piercednur
i dont like romance novels or scary stuff. Im a 21 year old nurse. help me!
Answer
Mary Stewart has some great books. Robin Cook books are good. Very good medical background information but these are thrillers over medical novels. The list of BBC books have some really good reads:
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
All the Harry Potter books. Just get online with your local library and then look at different categories of books that you like.
I also do not like Romance novels and I am not into the Stephen King books.
Mary Stewart has some great books. Robin Cook books are good. Very good medical background information but these are thrillers over medical novels. The list of BBC books have some really good reads:
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
All the Harry Potter books. Just get online with your local library and then look at different categories of books that you like.
I also do not like Romance novels and I am not into the Stephen King books.
Book vs. Movie Debate?
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This is a debate I've had with friends since the 5th grade- which is better, the book or the movie adaption? What are your favorite and least favorite books to film adaptations? What books should never, ever be made into a movie?
Personally, I feel 9/10 times the books are better. Examples include City of Ember, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Pride and Prejudice (exception being the BBC version), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, etc. But I enjoyed the Lord of the Rings movies, A Walk to Remember, Harry Potter (1-3), and many others.
Opinions?
Thanks for the comments so far, but could you give examples?
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Kel-bel: natalie dee pwns =)
Answer
I just googled movies based on books, and there were a lot of great movies that I didn't even know were books first.
I think in most cases the book is better than the movie, but that doesn't always mean the movie is terrible. Part of the problem with movies based on books is reader expectations, but The Lord of the Rings trilogy proved that even loyal fans can love a movie adaptation.
Sometimes movies suffer from attempts to "update" the story, like The Seeker. It was originally based on the second book of the Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper, but they made it more modern and turned the main character from a British eleven-year-old living in a small town into an American fourteen-year-old in London. And that's just the beginning.
I recently saw The Curios Case of Benjamin Button, and I really enjoyed the movie. But I've never read the original story. I am willing to bet it is better, but that doesn't make it a bad movie necessarily.
I always look forward to the Harry Potter movies, and they have their own special place in my heart. But I would never describe them as "great movies." Their connection to the series, which then connects to my own life because I grew up alongside Harry and his friends, has a greater factor in my love for them than anything else.
And, uh, I enjoyed Twilight because I expected to be even worse than it was. So I loled. ^_^ Emmett waving the butcher knife was GREAT, even if the rest of the movie wasn't.
The Princess Bride is spectacular, and one of my favorite movies of all time. But I've never read the book. I also enjoyed Stardust... and haven't read the book.
Beowulf was better as a book. The movie was actually pretty lame...
I've seen parts of Dracula movies, and never really liked them. But, once I got through the boring bit after whats-his-face escapes Dracula's home, I enjoyed the book.
I've never read the James Bond books, but I like the movies. ^^
Hearing a book I love is going to be made into a movie always excites me, but I've found I'm often disappointed.
Comic book movies have been doing well recently (can't wait for Watchmen!) though. 300, Iron Man, The Hulk, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Spirit, Sin City... all good. ^_^
I think the first Wheel of Time book could make a movie... but after that I don't know. The series is too complex (and long) for movies. Still... the fangirl in me begins squealing any time anyone mentions a WoT movie...
I hope I made some sense somewhere up there....
Overall, I agree that books are generally better than movies, but I still love a lot of movies based off of books. ^^
I just googled movies based on books, and there were a lot of great movies that I didn't even know were books first.
I think in most cases the book is better than the movie, but that doesn't always mean the movie is terrible. Part of the problem with movies based on books is reader expectations, but The Lord of the Rings trilogy proved that even loyal fans can love a movie adaptation.
Sometimes movies suffer from attempts to "update" the story, like The Seeker. It was originally based on the second book of the Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper, but they made it more modern and turned the main character from a British eleven-year-old living in a small town into an American fourteen-year-old in London. And that's just the beginning.
I recently saw The Curios Case of Benjamin Button, and I really enjoyed the movie. But I've never read the original story. I am willing to bet it is better, but that doesn't make it a bad movie necessarily.
I always look forward to the Harry Potter movies, and they have their own special place in my heart. But I would never describe them as "great movies." Their connection to the series, which then connects to my own life because I grew up alongside Harry and his friends, has a greater factor in my love for them than anything else.
And, uh, I enjoyed Twilight because I expected to be even worse than it was. So I loled. ^_^ Emmett waving the butcher knife was GREAT, even if the rest of the movie wasn't.
The Princess Bride is spectacular, and one of my favorite movies of all time. But I've never read the book. I also enjoyed Stardust... and haven't read the book.
Beowulf was better as a book. The movie was actually pretty lame...
I've seen parts of Dracula movies, and never really liked them. But, once I got through the boring bit after whats-his-face escapes Dracula's home, I enjoyed the book.
I've never read the James Bond books, but I like the movies. ^^
Hearing a book I love is going to be made into a movie always excites me, but I've found I'm often disappointed.
Comic book movies have been doing well recently (can't wait for Watchmen!) though. 300, Iron Man, The Hulk, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Spirit, Sin City... all good. ^_^
I think the first Wheel of Time book could make a movie... but after that I don't know. The series is too complex (and long) for movies. Still... the fangirl in me begins squealing any time anyone mentions a WoT movie...
I hope I made some sense somewhere up there....
Overall, I agree that books are generally better than movies, but I still love a lot of movies based off of books. ^^
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