I'm trying to find some interesting summer reading, what do you recommend?
2007-01-05 23:17:29 · 11 answers · asked by jo 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
A while ago they did a promotion where they tried to get everyone in the UK to read a book and the book they chose was Perfume by Patrick Suskind. As it's a film now I bet you could get a copy anywhere.
My personal fave novel is 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabakov, and other greats are Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment', if you want a longish one, or the 'Old Man and the Sea' by Hemingway for a shorter one.
Newer books, 'The Line of Beauty" by Hollinghurst, Franzen's 'The Corrections' or anything by Peter Carey is good. A general thing I like to do for summer reading is read whatever won the Booker - 2006 it was Kiran Desai's 'Inheritence of Loss'. On those lines, Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's children' won the 'Booker of Bookers' - I haven't read it but from this it must be a pretty good book!!!
Another really great fun book to read that I think everyone would like is Thackeray's 'Vanity Fair'.
2007-01-05 23:57:54 · answer #1 · answered by empanda 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Gulliver's Travels- Jonathan Swift The Fountain Head - Ayn Rand Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Orlando - Virginia Woolf Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer The Stranger, Albert Camus 1984 - George Orwell
2016-05-22 22:32:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as the fundamental reading. Just go to a bookshop, take some time looking around, reading back covers and some paragraphs of books, and select whatever seems to intrigue you.
You'll enjoy reading your selected book much more than any books people try to convince you to read. It's a good idea to take a look at those books, though, and with that in mind I'd advise you to look for something written by Borges and Kafka.
2007-01-06 00:13:50 · answer #3 · answered by Maria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Something by Steinbeck. He's not The Great American Novelist. But he tried to be that. He gets points for being careful, workmanlike and earnest in his work, at very least.
I reco: Of Mice and Men (a novella, really, but maybe his most perfect work; a gem)
The Pearl (short novel, and good)
Grapes of Wrath (long, a book you can walk around in; characterizations often ring false-- regional character types seem based on stereotype rather than clear-eyed or clear-headed human observation. But worth a read once in anyone's life)
2007-01-05 23:40:10 · answer #4 · answered by £º$∑® 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm into book 5 of 7 in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Great books. For serious literature I like Hemingway.
2007-01-05 23:23:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I definitely believe everyone should read; Rebecca by Daphne De Maurer, the Harry Potter books and Little Women
2007-01-06 03:06:36 · answer #6 · answered by lauren0459 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Catcher in the Rye. A fan of punk rock will like the layers. Edgy yet substantitive.
2007-01-05 23:25:07 · answer #7 · answered by Billy Dee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
'the stand' by stephen king, is a great novel.
'the brothers karamazov' by fyodor dosteoevsky is a great philosophical novel.
'one day in the life of ivan denisovitch' by a. solzhenitsyn, a short novel about life in soviet concentration camps.
2007-01-06 18:31:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
If you're at all interested in philosophy READ IT!
(In fact, just read it whether you are or not.)
2007-01-05 23:21:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ones by Jeanette Oak are quite nice...i enjoy it.
2007-01-06 01:51:05 · answer #10 · answered by Reylia 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋