recommend me a great book?

Question

the book can be fictitious or factual, but i want to be spellbound, inspired, and moved all at the same time. If you have read the most amazing book ever, please tell me about it?

Answer 1

Hey.

I read a book called 'Paramedic, on the Front Lines of Medicine." by Peter Canning. It's an autobiography of himself. He's a full time Paramedic on Hartford, Connecticut.

This book is the best I've ever read. I'm a teen and it's rare for me to enjoy autobiographies - but it truly inspired me to do the right thing. My Hero is a Paramedic so I took the time to read it. I'm a writer but I wish I could write like Peter Canning. It was pure torture for me waiting for the library to put the second book on hold shelf called: 'Rescue 471, A Paramedic's Story.' by Peter Canning.

I can assure you, you'll respect EMS more than ever. You don't even have to like it, but you'll learn a lot from it. I'll heartily recommend these two books.

Something I've learnt is to believe in yourself. And not just that, believe in what you believe in.

Read it and you'll won't be disappointed. However, it leaves you thinking about life a little more. Let me know if you like it... :)

Warm Regards!
- Maryam (hidden4eternity)

Answer 2

I am reading the most amazing book ever!! Although I've read it about 2 times, it's just so amazing and great every time I read it!!
I definitely recommend you reading:

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

written by Gregory Maguire

I think you'll find that this is an awesome book! After you finish this one, you'll want to read the rest of his books. I've only read two and they are both great as well. Of course they all have to do with fairy tales. One was: Mirror Mirror and the other is Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister. Well, whichever book you decide to read, I'm sure you will love it because you obviously love reading!
Good luck!

Answer 3

smellyteddy says;
"Have you read Phillip Reeve's Mortal Engines? By the name you would be put off but it is truly the best book ever. It is set in many millinums time and it is about a boy who has a hard time and then finds love with the most unusal girl. They travell around the world and are faced by many problems. It is really good and there iss also a sequal called Preditors gold. Oh and did you knowthat Phillip Reeve is the illistrater for the Horriable history books?"

Answer 4

Lucky -- A Memoir by Alice Sebold

It's an awesome book, honestly i hate to read, i was forced to buy this book because it's required by a class when i was in college. But as soon as i started reading it, i just can't put it down.

As a studen at Syracuse University in 1980, Alice is the victim of a horribly brutal rape as she leaves a friends house. The experience understandably shatters her, but even she does not realize the depth of her feelings or the effect they are having on her life and behavior. She eventually sees her rapist again, and takes us through the trial and subsequent events in her life, which are tied intricately to the rape even though she is unaware of it. The afterward picks up ten years after the book opens as she is still battling with the emotional scars that have not yet healed.

Answer 5

Views on books are as individual as the people reading them. I enjoyed James Lasdun's "The Horned Man" as it plays with our trust in a central character - can we really rely on what we are told? "Under the Skin" by Michel Faber is another book that twists reality and adds in satire for good measure. "253" by Geoff Ryman is available at your local bookseller or on the Internet to read now (253 started life as an online novel). "Life a User's Manual" by Georges Perec seems to be a view of different inhabitants of a Paris apartment but is so much more. Murakami is well worth a read as is Muriel Spark and Angela Carter. One of my personal favourites is "The Master and Margerita" by Michael Bulgakov.

The books I have mentioned range from short to hefty but all can move inspire and hold a reader. Just be prepared to put some work in as what you get out of a book can depend on what you put into it.

Answer 6

Have you read "Brave New World"? Most people have, but if you haven't you should. It's fairly short, but it's scary and makes you think a lot. It's one of my favorites.

"1984" kinda follows the same theme, but it's completely different. It's longer, and I'd probably say that it's scarier and more thought-provoking, although I like Brave New World better.

I wouldn't exactly call the "Harry Potter series to be deeply thought-provoking, but if you haven't read them they are good. A lot of people think that they're kids' books, but they're very popular with most of the people I know (mostly late teens and early twenties, but some younger and some much older) and they get more "adult" later in the series (the characters age one year in every book, so while the students started out around 11, they'll be about 18 by the end of the last one).

"The Crucible" is a play, but very good to read. It's a fiction about the Salem witch trials. It's about a bunch of young girls, mostly just terrified but at least one who is definitely malicious, get in trouble and blame their behaviors on "witches", leading to the deaths of a large number of other people.


What kind of books exactly do you like?

Answer 7

Decipher by Stel Pavlou is definately, and without a doubt the BEST book i have ever read. It's partly fictitious and partly fact (there's an extensive bibliography at the back!). Fast paced, full of action, great characters and it takes you all over the world and back again.....makes you question your beliefs somewhat, makes you ask questions of humanity in general, but awesome entertainment too.

Another author i highly recommend is Matthew Reilly.....Ice Station is the first in a series that follows a Navy SEAL and his "adventures" but also, seriously fast moving, and i just love the way he creates and develops his characters.

Answer 8

If you are looking that sort of book I could recommend to you two books by Margaret Laurence Bird in the House and The Diviners. There is a character that will show up in both books and by reading both books you understand her short but terrible life a bit better if you read these books.

Answer 9

I'm not sure how you'll feel about these when you're into them, I find them addictive myself.

Anything by: Joanne Harris (who wrote Chocolat) and Marion Keyes (Irish writer who writes Thinking Woman's Chicklit, which is also extremely funny); I also enjoy Alice Hoffman's books, E. Annie Proulx (of Brokeback Mountain fame). Also many many good crime writers, like Robert Goddard.

There is one with a very misleading title, it's called the Time Traveller's Wife and I can't remember the author's name, but it is a great read.

Answer 10

I LOVED Like the Red Panda by Andrea Seigel. It is mainly revolving around the idea of the main character's contemplation of suicide, but the author does such a wonderful job with it and the book is actually laugh out loud hilarious at times.
Also, History of Love by Nicole Krauss. It is bound to become a classic, no words can express how great it is!!!