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The Lies of Locke Lomara

(Think Roy Mars has read it as well)
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..I've just bought The Goldfinch today because Shaun recommended it but I haven't started reading it yet, I'll probably start it next week...if you read it as well and it's no good, we could maybe kill Shaun..?...
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Hunger Games series
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[seconds ammi's suggestion]

in fact, if you haven't read it, read 'The Secret History' by the same author (Donna Tartt) first... it's about a group of college friends taking classics and getting high and having orgies and.... MURDER

The Goldfinch is good too but it's a bit less dramatic (but I'm less than halfway through it), about a kid whose mum dies in a bomb explosion and his growing up experiences
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Hmm, I'll look into Goldfinch and The Secret History. That Locke Lamora book sounds interesting but I can't really stand reading fantasy books. I've already read Hunger Games and Divergent just looks like a cheap cash in of it. I've always wanted to read Monte Cristo but i'm not in the mood for a classic atm.

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Hmm, I'll look into Goldfinch and The Secret History. That Locke Lamora book sounds interesting but I can't really stand reading fantasy books. I've already read Hunger Games and Divergent just looks like a cheap cash in of it. I've always wanted to read Monte Cristo but i'm not in the mood for a classic atm.
it's a good book though? i'm being serious
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The first one was couldn't get into the second one
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Anything by Jack Ketchum if you like extreme horror. I am currently reading Ladies Night and it is fantastic.

It's about a chemical spill that turns women into crazy zombie-like sex pests.

Very gruesome so far.
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Anything by Stephen King, I'd suggest Carrie
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..Also, what about the Dark Tower series, Dezzy..I think that Ben has read them and my son also did quite a while ago and I know that he couldn't put them down at the time..he became cut off from the world and totally absorbed in them...
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Epic Fantasy - "Homeland" by R. A. Salvatore ( Start of the Dark Elf Trilogy)
Fantasy/Horror - "The Painted Man" by Peter V. Brett (Start of the Demon Cycle)
Fantasy - "Edge of Destiny" by J. Robert King

Okay
Fantasy, Thriller, Young-adult fiction - "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel: The Magician" by Michael Scott (Start of a Series)

I'm sure there's more but I just woke up and I can't think. I don't really know what genre you like but I've mostly read fantasy.
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Oh you could also try "I am Number Four" by Pittacus Lore (Start of Lorien Legacies", there's a film of it but it's kinda crap. It's another Young Adult one though, it doesn't have particularly engaging language but it's quite modern and books are still coming out regularly.
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Try The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King (Or Under the Dome, also by Stephen King)
The Trilogy: The Fall etc. by Guillermo Del Toro
Any of John Connellys, but start with the first as they make better sense that way.
Andersonville by McKinley Kantor
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