2006-06-28 17:45:11 · 7 answers · asked by sarah 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I'm not sure who you are talking bout but Paulo Coelho's book titled "the alchemist" is a great book... i highly recommend it
2006-06-28 17:49:49 · answer #1 · answered by aos 1 · 3⤊ 5⤋
So many books have altered my life in significant ways. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye was a life raft bobbing on the choppy waters of my adolescence. In college, The Great Gatsby changed me from an art to an English major. Twenty-eight or 29 coverless, spine-split paperback copies of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird became the rickety bridge between me and my very first class of turned-off, damned-if-they'd-read high school students. (I was 21 at the time; so were a few of my students!)
One summer I had the enormous good fortune to read, one right after another, Mary Gordon's Final Payments, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, and Carolyn M.Rodgers' rousing poetry collection, How I Got Ovah. The collective effect was galvanizing; like literary Supremes, these three writers jointly sang me an invitation to try to write, too. And soon after I'd started, John Updike's breathtaking story Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car (from his Pigeon Feathers collection) suggested to me that making stories could somehow make me a better person--that we are all, in a sense, works in progress. Each of the works I've mentioned is a first-person testament. For me it's all about voice: two souls – character and reader, speaker and listener – lost together in some spooky woods and trying to find their way out."
from an interview with wally lamb
2006-06-29 00:49:52 · answer #2 · answered by Vee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i love wally lamb's books. Another great author is Alice Hoffman
she wrote Practical magic, here on earth, turtle moon- she was also one of Oprah's picks.
I pasted a link to B&N for all of her books
2006-06-29 01:22:12 · answer #3 · answered by Roses Abound 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you go to www.paperbackswap.com, they have a discussion forum for members. This is a free site and you can trade your books there also. Tell them you were referred by rubuhroom. I've gotten great books from seeing what others were reading and I'm reading books I never would have read before. Good luck!
2006-06-29 00:59:13 · answer #4 · answered by rubuhroom 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you liked "She's Come Undone", you might also like Jennifer Weiner, who wrote "Good in Bed" and "In Her Shoes". Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar" is also along those lines.
2006-06-29 01:04:13 · answer #5 · answered by torreyc73 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, I'm sorry. I like Steven King. Good luck!
2006-06-29 00:50:59 · answer #6 · answered by rapidschick 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-06-29 00:49:59 · answer #7 · answered by Whitney B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋