I think I've lost my interest in books.. help?

[Shannanigan]

Do you read Caribbean Literature? It's saved me a few times...something different to break the kind of feeling you're having

[PierreGringoire]

Pretty prose, eh?
Well there are quite a few authors that dit that description.
Read Count of Monte cristo. If it is too intimidating a read since it is ong read the abridged version (which I regretfully read because it was so enthralling). You can't dislike that book. Go to spark notes and read the Motifs and themes it has in it (I do that with every book I am about to read), if it interests you, do not think twice. Aleandre Dumas is king.
And you'll be obsesessed with reading. Be aware it doesn't necessarily mean you will like the three musketeers. He writes Count of Monte Cristo piece afterwards when he was wise and actually has a good moral message.

Anything by Charles Dickens , A tale of two cities and GReat Expectations I'm primed up to read next. I read a Christmas Carol and he is one hell of a writer. He is amazing. Honestly, I think A Tale of Two Cities might be a safer bet since he takes a more tragic but REAL tone by just a small bit. Again read the motifs and themes in sparknotes.

[SirJazzHands]

Thanks for all the help guys, I think I found something out of left field to spark my interest momentarily-- I'm reading Chronicles of Narnia and I'm loving it so far, I never did read much of this except Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in 5th grade.
Also I am very tempted for some unknown reason to buy a bible.. particularly Oxford's World Classics version, it has annotations and stuff. Has anyone here ever read it?
http://www.amazon.com/Bible-Authoriz...54/ref=ed_oe_p

[Shannanigan]

Great choice!!! I LOVE the chronicles...have two sets of them, lol. Enjoy!

[_Shannon_]

Pretty prose, eh?
Well there are quite a few authors that dit that description.
Read Count of Monte cristo. If it is too intimidating a read since it is ong read the abridged version (which I regretfully read because it was so enthralling). You can't dislike that book. Go to spark notes and read the Motifs and themes it has in it (I do that with every book I am about to read), if it interests you, do not think twice. Aleandre Dumas is king.
And you'll be obsesessed with reading. Be aware it doesn't necessarily mean you will like the three musketeers. He writes Count of Monte Cristo piece afterwards when he was wise and actually has a good moral message.

Anything by Charles Dickens , A tale of two cities and GReat Expectations I'm primed up to read next. I read a Christmas Carol and he is one hell of a writer. He is amazing. Honestly, I think A Tale of Two Cities might be a safer bet since he takes a more tragic but REAL tone by just a small bit. Again read the motifs and themes in sparknotes.

You and I---we are simpatico. Any chance you also have a fondness for Stevenson?? I discovered a few years ago that it turned out all my favorite books were boys' adventure novels! LOL! Have you read The Scarlet Pimpernel? If not you so, so should!

[_Shannon_]

Oh--and Jazz- hooray!! I am pleased that you found something! I often turn to children's literature when I need to read something good and sustanitive--but not overly complicated.

Re: The Bible--I don't care for the King James's translation- but the annotations themselves might be wrth the price! If you can find it the Richard Lattimore translation of the New Testament is tres fab! (I used to translate Greek once upon a time in another life....and so I have wierd translation issues. I am such a goober! )

[SirJazzHands]

Ah I dislike just labeling them "childrens lit" as if that's the end of it though.. it's very nice stuff, I think. I've mentioned on this forum before, but authors like Roald Dahl, they write in a way that I love. Sure my favorites might be crazy like Faulkner, Woolf, Twain, Salinger, but the childrens lit is just as good, just a different style, certainly not "dumbed down" in my opinion.

[_Shannon_]

Oh- I most certainly did NOT mean that as a slight in any way I am sorry if I offended!

It's some of my very, very favorite writing. One of my daughters is named for Lucy Maude Montgomery...I just think there is a difference in the situational complexities of children's literature and literature written with adults as it's intended primary audience. Because of that difference, I find myself returning to folks like Frances Hodges Burnett, and Frank Baum, andMadeline l'Engle when I want to be reading great literature--but without the intense complexity of say, Faulkner or Dostoyevsky. Does that make sense??

[SirJazzHands]

Ah yeah of course it does. You didn't offend me or anything, I was just worried you were classifying childrens lit as merely "light reading" and that's kinda depressing I think :P But I'm glad that you like them.

[Joreads]

Thanks for all the help guys, I think I found something out of left field to spark my interest momentarily-- I'm reading Chronicles of Narnia and I'm loving it so far, I never did read much of this except Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in 5th grade.
Also I am very tempted for some unknown reason to buy a bible.. particularly Oxford's World Classics version, it has annotations and stuff. Has anyone here ever read it?
http://www.amazon.com/Bible-Authoriz...54/ref=ed_oe_p

I finished Animal Farm last night and then I picked up Narnia. I am ashamed to say that I have never read them. I saw the movie of Lion when it came out here and Prince Caspen is on the way so I thought that i better make a start on it.