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07-03-2008, 06:53 PM
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#31 | | Junior Member
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| I'd go for both Anna Karenina and War and Peace also. I'm reading Anna Karenina right now (I'm on Part 2) and I'm loving it. I also plan on reading War and Peace once I'm done as well. If you don't like extremely long books, however, I wouldn't go for these.
Life of Pi is also very good. I had to read it this summer for Brit. Lit. and it was amazing. It wasn't that long and it almost never got boring.
Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises was another good read, but I do know some people who didn't like it. You have to like his style I suppose to really get the feel for it. | 
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07-03-2008, 08:04 PM
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#32 | | Junior Member
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| Madame Bovary is one of my favourite books of all time.
I also really liked The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway | |
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07-03-2008, 08:21 PM
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#33 | | Member
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| I'm sorry, but please don't read The Old Man and the Sea. I don't think I have high standards for books, I liked most of what I read in high school, but I couldn't stand that one. I don't think anyone in my class liked it.
As for a recommendation, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. It's short but it's renowned and it's really good. | |
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07-03-2008, 09:12 PM
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#34 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: California
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| No, Liist is right, Sparknotes is a very good way to expand your knowledge and efficiently learn your material. go sparknotes!
Btw, I wasn't kidding about Pokemon(ONLY the first book in the series) /Almanac/Dracula. All fantastic books that are worth the classics of a lifetime and beyond.
Also you can try out the greek mythology books if you're interested since I was required to read them...Homer/Odyssey. | |
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07-03-2008, 09:45 PM
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#35 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Orange County
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| You may want to check this out on Wikipedia/Amazon first to make sure it'd be something you'd like, but "Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami is an amazing book. | |
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07-06-2008, 03:42 PM
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#36 | | Junior Member
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| Thanks, everyone. | |
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07-06-2008, 07:58 PM
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#37 | | Member
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| Middlesex.
The Road.
The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier and Clay
They're all pulitzer winners that are really good. | |
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07-06-2008, 08:46 PM
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#38 | | Junior Member
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| The author of Middlesex went to the same high school as my mom... | |
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07-07-2008, 05:52 AM
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#39 | | Junior Member
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| the fountainhead by ayn rand | |
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07-07-2008, 05:30 PM
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#40 | | New Member
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| Godfather by mario puzo...
it's of equal literary merit as any other book you'll read in school and its enjoyable | |
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07-07-2008, 08:46 PM
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| In Cold Blood is BA. | |
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07-07-2008, 09:17 PM
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#42 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Georgia
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| AHH I was JUST thinking about In Cold Blood [Truman Capote] as I was reading through this thead.. It's really good and is nonfiction, but still really interesting.
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton - This one was GREAT!!
And I second The Count of Monte Cristo and the Great Gatsby. | |
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07-07-2008, 10:40 PM
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#43 | | Junior Member
Join Date: May 2008 Location: a suburb of Syracuse, NY
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| I third "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas. It's probably my favorite book of all time. That's be my top selection.
Other books that I enjoyed and are probably "of literary merit" are
-Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
-The Road by Cormac McCarthy (very recent, but a work of art nonetheless.)
-One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn | |
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07-08-2008, 04:43 AM
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#44 | | Junior Member
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| yeah "The Count of Monte Cristo" was pretty good, although the language was a little dry , but i think that's cuz of the translation. the plot never keeps u tired.
I also liked "Sophie's World" a lot, but it's not a novel, it's a book about philosophy for teenagers, it really opens your mind and gives a very comprehensive introduction on philosophy. | |
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07-08-2008, 10:18 AM
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#45 | | Junior Member
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| Thanks everyone | |
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