Our poll of the day today is a question asked by DreamySim1 (so she better answer it ;)). If you could suggest a book to Robert Pattinson what would it be and why?
Okay I’m upping the ante a bit. We’ll tally the votes and we’ll take the book with the largest amount of votes and send it to Rob on behalf of all of us. How about that?
Leave a comment to let us know!
Thinking of Rob 
Tell No One – Harlan Coben.
I couldn’t put down this book.
Great book !
omg i love this book. all his books
Yup 🙂
Ah, thats a good book!!
That’s a fantastic movie as well. It’s on Netflix Instant Play.
I know Sim thinks I’m going to be saying one thing but she’s totally wrong lol.
Gah this is so hard for me, it’s like asking me to pick a favorite child. It would be easy for me to say that I would recommend The Bronze Horseman to him since I’d love to see him get the role of Alexander. However if I’m going with a book I think Rob would like to read I’ll have to go with another choice…
So if I could recommend a book to Rob it would have to be The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Luiz Zafon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_of_the_Wind Why? Because it’s simply amazing.
I love that one too!! And yes, I thought you’d be going for the Bronze Horseman 🙂
LOL I knew it and I would have. Only I think Rob would prefer Shadow of the Wind. I’d love it if he read The Bronze Horseman though lol
So you’re actually recomending 2 books? or 4, since the Bronze Horseman is a trilogy 😉
Well actually 3 lol. He can skip the last one in The Bronze Horseman trilogy lol.
Wait what?! It’s not that good? o.O
Yes!! Thats a should-read! Read it some years ago.. unputdownable.
Gooooood choice!!! Love that book!! On my side I would recommend to him Wind From The East by Almudena Grandes or Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaardner
Love The Shadow of the Wind. That’s a great choice.
How I Paid For College by Marc Acito. great, funny coming of age novel. plus it has this –> Kathleen reaches into the kitchen cabinet and pulls out a mug with the words LIFE IS SHORT. EAT DESSERT FIRST on it — which made me think of Remember Me when i read it 🙂
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Süskind. The film is not good, the book is really amazing. Rob could not play Grenouille easily, as he doesn’t need a special scent to be loved by thousands of people. But the end of Grenouille could make him think…
I was going to suggest this too – it’s amazing. I’m a librarian and it’s also a favorite among my work colleagues. It’s very polarising – some people love it and others absolutely LOATH it… (I agree the movie wasn’t what it could have been, but isn’t that usually the case?)
Perfume is a weirdly disturbing book, but compellling. Its already been made into a film
Hmmm Sooo FP wants me to answer my own question right? 😉
Well, I have several books I want him to read, but an absolute must is Griffin & Sabine: Amazing ‘book’ like reading someones personal letter-conversation… One of my all time favourites!
The other I’d love for him to read (and I have to read it myself too) is the Bronze Horseman: FP told me about it and I cant wait to read it…. and yes: I’d love to see him in the movie 😉
Ermmm Sim? Isn’t it Griffin and Sabine?
*sneaking in to correct comment* What? I said that didnt I? lmao
Lmfaooooo yeah right =P
Bwahahaha Ssshhh!!! 😉
I saw it lol
You’re the only one LMAO (I hope) 😉
hummmm, Outlander, maybe?
DreamySim says:
August 26, 2010 at 7:15 am (Edit)
Wait what?! It’s not that good? o.O
Well yes it is but it isn’t a must to get the gist of the story.
Ah right: I was afraid I could stop after reading just the two and I hate stopping in the middle of a series 😉
LOL Well you’d have to start them before you think of finishing them right? =P
Hey! I started with the pdf and waiting for my order to get in lol =P
You did?
*nods head* yup 😉 I’m a good girl lol
So what do you think so far?
Well I couldn’t pass the chance to spread books haha. I am sooo torn as to what one book I would recommend to anyone let alone the man himself, but I narrowed it down to two haha.
Broken Child by Marcia Cameron because it is just such an engrossing story of horror and torture leading to mental illness and the journey toward a normal life. Morbid but utterly fascinating in an unusual way. (not suitable for weak stomached people)
The Devils Arithmetic by Jane Yolen because even though I read it when I was 11 I still love this story. I don’t know with all the books I’ve read through my many years this one still gets me. This and The Diary of Anne Frank but that one is so well known so I would try to rec one that is more obscure haha.
Totes agree with earlier post ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, am amazing read or second choice The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson ~ strangely compelling.
Both are different, compelling, well written and a good read
Shadow of the Wind, yeah. Cracking read.
Looking for Alaska by John Green. It’s probably the most perfect book ever written. Alaska is a coming of age YA novel that faces first time drinking, pranking, and first love. It’s AMAZING.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99561.Looking_for_Alaska
There are so many books I love and I would like to recommend. I know that Rob loves animals and nature and that’s why I think he’ll like “Song of the Sound” by Adam Armstrong. Another book that’s a great read is “The Smoke Jumper” by Nicholas Evans.
I’ve been reading two books the last couple of weeks. And I would recommend it to anyone asking:
The Pillars of the earth
World without end
Both by Ken Follett. An amazing story, I couldn’t put them down. Was reading at the bus stop, on the train, the plane, in the car (BF driving. LOL ), at a restaurant while waiting for my food. Yep, could not stop reading.
FP: if you’re seriously sending him the book, I’ll just add the Bronze Horseman too, so he will know there’s a script in the making. Deal? 🙂
Of course I’m serious.
It’s a deal: I’m gonna send him a copy of the Bronze Horseman 🙂
You will? When? lol
when I get my copy: in a few days lol. I’ll just keep reading my pdf 😉
The Films in my Life by Francois Truffaut. I have heard that Robert is a cinefile, and I think this book is fascinating about the New Wave director and his critique on film and homage to his idols like Renoir, Chaplin, Orson Welles and many others. I would have Robert read this book because he loves films.
Great book, you’re so right, and Rob loves French films and knows them very well. He mentioned Godard’s “Prénom Carmen”…
My choice would be Mikhail Bulgakov “The Master and Margarita”.
Then there’s a marvellous book by Shan Sa – “The Girl Who Played Go”. I know it won’t get votes, but still…
And if nobody’s for “The Master and Margarita” then I guess I’ll vote “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Süskind”.
The master and Margarita, great choice.
I haven’t thought of one yet but just so you know, Im writing these books down for myself. Thanks for the recs. 😉
Rasero by Francisco Rebolledo.
fascinating..i’m sure he would luv it
Well, I hate to admit this, but all the books I have read in as long as I can remember have been BECAUSE of Rob. **hangs head in shame**
The Twilight Saga (Read 4 times)
Bel Ami (read because Rob is in the movie, although I am not sure it will ever be released and I will ever get to see it.)
Sad Cafe (read because Rob gave a copy to Oprah – the book is sad, I don’t understand why anyone wants to be sad)
Water for Elephants (Rob, in the movie – can’t wait to see it, I think it will be his biggest blockbuster ever. The book was amazing and I know he has read it but this is the one I recommend to everyone.)
So, long story short **whoops too late for that** Just tell Rob I love him!
LOL I didn’t even get through The Ballad of the Sad Café o.O
I LOVED that story!
I’d say ‘The Catcher in the rye’. Rob would play the main character so well if a movie adaptation was planned. It’s a bit picaresque, and we follow the adventures of a teenager in a big city, it’s really entertaining. 🙂
I was kind of thinking of that too. I was standing there looking at it on my shelf. Anyone know if he has read it? I am assuming so, since he read Nine Stories, also by Salinger.
In terms of making it into a movie, I am thinking he is getting way too old to play Holden. The extensive cussing, even if it was cut in half, would be too annoying.
I’m thinking the same, that most likely he’s already read it.
Hasn’t everybody read Catcher in the rye?? I thought it was required in all countries LOL
It isn’t a requires read here. We had a choice in High School. Shakespeare was compulsory as well as John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.
Can’t we buy him a bookcase filled with recommendations? I’d recommand Shadow of the Wind too, it’s beautiful, but I think he has read it. I’d also would love to see him read Kerouac books (On the Road, Big Sur) & Stephen Fry’s books 😛 !! Because they’re filled with the typical British humor..
& even might recommend a Dutch book to him: Love life (http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article1574922.ece)
I wish lol. If only we had enough money to do that 😉
Why Love Life? Because of Bel Ami??
I’m gonna say Ian McEwan – Enduring Love. He’s the guy that wrote Atonement (behind the amazingly sad movie with James McAvoy).
Yeah, probably anything by McEwan (one of my favourite authors) but I bet you Rob has already read them all.
After much contemplation . . . well SOME contemplation anyway, I think he should read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Heathcliff is someone he needs to know. Oh, and I just recalled its heavy reference in Eclipse. I wonder if he took the time to read it during filming. hmmm. It would have been great research.
omg! its like the book of the millennium…do u know tht its being filmed with Ed Westwick as Heathcliff!
🙂 Do you know how many versions of that film have been made already? 10? Rob would be great as Heathcliff, but I guess that’s not to be.
Other books I HIGHLY recommend to him – and all of you – some of my all time faves:
The Speed of Light by Elizabeth Rosner (I already sent him a copy of this some months ago.)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy – heartbreakingly beautiful!
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan – elegant in its simplicity.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy is an awesome read! The movie with Viggo Mortensen is also amazing! When I heard “No Sound but the Wind” by Editors in the New Moon soundtrack, I couldn’t help but think of The Road.
The Outcast by Sadie Jones because the anti-hero Lewis is so memorable, and he’s English, and ultimately he’s brilliant. And the storyline is enough to make you weep for 2 young, damaged souls
Im reading that right now
I think Rob would like Lust of Jelinek and Whatever of Houellebecq, two hard and strong books.
The Hunger Games Trilogy 🙂
All the work of Lolashoes 🙂
definitely this one http://www.amazon.com/Curious-Incident-Dog-Night-Time/dp/1400032717, also that one http://www.amazon.com/Boys-Life-Robert-McCammon/dp/0671743058
An erotic book of poetry…It isn’t out yet, but will be soon…its seeded and erotic and written with a very unique style of enjambment…
“Filtered Love”
By Kathryn Williams
published by Publish America
Oh I’d love for him to read a book written by a swedish Author. I would love for everyone to read it because it’s great. Lol. Don’t know it’s translated (should be, because it’s a pretty famous book overhere).
Well otherwise…
‘Catcher in the rye’ I recently read it and it’s great!
What swedish book ?
The three books of the Millenium saga from Stieg Larrsson, awesome books!
I loved those books.
I would suggest
“Confusion of Feelings”
by Stefan Zweig
Books of Kafka and Haruki Murakami, because of their humor and surreality.
I recommend the best theater play that wrote the great Spanish writer, Federico Garcia Lorca, “The House of Bernarda Alba”.
It’s a great play with all Lorca style, and for Rob.. maybe he find curios to read it, after little ashes, don’t you think?
I guess he has already read it, it’s a classic. He probably read it while doing Little Ashes. You can count on him!! :))
1.) Daniel Kehlmann – “measuring the world”: A very ironic and funny philosophic adventure novel about two geniuses, elegantly written, mostly in indirect speech
2.) Albert Camus – “The Plague”: because it makes you brooding and pondering about human behaviour in extreme situations
3.) My own book: It´s not published yet, but as soon as it will be, I wish he would read it one day. It´s about an investment banker in his twenties in London who loves to gamble both in his office and his private life. He gambles for money, for women, for sex and power. The novel describes his personal advancement and downfall through his “part-time” girlfriend´s eyes….
I would suggest The Assassin’s Cloak: An Anthology of the World’s Greatest Diarists,
by Irene Taylor, Alan Taylor. It’s fascinating 🙂 never know he may find a future character he wants to portray
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho or Wicked by Gregory Maguire are also good books and Wilburn Smith is always good for a break from serious stuff 🙂 action packed and fictional with Africa as the main stunning backdrop…
Phoeeee! *waves* I want to read The Alchemist. Its on my list lol 🙂
You haven’t read it yet?!
“One Hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Rayuela” by Julio Cortazar
“Retrato en Sepia” By Isabel Allende
I would love if Robert read these books
I loved Rayuela too.
I wouldn’t recommend a book, but a fanfic: Master of the Universe. And would like to be around when he read it!
Lol, me too xD
Hey how do we know he hasn’t read all these books already? He’s always with a book in his hand. It’s going to be hard to find a book he hasn’t read already….
I would say Salman Rushdie’s Midnight Children. Gritty and haunting and sweeping, like a great poem about India, written in an extraordinary style and with a scope and a skill I’ve rarely seen in another book.
I would also have said Halldor Laxness, the great Icelandic writer but… Rob has already read his books! :)) Grim and hauntingly beautiful, just like Iceland.
Paul Auster – The Brooklyn Follies, The NY Trilogy, Man in Darkness.
Or maybe Jim Crace’s Signals of Distress.
Stendhal’s Le rouge et le noir (The red and the black), but I bet he has already read it anyway.
Just some ideas… so many, many books…
Why don’t we all get together and buy him a Kindle loaded with all the books we recommend.I ‘m willing to throw cash into a project like that. How about you ?
the count of monte crito-alexander dumas
love that book,favorite so far, and i would love to see rob as edmond dantes.
Good book.
My suggestions to Rob are:
“The Stars My Destination” by Alfred Bester;
“If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work” by Irvine Welsh;
“Bedroom Secrets Of The Master Chefs” by Irvine Welsh;
“Black Swan Green ” by David Mitchell;
“Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell;
“Under The Frog” by Tibor Fischer;
“Don’t Read This Book If You’ Re Stupid” by Tibor Fischer;
“Blow-Up” by Julio Cortazar;
“Cronopios and Famas” by Julio Cortazar;
“The Book Of Sand And Shakespeare’s Memory” by Jorge Luis Borges;
“The Aleph And Other Stories” by Jorge Luis Borges;
“The Savage Detectives: A Novel ” by Roberto Bolano;
“Distant Star” by Roberto Bolano;
“Borges And The Eternal Orangutangs” by Luis Fernando Verissimo, a great Brazilian writer and my compatriot.
Hello Lais! **waves** (I’m “WhyIstheRumAlwaysGone” from the Remember Me blog). Wow, great list. I’ve just bought Black Swan Green !… starting on it next week! But I’ll definitely check your other recommended books a well.
Hi Kim!!
Yes, great books of great writers for a very special man, because it is so difficult seeing an actor reading nowadays, mainly an actor of his age. That is one of the reasons I love Rob so much.
I am a Literature teacher and I have many students that are reading many books now because of Rob. They are curious about the books he reads.
A big hug to you!!!
Well, I’m sure he has already read “Water for Elephants”. That was an amazing book. I would recommend the “Black Daggar Brotherhood series.” Yes, its vampires, but there different than SM. The books are so awesome. Defintely a good read.
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
I read this book this summer and I thought it was original and relevant. I’ve recommended it to several men who all liked it. Or at least they told me they liked it. I don’t see a role in this for Rob unless he played the war correspondent. Or possibly the recluse, Oliver.
Nietzsche, the gay science
London, the people of the abyss
Montaigne, Essays
Erasmus, Praise of folly
More, Utopia
and, last but not least,
Proust, In search of lost time
In this way we’ll never agree on anything. What I suggest is bearing in mind not only what we, readers, like, but what he might like as a reader. I believe that you will agree that nothing good comes of reading a book you would never have chosen yourself, but thrust upon you just because smb thinks you should read it. Nothing but disgust and “soul – writihing” with a good deal of inner protest. If such a book is ever read at all.
So, let’s analyze what books he’s definitely read. I believe you can come up with a longer list, but that’s what I “fished” out of the web:
John Niven. Kill your friends.
Roberto Bolaño. 2666
Halldor Laxness. Independent People.
Martin Amis. Money.
Salinger. Nine Stories.
Carson McCullers. The Ballad of the Sad Café.
Charles Baudelaire. Complete Poems.
FORSTER E.M. COLLECTED SHORT STORIES.
Tom Waits. Anthology.
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
Maurice: A Novel by E. M. Forster
A Room With A View by E. M. Forster
Ticket to Ride by Dennis Potter
John Steinbeck. East of Eden
I have read some of the books on the list and I can say he has good taste in literature, ‘cause most of the titles are on any Varsity’s philological faculty (literature study) list of required reading.
These books contain subtle psychological play (E.M.Forster), aesthetic paradoxes and aesthetic clashes, aesthetics of the noir (Tom Waits and Charles Baudelaire), sex and irresistible passion, fatal or irresistible instinctive physical attraction (or at least hints at it) (Martin Amis, E.M.Forster), atmospheric feeling, “mood”, psychological insights, flashes of satori and spiritual enlightenment and zen philosophy (Salinger), raw and powerful beauty of very reserved description (Laxness), acute thirst for smth bigger than life, smth unusual, “dreams of smth bigger”, some unrest (Carson McCullers).
On the whole, it should be a quality bit of prose, sorry, but romance, especially lady style romance, seems to be out of line. So I strongly doubt Gabaldon and Simmons. Magic and adventure for the sake of adventure will be out, too.
So which of the books mentioned here meets these requirements?
ITA, great point. Plus… there’s all the books he has read and which we don’t know about. We can also add “My Friend the Mercenary” by James Brabazon to your list (good book – although it does have some flaws) ; he was reading on the WFE set.
nighteyes – Can you list your sources for those books you listed as being read by him? I have been interested in that, and looked on line from time to time to see if anything new has come up. I wonder – does that make us all literary stalkers? If we thrill at a paparazzi shot of him reading a book? Poor Rob, I feel like it’s an invasion of his privacy – even though I want to know. We should persuade him to get onto Goodreads.com.
Could you imagine? How fun would that be???
And I really think that we should choose 3 books, as the one we finally choose can already be read by him. So just to play sure let’s make it 3.
All of the above-mentioned suggestions are good, I’m sure, but I
suggest to narrow the list down to the following three:
– “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” by Süskind (psychology, passion, aesthetics of the noir, quality prose. Much better than the film by Tom Tykwer, I agree)
– “The Films in my Life” by Francois Truffaut (might interest him professionally)
– “Dance Dance Dance” by Haruki Murakami (subtle psychology, “dreams of smth bigger”)
And I also think that shouldn’t be our final effort. 🙂 We here are from different backgrounds, reading experience, nations – I think we could really suggest smth worth reading.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte- its a great love story!
The Master of the Game by Sidney Sheldon- it teaches soo much abt life! (not tht rob needs to be taught…its just worth reading)
The Zahir by Paulo Coelho- because i just luv this one!
Intensity by Dean Koontz. The story definately matches the title, it’s a very intense book.
Fatalis by Jeff Rovin. It’s about a sabertooth tiger being awakened from a cryogenic slumber and it’s just a really cool book.
Highlander by Garry Kilworth. It’s about Immortals and it’s really good. There were movies and tv series made based on this book.