Who is the author? Is it fiction or non? Why are you reading this book? Pleasure? School? Do you think this book will have an impact on future decisions you will make regarding relationships or political views or issues that are important to you? Thanks ahead of time for your answers.
2006-11-21 09:48:29 · 24 answers · asked by oceanchic66 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I am currently reading The Innocent Man by John Grisham. As far as I know it is his first work of non-fiction. I've read and enjoyed his novels. This tells of crimes committed in the early 1980's where the investigation was very much mishandled by both local and state police. I will finish the book but it is not easy to follow, lots of characters and lots of repitition. I don't think the book will have any impact on my thinking in the future, except to stick with this writers fiction and avoid the non-fiction. Iam reading this for "pleasure".
2006-11-21 10:05:39 · answer #1 · answered by MUD 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't buy many new books anymore unless it is an antiques appraisal book. Either that, or I replenish my library and get an old book that I either wore out or don't have yet. The classics are so numerous and I just have never really liked anything modern.
Right now, I am reading Rilke (again) because it never gets old for me. I love his poetry and he is quite possibly my favorite at this point in my life? (always hard to decide that though, too many favorites)
Poetry is a very important part of my life and I believe that by reading the works of others, it helps your own evolve and turn into something worth reading by more than just you and your peers.
Rilke was a genius that worked in a medium like a painter, he gave human traits and character to inanimate objects and brought them to life.
Some say that he died by a prick from a rose thorn because he had an immune illness and the infection was actually what killed him but those with the poets bug like to say that the very thing he personified and gave human traits to was the thing that took his life.
I believe that he is buried beneath rose bushes? But I don't remember?
2006-11-21 10:19:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To kill a mockingbird, by harper Lee. Fiction, but maybe reflects a little bit of history because it reflects many characteristics of the american Southern Society in the 1930s.
Just pleasure, I dont need an assignment from school for reading books. Thanks to the yahoo users, I picked this one, because I had a longer list, that eventually I'll read.
Well, I just started, and it doesnt seem to be bad, but I havent found yet the link between the story I'm reading and the general synopsis that appears in the back of the book. But let's see how will it go, maybe I'll like it.
2006-11-21 10:39:39 · answer #3 · answered by Abbey Road 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm juggling two Tolstoy books at the moment - "Anna Karenina" and the shorter "The Death of Ivan Ilyich". Both for pleasure, both fiction. I've progressed some distance so far and can say confidently that both will have a tremendous impact on my writing, if nothing else.
2006-11-21 11:24:42 · answer #4 · answered by hollis_sheets 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am currently reading:
Customer Service by Robert Lucas
Non-Fiction
I am reading it for work. I am a course developer. (School)
Yes, this book will have an impact on future decisions I make because customer service is my career.
Texas Real Estate Agency
Non-Fiction
I am reading this book for school. I am a real estate student.
This definitely has an impact on my future. If I don't study, I will not be able to pass the state exam.
2006-11-21 09:59:34 · answer #5 · answered by mx3baby 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm reading: The Green man Tales from the Mythic Forest
The author: Various; editied by Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling
Why am i reading it: Pleaure
Will it have an impact: Yes on my imaginative views on mystical/mythical creatures.
Fiction or non-fiction: Fiction
2006-11-21 15:43:57 · answer #6 · answered by OkieOk 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm reading
"Prep" by Curtis Sittenfeld.
it is fiction, and i'm reading it for pleasure..
It might have an impact on me in terms of relationships, but mostly it's just the story of a high school girl
2006-11-21 14:12:17 · answer #7 · answered by bree 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I just finished reading Sold by Patricia Mc Cormick. It is Non-Fiction, a teen read I might add. I'm reading it for pleasure. It impacts me because it will remind me that even though I don't have the most money or look the best that I am more privilidged and I should be thankful for that. I also learned that you have to do what is best even if you don't want to. This is a great book! I highly reccommend it for everybody teen or adult. Thanks!
2006-11-21 10:12:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am currently re-reading first to the last breath, by lisa willhite. I am re-reading it because it is very in depth concerning the emotional turmoil that effects a person after the loss of a loved one. I am a health worker and I hope to use it to better understand others. Also it is just a very good story. It is non-fiction, and I found it through work place dynamic's website.
2006-11-21 12:10:26 · answer #9 · answered by 44 years old 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Neitzsche
I love philosophy and things that make you think. Works open for interpretation are the best works, and standard fiction does not do that for me.
If I have to read fiction, then it is going to be a classic. I just read "All the Kings Men" by Robert Penn Warren. Absolutely amazing piece of literature.
2006-11-21 11:01:50 · answer #10 · answered by Random 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋