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erraticflirty1

reading list

Jun 23, 2007 17:24

i am not a very well read person. so i am making a reading list. feel free to add books to it, go ahead and assume that i have not read any classics- modern or antiquated.

1984, Orwell
Catch-22, Heller
Invisible Man, Ellison
Metamorphisis, Kafka
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Kesey
The Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
The Grapes of ( Read more... )

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cindygrace16 June 24 2007, 16:26:24 UTC

I concur with all Jane Austen choices especially Pride and Prejudice.
~HitchHikers Guide to The Galaxy, if you need something light and fun
~The Kite Runner
~The Awakening <-- I think you'd really like this one it's one of my favorites!
I can't recommend it, but if you're up for a really different interesting book, House of leaves, is incredible but it might scare the wits out of you

erraticflirty1 June 24 2007, 18:34:21 UTC

ive read the awakening...why did you like it, out of curiosity?

cindygrace16 June 24 2007, 18:43:50 UTC

I dunno I think it's just the feminist in me...a woman kind of finding her own way...I like the way it was written to so that helped. I have weird taste in books

purplemoocow June 25 2007, 00:11:25 UTC

please read one book by virginia woolf? To The Lighthouse is good, but i think Mrs Dalloway is better.

also, The Namesake. they made a movie out of it, but the book is still gorgeous and wonderful. :)

futbolistautd July 1 2007, 05:56:59 UTC

ooh i liked To The Lighthouse better, but I read Mrs. Dalloway when I was younger, more stubborn and dumb. But Virginia Woolf rocks!

And I love The Catcher in the Rye! It's good if you want to read one that will go fairly quickly.

100 Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez became one of my favorite books after I read it this year; I would definitely recommend it.

yay for reading lots of good literature!

p.s. michael: i er still haven't started madame bovary... hopefully this week.

the_wild_bunny June 25 2007, 01:40:05 UTC

What people have said.

Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden
Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

An English Teacher's Nightmare? itsybitsyguitsy June 25 2007, 14:03:45 UTC

This list would probably be controversial in academic circles. I'm pulling the few titles I can remember that really shaped the way I think and the way I perceive the world. What makes a book "good"? I don't know. As to the "classics," they are completely hit or miss for me. So here, without further ado, are my recommendations. Academics be damned ( ... )

erraticflirty1 October 3 2007, 14:49:03 UTC

hitchikers guide