2007-01-06 16:54:16 · 7 answers · asked by saman a 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
At the moment, I am thinking "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova. It is a fictional historical account about the search for the Count Dracul figure throughout Europe. It was written so well that I felt as if I was traveling through Europe with these people and I had seen these places with the characters.
It is not necessarily a horror book at all...it is hard to classify. It was very good, though, and was one of the better books I have read lately.
Either that or "Dead Sleep" by Greg Iles. That was interesting, too.
2007-01-06 16:59:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
The setting is a futuristic "perfect" post major world war world where people are test tube babies. There are different levels of intelligence and people are given status according to their beauty and intelligence. Regardless of status, the people are all preconditioned to believe that their world is perfect and that whatever status they are at, that it is the perfect place for them. They are preconditioned to be sexually free and on permanent birth control. They don't get sick or old- they take a drug called "Soma" whenever things get anywhere near unhappy so they never feel pain. They have no religion or knowledge of a god. They worship "Ford" the leader of the world.
One of the high intelligence persons was born with a slight defect and therefore sees the world just differently enough to question his surroundings. The story is about him and one of the intelligent females who fly just off the continent borders to find a "newly discovered" world. The place is basically what happened to the people left behind from the war who did not have the technological abilities as the world mentioned above. To the visitors they are "savages". They have sex and babies,religion, and no Soma. Within this savage world they find a mother and son who were from their own world but had landed and grown up in the savage world after a plane crash. They take the mother and son back to their own world and the story is about how the four interact and begin to question this new, perfect, world.
The story very vivid and frighteningly like modern United States. It was written about Britain and before the test tube babies came to be. I found it amazing that this person could so accurately predict the direction that the world could go in. It definately made me think- and I love books that do that.
2007-01-06 17:30:56 · answer #2 · answered by slaughter114 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Jesus I Never Knew" by Phillip Yancey. It provides a viewpoint that I've never seen in the typical church or bible school, such as an honest description of Jesus' life as opposed to the sugary version that most religious people like to put forward. At the same time, it doesn't go so far to the extreme as to be absurd (like "The Last Temptation").
2007-01-06 19:27:41 · answer #3 · answered by Ellie G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Geek Love...I don't know who wrote it. It's about this carnival freak show family, there's siamese twins, a boy who's part fish, a bald/albino/midget (she's the narrarator), and other crazies. It's pretty interesting, just about their life as a family and what not.
2007-01-06 17:32:53 · answer #4 · answered by sgrjackson1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Prometheus Rising" by Robert Anton Wilson--how to reprogram all the bad conditioning you've received over the years.
2007-01-06 20:41:41 · answer #5 · answered by Lupa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Howard Stern"s biography. Really...I was surprised as it was very interesting, funny and well written. I reallly enjoyed it.
2007-01-06 17:02:42 · answer #6 · answered by Star 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Shogun, its got everything.
2007-01-06 17:26:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋