-Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe
-Bless Me, Ultima- Rudolfo Anaya
-Ellen Foster- Kaye Gibbons
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest- Ken Kesey
-A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
-The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway
-Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut
All Quiet on the Western Front- Erich Maria Remarque
i was just wanting some opinions because i have to pick one for school..and i dont know which one to pick...give me some comments if you have read any of them..whether they were good or not good
2007-09-02 11:45:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I loved Slaughterhouse-Five, it was excellent. The only other one on your list that I've read is All Quiet on the Western Front which I wasn't especially fond of, but it certainly wasn't bad. But Slaughterhouse-Five was really interesting and strange, in the best possible ways.
2007-09-02 14:11:40 · answer #1 · answered by DngrsAngl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd recommend "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey. The Hemingway books are too complex & old for me. The others I haven't read. But Kesey's book is good reading, interesting, fun and short.
2007-09-03 12:28:53 · answer #2 · answered by nanlwart 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things Fall Apart/Chinua Achebe
Probably THE book about Africa to read... Might be difficult for newcomers in African literature but definitely worth to try.
All Quiet... /Erich Maria Remarque
The ultimate book about WW2, written by a contemporary.
2007-09-02 19:20:50 · answer #3 · answered by Mamadi 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The sun also rises is a good read from the wwI
I enjoyed Slaughterhouse Five very much (wwII ?)
Been a long time since I read either and can't provide
you with a report
2007-09-02 19:04:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slaughterhouse 5--hands down
(and maybe All Quiet... as an alternate)
2007-09-03 06:17:35 · answer #5 · answered by Omar Cayenne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sun Also Rises is a tough one to read. I didn't like it at all. Remarque is fantastic, especially All Quiet on the Wester Front - it is tough to read, though, because it is a direct report from the front lines during WWI, and Remarque has this amazing talent to write in a way to make you hear the people scream. I loved it, although it gave me the creeps.
2007-09-02 18:52:21 · answer #6 · answered by Solveig 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try "Slaughterhouse Five" by Vonnegut. A strange yet interesting story. And the movie is good too!
2007-09-02 18:49:12 · answer #7 · answered by Ice 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
these are the books i read
Things fall apart:depressing ending, itz about the african tribes
A farewell to arms: also has a drepressing ending, wounded soldier falls in love with a nurse
Slaughterhouse Five: time-traveling, weird story, character dies too but isnt sad event because he isnt really dead. he is only in aother dimension. weird story, however happy ending...?
i think all of ur books deal with war and the dreadful consequenses. for more info about the books, go to www.wikipedia.com and just type in the book title.
2007-09-02 19:13:51 · answer #8 · answered by NT 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would not recommend a farewell to arms if you get bored easily. hemingway was a journalist before he was a novelist, and he likes to spend entire long paragraphs describing things that should only take a few words to describe. i couldn't finish a farewell to arms because of it.
2007-09-02 19:45:12 · answer #9 · answered by nodaybuttoday2008 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
vonnegut is soooo overrated, but i'd recommend bless me, ultima. i read it freshman year and i liked it a lot. not the type of literature i normally enjoy, but i liked it and i learned a lot about different cultures.
2007-09-03 02:06:27 · answer #10 · answered by west_xylaphone 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋