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Ugh, I can't recommend against Prozac Nation enough.

Because they're trying to show off how apparently cool they are. That got really annoying two summers ago when I had to commute an hour each way to school in bumper to bumper traffic with no a/c in my car. Rap and Hispanic music seemed to be the popular choices to blast. :rolleyes:

Yeah, I hate that crap too.

Um, try a psych journal?

I am suggesting they select a book based on what appeals to them, mainly by using the blurb on the back cover or front flap. I am not suggesting they judge a book by its cover alone, though that is a common method of selection by both new readers and seasoned readers. You make a good point...

How do you figure? And, more to the point, what's wrong with that way? You find a lot of books that way that you'd never hear of through friends or Amazon or the like because they're not as popular or well known. Besides, your interests may be completely different from what someone else likes or...

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Welcome to reading! :) I guess the best suggestion is to go with what looks interesting to you. Go to a library and check out their fantasy section. Just pull books off the shelf that look like they've got an interesting title or whatever and check out the back of the book/front flap blurb. Pull...

For the christmas covers, I assume you're talking about Trans Siberian Orchestra? If you're not, then you might like them, too.

Try Yngwie Malmsteen. He does a lot of classical covers. Dream Theater has incorporated Beethoven into at least one song. Also check out their guitarist John Petrucci's cover of Flight of the Bumblebee, it's quite amazing. Edit: also, though they don't really cover classical music, you might...

Yeah, doesn't seem worth it at all for that one. The Nabokov one I read is a better deal, though. Three books and one screen play (I forgot, Pale Fire is also in there) and you can buy it from Borders for $23.10. In that case I guess you get the quality you pay for.

That's really expensive (especially for a flimsy LoA edition). Did that edition at least have a few books in it? Thanks, of course you rock too :)

If you want sturdy hardcovers, Library of America wouldn't be my recommendation. I rented the LoA version of Nabokov's Pnin (with Lolita and Lolita, a screenplay) and I was disappointed in the quality of the book. The font wasn't terrible, but it wasn't too great either. The pages were pretty...

In that case, you might want to check out the DSM's section on schizophrenia.

For fiction you could try Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind. I haven't read it, so I don't know how accurate a portrayal it is of the disorder.

Do you need fiction only, or can you use non-fiction as well?

Why are you trying to get him a book if he doesn't like to read? Anyway, if he liked Dan Brown, maybe he'd like Stephen King, or Dean Koontz, or someone like that. Maybe one of Clive Cussler's Dirk Pitt books?

Weren't the originals written by men as well?

Oh, and I don't know how I could have forgotten these three- Brave New World- Aldous Huxley 1984- George Orwell Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury And while not political, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is excellent (sci-fi, human nature) and completely different from the Halloween inspired...

Yes, certainly other reasons. But we still have words for those reasons, too, I think.