

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