betterday55

Hi there I'm a junior who might be taking SAT for the second time this October. I usually read New Yorker for fun and to improve my reading comprehension. But this summer i mgith be going back to Taiwan for 1 and half month. So.... since i can't take New Yoker with me, are there any big long books i can take home to read? How about War and Peace?? or soemthing not that dry??
thankyou very much

betterday55

bumps..............

PRiSM92289

the new yorker

they make books with SAT words in them

specifically to study for the SAT

betterday55

mm....thanks for the advice, but i think i said prety clear that i do read the New Yorker. But i'm going to stay in Taiwan for 2monhts this summer, soooo... i can't take the New Yorker with me. Any other suggestions?

thecalccobra

have them subscribe the new yorker to you in new york. how hard is that

thecalccobra

not new york, *TAIWAN*

Evilbooyaa

i've heard To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and anything remotely known in terms of Shakespeare are decent to know.

gameguy88

Ulysses. char.

Sib

Tolstoy's War and Peace is the greatest book I've read... So give it a try if you like Russian literature!

I also recommend:

Crime and Punishment/Notes from the Underground/The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky (any of his short stories are great too)

Dune, by Frank Herbert

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

1984, by George Orwell

Atlas Shrugged/Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand

If you like philosophy, try Plato's Republic, or Nietzsche's Anti-Christ/Thus Spake Zarathustra, or Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, or Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, or Kafka's The Trial/The Castle.

There are a myriad books you can read... though I duly recommend that you try and indulge yourself with the beauty of War and Peace. It has forever been my favorite book.

lightfish

Taipei sells copies of The New Yorker. You can find them in Eslite bookstores or the Page One downtown.

tennispro

I don't know if their good or not, but I heard a teacher recommend Frankestien. The vocab in it is suppose to be frequent on the SATs. Also I know Kaplan has books that they call "A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic" which are classic novels that have highlighted words to raise scores. Its not bad considering their like $5-6 and just a bit more then the normal and sometimes the same price. Any one heard or used these?

regurgitatingcow

you know what, George Eliot's books help a lot about vocab and reading...like Middlemarch and the Mill on the Floss
they are long and stuffed with beautiful sentences