what novel have you read many times? who is the author? is there any character in that novel who resembles you?
2006-11-17 13:58:46 · 19 answers · asked by gopala g 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
a tree grows in brooklyn by betty smith is my all-time favorite book. i don't really understand why i like it. i think it's because it is the book with the strongest connection to the main character. the book follows roughly10 years of the main character's life and it was one of the books where you're so sad to end it.
on another note, i've read the entire series of unfortunate events. they're surprisingly funny, at some parts absolutely hilarious. and it's not kids books like i thought, they're definitely for older audiences.
2006-11-17 14:14:10 · answer #1 · answered by kate 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Clan of the Cave Bears by Jean Auel. I've read this book at least 5 times and I always discover something new about the characters and how prehistoric man survived the Ice Age. The author's meticulous research and understanding of human nature has brought to life the mystery of how early man adapted to the environment and to each other.
Five year old Ayla, the main character of the Earth's Children series, is found nearly dead from festering gashes on her thigh left by a massive lion. Iza, the Medicine Woman of a Clan of the Cave Bears begs the leader to let her take the girl with them even though she does not look like them. Although the child belongs to The Others, Brun allows Iza ,his sister, to care for the injured girl assuming the child will soon die.
That's all I'll tell. It's a fascinating story.
2006-11-17 14:32:31 · answer #2 · answered by Rox 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain. I read it twice, and I've always just loved that book. The truth and humanity in it... two memorable characters and their friendship. I love how he finds such simple poetry in the natural world, like when he describes the sound of a thunderstorm as big logs rolling across the sky. I must have read that book fifteen years ago and yet I never fail to hear those logs rumbling whenever I hear thunder now. I've always liked picaresque tales, and loved the whole theme of just escaping down the river... that sense of freedom and unexpected companionship... seeing the world through a kid's eyes, eyes that somehow see the world more clearly than any of the adults in the book.
2006-11-17 14:17:07 · answer #3 · answered by opifan64 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Currently, I am enjoying Phillippa Gregory's historical fiction of the English monarchy. I don't ususally re-read novels but move on to the next. I like complex characters and I may not resemble a character but I like understanding how they think.
2006-11-17 14:11:43 · answer #4 · answered by miatalise12560 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The novel I like the most is Love Comes Softly by Jeanette Oke. I wish I could live back in the times when life was pure and clean, there was no industry or pollution, when land was plentiful and there for the taking and people tried to be good. I would love to be Marty.
2006-11-17 14:02:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. There are human beings in this novel, and massive historical events. It completely envelops you in its world. It's alive. And because I'm alive, many characters resemble me, and you. You should read it.
2006-11-17 14:30:31 · answer #6 · answered by Edward DeVere 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
American Tragedy by Dreiser
To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee
great books
And Ulysses is a lot of things but to simply describe it as a "good read" is obviously a comment from someone who either has never read it or failed to understand it and gave up after 20 pages.
2006-11-17 15:48:53 · answer #7 · answered by Who cares 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole, and no.
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, and Yossarian (but he's an Everyman character, you're supposed to identify with him).
2006-11-17 14:03:08 · answer #8 · answered by Bryce 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and Demian by Hermann Hesse. These are both outstanding books and really spoke to me about life and finding myself. I found myself relateable, not necessarily to particular characters, but to parts of many of them or just the narration or story altogether. Terrific stories.
2006-11-17 15:09:49 · answer #9 · answered by rapunzel 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
2 of my favorites (though I'm a total book addict & have dozens) are Little women By Louisa May Allcott. I relate to jo's restless spirit. high emotions and love for writing as what she was born to do.
The other is Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-stop cafe" by fannie Flagg. I really relate to Idgie. hot tempered passionate & loyal. When she fell in love she fell in LOVE & stayed that way till death do they part. That's how I am too.
2006-11-17 14:14:45 · answer #10 · answered by poetsheart 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋