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i am scared to say it but when i read WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS in 5th grade, i cried at the end. its so sad and it is highly reccommended

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Is this book recommended for fifth graders, meaning rated G, or is it more of a PG-13, or R. Just wondering out of curiosity. If you were to read it now would you find it sad at the end, or do you think it was more of a pre-adolescent thing. I am asking this because my taste for books has changed drastically since 5th grade. How old are you by the way?..not that it really matters one way or another, i'm just wondering how long ago you were in grade 5, and if your taste in books has changed at all.

I bought two books for my kindle app last night that I did own in physical form but lost in a move many years ago, both Bill Bryson books of:

Down Under
A Walk in the Woods

I love Bryson as a writer and these two books are for me two of his best.

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Many thanks bud - I swear I did a search but didn't see the thread posted initially, thank you for posting Austruck

Has anyone read Cell by Stephen King??

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Hi Jamie. I've read it, in fact I don't read all his books but The Cell isn't up there with his best . What did you think? Have you read many of his others?

By the way the thread that Austruck mentioned above is one which most of us seem to use to talk about what we've read



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Henning Mankell's Wallander novels were a really good read, and I got into those of course through the TV series (not our disaster, the Swedish ones).

I'm also very fond of a book called The Folk-stories of Iceland by Einar Olafur Sveinsson, which I read the Christmas before last and into the new year. Fascinating stuff, especially the theories about how stories may have travelled and evolved from as far away as India, and Max von Sydow's father is quoted a few times.

I would say that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is my favourite writer now, after reading all his Professor Challenger stories and many of his other works, amongst them Tales of Unease, I found that I liked those and could get into them more than Sherlock Holmes, which I still like. I think his writing is at times close to Charles Dickens for language and humour and I think the humanity of Doyle really appeals to me. Two of my favourite stories are supernatural in nature, The Land of Mists and The Captain of the Polestar.

A couple of years ago, I read a book called The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait, and it has still stayed with me to this day. It's a brilliant read, especially if you're going through similar feelings with the characters.

Has anyone else read it?

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