[COLOR=Magenta]For my lit class I need to read a novel by an American author that is at least 300 pages...any suggestions on what to read?[/COLOR]
Suggestion on an American novel
[COLOR=Magenta]For my lit class I need to read a novel by an American author that is at least 300 pages...any suggestions on what to read?
Ulysses.
(Come to think of it, do American authors write books over 300 pages? I can't think of one offhand.)
Last edited by emily655321; 06-15-2004 at 11:21 PM.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
"The World According to Garp" by John Irving
"Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
Or you know, any large print book for the visually impaired. A 35 page short story can suddenly become 350ish pages.
Wasn´t Joyce irish?
How many pages are "Grapes of wrath" by Steinbeck? I think it at least three hundred. My favorite Steinbeck book is The moon is down, but it isn´t long enough.
"Man was made for joy and woe;
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go" Blake
"Grapes of Wrath" is indeed long. The question is whether Steinbeck is an author.
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
James Joyce was born in Dublin which is definately in Ireland. The World According to Garp is a good book - Garp has a very unusual conception. My paperback version of To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee has 309 pages which would just make it maybe., though you might have read this already. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote has 335 pages in paperback version. This book explores the mind and reasoning of two killers who callously murdered a whole family in an apparently motiveless crime. Though written as a novel, it's based on a real crime.
I'm not sure if David Guterson is American, but I'd recommend his novel 'Snow falling on cedars'. I don't know how much friendly you are with books, it's 480 pages. But well worth it, the story just doesn't let you to put it away easily.
I have a plan: attack!
Stephen King (he was an american right?) Nothing`s better than a good horror story
To emily655321: Have you read Ulysses? I`m thinking about reading it but I`ve heard some oppositional opinions on the book...
I have nothing to declare but my own genius (O. Wilde)
How about:
David Mamet (a.o.glengarry glen ross)
Bernard Malamud (a.o.God's Grace)
Henry James ( a.o. The portrait of a lady)
Toni Morrison ( a.o. The bluest eye, winner of the 93 nobel prize for literature)
The only author I have read out of these is Henry James [The Europeons]
and The Portrait of a Lady is oft-considered his best work. SO I'd say go for it.
My personal recommendation would have been The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, allready recommended.
Ulysses is Ulysses, once you have passed the first fifty pages you either love the story or hate it. Since I haven't read fifty pages of it yet, I am unsure.
I don't think Schools will allow a reading of Stephen King. Perhaps Hearts in Atlantis, but nothing else. They are too big a snobs to allow SK.
i found ulysses to be one of those books where there's so much going on that it helps to have some context for a few of the more difficult chapters. don't worry about getting it all right away, just think of each chapter as its individual story and piece it together later. that being said, i couldn't get going in it until i took a class where i had to read it..i got through about 50 pages (right about up to where you get the first real taste of stream of consciousness) before the class before i set it aside.
No, I haven't read it. I said it as a joke, because Sproutie specified "at least 300 pages." It's on my life's list, but I don't have any plans for it in the near future.Originally Posted by Liina
If you had to live with this you'd rather lie than fall.
You think I can't fly? Well, you just watch me!
~The Dresden Dolls
I agree with Poehee's choice. Also The catcher in the Rye (Salinger) Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) The Great Gatsby (Fitgerald) I would avoid Stephen King or the Mockingbird...
Enjoy it!
The Great Gatsby doesn't even cover 200 pages (at least the version I have).
I love All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren. It's an awesome book.
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