Book Recommendations

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I remember reading "April Morning" by Howard Fast around that age in school, and really liking it. Male protaganist, but not multicultural.
"The Slave Dancer" by Paula Fox (but that might not be on a high enough level).

[mrsbootsie]

EvilMinion this reply is a little late but one book that might interest you is Let Me Go by Helga Schneider. I haven't read it but I've heard it's really good. It's non-fiction, and in it the author hears from her mother, a former concentration camp guard, after being estranged from her for 50 years or so. She goes to meet her for basically the first time, in a nursing home in Austria towards the end of her life, and finds out that her mother is unapologetic for what she did (abandoning her children for the cause/torturing people at concentration camps). I imagine she talks about her motive for joining the Nazi party, because apparently she was a bigtime believer.

You can get it at amazon. It's been on my wish list for a while (I took every holocaust history class I could take in college) and I keep meaning to get it.

[plush]

EvilMinion, I'm a huge huge Remarque fan and I've read almost everything that's published of him. He's a Lost Generation writer who described the consequences of war (both of them) rather than give insight into the reasons of why it happened and what role Americans and Japanese played (they're non-existent as a matter of fact) but his detailed storytelling,flowy conversations, great characters have never made me put his books down ever since I read "All quiet from the Western front" when I was 13. Most of his books have a love story going on which makes it even more interesting. I know that sounds cheesy, but he could never bee that my eyes.


He's the authour of Arch of Triumph, Three Comrades, Shadows in paradise (post-mortum, set in NYC, after WWII), The Black Obelisque etc. I don't think he's popular in USA, but he's worth checking out. Full name: Eric Maria Remarque.


I've always despised Hemingway, moreso because I always compared it to him and Hemingway looks so washed up and boring to me after reading Remarque. I don't know why he got all that praise.Blech.

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mrsbootsie, that book looked interesting, so when I was at the library today I checked it out. (There were a few copies available, so it must not be hard to get hold of; if you're just waiting for some extra cash to order it, you might want to check out your local library first.)
It was a very short book, and was basically a recounting of the daughter's last visit with her mother after only seeing her once since she was four years old.
I wasn't quite sure what to make of her mother...was she so callous and cruel because she was an SS guard, or was she just a cruel person and that's why she joined up? The way her daughter described her mothering before she'd left them, she sounded like very callous. It's the kind of book that doesn't really provide you with answers, just leaves you thinking still about those types of questions.

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I really like e.e. cummings' poetry, and would like to own some of it in book form. Is there any particular collection I should begin with?

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I'm almost a year late, but mrsbootsie and plush, thanks for the replies and the recommendations.

[hobocamp]

I'm almost done with A Paper Life, and I'm still hungry for trashy Hollywood tell-all memoirs. I've read Drew Barrymore's Little Girl Lost, but I don't know what scandalous gossipy ones I should read next. Can anyone help?

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Right now I have Bunny Tales on my Amazon wish list which is a secret look at what it's like being one of Hef's girlfriends. Can't remember the author but if you search Bunny Tales you should find it. Granted, I haven't read it but it seems like it would be scandalous and skanky.

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jensational said:

Right now I have Bunny Tales on my Amazon wish list which is a secret look at what it's like being one of Hef's girlfriends. Can't remember the author but if you search Bunny Tales you should find it. Granted, I haven't read it but it seems like it would be scandalous and skanky.

Thanks Jen!
Hmmm... I think what sold me on it was this review from Amazon:

This book is very interesting. I enjoyed reading this book so much. When I started to read it, I learned a lot about the Play Boy Mansion, and I kept on reading the book till I got done. Izabella is very smart girl, and she made the book very interesting. The title describe the book because the book is about what is happening behind closed doors at the Playboy Mansion. Also, I learned a lot from the book about Izabella and the other playboy girls. It is good book.

It sounds like a 4th grade book report, which really creeps me out.

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I would love to be the teacher of a fourth grade class when someone turns in Bunny Tales as their report. Re-reading the book review to Bridge to Terabithia again and again has got to get old. Those teachers need to hear about something different and I think 4th grade is a fantastic time to learn about the varying levels of whoredom a woman can face in society.