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OK, I have been trying to read that book for over 10 years....but holy fuck does it get better because I keep getting bored 😬

I also forgot to add A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.

No.

My army and I are taking notes. We will come after you.

The Last Unicorn, Divisadero, Never Let Me Go, The Kite Runner, Shipping News, Lives of Girls and Women, Oryx and Crake, His Dark Materials series

Thanks for ur response

Honestly I quite liked you deserve each other

The silent patient and uhhh a man called ove

In person book clubs are a lot of fun. It's weird walking into a room of people you don't know to talk about something intensely personal (your thoughts on what you read), so your nervousness is understandable. But do go. It will be interesting, and I think you'll be glad you went.

A person or government could ban or burn every book they deem harmful & it still wouldn’t stop whatever it is they think is dangerous. You have other means to get information other than books.

The special editions would be books I already own and would be purely display. These being LoTR and or various Ray Bradbury books. I already have a 1st edition of Fahrenheit 451.

Oooo thanks I will be looking into these. I'm currently reading east of eden and I'm enjoying it

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Adding all of these to my wish list HAHAHAH thanksss

Red rising series by pierce brown and way of kings by Brandon Sanderson

alrighty then.

• the house in the cerulean sea
• under the whispering door
• Roots
• Kane and Abel
• The cursebreaker series
• defy the night series
• The princess bride
• The storied life of AJ Fikry
• She's come undone
• the silence of the lambs
• the book thief
• memoirs of a geisha
• the hunger games (SHUT UP THIS WAS A FUN READ, OK 🤣)
• the passage series (by Justin Cronin)
• The stand
• Swan song
• To kill a mockingbird
• handmaid's tale
• Ender's game
• Old man's war series
• The godfather

Everything is Illuminated

Iain Reid's I'm Thinking of Ending Things took me on a trip unlike any other. Some parts terrified me genuinely, and I haven't found another book that made me feel like that. I asked for suggestions on r/horrorlit and there were a lot of good ones, but to this day I haven't found its match.

A Touch of Jen was also a fun ride. If you haven't heard of it, please don't look it up. Just go in blind :p

To Paradise has its flaws, but Hanya Yanagihara's writing is just so captivating. I wish I could forget the last story and read it again.

This is tough. I feel like special editions are something you invest in when you are collecting and want to to keep the books in pristine condition for display. If you're going to read them, I would say buy regular copies so if anything happens to them you're not destroying a coveted first edition on accident.

Before you invest in a huge haul, I'd think about what you actually want out of this library. If it's purely aesthetic, or whether or not you actually want to read all of these titles. If you are planning on reading them all, I'd suggest maybe only buying a few at a time, so you're motivated to read through every title so you can increase your collection. This is also a better way to go about it if your list changes over time. i.e., if you buy a big haul now and you lose interest in some of these books because you get hooked on another genre before you finish reading through your collection, you may find you end up never reading some of the titles at all.

If you purchase and read one or two books at a time, you can really tailor your collection to suit your tastes and interests as it changes over time.

Based on a tendency for stupidity and fanaticism that would find alternative inspiration if it didn’t have access to a copy of the Bible. Besides, I doubt the average evangelical nutcrack has read all of the books in the Bible, let alone done so in a historical, comparative perspective (which was the whole point of my original comment).

As with any ideological extreme, it usually doesn’t come from reading too much. Make the Bible vanish (the dozens of books included in that plural, from the cosmology of the first books of the Old Testament to the philosophy of Ecclesiastes) and a dumbed down, alternative monotheistic pamphlet would take its place, with all the prejudice and none of the literary quality. If you think we are “too advanced” in “2023” to come up with something as stupid as the worst in the Bible, but also gray and prosaic, just look at the average enlightened netizen interpreting my original comment as “using Greek mythology to justify oppressing people”. As if the so much of the Bible didn’t share roots with Greek mythology, and so much of the New Testament wasn’t Greek philosophy recycled. 8th grade understanding of Ancient history.

You'd think for a subreddit called "books" its users would read more carefully.

We are Legion (We are bob) by Dennis E Taylor

No no pls when it comes to books I ain't complaining about long lists .

How in the world did you get that Lolita was a justification of pedophilia??? Humbert is a deluded and unreliable narrator and you're supposed to be disgusted by him, that's not an endorsement of pedophilia. Nabokov was likely a survivor himself.

ooooo this is a hard question because there are SO MANY awesome books. I can't just pick one so I will list them:

• red rising series
• the power of the dog series
• Pet Sematary
• The Shining
• IT
• The kite runner
• all the light we cannot see
• a prayer for Owen Meany
• the nightingale
• Pachinko
• Ember in the Ashes series
• The kitchen house / glory over everything
• song of Achilles
• Underground railroad
• the power of one

i could go on and on but then this will be a longass comment lol

Absolutely! It's a shame that so many boosters for alternative medicine pair it with distrust of conventional medicine. They are often preying on people's bad experiences with the medical industry, and neglect to mention that some of these alternatives are also billion dollar industries!

In the theme of this thread, all those books written in bad faith would be my nomination, though it's impossible to screen for that.

TIL there is another person in this wide wide world that doesn't get all the hype about Margaret Atwood.

At my book club, we go around and each person gets a chance to say what they thought of the book. I'd suggest looking at your notes and listing out the things you want to say. You might even want to type things out on a page that you will just be reading from. I have social anxiety as well. I used to stumble over what I wanted to say when I was just trying to wing things with my comments.

My book club also has a dedicated researcher who looks up information about the book or the author. After we've gone around and given our opinion, the researcher shares what she's learned with us.

Then there is more of a period for open discussion regarding the book. The person who heads the book club often has a list of questions that she asks the group and whoever wants to can answer.

We're meeting on Zoom these days. The meeting typically lasts an hour and ends at this point. Before the pandemic, we used to meet at people's houses. When we did that, the hostess would serve food and drinks. Then there would be a period for people to just chat more openly. As somebody with social anxiety, that part was a little awkward for me. But it's a good opportunity to practice your socialization skills. People are usually pretty nice, and after you go a few times, you will start to get to know them.