Help, I need saving!!
Ive Read nothing but junk recently and not even good junk. Can anyone suggest somthing good to read that isnt too complictaed or heavey (as Im very tierd after work and cant really cope with anything that doesnt at least try to help by reading itself)
I do have some books hanging around that are suppose dto be good
To kill a mocking bird
The ghormenghast trilogy
Watership down
being some of them.
Anyone have any good suggestions.?
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How about Girl with a Pearl Earing, by Tracy Chevlier? I'm not sure if I've spelled her last name correctly. Not difficult, but very well written. And I think a young lady like yourself might enjoy it.
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Gahh! Gahh! That book ruined for me 1) that painting, which used to be my favorite, and 2) my trip to Paris, because all my memories of it are tainted by the reading of that stupid book, and when, if ever, am I going to get to see Paris again?
Sorry, I've been so negative lately, haven't I? Grr... it's such a shallow, pop, airhead-y sort of book, though. I've never read anything else my mother has recommended since then.
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I'm sorry, Emily. But I thought it was good. I guess then you didn't see the movie?
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You don't have to apologize for disagreeing, Virgil.I'm just being over-enthusiastic in my negativity today. No, no movie for me.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
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Nothing too complicated? Maybe a nice graphic novel--if you get mentally exhausted, you can just look at the pictures!
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Originally Posted by emily655321
oh Em I agree three thousand per cent. DON'T see the movie. i thought it was the worst thing I have had to sit thru in years. Dull, noone's character really formed, chopped up and to me it was simply a vehicle for the actress. The relationship between the girl and the character Colin Firth played seemed stilted, stupid and hardly believable. I feel sick even thinking about it.
What about Little Women or something like that. Even if you have read it before the plot is fair and the characters tolerable.
As Virgil already mentioned --Girl With A Pearl Earring-- is rather enjoyable, though obviously not absolutely profound. I would probably recommend this if you are after an easier read. And I have not been so fortunate as to view Johannes Vermeer's painting in Paris. I read it during the holidays at the beginning of last year in about two sittings. The Historian, by Elizabeth Kostova is also quite a recent publication. I read a lot of classics, but from a more modern selection, I would suggest any book by Magaret Atwood, or Virginia Woolf (but if I recall correctly I think you didn't like her work?). Anyway, happy reading!
*Every avid reader should read Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird, at least once. I'm surprised you haven't already, Night! I first read it years ago, and that was before it was a set study text for class.
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If you're after a modern read - I suggest stay away from The Historian, I heard you need patience for that one (havent read it myself though). For a very nice, fairly easy modern read - I'd suggest Time Travelller's Wife - it was enjoyable.
Read Everything is illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, or his other book Extremely loud and incredibly close, which i found more dark (but still great)
About pearl earing, it takes place in Holland, not Paris??! Vermeer was dutch.
Mind you, Chevalier did write another one, lady and the unicorn, which takes place in paris, but i loathed that one.
Last edited by Chava; 01-22-2006 at 07:46 PM.
How about some of Brett Easton Ellis's novels? they are quite an easy read once you get into them but they also require some thought. Its just dependent on whether you can put up with the subject matter.
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I disagree. It's one of the best page-turners I've read in some time. Sure, some of the language is archaic (after all, it's a take-off on "Dracula") but it's hardly a heavy read. Quite worth-while, though.
But the time ain't tall, yet on time you depend
And no word is possessed by no special friend
And though the line is cut it ain't quite the end,
I'll just bid farewell till we meet again.
- Bob Dylan
The Gormenghast trilogy isn't too heavy, just packed full of beautiful descriptive prose and some of the most wonderfully eccentric characters in fiction. I would stop after the first two books though, "Titus Alone" was completed after Peake's death and doesn't come up to the same standard as the rest.
Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
And you should stop postponing reading To Kill A Mockingbird!
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