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Old 09-17-2010, 10:36 PM
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Tess Gerritsen.

I'm not sure if you like medical thrillers, but if so her's are by far the best I've read. Way better than Michael Palmer or Robin Cook. If you want a series start with The Surgeon. If not go with Harvest.
I'm thinking this lady has been mentioned before- I have GOTTT to check out her books!
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I'm thinking this lady has been mentioned before- I have GOTTT to check out her books!
Yes, you must check her out. You won't regret it.
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Anyways, moving on, have you ever read Angela's Ashes?
I have, yeah - I quite liked it. It's got a black humor about it that I find really endearing, particularly when it comes to Frank's grandmother and how he describes her behavior, as well as how it's juxtaposed against the absolute desolation that is his childhood.

I read, like, a lot. A LOT. I'm the literary equivalent of the crazy cat lady. Other excellent books I would highly recommend:

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
The Outlander series - Diana Gabaldon
These Is My Words - Nancy Turner
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
The Death of Bunny Munro - Nick Cave
Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Memories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Doomsday Book - Connie Willis
Nefertiti - Michelle Moran

If you like biographies/memoirs/autobiographies:

Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music - David Meyer
An Unseemly Man: My Life as a Pornographer, Pundit and Social Outcast by Larry Flynt & Kenneth Ross

And if you like poetry (or even if you don't), Without by Donald Hall. Donald Hall is my all-time favorite poet, and this book literally changed my life. It's about the death of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon, written as a series of "letters" to her after she died from leukemia and interspersed with poems he wrote during her illness itself. It is stunning.
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Some random recommendations:

Possession - A.S. Byatt
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
A Thousand Splendid Suns and the aforementioned The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver

Nonfiction
God Grew Tired of Us- John Dau
A Piece of Cake - Cupcake Brown
Columbine - Dave Cullen (A really chilling, gripping read, with the pacing of a novel. Highly recommended.)
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Some random recommendations:

Possession - A.S. Byatt
Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
A Thousand Splendid Suns and the aforementioned The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver

Nonfiction
God Grew Tired of Us- John Dau
A Piece of Cake - Cupcake Brown
Columbine - Dave Cullen (A really chilling, gripping read, with the pacing of a novel. Highly recommended.)
Believe it or not, I read that one for the freshman book-thing when I first started going into college. I loved it and I have a signed copy too.
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