i'm looking for a good book to start cause i just finished reading the dive from clausen's pier. i really like books that are either coming of age stories, about relationships, or about substance abuse issues...
some examples of my favorites are smashed, the saving graces, speak, the perks of being a wallflower (those are just some of them...)
but can anyone recommend any books similar to those or ones that you think are worth reading? i'm an english major and i love to read, but i'm kind of looking for some guilty pleasure books haha.
2006-07-13 21:28:26 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Books for your guilty pleasure...
Candy by Kevin Brooks--a young man, a musician, falls in love with a drug addict kept by a mean pimp; she loves him, but she loves the drugs more. Can he convince her to change???
Looking For Alaska by John Green--a coming of age story--a young man intrigued by "final words" goes to a private boarding school where he makes new friends--one of whom he falls in love with. Alaska is unlike any other girl he's ever known...but when tragedy strikes, he must learn to find meaning in life once more.
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer is a great guilty pleasure. This time it's all about the relationship! Bella Swan is a high school junior; she's new in town and just beginning to make friends when she falls in love with the school's most mysterious student--Edward--whom is later revealed to be a vampire. It's true love, but a love that will cause lots of friction for everybody.
2006-07-14 02:27:58 · answer #1 · answered by laney_po 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist-Fight in Heaven" by Sherman Alexie (Short stories, but with a common thread. The movie made of the book is "Smoke Signals.")
"Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro (He's a good author to know if you're an English major, and this is his most recent book. It's a little sci-fi, with a real center on social relationships and social structure.)
"if on a winter's night a traveler" by Italo Calvino (If you're a reader, you should see what Calvino's Reader is up to. The first few pages are mind-boggling.)
"The Eyre Affair" and the rest of the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde (Brain candy for lit geeks. If you like sci-fi, it's fun; if you'd just like to see a world in which books rule instead of TV and movies, it's great. It's especially good if you ever wanted to have a pet dodo.)
2006-07-13 22:00:34 · answer #2 · answered by Compulsive Reader 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Empress Orchid by Anchee Minh
It's an Asian Literature. I'm 15 but I really think that that book is a good read.
It was about a girl who became the last empress of China. The richness of the details is one of the many strong points this book has.
2006-07-13 21:50:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like books about relationships, you'll like "The Starter Marriage" by Kate Harrison.
I prefer books that help you learn about different cultures through a story. One of the best books I've read is "The Dark Bride" by Laura Restrepo. Also, Khaled Husseini's "The Kite Runner".
2006-07-13 23:21:37 · answer #4 · answered by kia78 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want to try something different there is always Irvine Welsh a Scottish writer who often wrote about substance abuse could try his Acid House, Trainspotting, Filth. I read them when I was about 15 but even now they stick in my mind
be warned his books aren't for the faint hearted
2006-07-13 21:47:58 · answer #5 · answered by kaob82 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not knowing you in person, and not knowing what other books you have already read makes this difficult to answer. My advise would be to go to your library and/or to a very good book shop and ask the people working there. They are usually very good in recommending the right books for the right people.
2006-07-13 21:39:39 · answer #6 · answered by Sean F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My reccomendations don't, as far as I know, fit in with what you've been reading, but Georgette Heyer's historical romances are fantastic. Great dialogue, funny phrasing, good plots. My first was Sylvester; another favorite is The Corinthian.
These aren't the steamy type-- much is left to the imagination, as is demonstrated by the fact that my mom lets me read them. (I'm just thirteen.)
2006-07-14 03:29:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anna L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Modern Girl's Guide to Life by Jane Buckingham. It is very useful guide for everything from finances, entertaining, do-it-yourself items, looking and feeling good, and sports. Not a boring read, definitely enjoyable and helpful.
2006-07-13 21:34:45 · answer #8 · answered by Mariposa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simone de Beauvoir "The Second Sex"
It’s now about twenty-five years since "The Second Sex" was published. Many people, especially in America, consider it the beginning of the contemporary feminist movement.
(excerpt fr interview)
Beauvoir. " Do you think the mothers you know chose to have children? Or were they intimidated into having them? Or, more subtly, were they raised into thinking that it’s natural and normal and womanly to have children and therefore chose to have them? But who made that choice inevitable? Those are the values that have to be changed. "
2006-07-13 22:55:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
have you read Gone with the wind? how about Scarlett(the sequel of Gone with the wind)
i'm 14 years old but have a college reading level(i love reading bioligy books) and i loved gone with the wind and scarlett
2006-07-13 21:35:56 · answer #10 · answered by phantom_bassoonist 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋