harry potter, everything by dan brown
2006-09-02 04:06:37
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answered by ? 5
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I like, The House at Pooh Corner - A. A. Milne.
It is a loving gentle tale of a young british boy and his wonderful imagination which makes his little stuffed friends come to life in the Hundred Acre wood! Delightful.
I didn't like any of the books on your list. Ok, I did, but I'm a smart alek and I didn't want to play along nicely. Now that I've had my little joke, The Shining- Stephen King. All the movie versions were horrible compared to the book. I slept with the lights on for six months. I had pink and purple shower curtains at the time, so the bathroom light burned day and night! I wanted to make SURE if I saw anything I was sure I was seeing what I saw! Thrilling! Stephen King at his best; before he began writing formula books for the bucks.
2006-09-01 18:23:29
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answered by Chris 5
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Stranger With My Face- Lois Duncan
Loved that book when I was young, must have read it like 5 times. Good thriller, has paranormal themes.
The Lonely Bones by Alice Sebold
Its sad, but a really good read, I couldn't put it down.
Most books by Christopher Moore. Again with the paranormal themes, but they are hilarious.
2006-09-01 18:28:23
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answered by Anonymous
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Of those on your list, I'd say "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells would probably have the easiest English to read. The Terry Pratchett books are absolutely hilarious and easy to read, but if you're not from the U.S. or U.K. you probably won't get many of the cultural (and pop culture) references, making it harder to understand. "War of the Worlds" is science fiction. The Terry Pratchett books are fantasy. Someone that is not on your list is Jack London. His books are easy to read, my 10 year old daughter is currently reading one of his books, "White Fang," yet they are filled with adventure and excellent story telling. His books are mostly set in Alaska.
2006-09-01 18:23:59
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answered by cool_breeze_2444 6
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Anything by Dean Koontz, also like James Patterson, Barbara Kingsolver, Tess Garrison, and Dan Brown.
2006-09-01 21:14:53
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answered by Anonymous
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What about The War of the Worlds? It's science fiction and was written after HG Wells announced over the radio that Martians had landed and were running all over New Jersey.
Some people believed it was true and panic set in.
Here is an excerpt:
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.
The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if the nebular hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course. The fact that it is scarcely one seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated its cooling to the temperature at which life could begin. It has air and water and all that is necessary for the support of animated existence."
Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level. Nor was it generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows that it is not only more distant from time's beginning but nearer its end."
2006-09-01 18:58:27
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answered by ma8pi 2
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These weren't in your list but maybe you should check these out: Aldous Huxley's Point Counterpoint and Brave New World. I also love Waugh, but didn't really care for The Loved One. I loved Vile Bodies though.
2006-09-09 06:34:37
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answered by Anonymous
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I enjoy reading all the books from Aesop's Fables to Dan Brown's Da Vinci
2006-09-01 18:19:10
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answered by i 3
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The War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
2006-09-01 19:32:09
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answered by puma 6
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i know that this isn't on your list but i don't feel like reading it... Tears of a tiger by Sharon Drapper. I it good an easy to read. She uses different ypes of wirtting through the book. like newspaper article and class assignments and poem. Also it is all dialect
2006-09-08 08:44:04
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answered by Anonymous
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The Old Man and the Sea, by Earnest Hemingway. A third-grader could read it.
2006-09-01 18:17:28
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answered by Anonymous
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