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kekta @ yes stolen by lucy christopher is a beautiful tale a eye openerr about a teens life and howw nature is at australias desert i luved itt ndd hv a copy myself

I just finished "Sh*t my dad says!"....though it may not be intellectual enough...the book was really funny...offensive but funny!

Just read "At First Sight" By Nicholas Sparks...

Its an amazing book...

Originally posted by: ShabooKiDeewani

Great topic! Here is one book i recommend

Name: Who moved my Cheese? by Stephen Johnson

Genre: Management/Leadership/Motivation..etc..etc..

Story Outline: The story is about 2 mice - sniff and snuff and two little people Hew and Haw. You need to read the book to understand the philosophy behind it. 😊

Why do you recommend it: Because it motivates you and makes you remember what is required to accomplish and embrace change..

Rating(scale of 1-5, 5 being the best): 5

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb :)

Jst read A walk to remember. Its just beautiful!😊

Name : The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafn (Author), Lucia Graves (Translator)
Genre : historical-fiction, magical-realism, mystery-thriller
Story Outline : Barcelona, 1945—Just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes one day to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again.

Daniel's father coaxes him to choose a book from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the book he selects, a novel called The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax's work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last of Carax's books in existence.

Before Daniel knows it, his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness, and doomed love, and before long he realizes that if he doesn't find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.

Why do you recommend it: The book's biggest triumph is its ability to be a fun, exciting and meaningful read without leaving your brain panting from excessive literary analysis. It has its nuggets of wisdom (a lot actually), but you don't have to expend a lot of effort getting to them. They are right there in the lovely narrative and lively dialogue.

My Rating : 5/5

Name: One Bright Summer Morning

Author: James Hadley Chase

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Story Outline: Victor Dermott, a dramatist, goes to a ranch house called Wastelands, with his wife, his 10 month old boy, his dog and a Vietnamese servant, looking for some peace for writing his next play. Wastelands was a compact de luxe ranch house some fifty miles away from Pitt City and 20 miles away from Boston Creek. Then One bright summer morning, he wakes to find his dog, His servant vanished and the telephone wires cut.One bright summer morning, the personal world of playwright, Victor Dermott, becomes overcast, when he and his wife Carrie and his  infant baby,  are held hostage in an isolated ranch house by a depraved mob of killers. His dog and his Vietnamese servant are already dead and his guns are missing. Retired mobster, Big Jim Kramer, in a bid to stage a comeback in the rackets, had kidnapped Zelda, daughter of oil millionaire,  Van Wylie, and  had chosen Vic's isolated ranch to hide Zelda.   With his wife and child held hostage, Vic also had to negotiate with Van Wylie and  collect the ransom money

Why do you recommend it: Another wonderful novel by James Hadley Chase

Other comment: You will love the way the story gets new twists

Rating(scale of 1-5, 5 being the best): 4 Edited by Ramya-CIDnSSfan - 12 years ago

Name: The Doomsday Conspiracy

Author: Sidney Sheldon

Genre: Thriller, Novel

Story Outline:

The protagonist of the story is Robert Bellamy, a man hired by the NSA to locate the several bus passengers in Switzerland who had accidentally seen a weather balloon with some top secret equipment (later on identified as a UFO) collapsing in the woods. As Robert locates the passengers one by one, they are mysteriously killed. Each murder has been meticulously staged to appear as an accident. Robert's marriage also dissolves, as his wife, starved for attention by Robert, marries a rich business tycoon Monte Banks.

As Commander Robert Bellamy of US naval is in the verge of completion of his mission, he learns that he is being hunted by an unknown lethal force. Robert runs escaping from the attackers from Washington to Zurich, Rome and Paris. As the story unfolds to reveal Bellamy's past - why the women he loves cannot return his love, why his most beloved friends become his deadly enemies. Bellamy finally learns that the investigation ends in the place where he had started it...with an incredible conclusion.

Why do you recommend it: Because of the wonderful imagination of the author

Other comment: It is a good thriller with a glimpse of almost everything

Rating(scale of 1-5, 5 being the best): 4

Angels and demon by Dan brown...extremely gripping..