Saturday, June 28, 2008
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I would very much like to get some reading in before school starts again. In the past, I was not much of a reader but I have recently regained an intrest. The problem is, I don't know where to start.
I like things that are more real, more dramatic even. I am not much into Sci-Fi or Fantasy and I really don't like sappy love stories and cheap romantic paperbacks. I am interested in biographies and standards, you know, the type everyone should have at least a brief knowledge of.
Though I have only read a little, my favourites are The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald(my copy is an old paper back and in pieces. hint hint, birthday, christmas).Knowing a few english and literature people are on here, I thought some of you might be able to suggest something.
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I really love Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, Interpreter of Maladies (short stories, but incredible ones) by Jhumpa Lahiri, Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, The Giver by...I can't remember, and The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
@Yufae - thanks! the only ones I had heard of were Jane Eyre and Peter Pan, both of which are great suggestions. My sister has those two(which I can borrow) and I will have to check out the others.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is a real heartwarming book where you really like the main character of the young girl. Katy Blackshear was reading it last week and really liking it. Her mother told her about it. It was written in the 1940s. I read the first story of Jhumpa Lahiri's new book of stories Unaccustomed Earth, about the relationship of a father and grown daughter in the wake of her mother's death, and thought it was excellent. I have heard that Interpreter of Maladies is excllent, too, and that is now out in paperback. I have heard that The Time Traveler's Wife and The Life of Pi are good, but I haven't read them. If you like The Great Gatsby, there are many short stories by Fitzgerald you would probably like: "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," "The Captured Shadow," and "Babylon Revisited" are three really enjoyable ones. The last sentence of "The Captured Shadow" has got to be one of the best last sentences in any short story, ever.
@HPUPHD - Short stories are my favorite! Long books, or even a series, are to hard for me to have finished them.
Should I have used "are" because the noun in the independent clause is plural? This is a confusing matter for me.
Molly, you should read the Harry Potter series. I was going to re-read them, but I did not want to deal with Harry's ridiculousness again. It is frustrating, but it makes the books fantastic. Yet, it is still annoying. You should read them now.