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If you don't enjoy reading, you aren't doing it right. Here are some fun picks from Mr. Finn's book shelf that you might like...
Modern Romance
A comedian explores dating in the digital age with the help of a sociologist.
A comedian explores dating in the digital age with the help of a sociologist.
The Martian
This is the best hard SciFi novel EVER. EVER! If you like science and survival- this is the book for you. On a side note, we need to go to Mars. I'm not saying we have to strand someone there and force them to grow potatoes with their feces, but we do need to go.
This is the best hard SciFi novel EVER. EVER! If you like science and survival- this is the book for you. On a side note, we need to go to Mars. I'm not saying we have to strand someone there and force them to grow potatoes with their feces, but we do need to go.
The Magicians
Harry Potter and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe go to college and have a baby. This is the baby. The baby is pretty good.
Harry Potter and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe go to college and have a baby. This is the baby. The baby is pretty good.
World War Z
This is the best novel on Zombies ever. It is told in a non-fiction style and it covers what actually might happen throughout the world when the eventual zombie apocalypse comes (I would recommend hunkering down in Mr. Neuzil’s bunker).
This is the best novel on Zombies ever. It is told in a non-fiction style and it covers what actually might happen throughout the world when the eventual zombie apocalypse comes (I would recommend hunkering down in Mr. Neuzil’s bunker).
The Last Lecture
I have been known to fall asleep during my own lectures so I assumed I would hate a book about a professor giving his last speech before dying of cancer, but I’ll be darned if I wasn’t a bit inspired.
I have been known to fall asleep during my own lectures so I assumed I would hate a book about a professor giving his last speech before dying of cancer, but I’ll be darned if I wasn’t a bit inspired.
Sleepwalk with Me
A comedian tells stories about his life. The title story is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. “Oh, no…Hardees!”
A comedian tells stories about his life. The title story is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read. “Oh, no…Hardees!”
The Fault in our Stars
I don’t usually do sappy love stories about terminal cancer patients, but the man can write.
I don’t usually do sappy love stories about terminal cancer patients, but the man can write.
Battlefield Earth
Move over Divergent and Hunger Games, this is a thinking man’s post-apocalyptic novel. They had me at the rag-tag group of humans fighting to take back our planet, but they rocked my world with the political maneuvering at the end.
Move over Divergent and Hunger Games, this is a thinking man’s post-apocalyptic novel. They had me at the rag-tag group of humans fighting to take back our planet, but they rocked my world with the political maneuvering at the end.
Game of Thrones
Yes, the HBO serious is just as good if not better, but they are only on season 4 people. So you better have a few days to kill because these books are as thick as the hair on the recently decapitated Stark heads.
Yes, the HBO serious is just as good if not better, but they are only on season 4 people. So you better have a few days to kill because these books are as thick as the hair on the recently decapitated Stark heads.