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We all love books, right? okay, maybe not eveyrbody.. but without books, we are CLUELESS! You hear us? We will be dull,stupid and um. um.. um... DUMB! Yeah.. *gasp*
So, when we read books, we have our own world... and we gotta say.. that is so totally AWESOME!
Not only do we get to widen our vocab but we also exercise our power of IMAGINATION! Do you get us? Do you really get us?????? C'mon! okay, so you do get us...
Going back.. Here's our Top Ten RECOMMMENDED Books you MUST read!!!
Oh we forgot.. it's in the category of... FICTION & FANTASY.... heheh...,. moving on....
1. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut`s absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. In a plot-scrambling display of virtuosity, we follow Pilgrim simultaneously through all phases of his life, concentrating on his (and Vonnegut`s) shattering experience as an American prisoner of war who witnesses the firebombing of Dresden. Unstuck in time, Billy Pilgrim, Vonnegut´s shattered survivor of the Dresden bombing, relives his life over and over again under the gaze of aliens; he comes at last to some understanding of the human comedy.
1. The Road (Oprah`s Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy
is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other`s world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation.
3. Confessor: Chainfire Trilogy, Part 3 (Sword Of Truth, Book 11)
Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of a savage new world, while Richard faces the guilt of knowing that he must let it happen. Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he lovesand has lost. Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable and memorable journeys ever written. It started with one rule, and will end with the rule of all rules, the rule unwritten, the rule unspoken since the dawn of history. When next the sun rises, the world will be forever changed.
4. Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs
Mercy Thompson`s life is not exactly normal. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she`s fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy isn`t exactly normal herself.Mercy Thompson`s life is not exactly normal. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she`s fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy isn`t exactly normal herself.
5. Blasphemy by Douglas Preston
The world`s biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself.The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world`s most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of Heaven?Twelve scientists under the leadership of Hazelius are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on, and what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is tapped to wrest their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world...or save it.The countdown begins...
In the epic trilogy His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman unlocks the door to worlds parallel to our own. Dæmons and winged creatures live side by side with humans, and a mysterious entity called Dust just might have the power to unite the universes--if it isn`t destroyed first. The three books in Pullman`s heroic fantasy series, published as mass-market paperbacks with new covers, are united here in one boxed set that includes The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass. Join Lyra, Pantalaimon, Will, and the rest as they embark on the most breathtaking, heartbreaking adventure of their lives. The fate of the universe is in their hands.
7. The Time Traveler`s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
A dazzling novel in the most untraditional fashion, this is the remarkable story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare`s passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures the two lovers in an impossibly romantic trap, and it is Audrey Niffenegger`s cinematic storytelling that makes the novel`s unconventional chronology so vibrantly triumphant. An enchanting debut and a spellbinding tale of fate and belief in the bonds of love, The Time Traveler`s Wife is destined to captivate readers for years to come.
8. Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
The narrator of this extraordinary tale is a man  in search for truth. He answers an ad in a local  newspaper from a teacher looking for serious  pupils, only to find himself alone in an abandoned  office with a full-grown gorilla who is nibbling  delicately on a slender branch. "You are the  teacher?" he asks incredulously. "I am  the teacher," the gorilla replies. Ishmael is  a creature of immense wisdom and he has a story  to tell, one that no other human being has ever  heard. It is a story that extends backward and  forward over the lifespan of the earth from the birth  of time to a future there is still time save.  Like all great teachers, Ishmael refuses to make the  lesson easy; he demands the final illumination to  come from within ourselves. Is it man`s destiny  to rule the world? Or is it a higher destiny  possible for him-- one more wonderful than he has ever  imagined?
9. The Outlaw Demon Wails (Rachel Morgan, Book 6) by Kim Harrison
When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it`s up to shapeshifting car mechanic Mercy Thompson to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not. And she`ll have to choose between the two werewolves in her life-whether she wants to or not.
10. Small Favor (The Dresden Files, Book 10) by Jim Butcher
No one`s tried to kill Harry Dresden for almost an entire year, and his life finally seems to be calming down. For once, the future looks fairly bright. But the past casts one hell of a long shadow. An old bargain has placed Harry in debt to Mab, monarch of the Winter Court of the Sidhe, the Queen of Air and Darkness-and she`s calling in her marker. It`s a small favor he can`t refuse...one that will trap Harry Dresden between a nightmarish foe and an equally deadly ally, and one that will strain his skills-and loyalties-to their very limits.
And this ends out TOP TEN! Hope you go your nearest library slash bookstore and get your hands on these books! We're sure you'll never regret reading all of these!
Ciao!!!
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