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I am an avid reader., here is a list of books I recommend (with the authors), --Lord of the Rings Trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien), --The Space Trilogy, The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis), --Harry Potter Series (J.K. Rowling), --Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote), --The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway), --Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, The Glory Road (Robert A. Heinlein), --To Reign in Hell (Steven Brust), --Fallen Angels (Walter Dean Myers), --Les Miserables (Victor Hugo), --The Abhorsen Trilogy (Garth Nix), --His Dark Materials Trilogy (Philip Pullman), --A Song of Ice and Fire Saga (George R.R. Martin), --Anything ever written by Isaac Asimov, --The Host (Stephanie Meyer) (Thanks, Mvenus!) :-)
NPR, The Guardian, Pitchfork Media, The Onion, BBC News
I could keep you reading for days on this list, but I'd rather you read my blogs than my book recommendations. Take it for granted that I read.... a lot. That should be good enough.
I absorb news like a sponge. A good sponge, not the crappy ones from the dollar store. Or maybe I should say I absorb news like Bounty paper towels. Or maybe the brand with the lumberjack the preferred brand nowadays. I'm so busy absorbing news I can't keep track of advertising schemes.
Google News, Alternet, Common Dreams, OliverWillis.com, other blogs
www.cnn.com, folio weekly, Florida times union
"Welcome to the Monkey House", "Rant", "Stranger Than Fiction", "Fight Club", "Lullabye", Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk, All of Stephen King's Works, Insomnia, Salem's Lot, Carrie, Anthem, The Fountainhead
None i don't like byase news
Orxy & Crake (Atwood), The Sirens of Titan, Cat's Cradle, and Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut), Servant of the Bones and the Mayfair Witch Triology (Rice), 1984 (Orwell), Eve's Seed (McElvaine), The Creation of Patriarchy (Lerner)
National Public Radio, The New York Times online
msnbc, cnn
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Blue Jean: What Young Women are Thinking, Saying, and Doing complied by Sherry Handel, and of course The Scholarship Search written by me!
CNN, C-Span, Google
USA Today, Washington Post, Fox News, Digg, The Limbaugh Letter, and various other sources.
www.sciencemag.org, www.knowledgenews.net
Love the Classics. Right now I'm reading the Harvard Classics book series, just starting though prollly won't be done till I'm 50. haha. but I'm also reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand., I thoroughly enjoied The Great Gatsby, The Awakening (though some points were vain), Ender's game, Bud not Buddy, Stargirl, Maniac Magee, Shakespeare's works of poetry and plays, though I have read limited amounts of both, and thus the list continues.
San Antonio Express News. haha., I get alot of news from school, seldom watch CNN, Yahoo! News usually has very interesting stuff in it, and I enjoy that, Fox election coverage, but a lot of things they "cover" are stupid such as percentages that equal 118% just kinda makes them loose credibility. And, the Radio has good news, Shawn Hanitty is real, but a lil overrated. I really like him. haha. and that's really about it other than popular media.
The Outsiders, Of Mice and Men, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Rose for Emily, Romeo and Juliet, Old Yeller, That was Then, This is Now
The Economist, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Wikipedia, various radical and conspiracy theory sites for kicks.
1) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson, 2) Wonderland Avenue - Danny Sugarman, 3) Boy Wonder - James T. Baker, 4) Pollen - Jeff Noon, 5) Vurt - Jeff Noon
www.theguardian.co.uk, www.bbc.co.uk
To the lighthouse, Dracula, White Oleander, The Blue Girl, A Clockwork Orange, To kill a Mockingbird, Girl Interupted, The Jungle, The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Counte of Monte Cristo, Walden, Death of a Salesman, Of Mice and Men, A mid summer nights dream, Taming of the Shrew, The Historian, Poe, the Giver, Pride and prejudice, A great and Terrible Beauty, Frankenstein, A Curse of a Winter moon
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, CNN, and CSPAN
Books that challenge the mind and stimulate thought... as well as love stories and stories about growing up. Note I say love stories, not those pornagraphic romance novels. Books about war, science, and nature. Mystery novels, well-written science fiction and fantasy... I don't believe that I'm picky until I x-ray the back of any book.
