I need some good book recommendations......
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Erm, I guess I'll have to push the boat out and say move away from sci-fi and fantasy, they really aren't as open to interpretation as what I originally had in mind, stuff like
Of Mice And Men-Sooooooooo much stuff to write about this book, is it too short though?
Anything by Dickens-Yeah, you're pretty much set if any part of the assignment asks for 'historical relevancy' or some such.
Ideally you want a book that is relatively easy to interpret the key themes of, and you'll probably get kudos if they are still relevant today, English teachers love that.
If you think you want to do Pratchett, I'm not going to stop you, but all you'll end up is flowering up the fact that his books are simple parody with a small moral usually involved.
PM me if you have more interest.
Of Mice And Men-Sooooooooo much stuff to write about this book, is it too short though?
Anything by Dickens-Yeah, you're pretty much set if any part of the assignment asks for 'historical relevancy' or some such.
Ideally you want a book that is relatively easy to interpret the key themes of, and you'll probably get kudos if they are still relevant today, English teachers love that.
If you think you want to do Pratchett, I'm not going to stop you, but all you'll end up is flowering up the fact that his books are simple parody with a small moral usually involved.
PM me if you have more interest.
More flame bait, steer away!!!sheomad post=18.71006.712521general said:
Don't do fellowship of the rings. don't get me wrong, its a great book, but everyone chooses that for a report.
And I am fairly sure Enders Game is well over 250 pages.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
A fun read. As someone who works in a lab I really appreciated parts and as someone who enjoys some philosophy as well, I found it hilarious.
A fun read. As someone who works in a lab I really appreciated parts and as someone who enjoys some philosophy as well, I found it hilarious.
Har de har.TheGhostOfSin post=18.71006.711487 said:
Alternately:
Fantasy: Abhorsen Trilogy. Only books to maintain a sense of creepiness, deep mystery, disturbing elements and the arthouse in a genre cluttered with dragons and crap.
Contemporary: Cormac McCarthy is okay, but his writing style is more sparse, erudite and quite depressing. I'd look more at Sebastien Faulks and his Birdsong - a book that captures the emotion of war in an incredibly moving way.
Epic: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. When it's finished you feel as though you have lost a set of friends.
Post-Modern: If you want to do your head in, you might try Italo Calvino's If On A Winters Night A Traveler
Is that the same Nietzsche that invented the trope Nietzsche wannabe, for anybody who wrote extremely pessimistic, dark, and possibly nihilistic literature? If so, that might be interesting, if only because I love an author who can take that kind of pessimism and mold it into something real and scary (which is why, from what I've read so far, I'm loving H.P. Lovecraft books).Chiasm post=18.71006.711454 said:
