Oh, and right now I'm finishing Spiral, the last book in the Tunnels series by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, two authors in the UK. It's about this secret underground civilization and stuff. I like it.
Been away for a bit, but sneaking back in.
Gaming on: PS4, PC, 3DS. Got a Switch! Mainly to play Smash
English Literature or American Literature or anything that is in English Language?
Fiction or Non-Fiction?
Great modern English Lit (Fiction):
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Atoenment by Ian McEwan
Trainspotting (scottish lit) by Irvine Welsh
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Sussana Clarke
Great modern American Lit (Fiction):
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
Non-English (Translated)
Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
(Basically anything written by Haruki Murakami)
...oh, and Lord of the Rings!
“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”
- George Orwell, ‘1984’
| non-gravity said: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four I consider this novel so important for a young person to understand, I read the entire thing out loud to my dyslexic teenage son a few years ago. Orwell had a unique understanding of the political future planned for the world by powers we're not supposed to know about. He put this picture together in his horrifying novel about a society gone mad with control. The characters want to live normal lives, but are prevented at every turn by "Big Brother" - the eye of the government. Orwell also wrote Animal Farm - a much shorter novel about how power corrupts. The characters are all animals - a strange thing in a novel intended for adults. I consider both his books to be VITAL reading for informed citizens. |
Have to second this suggestion. Nineteen Eighty Four is probably my all-time favourite book and although it's far from a laugh riot, there is some dark humour in there. You will marvel at how relevant the story is, considering how long ago it was written.
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is a great classic, with lots of interesting characters. It's a bit heavy but less so than his other stuff.
If you're after more modern books then I'd find it difficult to recommend something 'cos there's so many that spring to mind I wouldn't know where to start.
Too much planning, and you'll never get anything done.
Karl Pilkington.
Bartimaeus trilogy is good :), also George Orwell is great, Animal Farm and 1984 were fantastic. LOTR is a bit long, and drags on in places - my opinion there. But the Diskworld by Terry Pratchett are quite funny and witty too. Makes me long to start reading again, as I haven't done so in a loooong time, and my grammar has begun to slip too :c
Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet a time.
great suggestions. all of you.
To those asking, I wouldn't mind either of fiction or non-fiction, mostly classics, with whit and a good light-hearted plot, something that uses whitty metaphores and expressions.
As much as possible short, and with few segments that are drawn out.
| happydolphin said: great suggestions. all of you. To those asking, I wouldn't mind either of fiction or non-fiction, mostly classics, with whit and a good light-hearted plot, something that uses whitty metaphores and expressions. As much as possible short, and with few segments that are drawn out. |
Definitely read the Baritmaeus trilogy then, I don't think I've met anyone that actually has, and I've enjoyed it thoroughly as a fictional story. It's set in London where the Magicians are in control and us - the people who do not have the power to summon entities from the "Other Place" are known as the commoners and have to go about doing our mundane lifes. The trilogy follows the story of a semi-powerful demon who is in turn summoned by a very young magician apprentice, who then develops into one of the main characters. The third book is my favourite by far, but the first was nice and refreshing too. It offers first person documentary of the demon, and the 3rd person of the young magician boy - as well as some other characters in the story :p. I think they go in this order - Amulet of Samarkand, Golem's Eye and Ptolemy's Gate
Disconnect and self destruct, one bullet a time.
I didn't see it mentioned, I'll be sure to add in my own suggestion...
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.
Excellent book. Not as well known as Orwell's 1984, but still shows a similar sort of reality.
Edit: Ah, right, also, if you're into Fantasy novels and Arthurian legend, then Once and Future King, by T.H. White, is also a very good read.
Honestly I don't do enough reading myself, but from what I have read I would recommend(excluding books already mentioned):
Les Miserables- Victor Hugo. Very good book, but the original version is long. I would recommend the condensed version like I read.
The Hobbit- JRR Tolkien
Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck
The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
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Don't forget about The Ring of Solomon. I mean sure, the secondary protagonist's intense self-righteousness can drive you up the wall at times, but it's still a nice addition to the series.
I also recommend The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe. I can't really vouch for the quality of the other three books, since my interest somehow started dwindling a bit once the main characters started chasing a Chesterfield sofa across the fields of prehistoric earth, and I never finished the series. I really need to try and get back to it one of these days...
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