Give me your book recs!

[threemeninaboat]

Last night I started a book that was listed on the "Best Young Adult Fiction" list. I lasted 3 pages (The Poison something or another). "I can't believe how much this sucks."

I try to read fiction so I don't totally turn into my father. But I mostly dislike fiction.
I also try to read books that are popular with my patients (no, not twilight) or ones that I think they might like so I can recommend them.

Maybe I'll just go back to reading the banned book list, but they are such a bummer. Slaughterhouse Five and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Cripes.

Suggestions?

Comments

[vagabondesque.livejournal.com]

Recently finished Lauren Oliver's Delirium. It was pretty decent. Reading The Night Circus now... Ashfall was interesting in concept. I end up reading a lot of teen fic for some reason that escapes me.

[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

I disliked Delirium. Blatant rip off of The Giver.

Let me know how The Night Circus goes.

[vagabondesque.livejournal.com]

Delirium reminded me of Ayn Rand's Anthem. I haven't read The Giver, but my daughter loved it when they read it in school. It's a popular story-line, that whole post-apocalyptic love story wherein pioneering resistors fight and sacrifice for a brave new world based on the old one society lost.

Night Circus, so far, isn't bad, but isn't amazing either.