I dont want to get bored with my book so can someone tell me if any of these books are really REALLY good books. I need to read four of these books this semester. which is a good book? can you write if its action, comedy, etc.
Thanks! =)
The things they carried by Tim O'Brien
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Call of the wild by Jack London
White Fang by Jack London
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs court by Mark Twain
Planet of the Blind By Stephen Kuusisto
As I lay dying by Willliam Faulkner
Their eyes are watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
Tuesdays with Morriy by Mitch Albom
The five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Absalom, Absalom! by William
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
2007-01-07 14:51:01 · 13 answers · asked by Alex Madden 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Wow! You really can't go wrong with any of these, and I have actually read most of them. My preference would be Call of the Wild, then White Fang, then a coin toss between A Connecticut Yankee... and the Pearl. Faulkner is great, though generally long (but intricate in detail); Hemingway is awesome, and he creates characters that most people can identify with.
2007-01-07 14:59:07 · answer #1 · answered by Mangy Coyote 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do not try to read AS I Lay Dying please trust me on this don't do it.
I would suggest
The Things that They Carried It's a serious but good book
A Farewell To Arms Also a drama I think that you'll enjoy this
author
The Five People You Meet In Heaven also serious but probably
the easiest to read
The Pearl serious but I love Steinbeck's work
Their Eyes Were Watching God I love this book and highly
recommend it It's a story of a woman's life and it's a story
about love
I hope that this helps you.
2007-01-07 15:46:36 · answer #2 · answered by Kathryn K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Call of the Wild & White Fang by jack london. fast moving you won't want to put it down.
As I Lay Dying by Faulkner.........not a traditional writer
The Pearl is a short book and steinbeck an amazing writer.
Both Mitch Albom books, also short read.
2007-01-07 15:23:00 · answer #3 · answered by aok 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jack London books are good, actiony sorts of outdoors stuff, LOADS of friends & Family have reccomended The Five People You Meet in Heaven. There's 3, read the Mark Twain- he's got a fairly easy way about his writing.
2007-01-07 15:16:10 · answer #4 · answered by Gamer Kitten 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any Jack London book is fabulous (White Fang is fav) and the Five People You Meet in Heaven is great!
2007-01-07 16:10:09 · answer #5 · answered by Flipp 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From your list I have read A Farewell to Arms and White Fang. Both are great.
2007-01-07 16:13:31 · answer #6 · answered by Gabriela Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mitch albom is famous for writing tear-jerkers
jack london is famous for writing so hideously that people want to shoot him in the face and yet this outburst of emotion gives people a false sense of having come into contact with genius
and there's absolutely no way you can go wrong with ernest hemmingway unless the first book you ever read by him is The Old Man and the Sea and you do so during your pubescent years
2007-01-07 15:02:07 · answer #7 · answered by Edanhsil 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Whie FAng or Call of he Wild - so nice language, Animal story with human nature.
Rabbi, Run - to break from serious readings
The Things they Carried, for character development
2007-01-07 15:01:09 · answer #8 · answered by wilma m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I just read "The Five People You Meet in Heaven". It makes you think about the consequences of what you do here on earth. It's a really good book, and easy to read.
2007-01-07 14:58:54 · answer #9 · answered by Lil' Dog 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2007-01-07 16:48:44 · answer #10 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋