help plz..is "a line of beauty" a book worth reading?
2006-12-03 19:24:59 · 13 answers · asked by Rajiv G 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
In no particular order:
Beach Music by Pat Conroy - absolutely stunning prose
White by Rosie Thomas - incredible ability to convey emotion
The Power of One by Bryce Courtney - heartbreaking
The Blue Nowhere by Jeffery Deaver - unputdownable
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown - complicated and wonderful
The Diddakoi (can't remember author) - children's book that's stayed with me all my life
The Success Principles By Jack Canfield - everything to succeed in a book
When the Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith - makes you feel Africa
The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton - imaginative feast for children
Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson - made me laugh out loud on a plane
PS Most boring ever (by a mile) The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
2006-12-03 22:11:23 · answer #1 · answered by carokokos 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In no particular order:
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Another Roadside Attraction, Tom Robbins
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Choke, Chuck Pahlanuik
The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
2006-12-04 02:35:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula LeGuin (psychological thriller, sort of sci fi)
I Nerver Promised You A Rose Garden (get into the mind of someone with sever schizophrenia)
The Web of Life by Fritjof Capra (intro to dynamical systems theory and really cool views on consciousness and communication)
1984
Farenheit 451
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens (hilarious and dark, not cheesy like that damned Xmas Carol)
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (hilarious dark comedy)
Squashed (comedy/drama about an overweight teen girl growing a giant pumpkin)
How the Mind Works by Stephen Pinker (very informative and from an evolutionary perspective)
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (i can't describe the genre... psychological adventure?)
2006-12-03 19:39:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible (new international version)
The Greatest Thing in the World by Henry Drummond
Christy by Catherine Marshall
The Locket by Evans
Marley and Me
A Dog's Life by Peter Mayle
The Blue Bottle Club by Stokes
Children's books:
Charlotte's Web by E.B.White
The Pink Motel by Brink
The Boxcar Children
Pollyanna by Porter
No Promises in the Wind by Hunt
2006-12-04 04:24:16 · answer #4 · answered by Puff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just read Arundhati Roy's "The god of small things" and I think it's fabulous (I guess you are from India, so maybe you read it, if not, you should). Than, Mihail Boulgakov - "Meister and Margarete" (Russian writer) and Selindger's "Catcher in the rye" - these two are classics. Steven Pressfield's - Gates of fire (history novel, if you are interested in way of thinking and living of spartan soldiers - I liked it very much. Dictionary of the Khazars - Milorad Pavic (Serbian writer), Orwell - "1984", Gabriel Garcia Marquez - "One hundred years of solitude", anything from Jorge Louis Borges, Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie's "The ground beneath her feet"... It's all that I can remember right now. Hope you will find something that suits you. This is mix of books that I read recently and my books for all times. Enjoy reading!
2006-12-03 22:16:07 · answer #5 · answered by Jelena L. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry Potter
Frankenstein
The Hound if the Baskervilles
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Three Musketeers
The Man in the iron mask
Fall of the house of Usher
2006-12-03 23:17:30 · answer #6 · answered by black_cat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-23 15:43:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite books are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One hundred years of solitude, Milan Kundera, The unberable lightness of being and Frank Herbert, Dune (especially the dirst one and Emperor of Dune)
2006-12-03 20:19:51 · answer #8 · answered by dragon_todo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite book would have to be either A Prayer For Owen Meany or Until I Find You. Both are by John Irving. Good stuff.
2006-12-03 19:50:44 · answer #9 · answered by EleanorRigby 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i like very much Thomas Mann's books. and i like Russian authors such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, also Hemingway and Edgar Alan PO, Umberto Eco, Marquez, mopasan, and so on . i like reading very much, also o like French literature
2006-12-03 22:29:01 · answer #10 · answered by anukina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋