Books for Alice

[wonderlanded]

Thanks so much to all of you for your help with my Books for Alice project. I took some of your suggestions, and didn't include others, mainly because I'm wary about recommending books of which I've never actually heard. Plus, I have a very low threshold when it comes to sci-fi / fantasy, so I feel rather hypocritical recommending them to others

Comments

[felinitykat]

That's so lovely. I wish I'd had someone like you to recommend books to me when I was a teenager.

[yiskah]

This is a great list, and you are lovely for making it. I think my head would have exploded if I'd read If on a winter's night a traveller at that age, but maybe Alice has a higher tolerance for post-modern narrative...!

I'm with you on Wuthering Heights, too.

[jeejeen]

Heh. As am I. Which you know already, either instinctively or actually.

[eanja]

There are a fair number of books on this list I haven't read yet myself, but mean to. And I'm in the group that loathed Wuthering Heights- not based on the writing, but simply because the characters were so unpleasant that I couldn't really fathom why I was supposed to care what happened to them. I don't think it matters too much if it's on the list though- I think most people who like the other Bronte's will give Wuthering Heights a try at some point just to see.

[jeejeen]

Awwwwwwww! That made me go all fuzzy-wuzzy.

Also! Agatha Christie. I heart the Tommy & Tuppence ones, too. Do you know how many words I learnd from Agatha books when I was young? And I always trump at Scrabble with them, because no one ever knows Britglish! Wheee!

you should hear some of the arguments my best friends and I have over Wuthering Heights, which you’ll notice was not on this list.

Hoorah!

[fox1013]

You are so amazing for putting this together. Seriously, SO much.

I now simultaneously feel culturally illiterate, and the desire to go read more books.

Which is, really, perfect.

*grins*