I am currently finishing this profound book of insight as to WHY we blacks think the way we do, live the way we do, spend money the way we do, and vote the way we do with every word I absorb in this great read!!!

i highly recommend this book, and i often give it to friends as a birthday or christmas gift...and the success rate for them reading it and loving it has been 100% so far!

it's a very playfully written little fantasy/mystery/fairy tale for children OR adults, but at the same time it's a tutorial on the history of philosophy that's so in-depth that it has a glossary in the back of the book. when you're done with this novel, you feel like you've actually learned something, and you also feel like you've finished a really fully thought-out novel. and it's very light-hearted, but not so much that it's terribly cheesy. it's kind of in the same vein as the narnia books or alice in wonderland, though maybe a little bit more sophisticated and rooted in the modern world. if you're traveling a lot and need a really long book that's a page-turner, i highly recommend this book.

Fup

By Jim Dodge.

Do yourself the favor.

I think you would like this book

Amazing.....

'k, it is a children's book, but you might like it. It's adventurous.

2the9s said:

From an Amazon review: It's a book about a duck. And a boar. And Tiny, who builds fences. And Grandaddy Jake Santee, with his Ol' Death Whisper whiskey.

Anx said:

Definitely a must read and one of my all time fave too Someone HAD TO recommend this one; I'm glad you did

Make me good reader!

This book got me into Lawrence Sanders and I *think* I've read every book by him now. Love his style of writing! Great fiction

i always recommend this book:

XxAxX said:

Anx said:

I did not like it, I even ended up skipping all the parts set in Futura Book because san-serif fonts are so hard to read. I watched the series on TV and it was OK.

XxAxX said:

I liked the GOR books better

nilegettolrahc said:

well, here's another classic series:

In this order, actually...










and

For a smart, funny, and compassionate read...


http://www.amazon.com/gp/...oding=UTF8

i know...i'm years behind the rest of the world (i just fininshed it last week)..but i REALLY enjoyed this book

fantasyislander said:

does that come with the powder and lotions?

SUPAsexy said:

I don't usually read "bestsellers" so if you're looking for pure enjoyment, these might be a bit too serious/depressing. (except Fitzgerald.)

Long Walk to Freedom--Nelson Mandela's Autobiography (my South African history prof was the fact checker! )

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--Dee Brown

Soul on Ice--Eldridge Cleaver

The Beautiful & The Damned or This Side of Paradise--F. Scott Fitzgerald

Black Skins, White Masks--Franz Fanon

The Drowned and the Saved--Primo Levi

Regarding the Pain of Others--Susan Sontag
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Nadja-Andre Breton
Season In Hell/Drunken Boat-Arthur Rimbuad
erotic sketches and paintings by Jean cocteau
Bowie:Loving The Alien
Selected Verses-Federico Garcia Lorca
Dorian Gray-Oscar Wilde
Lady of the flowers-Jean Genet
Queer-William Borroughs
wuthering heights-emily bronte
jane eyre-charlottle bronte
the communist manifesto-karl marx and friedrich engels
the surrealist manifesto-andre breton
the futurist manifesto-forget his name
the dada manifesto-tristan tzara
saint morrissey
saint genet-satre
leaves of grass-walt whitman
..these are a few of my favorites..hope ya enjoy

fantasyislander said:

I read the cliff notes to this one.

lillith said:

the ending sucked big-time.....film is coming out soon.....the casting of Hanks is gonna ruin it all!
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DexMSR said:

cultural anthropology, then?

i've been reading "watching the english." interesting!