Book Reviews

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I know we have a book thread but this is different. Because in the book thread everyone just mentions any book they have read or whatever without selling the book to others.
So i thought i'd make a book review thread.
Everybody that posts in here MUST recommend a book and give it a review: The questions that should be answered are:

Title of book:
Author:
Genre:
Short Description:
Why you enjoyed it:
Why you think others will enjoy it:

I'll get everything started, i really want everyone to participate in this thread because i think people will start mentioning books that they reall enjoy.

Anyway i'll start off, this is one of my favourites, if not my favourite.

Title Perfume: story of a murderer
Author Patrick Suskind
Genre Thriller
Short Description: Based in the 18th and early 19th centurary in france, Perfume is a book about a man who has an amazing sense of smell, yet carry's no odur himself. It starts off from his birth to his death and his amazing life. See the world through a pessimistic, yet realistic pair of glasses and though based in that 18th/19th centurary you can still relate it to todays world. His quest to make the perfect odur will drive him to do so many things.
why i enjoyed it? I enjoyed this book because it's just so well written. I literally didn't sleep till i actually finished the book (the only other books that have done that are Davinci code and angels and demons). An easy read with a great story line. Though it starts off a litle slow it had me on the edge of my seat. The main charcters digust and loath for man and society was just compelling and the things it made him do. His life just fascinated me.
why i think others will enjoy it Honestly, this book is amazing, the way it was written the strong story line and the detailed way of describing things, makes you feel as if your there, this is the main reason i feel people will enjoy it. You will get in the mind of a psychopath yet everything will make sense to you, and that psychopath will find a place in your heart by the end of it. Amazing, simply an amazing read.

 

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Copied & pasted from my blog. Very good book :thumb:

Title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Author: Robert M. Pirsig
Genre: Health, Mind & Body
Description: This culture bearing book challenges cultural value assumptions, with a suggestion that insanity might be something other than sickness or corruption. In the tradition of Greek philosophy, Robert M. Pirsig sets up a series of dialogues, written in digestible portions, which are carefully laced with small helpings of plot and gradual revelations about the main characters.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is, essentially, three books: an account of a westward motorcycle journey from Minnesota to California with his adolescent son, a philosophical meditation on the concept of Quality, and a story of a man pursued by the ghost of his former self. Within these books we find a parable on psychological tension, a lesson in Eastern and Western schools of thought, a paradoxical dilemma about the meaning of the self, a commentary of America’s social and physical landscape, and some helpful tips on motorcycle maintenance.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a brilliant book, based on actual occurrences, that looks both inward and outward at the prospects of achieving enlightenment in a complicated world.

 

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Title of book: Makes Me Wanna Holler

Author: Nathan McCall

Genre: Autobiography

Short Description: It is the story of a troubled Afican American youth, who many decided would amount to nothing more than a life filled with gang violence and a long criminal record. It has detailed descriptions of the many gang activites Mr. McCall was involved in, and the dramatic event that made him turn his life around for the better. He is now a renown writer for the Washington Post.

Why you enjoyed it: It gives me inspiration. To think that one man could make so many wrong decisions in his lifetime and then having to spend the majority of his life trying to make up for all the wrongs that he did is inspiring and make me realize that maybe I don't have it so hard. It's hard enough to become a success as a black man but when you are constantly trying to prove that you are no longer a criminal and being black at the same time, and then still become a success is very respectable.

Why you think others will enjoy it: I think it will give others to take a look at the other side of the fence, and give an insight to what ex-cons really go through to try and turn their lives around. It isn't as easy as it sounds to get a job, and stay out of jail when in reality society want you to pay for the crime(s) you commited for the rest of your life. It is a very well written book and as I mention has various detailed accounts of what the man did when he was involved in gangs. The way he was able to turn his life around is the Hollywood ending that everyone wants to see.