2006-10-30 09:01:42 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD by HARPER LEE IS A WONDERFUL READ.
ALSO FROM SCHOOL DAYS, "CIDER WITH ROSIE" by LAURIE LEE
is a very english story of growing up.
2006-10-30 09:18:10 · answer #1 · answered by RONBY 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
One of my favourite books as a child was Laurie Lee 'Cider With Rosie'.
It is autobiographical, about his participation in WW2, but he looks after his increasingly senile mother.
The line I (vaguely) recall as my favourite is...
'She saw shades, spoke to visions, and then she died.
We buried her under the oak tree next to my father'
It's just so eloquent and beautiful, and paints a thousand images in a few words.
Another of my favourite lines comes from 'A Passage To India' when Forster is describing the unfamiliar landscape, particularly the mountains...
'The earth lies flat, heaves a little, then is flat again'
You can just picture them!
(apologies if memory my is not 100%)
My all time favourite is Samuel Beckett -Waiting For Godot.
It's so full of time frittered away doing the routine and mundane, yet it's so full of humour, almost slapstick at times, and I'm sorry not to be able to narrow it down to one example as there are so many.
I don't mean to sound bleak, but there you are. A few of my favourite pieces of literature.
2006-10-30 14:08:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck for accurate criticisms of the capitalist system of economics.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Casey for suggesting that what is seen as madness is entirely subjective and that the carers may do more damage than hope.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by The Duke (HST) for his non conventional view on how to survive and succeed - in fact HST in general for showing that you can be non conformist and shout about it without getting into trouble.
Non americans:
Saturday by Iain McEwan as it covers the gap between science and the arts in its text.
A Dolls House by Ibsen, an early women's rights campaigner.
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard. Everyone should read this.
2006-10-31 00:06:18 · answer #3 · answered by Dr No 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Romance of The Three Kingdoms by Lo Guan Zong
Three Musketeer by Alexander Dumas
2006-10-30 09:04:21 · answer #4 · answered by It's Me! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So hard to choose but a really great question. From childhood I would say Robinson Crusoe was my favourite book , closely followed by Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway tree.
As an adult I would have to say anything by Terry Pratchett (Is that literature Har de har!) 'cos he makes me weep with laughter and I love A Prayer for Owen Meany and Life of Pi. I have been considering this but it is too hard to choose just one because as soon as you think of one others come to mind and it is impossible!
2006-10-30 09:09:40 · answer #5 · answered by wattie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre
2006-10-30 09:03:32 · answer #6 · answered by Ian69 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by William Horwood (The Duncton Wood Chronicles), J R R Tolkien (Lotr and Hobit), C S Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia) Ursula k Le Guin ( Earthsea Quartet) or J K Rowling (HP)
2006-10-30 09:56:54 · answer #7 · answered by crafty ails 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Prayer for Owen Meany- John Irving.
2006-10-31 09:54:30 · answer #8 · answered by iwatchedthestarsfallsilently 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lord of the Rings, for an English mythology.
Wuthering Heights, for the greatest novel.
1984/or/Fight Club, for accurate pictures of today.
The Crime Wave at Blandings (or any PGW), for the most perfect comic story.
2006-10-30 19:54:51 · answer #9 · answered by Iain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson, a timeless classic.
Mountain Man by Vardis Fisher, so expressive.
2006-10-30 09:05:21 · answer #10 · answered by tucksie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sharon Osborne's Autobiography
2006-10-30 09:09:22 · answer #11 · answered by Frank H 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋