Can someone please refer me to a good book

[Admin]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is excellent, it was recently voted the best novel of all time.

http://www.online-literature.com/fitzgerald/greatgatsby/

If you like spiritual books I'd recommend Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.

http://www.online-literature.com/hesse/siddhartha/

George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm are both very good.

http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/

Animal Farm is a satire of communism. 1984 is a Sci-Fi thriller about an totalitarian government.

One of the great social satires of all time would be Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

http://www.online-literature.com/swift/

Other books I'd recommend would be

A Separate Peace by John Knowles
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis (another social satire)

[Admin]

Have you read all these books you have up here?


Not even close.

[Admin]

It started as a shakespeare site, and it grew out of that as I realized I could put up more than just shakespeare.

[Admin]

I don't have Tess of the D'urbervilles on here? Will have to correct that.

[gmhill]

Well...

This is a VERY BIG place... *looks around* :)

Can anyone refer to me a novel here they have read and would think I would enjoy it...
I want to read anything and I'm having trouble finding good books these days...

If anyone can HELP me!!

From the little confused one.... :(

Oh well, it can happen...

[gmhill]

I know about "To Kill a Mocking Bird," and have tried to get my hands on it but have failed...

I know someone who said they had it and would lend it to me but have never given it to me yet...

The rest I still have to have a look at...

1984 by Goerge Orwell I have read a bit and have seen the movie...
Where do you think I get the quote from in my signature? ..hehe :)

Anyway, I thankyou...
Have you read all these books you have up here?

[gmhill]

What was your inspiration to start online-literature ????

[KJo]

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is a really good book to read.

[Musketeer3]

I can't help but read The Three Musketeers over and over again, maybe you'll like it.

:)

[Peer Gynt]

Some of my favourites:

Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
Jude the Obscure, Hardy
Nostromo, Conrad
Brave New World, Huxley
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Dracula, Stoker

Venturing off the website:

A Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce
Catch 22, and Closing Time, both Heller
Midnight's Children, Rushdie
Tess of the D'urbervilles, Hardy
The Longest Journey, and A Passsge to India, both Forster
Orlando, Woolf
The Powerbook, Winterson
At Swim-Two-Birds, O'Brien

[TexaninNihon]

"Hannibal" is a very good book also. It is OK if you have seen the movie. If you hated the movie, you might still like the book, and if you liked the movie, you will probably plow through the book.
"War and Peace" is good also, but goes in phases. Some parts of the book are better than others.

[Black Flag]

Another suggestion to add to the pile you have already received: Crime and Punishment. It used to be my favourite novel.

[firebreather]

you might want to consider
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut.
i really enjoyed it, as well as
C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters.
(already mentioned, but very enjoyable)

[Athena]

Fahrenheit 451
-Ray Bradbury

Catcher in the Rye
-J.D. Salinger

-They are along the lines of George Orwell's 1984, which you seem to like.
Also in that line are:

A brave New World
-Aldous Huxley

Animal Farm
-George Orwell

Of Mice and Men
-John Steinbeck

One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
-Ken Kesey

The Jungle
-Upton Sinclair

Happy reading :)



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[useyourmind]

I recently read and would recommend to anyone who wants to step outside the classics and read a book by American writer Wulf Zendik called
"a Quest Among the Bewildered". It's a semi-autobiographical novel and utterly fascinating. This book was written at a time in the life of a man who taught himself to write poetry to save his own life. The stories are so vivid and the feelings so universally true to the human experience. Definitely the kind of read that stays with you for the rest of your life, and I think this book will be as influential as books like "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Ishmael". "a Quest Among the Bewildered" is one of those books that make you think, and you feel like you're having the experience that the author had. Truly extrordinary...

One reviewer wrote about it...
"Quest is the type of book you can't read all at once, cover to cover, I read it in chunks, in pieces, to savor it. It's just so poetic, brutally honest and intense. To think that was his Life..."
-Roger Hagen, Atlantic reviewer

Here's the URL for it online... http://www.aquestamongthebewildered.com/

[heidijane]

If you're still looking for god books, the Count of Monte Cristo is a fantastic read!
:D

[heidijane]

Sorry, obviously I meant to type "good books" rather than "god books"... :oops:

[Abingdon]

Hi, I see that you have been getting a lot of recommendations from a lot of well-read people, and of course it's always difficult to advise someone on reading, but I have this for you...

I think that it must be the only time that I have wandered into a bookstore and been entirely focused on what I wanted to read. I had heard a good deal of talk about this particular title from both fellow postgrads at Cambridge, and a slightly mercurial, always eccentric literature professor who spoke of it in a lowered voice with her eyes glazing over.

"You simply must read it!" she'd say, every time I saw her. So I bought it before a trip to Paris. All I'm saying is, I don't remember the trip. Just the book. It comes in various translations, but unfortunately I don't have my copy with me right now to confirm names, but I know mine is the Harvill Press edition (bought in the UK)...and it's the one you want.

The Book?

**The Master and Margarita** by Mikhail Bulgakov

I won't ruin the plot for you, but imagine that the year is 1938, you are in Moskow, and suddenly, the Devil arrives in town.

Excellent book.

[Eric, son of Chuck]

Dare I say it... Don Quixote. There, I said it. )

If you're looking for more modern stuff, I would recommend Terry Pratchett and Ray Bradbury. I've been a little obsessed with them lately, I don't know what it'll be next week. Probably King Lear. Anyway...

[Rellehhpesoj]

anything by joseph heller

[andina]

A good book:

"The unbearable lightness of being " of Milan Kundera

[Trung Dung]

Please contact me: [email protected]
Thanks for reading.
TD@
p.s: Where are Hermann Hesse's online novels? I just found only Siddhartha! Please let me know where it is.

[hugo_fan24601]

Some of my favourites:

Anna Karenina, Tolstoy
The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald
Jude the Obscure, Hardy
Nostromo, Conrad
Brave New World, Huxley
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens
Dracula, Stoker

Venturing off the website:

A Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce
Catch 22, and Closing Time, both Heller
Midnight's Children, Rushdie
Tess of the D'urbervilles, Hardy
The Longest Journey, and A Passsge to India, both Forster
Orlando, Woolf
The Powerbook, Winterson
At Swim-Two-Birds, O'Brien

a tale of two cities is this good as i have the book but havn't read it yet as i am reading david copperfeild here is a list of the dicins stuff i have

david copperfeild (volume I & II)
a tale of two cities
(papaper pickrin i thinkj i got the title rong like but ne way vol I & II)
cant rember the others but i want christmas carrol

[hugo_fan24601]

Dare I say it... Don Quixote. There, I said it. )

If you're looking for more modern stuff, I would recommend Terry Pratchett and Ray Bradbury. I've been a little obsessed with them lately, I don't know what it'll be next week. Probably King Lear. Anyway...
ahh tezza prarchard good writer my fave is sorcoury i just love diskworld

but i gotta say older novels are better but i enjoy a nice tom clancy novel (rainbows six)

[atreides]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is excellent, it was recently voted the best novel of all time.



I hated that book. I also didnt like most of the books mentioned on page 1, didnt bother checking the other pages. Some are ok, but most are just headache material, I generally like books that arent too difficult to read, but I will still read many classics just because they are great classics. If you want a good book that is a classic, yet not difficult to read, and tells a great story, you got to read Gone With the Wind, especially if you are female. And its not a soppy love story, contrary to what I thought until I read it.

edit: oh and The Alchemist is a terrific read, great story, interesting characters, strong message without being overbearing. More novels should be like these two books.

[Monica]

I know it's a very old thread but a nice one. Have I ever suggested that Foucault's Pendulum by Eco is the best book I've ever read? Well it is. Don't be discouraged by its length or vocab. I just love that book.

[amuse]

ergh. his name was brought up in class the other day. i have to rewrite his stuff to get anywhere. he's so faulkner-esque. makes me want to cry. be a Great Philosopher, but avail yourself to people who like brevity, please. :bawling:
there's some really great stuff online from him, posted by different unis, btw.