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The Brother Karamazov. Become enlightened.R0cky_Racc00nI would say that Dostoyevsky does not exactly impart 'enlightenment'. He actually is like pretty adolescent stuff too. I mean, Notes From Underground just reeks of Catcher in the Rye to me.
[QUOTE="SpidersRMe"]Ender's Game is really easy to get into.Jandurinhow dare you steal my suggestion >_>I thought I was backing you up, or something.
Books I liked when I was 14.
I am Legend: About the last man on Earth surrounded by vampire like creatures. Fun, short read with plenty of great scenes.
The Stand by Stephen King: Book about a disease that wipes out 98% of the population. Amazing, satifying, epic book if you're up for 1000+ pages. (Other books I read by King when I was 14 were IT and Misery which are both pretty good. IT got boring in some parts though.)
1984: Book about a man living in a brutal totolitarian regime. Good if you're looking for a slightly deeper book. Though when I read it I definately didn't understand some of the themes in that book.
The Long Halloween:Batman comic about Batman trying to catch a murderer. This is a comic I read multiple times through middle school. Mostly because it was the best comic there. Still one of my favorite comics.
World War Z: I didn't read this when I was 14 but I know you'd like it. If there is any book on this list I know you would enjoy, it's this.
[QUOTE="R0cky_Racc00n"]The Brother Karamazov. Become enlightened.quiglythegreatI would say that Dostoyevsky does not exactly impart 'enlightenment'. He actually is like pretty adolescent stuff too. I mean, Notes From Underground just reeks of Catcher in the Rye to me. Don't let Notes From Underground mislead you. Other works by Dostoyevsky, such as The Brothers Karamazov, The Grand Inquisitor, and The Idiot are arguably "enlightening." I do agree that Notes From Underground is relatively adolescent, and coincidentally, I felt that it was similar to The Catcher in the Rye too, though I thought it was more similar to Beneath the Wheel by Herman Hesse.
Anyone have any? I'm usually extremely bored and I want something to do. So, yeah. I'm open.JC346If I were a little more daring I'd bet my account that you would enjoy Redwall by Brian Jacques. They have litterally everything from poetry and feast to war and gore. Mind boggling riddles, and brutal warlords. The author originally wrote the first book in the series for a bunch of blind students, and so he had to paint pictures with words and he does such a good job.
I'm 14 3/4 amd I highly enjoyed and understoodI read these at about the same age and loved them too. Young people don't have to read young people's books. So I reccomend those, and at that age I also really enjoyed The Godfather. (completely different, I know)
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.
But other than those I don't know what to recommend.
Most of the books I read are all sort-of adult-oriented.randomhero5677
[QUOTE="SpidersRMe"]Ender's Game is really easy to get into.Jandurinhow dare you steal my suggestion >_> Actually I'm stealing your suggestion. READ ENDER'S GAME. The Shadow branch-off is really good too, better than the Ender sequels.
Maybe I should jot your other recommendations down, anyone who likes Ender's Game must have good taste;).
Also I found Brave New World quite boring. The plot seems to be generated solely to support the themes, and suffers as a result. I like plot and characters first, and don't care much for imagery or themes. Well I suppose I do care about themes, but in moderation.
House of Leaves, at that age it'll be like mind-expanding.quiglythegreatis that the book about the house that is larger on the inside than the outside? the one with the pages that sometime consist of 1 sentence written diagonally? If so, I hated it. It tried to be so cool and original, what trash. IMO you should just go and buy every novel by Orson Scott Card, Tess Geritssen, Stephen Baxter, Piers Anthony and Arthur C. Clark. Once you read all their books (probably 50+ books right there) come back to me for more :P
[QUOTE="SpidersRMe"]Ender's Game is really easy to get into.Jandurinhow dare you steal my suggestion >_> Do you know when Flight of the Giant is coming out?
Edit: Its called "Shadows in Flight". Cant wait! It picks up after Children of the Mind! Its gonna be so awesome!!!!!
[spoiler] To think that Beans story is equally as era spanning as Enders. I just hope they dont have some reunion because that would be a major plot killer, since its never mentioned in the Ender games.Also, I wonder how this will work considering Shadow of the Giant ended with 1 of Beans children still missing, how will they randomly jump 10,000+ years into the future? Will have to wait and see. And just adding this, I thought "Children of the Mind" was the best name in the entire series. I want a book about Valentine! [/spoiler]
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