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Subject: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
Hey guys-- I am 14 and I need some reccomendations of books that I might like. I don't know a lot of "adult" fiction, I just read John Grisham and sometimes Michael Crichton, so I was wondering if you could give me some ideas of good books or authors, since my librarian isn't very... helpful. And please no 1,000 page books like Tom Clancy-- I get a headache just looking at those :)
Oh, classic novels are okay-- I've read Tom Sawyer, and I got through about 1/3 of David Copperfield, but I was killing myself with that book.
By the way, I like to read :)
Thanks!
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
When you are older, you'll have to read this, but I think "Catcher in the Rye" is one of the best books ever written. It took me nine weeks to get through "David Copperfield"...they were paid by the word back then :P
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You might try "Watership Down" by Richard Adams. It is a bit long but well worth it. I think I first read it when I was about your age. :)
And I like to read too!
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
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When you are older, you'll have to read this, but I think "Catcher in the Rye" is one of the best books ever written. It took me nine weeks to get through "David Copperfield"...they were paid by the word back then :P
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LOL, it took me nine weeks to get through 1/3 of it. ::)
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
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Hey guys-- I am 14 and I need some reccomendations of books that I might like. I don't know a lot of "adult" fiction, I just read John Grisham and sometimes Michael Crichton, so I was wondering if you could give me some ideas of good books or authors, since my librarian isn't very... helpful. And please no 1,000 page books like Tom Clancy-- I get a headache just looking at those :)
Oh, classic novels are okay-- I've read Tom Sawyer, and I got through about 1/3 of David Copperfield, but I was killing myself with that book.
By the way, I like to read :)
Thanks!
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John Grisham is from Arkansas...my home state....so I have to say run with him.....his book...."A Painted House" is a very easy read.....loosely based on his childhood...nothing legal about it.....just a book about a very innocent young man growing up in the cotton fields of Northern Arkie....I think you would like it very much.....it is worth checking out, lebeiw
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
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John Grisham is from Arkansas...my home state....so I have to say run with him.....his book...."A Painted House" is a very easy read.....loosely based on his childhood...nothing legal about it.....just a book about a very innocent young man growing up in the cotton fields of Northern Arkie....I think you would like it very much.....it is worth checking out, lebeiw
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Know what? I checked that out at the library today, because it looked like something I might like. I am only through a couple chapters, and I think it is great so far!
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
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LOL, it took me nine weeks to get through 1/3 of it. ::)
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I actually read it when I was your age :)
This might be a bit much for you, but 1984 by George Orwell is a very interesting book about what would happen if people totally controlled your thoughts and actions. I thought it was extreme, but the premise seems feasible.
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
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Know what? I checked that out at the library today, because it looked like something I might like. I am only through a couple chapters, and I think it is great so far!
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GREAT!!!!!!!!!! I am so glad to hear that!!! It is a book many over look because of the content not being like his books before. But I honestly believe it is the best book he has ever written.....I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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I enjoyed reading many of the classics:
The Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Jules Verne
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Story of My Life - Helen Keller
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontė
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
The Best of O. Henry
The Best of Poe
Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana
White Fang - Jack London
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontė
Ben Hur - Lew Wallace
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
The Food of the Gods - H. G. Wells
Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
The Prince and the Pauper - Mark Twain
The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
The Iliad - Homer
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
The Mutiny on Board H.M.S. Bounty - William Bligh
The Odyssey - Homer
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Shakespeare Collection
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
Thanks a lot for the list, Hairspray! I'll look for some of those sometime.
And while we're speaking of John Grisham, one I liked by him was Skipping Christmas ;D This one was also easy to read and, like A Painted House, didn't have anything to do with law. A good, funny book.
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Thanks a lot for the list, Hairspray! End Quote
You're most welcome. :)
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Othello is one of Willie's best plays. By the end you are going to absolutely despise Iago ;)
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Personally, I loved all the Harry Potter books. I know they are supposed to be "kids" books but I think they are wonderful for any age. I can't wait for the next one to come out.
Cat
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
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Personally, I loved all the Harry Potter books. I know they are supposed to be "kids" books but I think they are wonderful for any age. I can't wait for the next one to come out.
Cat
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Agreed! :D
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
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John Grisham is from Arkansas...my home state....so I have to say run with him.....his book...."A Painted House" is a very easy read.....loosely based on his childhood...nothing legal about it.....just a book about a very innocent young man growing up in the cotton fields of Northern Arkie....I think you would like it very much.....it is worth checking out, lebeiw
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I read all the time and love John Grisham novels - but I have to say I really hated "A Painted House." To short and not enough information given about all the characters - when I finished it, I still wanted to know more about what happened to them all.
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I was never much into reading (something I regret now)
I can tell you to avoid the author D H Lawrence, unless that is you wish to be thoroughly depressed.... :(
He was the author of my mandatory Grade 9 English book, which is why ....
I was never much into reading (something I regret now)
{commence endess loop here} ::)
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
Are you into sci-fi/fantasy at all? In that case I'd reccommend:
Michael Moorcocks' Corum or Elric series. I read the Corum stories when I was 13 and was hooked for life. The first one is called "Knight of the Swords" but these days they are usually in a three-volume collection. There are six Corum novels altoghther, and there's about eight for Elric.
Janet Kagan's Mirabille. Human colonists on another planet. They have brought DNA and/or embryos of all known earth plants and animals. To protect against disaster, the DNA information was "piggybacked" onto other animals. An accident destroyed part of the computer information banks, telling which animals' info is doubled up where. So you have otters giving birth to moose, for instance, or chickens hatching out carrots. Sometimes the DNA gets mixed up and there is an entirely new creature come into existence.
Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Restaraunt At The End Of The Universe, Life The Universe And Everything, So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, and Mostly Harmless. The funniest stuff you will ever read, from a total genius. This man basically predicted the internet and it's impact on the world.
Also, try Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels or Piers Anthony's Xanth novels. All are funny, and most will stand alone (you don't have to worry about which one is first).
Happy reading!!
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Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Restaraunt At The End Of The Universe, Life The Universe And Everything, So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, and Mostly Harmless. The funniest stuff you will ever read, from a total genius. This man basically predicted the internet and it's impact on the world.
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I always found it funny that it wasn't a trilogy, even though it was called a trilogy :) the Dirk Gently books are cool too.
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I always found it funny that it wasn't a trilogy, even though it was called a trilogy :) the Dirk Gently books are cool too.
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I think that's because it was originally planned as a trilogy, but the fans kept demanding more. Piers Anthony's Xanth series was supposed to be a trilogy too, but the last time I looked, there were about 15 or 20 novels.
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
Sons And Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
Le Petit Prince and Night Flight by Antoine De Saint Exupery
L'Etranger by Albert Camus
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Anything by Anton Chekhov!
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Phantom Of The Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Wall by Jean-Paul Sartre
Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Dangerous Lives Of Altar Boys by Chris Fuhrman
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (very quotable!)
The Sorrows Of Young Werter by Goethe
Cyrano De Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (very quotable!)
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
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Are you into sci-fi/fantasy at all? In that case I'd reccommend:
Michael Moorcocks' Corum or Elric series. I read the Corum stories when I was 13 and was hooked for life. The first one is called "Knight of the Swords" but these days they are usually in a three-volume collection. There are six Corum novels altoghther, and there's about eight for Elric.
Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Restaraunt At The End Of The Universe, Life The Universe And Everything, So Long And Thanks For All The Fish, and Mostly Harmless. The funniest stuff you will ever read, from a total genius. This man basically predicted the internet and it's impact on the world.
Also, try Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels or Piers Anthony's Xanth novels. All are funny, and most will stand alone (you don't have to worry about which one is first).
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These sound pretty good, I'll have to try them sometime. And thanks to everyone else for their reccomondations (I don't think I'll ever spell that word right)!
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
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John Grisham is from Arkansas...my home state....End Quote
But he had the good sense to attend Ole Miss!!! ;D
Subject: Re: Help Please-- What Would You Recommend?
I liked "A Time to Kill" the best from Grisham; the book was far better than the movie. As for books I could reccomend, I would say Animal Farm by Orwell was a quick read and was good. I also liked the Marcsinko books, especially Rouge Warrior, but that has some racy language in it. You do not want 1000 page books, but I have to say the best book I ever read was War and Peace. Dostoyevsky was also good, but a bit twisted. Hmmm... Have you tried Catch-22? That is a HALLARIOUS book. You will pee in your pants reading it. Snot bubbles will blow out your nose from laughing so hard. If you have not read it, go and get a copy. It is by Joseph Heller.