Book suggestions for a 14 year old?

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#1 JC346
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Anyone have any? I'm usually extremely bored and I want something to do. So, yeah. I'm open.
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Dantes Inferno. :P
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Twilight
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#4 quiglythegreat
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House of Leaves, at that age it'll be like mind-expanding.
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#5 mindstorm
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Anything by Dr. Seuss. (kidding!) :P
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#6 randomhero5677
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I'm 14 3/4 amd I highly enjoyed and understood
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.
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#7 MrLions
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TwilightxXBuffJeffXx
:|....Are you cereal?
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#8 superc92
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the hitchhikers guide of the galaxy series
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right here
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#10 Tylendal
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Anything by Terry Pratchett, but I particularly suggest Men at Arms, Thud!, Fifth Elephant, Going Postal, The Last Hero, The Lost Continent, and Jingo, as good ones to start with.
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#11 mindstorm
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[QUOTE="xXBuffJeffXx"]TwilightMrLions
:|....Are you cereal?

I hope so because I'm hungry...

cereal

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#12 R0cky_Racc00n
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The Brother Karamazov. Become enlightened.
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Japanese Lesbian Vampires. (no link)
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#14 k16campbell
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I recomend Forrest Gump (yeah its a book). Im 15 i really enjoyed it. It made me laugh every other couple of seconds. Any way just read it, man!:lol:
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World War Z
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Magic Kingdom For Sale, Sold series by Terry Brooks Dragonlance (2 series) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Death Gate Cycle series by the same authors as above. Read stuff by Christopher Stasheff and R.A. Salvatore as well. Xanth series by Piers Anthony That should last you awhile. If you actually read any and like it, feel free to ask me for further recommendations :)
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#17 SpidersRMe
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Ender's Game is really easy to get into.
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#18 quiglythegreat
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The Brother Karamazov. Become enlightened.R0cky_Racc00n
I 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.
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Ender's Game is really easy to get into.SpidersRMe
how dare you steal my suggestion >_>
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[QUOTE="xXBuffJeffXx"]TwilightMrLions
:|....Are you cereal?

:lol:

No. I've never read Twilight.

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[QUOTE="SpidersRMe"]Ender's Game is really easy to get into.Jandurin
how dare you steal my suggestion >_>

I thought I was backing you up, or something.
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#23 bigfatcrap
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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.

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#24 danwallacefan
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I would recommend Scaling the Secular City by J.P. Moreland

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#25 Gaming-Planet
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What about a Manga book... if you're into them? I'm 14 and I enjoy reading them.

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Lord of the Flies The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven Battle Royale
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#27 superheromonkey
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The giver is good
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#28 YourChaosIsntMe
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I was partial to Kafka, Orwell, Bradbury, and Huxley when I was 14. I guess it depends on what your tastes are...fiction..manga..non-fiction..classic literature? I would suggest Howard Zinn too. Gotta indoctrinate 'em when they're young.
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#29 Johnny_Rock
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Stephen Kings It.
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#30 FUBAR24
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get the books from the halo universe...i think there are about 7 or 8 by now and with the exception of The Flood they are all phenomenal
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American Shaolin is great
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[QUOTE="R0cky_Racc00n"]The Brother Karamazov. Become enlightened.quiglythegreat
I 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.
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The Green Futures of Tycho, and just about anything else by the awesome sci-fi writer William Sleator. It makes you go "Wow! :o :shock:" once everything dawns on you. Homer Price. Donuts, okay? :P The Illiad. Or is it the Odyssey . . . ? Cyclops, pigs and brave adventurers bracing only a little of the Greek's vast mythology. Chasing Vermeer, mystery book about art, puzzles and frogs.
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#34 RaistlinMajere8
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dragonlance the core series. like the chronicles. those are amazing if you like fantasy. same with eragon eldest brisingr. but you have to have an active imagination for said books.
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Anyone have any? I'm usually extremely bored and I want something to do. So, yeah. I'm open.JC346
If 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.
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#36 alphamale1989
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The giver is goodsuperheromonkey
Dude, I loved The Giver.
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#37 Devour2Survive
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Harry Potter?
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Twilight
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#39 noswear
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I'm 14 3/4 amd I highly enjoyed and understood
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four
and
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
I 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)
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#40 blakout3
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Bah depends what you're into. Im getting my way through the Jack Reacher series at the mo.
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#41 blakout3
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[QUOTE="superheromonkey"]The giver is goodalphamale1989
Dude, I loved The Giver.

Sorry for the double post but The Giver is possible the worst book I have ever read

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Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleik.
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[QUOTE="SpidersRMe"]Ender's Game is really easy to get into.Jandurin
how 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.

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Hustler.
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Dantes Inferno. :PMrLions
Horribly over-rated
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#46 Devour2Survive
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You should read Geesebumps in the dark all alone under your bed with your hands chained to your bed.
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#47 II_Seraphim_II
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House of Leaves, at that age it'll be like mind-expanding.quiglythegreat
is 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
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[QUOTE="SpidersRMe"]Ender's Game is really easy to get into.Jandurin
how 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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#49 Murj
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Anything found on the top shelf should be able to keep your attention. Not many articles, but plenty of pictures!
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#50 I_pWnzz_YoU
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Angels & Demons. /thread