2006-09-02 09:04:55 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Well I am a quarter way through Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I expected it to be dry and hard to read, but its brilliant !!
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2006-09-02 09:30:53 · answer #1 · answered by Tantrabella 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold. I knew it was a bestseller, but for some reason it didn't sound like it would appeal to me.
Also, the Haruki Murakami books I have read have all turned out to be much better than I expected, especially "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" and "Sputnick Sweetheart". I though the Bird Chronicle would be good but not as incredible as it turned out to be.
2006-09-02 13:36:20 · answer #2 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Battlefield Earth turned out to be one of the best books I have ever read, but I thought it would be too long at first. The last 600 pages were actually the best :)
2006-09-02 12:13:25 · answer #3 · answered by outbaksean 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Orwell's 1984. I knew this book as teh favourite of like 3-4 male friends, and thought it would somehow be a masculine book or something, but after reading it i think its one of the best books ive read.
Also couple lithuanian books - Pozera's 'Fish dont recognize their children" and Putinas' "In teh shadow of the altars" - i used to underestimate the lithuanian writers, but these two books are worth to be world wide known.
2006-09-02 22:29:42 · answer #4 · answered by Solveiga 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Brown
I'm reading it for school but i i can understand it a lot better than i thought i would and some of the stories you can really relate to.
2006-09-02 21:14:21 · answer #5 · answered by snaba 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Eyre Affain by Jasper Fforde- I had to read it for school, and it was soo hard getting into it. But by the end, I didn't want to put it down. After I finshed i found out its in a series of four, and now I'm reading the whole series!
2006-09-02 11:23:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Odyssey.
Classics always weigh heavily on a young reader...like eating your brussel sprouts. I actually didn't read it when it was assigned to me in high school. Seemed too unpleasant. But after college, when my conscience finally caught up with me, I read it. And then I read it again. And now I read it once a year.
There's nothing more gripping than a good tale of justice served.
2006-09-02 18:17:01 · answer #7 · answered by breauxbridge 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Memoirs of a Geisha. I was turned off by all the movie hype but once I picked up the book I couldn't believe how well written it was!
2006-09-02 09:33:22 · answer #8 · answered by 9manties 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Harry Potter series.
2006-09-02 10:00:13 · answer #9 · answered by Mollywobbles 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Da Vinci Code, because generally I don't like contemporary fiction. But it was a good mystery, and the codes were cool. (I did figure out the ending early, though!)
2006-09-02 10:43:58 · answer #10 · answered by Melissa L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋