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patrick

The Shining by Stephen King

 
Wow. Just...wow.
I absolutely loved this book. I'd read a couple of Stephen King books before (Carrie and The Green Mile) but this is definitely the best one I've read thus far. 
This book starts you off slow, giving you lots of background, tons of foreshadowing, amazing word pictures. It's amazing when a book can give you that tight knot in your stomach, get you to the point that you're so creeped out you need to set down the book for awhile before you can continue. 

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I recommend this book even if you don't typically like horror. It's just so well-written and the story is developed excellently. Plus it says a lot about human nature and other issues in the book that you have a hard time drawing out until you finish it, and some that I think I won't even be able to draw out until I read it again. This book just gives me chills. 

P.S. I'm really glad I finally found [info]bookwins! I've been a member of bookfails  for awhile, and when I finished the Shining, I needed a place to rant about the awesomeness to people who will appreciate it :)
Le Petit Prince

The Best Books are Usually Esoteric


Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) is considered Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's masterpiece. It addresses life and human nature, and the experiences gleaned from it. This is easily my favorite book, and although it is supposed to be a "children's book," I don't see how. The concepts in there are much too complex and too deep fro a young child to understand... so I think the only way it could possibly be referred to as a children's book is by basing it on the vocabulary alone. I have to admit, when my French teacher assigned this book for the AP summer work, I had my doubts. True, it took me three days to read eighty pages, and I had to look up half the words, but I believe it was very worth it. I cried after reading it, and I died a little on the inside after finishing it.

There are English versions of it, of course, and you can even find the whole thing online. So if you could spare maybe an hour or two, I suggest you read it. You'll never look at life the same way again.

Merci, Madame, merci beaucoup.