Read about 1 a month, need something new. Tell me name please, author, and why I should read it.
2006-11-17 04:07:39 · 14 answers · asked by garrett 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
"Narcissus and Golmund" by Hermann Hesse
or "The Unbearable lightness of being" by Milan Kundera
both are just amazing books, I'd put my hands in fire to vouch for them... one more.. sorry - but --ONE favorite book??? can't happen--- check out EAST OF EDEN by john Steinbeck... really good stuff
2006-11-17 04:50:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Get past the first 40 pages and you won't be able to put it down, it's over 600. It's about a 1950s Baptist missionary family who goes to the Belgian Congo. They went there thinking they knew everything, and found they knew very little! There's not many books that focus on day to day life in Africa. I was VERY upset when the book ended, because I kept wanting it to go on and on and on. I've had very few books that affected me in this manner, or as strongly. The book does not focus strongly on religion.
I assume by your avatar you're a guy! Are you into Merlin type books? I would highly recommend David Edding's series The Belgariad. Actually it's a 15 book series that starts out with The Pawn of Prophecy. Young and old a like can read this series. There's a lot of "innuendo" that younger ones wouldn't understand, but adults find funny. That is THE best series I have ever read. I read about 14.5! It got a little too much the last couple of books!
2006-11-17 04:18:37 · answer #2 · answered by carrieinmich 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's so many. Why not read or reread some classic? You can never go wrong with something tried and true.
- Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
For modern literature I suggest
- Memoirs of a Geisha - Golden. A really easy and interesting book on Geishas in Japan. Very fun to read.
- The Other Boleyn Girl - Gregory. If you like history this book makes it fun. It's all about the sister of Ann Bolelyn (the second wife of Henry VIII and the mother of Elizabeth I). It's got alittle bit of everything from sex to scandal to politics to real drama.
2006-11-17 05:16:25 · answer #3 · answered by Rayslittlegurl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I am brasilian, then I have a brasilian book to indicate for you, but I really don´t know if that book is tranlated to english or not... the author is Erico Veríssimo and the name of the book is Incidente em Antares. This book is about a small citye where a strange ghost storye happens... At least you should find something about him in the net! Good reading!
2006-11-17 04:15:57 · answer #4 · answered by Pedro M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Awareness" by Anthony De Mello
http://www.amazon.com/Awareness-Anthony-Mello/dp/0385249373
I'm a voracious reader. I worked at a bookstore just so I could get a good discount on books. Of all the ones I've read, this one had the most profound effect on me. It was written by a Jesuit priest and condemned by Ratzinger before he was Pope. (I don't consider myself a Christian, by the way.) If I had to categorize it, it might fall under Eastern spirituality. However, I hate to label it with the terms religion, spirituality, or self-help, because I think that may convey the wrong idea. It's not impractical, new-agey, warm-fuzzy, preachy, irrational, corny, or any of the things that people sometimes associate with spirituality. It really made a difference in my life, and in the lives of the people I've shared it with. That's all I can say really.
2006-11-17 04:17:07 · answer #5 · answered by Brad 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nemesis by Issac Asimov
Something Fresh - by PG Wodehouse
Rebbecca - Daphne du Maurier
2006-11-17 05:02:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
honestly, as pathetic because it sounds, the e book that i can bear in mind making me saddest replaced into the position the purple Fern Grows. Now, keep in mind that i replaced into about 10 years previous on the time that I study it, and that i have continually loved animals. yet I bear in mind feeling rather unhappy as I study the ending of that e book... best desires!
2016-11-29 05:36:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lord of the Rings-J.R.R. Tolken (great, long, solid book...I loved it) or any of Tolken's books (The Hobbit, Sir Gwane and the Green Knight, Roverandom...ect. J.R.R. Tolken is my favorite author next to Mark Twain.)
2006-11-17 04:51:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
It is a quick read, but it is a rich story...the kind that makes you appreciate what you have in life, but gives you the urge and the courage to seek out more.
2006-11-17 04:22:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Testament by John Grisham.
2006-11-17 04:09:55 · answer #10 · answered by pebbles1220 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋