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rhei_27
10-04-2005, 01:20 AM
Our sembreak is fast approaching and I'm planning to spend the whole sembreak reading books only...so, do you have any books to recommend?thanks!!!!
YellowCrayola
10-04-2005, 01:29 AM
Try looking at these other threads http://www.abestweb.com/smilies/spongebob.gif:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3304
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2996
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1940
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12798
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13143
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13415
subterranean
10-04-2005, 01:44 AM
You know Yellow...sometimes I mixed you up with Yellowlime...

Rhei..what do you mean by "senseful" ?
YellowCrayola
10-04-2005, 01:46 AM
You know Yellow...sometimes I mixed you up with Yellowlime...

Rhei..what do you mean by "senseful" ?

I thought that too. Haha. Once I mistook YellowLime's post for mine, and I desperately tried to edit his post. It took me 2 minutes to realize I had the wrong identity. :p

I don't want to go off topic, so rhei, I suggest the books The Great Gatsby, Grapes of Wrath and Catcher in the Rye. :) I'll edit my post later.
mickeymack
10-04-2005, 03:23 PM
It depends how long your break is and your interest in and breadth of reading experience.If you are looking for a beginner's guide to 19th century fiction in English start off with PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen; JANE EYRE by Charlotte Bronte; WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte; DAVID COPPERFIELD by Charles Dickens and THE MILL ON THE FLOSS by George Eliot.Assuming you have read a certain number of classics, in contemporary fiction I would recommend NEVER LET ME GO by Kazuo Ishiguro;GHOSTWRITTEN by David Mitchell; THE BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP by Colm Toibin;THE ACCIDENTAL by Ali Smith and THE SHADOW OF THE WIND by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. These are of course purely personal thoughts. Why not go for a mix? I also strongly recommend Yellowcrayola's classic American fiction trio and to bring it to five would include ETHAN FROME by Edith Wharton and GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin.
rhei_27
10-04-2005, 07:50 PM
Thanks guys!!!

Oh yeah,I've already read the Pride and Prejudice. Jane Eyre and Catcher in the Rye...

Thanks again!!!
yellowfeverlime
10-04-2005, 07:52 PM
Fever 1793, Laurie Halse Anderson