| I lifted this topic from the other Anti-Twilight club (RIP), but it's a good'un. Basically, what else can you think of to read besides Twilight. I've got a brief list. Also, before you read my list, I'm not a Nazi, stoner or homophobe. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair Dracula by Bram Stoker To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee The Elements of Style by E.B. White and William Strunk jr. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinback The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Lolita by Vladmir Nabikov Napalm and Silly Putty by George Carlin The Art of War by Sun Tzu The Autobiography of Malcom X On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein Jesus Weed by Gerald Taylor America: the Book by Jon Stewart Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (saga) by Douglas Adams The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Carrie by Stephen King On Writing by Stephen King Boogers are my Beat by Dave Barry The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Maus by Art Spiegelman Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler The Best Short Stories of 2007 edited by Stephen King |
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| I'd rather read the phone book than Twilight tbh. But since I'm not that big of a reader (at all. srsly), I guess I only have one book to reccomend; Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. |
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| Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman American Gods by Neil Gaiman Anything really at all by Neil Gaiman Anything really at al by Chuck Palahniuk |
| My Sister's Keeper. I stick to real life ones with good romance. |
| I can't believe you mentioned mein kampf. I understand your no nazi but still it's suprising you listed it, seeing as who wrote it, and what it's about. You have your reasons. Here's some authors and books I liked. Animal Farm by George Orwell For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway The Giver by Lois Lowry Lost Horizon by James Hilton Cirque Du Freak by Darren Shan It by Stephen King CLockwork Orange by Anthony Burguess Go ask Alice by Anonymous Illiad and the Oddesy by Homer Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay |
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couldntfind1 said: It by Stephen King Hell yeah, that's my favorite Stephen King novel. Also, I felt Mein Kampf, terrible as it is, is still a challenging read that gives insight into one of the most powerful military minds of the Twentieth Century. |
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t_calypso said: Hell yeah, that's my favorite Stephen King novel. Also, I felt Mein Kampf, terrible as it is, is still a challenging read that gives insight into one of the most powerful military minds of the Twentieth Century. Stephen King's It is well... Let's just say I don't like clowns anymore. Stephen King is one of my favorite horror authors. I'm proud to be a fan of his. Check this out. Stephen King vebally assaulted Stephenie Meyer's writing in an interview.http://blogs.usaweekend.com/whos_news/2009/02/exclusive-steph.html Mein Kampf is challenging to read. I'd be disgusted trying to force my way through that book. But I get what your saying, going into the mind of Adolf Hitler and all. Even that book's better then Twilight, but it may be an exaggeration. |
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| Salem's Lot will always be my favorite Stephen King novel. |
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| 1984 by George Orwell (Doublethink!) Any Discworld book by Terry Pratchett Neverwhere, or anything by Neil Gaiman Good Omens by Terry Pratchett AND Neil Gaiman Redwall series by Brian Jacques Anatopsis by Chris Abouzeid Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases by Nisioisin (an anime spinoff book, but still...) JANE EYRE. Just, Jane Eyre (who would LAUGH at Bella). Anything by Shakespeare. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones All the Pretty Horses (Oh yeah. Meyer, just try copying THAT kind of style.) ...and last but definitely not least, Lord of the Flies. Have fun, Edward, dealing with a group of boys who like the feel of pig's blood running over their fingers (okay, well, it's just Jack....But Ralph isn't completely good either). |
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| Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice |
| People keep calling me an Emo. I'm not. Emos cut themselves. I cut other people. |
| His Dark Materials - Trilogy by Phillip Pullman |
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Saffy said: 1984 by George Orwell (Doublethink!) Any Discworld book by Terry Pratchett Neverwhere, or anything by Neil Gaiman Good Omens by Terry Pratchett AND Neil Gaiman Redwall series by Brian Jacques Anatopsis by Chris Abouzeid Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases by Nisioisin (an anime spinoff book, but still...) JANE EYRE. Just, Jane Eyre (who would LAUGH at Bella). Anything by Shakespeare. Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones All the Pretty Horses (Oh yeah. Meyer, just try copying THAT kind of style.) ...and last but definitely not least, Lord of the Flies. Have fun, Edward, dealing with a group of boys who like the feel of pig's blood running over their fingers (okay, well, it's just Jack....But Ralph isn't completely good either). Wow.I've read all of this and I have to say you have great tastes.Someone once told me that Twilight is a book and it doesn't matter how it's written as long as it attracts readers,because the ultimate goal of a book is to be read and liked.Which is,of course,unfair.There are a lot of great books that aren't commercial,that aren't about sugary love and therefore are relatively unknown. Another list of good books: Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice Emily Bronte-Wuthering Heights->a great example of a romance book.I can't believe that Meyer compared her characters(Bella,Edward,Jacob) with Bronte's cast. Miguel de Cervantes- Don Quixote Dante Alighier-The Divine Comedy Charles Dickens-Great Expectations Gustave Flauber- Madame Bovary James Joyce- Ulysses(not as easy to read) Franz Kafka-The Trial Thomas Mann-The Magic Mountain Marcel Proust- Remembrance of Things Past Leo Tolstoy- War and Peace Virginia Woolf- Mrs. Dalloway Henry Miller-Tropic of Cancer Mary Shelley-Frankenstein Isaac Asimov-Foundation Philip K. Dick-Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? |
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| heres some of my favorites vampire kisses by ellen schreiber: Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true. bad kitty by michele jaffe: Wannabe detective Jasmine is on a family vacation at Las Vegas's Venetian Hotel. When a runaway cat attacks her, she finds herself in the middle of a real-life mystery involving a famous model/actress, her fugitive husband and a very handsome young man with a British accent. Jas seems to attract catastrophe. Other characters, including her fashion-savvy best friend, who drives a van called the Pink Pearl, and an unlikable cousin, who considers flavored lip gloss dessert, come along for the ride, offering assistance and often also ending up in trouble. Even so, it's hard not to like a book with a bow-wearing bodyguard nicknamed the Fabinator and a main character who grew up playing Barbie Crime Scene. fourtunes fool by mercedes lackley: Able to move about on both land and water, the Sea King's seventh daughter, Princess Ekaterina—called Katya—serves her family as both ambassador and spy. When a mission to the realm of Belarus leads to her meeting with Prince Sasha, seventh son of the king and accounted a fool by all, she suspects that he is something more, but a greedy Jinn seizes Katya and traps her in a castle with his other royal prizes. |
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| Spartan by Valerio Massimo Manfredi. The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mysteries by Nury Vittachi |
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LordSchmee said: Spartan by Valerio Massimo Manfredi. Dude, I love that book! I only got half-way through it until I left it on an airplane accidentally... |
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t_calypso said: LordSchmee said: Spartan by Valerio Massimo Manfredi. Dude, I love that book! I only got half-way through it until I left it on an airplane accidentally... !! Man that must suck. >_< |
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| I'm about to start American Gods by Neil Gaiman. I hope it's as good as I've heard. |
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| I truly, definitely, extremely suggest that you all read other vampire stories... I recommend the Cirque Du Freak series (there are 12 books, more than the stupid Twilight) it has a good vampire story and absolutely no romantic hentai in it... i guarantee! ^^ |
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renmaaikawa said: I truly, definitely, extremely suggest that you all read other vampire stories... I recommend the Cirque Du Freak series (there are 12 books, more than the stupid Twilight) it has a good vampire story and absolutely no romantic hentai in it... i guarantee! ^^ The series is actually called the Darren Shan Saga, and I agree that it is so much better than Twilight is. I was lucky enough to buy all twelve books from a school magazine for £24.99. The Demonata by Darren Shan is also a great series to read. |
| Cirque Du Freak was 1000x better. Another vampire novel thats alot better than Twilight is Blue Bloods. It's not the best, but it is definetly more tolerable. |
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| sorry if im rementioning some but the zombie survival guide and world war z are good also 1984, farenheit 451, and ten thousand leagues under the sea |
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deathcow1 said: but the zombie survival guide and world war z are good This I agree with, Max Brooks is awesome. Also agree with Terry Pratchett and Stephen King. |
| Pretty much anything, but here are some specific ones. Dune - Frank Herbert Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle The Poison Belt - Arthur Conan Doyle Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne |
| I haven't read many books but those were kinda nice: Hunger Games and Morganville Vampires |
| @alwaysbored: The Hunger Games is great! A gazillion times greater than Twilight. They're both targeted at the same audience, and I will never understand why Twilight is more popular than the Hunger Games. I read Eyes Like Stars: Theatre Illuminata Act I today by Lisa Mantchev. It's really good too (it had a recommendation on the front cover by Suzanne Collins, that's part of why I tried it out). Now I'm recommending it to others too XD I also reviewed in on my blog here, in case anyone wants to know more. |
| La Peste (The Plague) - Albert Camus Angels & Demons - Dan Brown Knights of the Cross - Henryk Sienkiewicz |
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| Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr (I haven't read the third book yet.) (What my friend suggest I should read.) Blood Sucking Fiends by Christopher Moore Sabriel Lirael Abhorsen by Garth Nix Witch & Wizard God forbidded nothing of Holly Black.. she reminds me too much of Stephenie Meyer. |
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