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My Sister’s Keeper (2002) IMDB rating: 5.90 Plot: A non-stereotyped portrayal of a person with mental illness and an at times difficult, but loving relationship with her sister. A true story. Book by the same name. It both opens minds and entertains. Great acting by Kathy Bates: an informative contrast to her role in the movie Misery.

Actors: Harwell Bobby,Amendola Tony,Birk Raye,Gregg Clark,Kussman Dylan,Miller Marc,Rivas Geoffrey,St. James David,Suarez Manny,Sweet Shane,Drama,

What are 2 good books for teenagers?
Well Im 14 (and good at reading). I dont want to read classics, but equally I am getting a bit sick of the usual teen/meg cabot/twilight saga books so i wondered if there were any other good books like my sisters keeper?

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misery by Stephen King and the chocolate war by Robert Mcormet
Ram | Jan 09, 2010

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try other books by jodi picoult, such as:
-19 minutes
-mercy
-handle with care
-the pact
-perfect match
-keeping faith
Charlotte | Jan 09, 2010

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Instead of getting picky with books, i suggest reading a variety of novels, the more various of books you read, the better you will become with vocab, reading and writing.

I suggest reading some classics even though you might think of the books as boring and stupid, it can become very fun especially if you can pick out the metaphors, the irony, the allegories and maybe some other great language techniques authors like F.Scott Fitzgerald used in his one-hit-wonder novel The Great Gatsby, of course the classical books aren’t for your age since they are used in a High School level for 11th graders, but nevertheless the plot and endings are great. And i can read them over and over again and i’m only a sophomore. I read The Great Gatsby when i was in the 7th grade. So i just say

READ ON!
Eric | Jan 09, 2010

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The lovely bones by Alice Sebold
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
safia | Jan 09, 2010

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Cat In The Hat by Dr. Seuss
Accident Prone | Jan 09, 2010

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i think that you should get the hole set of twilight
Julie | Jan 09, 2010

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Harry Potter - J.K Rowling

Percy Jackson - Rick Riordan
I.P Freely | Jan 09, 2010

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I loved my Sister’s Keeper! If you liked that books I’d suggest the Angels Trilogy by Lurlene McDaniel
1. Angels Watching Over Me
2. Lifted Up By Angels
3. Until Angels Close My Eyes

Holes by Louis Sachar is a good read

There’s also the Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce. It’s a fantasy series, and I know you are sick of Twilight, but I promise you that this is a way better series. They were my favourite books when I was your aged. I’m 17 now and I’ve read them tons of times! They are about a girl who wants to become a knight when only men can be knights. I love them!
1. Alanna: the First Adventure
2. The Hand of the Goddess
3. The Women Who Rides Like a Man
4. The Lioness Rampant

Enjoy!
Burrito | Jan 09, 2010

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Iliad by Homer
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Around the World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

These are all classics, but the term "classic" being applied to them only further evidences their greatness.

Think about it, if these books were not any good, then people would not still be reading and enjoying them. Also, the main purpose of reading is to challenge yourself and to realize and contemplate different concepts that you have never thought about before.

Reading books with challenging vocabulary is tough at first, but children my age really need to rediscover that expressing yourself in an articulate fashion is one of the many ways to appreciate the English language.
AJ | Jan 09, 2010

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Nokosee: Rise of the New Seminole by Micco Mann
The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr
Cherry by Mary Karr
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Alice | Jan 09, 2010

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If your up for adventure, you should read the Percy Jackson series :]
(there are 5 books in the series)

And if you havent read, "The Lace Reader", then you should. XD

In the back it says, (basically the summary)
Towner Whitney, the self-confessed unreliable narrator, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns in lace, and who have guarded a history of secrets going back generations. Now the disappearance of two women is bringing Towner back home to Salem — and is bringing to light the shocking truth about the death of her twin sister.
Annie | Jan 10, 2010

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Blood ties -Sophie McKenzie
The Medusa project series- sophie mckenzie
miss_invisible | Jan 10, 2010

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For adventure, suspense, and a little teenage romance, try Dangerous Days and Blades, both by J. William Turner
AussieT | Jan 10, 2010

Ring, The (2002) IMDB rating: 7.30 Plot: Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers (including her niece). There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. If the legend is correct, Rachel will have to run against time to save her son’s and her own life.

Actors: Henderson Martin,Dorfman David,Cox Brian,Lineback Richard,Brody Adam,Drama,Mystery,Thriller,Horror,

Does he want to go out with me or something?
A bit of info here this guy I like never paid any attentions to me before in middle school but now we’re in high school he starts to notice me more….for some reason he became more talkative to me

Today he and his girlfriend broke up and during gym class we were playing basketball because we had half a day and we get a break I was just shooting some hoops randomly at one side of the gym the guy I like starts coming over and he knows I’m looking at him but he stares at something else we then played together along with few other kids and when He went behind me to play again he give me an advise and tells me to make it in and don’t get knock out meaning he wants to challenge me.

When we are heading to another class I sat at a desk in the hall becuase the bell hasn’t rung yet so the guy I like comes by starts talking to me (this never happen before seriously) saying why I’m sitting out here then he notice the class hasn’t end and he sat at a desk behind mines and starts bugging me by saying if I speaking cambodian.

When the bell finally rung this one girl came out really exhausted standing looking at him I turned to look at him also to see whats so amazing about him he slowly stretch and my elbow was on his desk he slowly moved his hands and touched me and didn’t move until I did, the girl came and hugged him and I turned facing the other way for some reason and he starts making these weird kissy sounds which made me turned around looking at him and the girl thought he was doing something else to her but really he wasn’t.

When we entered class we made a couple of contacts with each other, and I threw gum at him to bug him too but apperently he makes a joke out of it thinking the teacher threw it at him cause I told him to say thank you he looks away and said thank you. When I told my friend that he broke up with his grilfriend and stuff and saying he starts talking to me and bugging me she tells me that she will laugh if he starts asking me out.

what she mean by that is that like an insult or something?

Antwone Fisher (2002) IMDB rating: 7.30 Plot: A sailor (Derek Luke) prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist (Washington) for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew.

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Actors: Luke Derek,Kelley Malcolm David,Hodges Cory,Washington Denzel,Howze Leonard Earl,Scott Kente,Connolly Kevin,Gooding Rainoldo,Snedden Stephen,Nepomuceno Leo,Kang Sung,Stokes Cordell,Biography,Drama,Romance,

are there any similar movies to the movie "Antwone Fisher"?
does anyone know of any similar movies to the movie antwone fisher?
oh by the way im looking for dark horse movies if u know what i mean,i watch 25 movies a week.

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pursuit of happyness
forrest gump
beautiful mind
6th sense, if you don’t mind scary stuff

cold.azn187um | Jan 18, 2009

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what is it about so i can find out
ownenn | Jan 18, 2009

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Personally i would recommend the movie Will Smith has just finished directing ‘ Seven Pounds ‘

=]

Its Brilliant
Lily-Emah | Jan 18, 2009

Moonlight Mile (2002) IMDB rating: 6.70 Plot: A young man lingers in the family home of his fiancee, after her accidental death. While grieving along with her parents and drawn into legal issues presented by a district attorney seeking justice for the family, he finds himself falling in love with another woman, against his own best intentions.

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Opinion on some prose?
If you dare pass the wall, if you dare face the Tiger
you must wear the mask with two faces while you crawl, and sprint, and graze along the fringe areas, and pass across the edge of the last word rolling off your tongue, and into that space between the awkward moments and the shared lies and that dead silence and that hesitation where you look back and forth and away and hide where your gaze falls tumbling.

to where it crashes lost forever, into the bush and bramble and past the shallow brook eaten alive by raw moonlight and past the broken bridge and out and away under the fence or boundary, path or trail or car or rail and plunges down into the wide brown river that courses at breakneck speed blindly pounding it’s way into the black heart of the jungle.

the beating heart of that jungle
the deep and the dark and the jungle

Where the wet stays hooked and hanging helplessly on the air, where cool rain stagnates, grows hot and infected, and the sun does not dry your skin , and the home and the hearth do not shield you and the downpour does not spare you. Those incadescent, burning tears slide off the dark roots and moss covered rocks and seep, clawing into the hungry black earth to fight and to feed the writhing vines and bulbous purple plants.

And in the temples where young girls crouch as sacrificial lambs. wide and scared and painted thick with made up grease that cakes over their sight so they may not see the jungle outside the palace walls. and they may not see the hooded priest that blindly cleans his knife nor may they gaze upon the true form of the all seeing gilded godess with a thousand limp arms and a thousand dead eyes.

within the dark and the deep there is a thundering procession where the hungry people hang like black birds and blot out the bright blue sky with their nameless forms which flip and tumble and sway from side to side, and ram to the left and to the right of each opposite side.

to shake the wall and slowly bring it down where the pieces would shatter and fall on the ground and eventually become jungle too. jungle as well as everything else.

and on the high hill where the cold quiet kings speak not a word of the souls stewing down below and not a word of the Tiger’s claw, and not a word of that savage god’s great golden eyes, though long has it held them in it’s gaze

and in the middle of the night when it’s shadow swells along the walls where red wreaths hang, and drags those who live on the fringes out of their villages, sliding and slippering in that dry dank mud, but leaving no traces behind them to stand.
where they once fished in their rivers and erected one false home after another. where no mother speaks the name of those who have gone from her womb. and out into that jungle.

where one is devoured another is replaced and the procession goes on and on, and spreads out like a spider’s web for miles around, with the wall and the city and the jungle behind it, always to the south, and to the left and forever behind it, with the wet smell of damp rotting leaves decaying underneath the cloaking scents of perfume in the princess’s palace, and herbs in the medicine man’s trolley, always to the left, and south and behind it. and moves, it marches, ever forward, down towards that jungle.

in the courtyard those lambs who are girls sit in their weary white robes waiting for the procession to move past them and trample them soundly in it’s wake. where the cranes sit lightly on the pond, and the wind billows softly at the printed gauze only to be stopped by the wall head on, and the temple cats sit, crouching on the face of that very wall and looking far out into the black to where they once walked as savage gods

In the jungle.
(This was actually inspired by a dream with specific images but it turned into a weird social allegory, thank you very much for noticing that bit of it.
As far as the run ons go they were supposed to be on purpose, but there might be a problem if you can’t tell. I’ll have to look at it again. xD)

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Despite your run on sentences, and failure to capitalize, which are easy to fix, this prose was vivid, verbose, and exciting to read.

The following two segments were my favorite, and remind me of work I read of an old favorite author of mine (whose name I can’t recall at this time - long time ago).
"Those incandescent, burning tears slide off the dark roots and moss covered rocks and seep, clawing, into the hungry black earth to fight and to feed the writhing vines and bulbous purple plants," (wow, could start a good tale from that point) and, "where they once fished in their rivers and erected one false home after another; where no mother speaks the name of those who have gone from her womb and out into that (adj) jungle." The second, is kind of analogy for common life today, or at least a reflection of it.

Good job.

Josh Alfred (? ta eso ?) | Oct 19, 2009