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Both of them should be excellent! Havn't read any of those. But been searching for 'the Alchemist', with no luck
I would also recommend Lady Chatterly's Lover" by DH Lawrence, that is if you can get this past your parents and your teacher, but it is a recognised classic.
You could also look at " A Passage to India"...
To be honest, any book that falls into the "classics" heading would be good for a Literature course. What you want to avoid is anything "trashy"...
I've also just finished Che Guevara's Motocycle Diaries, which is a fascinating insight into South America, and was written before his revolutionary days.
i agree with you about Jane Eyre i good book i wuold recomend is HOPE i forgot who wrote it but it is about the Amirican gold rush just befor the Titanic try it it is relly good if you ask at the library they should be abel to look it up for you
Anything by Terry Pratchett - not seen as a particularly challenging set of books, but you do need a certain frame of mind to read them, and they will make you think, even if it is just about the parallels between our world and the Discworld
Margaret Atwoods books - some of these can be quite hard going, so if you're trying to ease yourself into reading, probably not the best things to start with. However, my all time favourite book is The Handmaids Tale, which is very readable. Also has a lot of parallels with Orwell's 1984. I wouldn't try to read anything like The Blind Assasin yet, it's the sort of book that you do need quite a large chunk of time and concentration to get through, but it is very good and worth reading eventually.
I would read the Harry Potter series, as they are now cult fiction and well on their way to becoming modern classics - plus, they're really really good
I haven't read the dave peltzer books, but my sister has, and she reccomends them all very strongly - that's 'A Child Called It', 'The Lost Boy' and 'A Man Named Dave'. I might read them soonish.
The Beach by Alex Garland is very good book, but don't cheat and just watch the film; it's completely different and crap. Doesn't have any of the deeper stuff in it.
Memoirs of a Geisha is AMAZING, i loved that book, but a couple of my friends couldn't get into it. I'd try it, but get it out of the library, don't just buy it cos you could hate it.
Lady Chatterly's Lover is very good, and worth reading just for the fact that it was banned in the 60's! It's an interesting story, and i think i'm going to go and find it once i've finished this post.
All i've really done is added my backing to other peoples reccomendations, but actually, just find a book that you want to read, even if it's not on this list/on that your teacher gave you, because the more you do read, the faster you become (always an advantage!), and your spelling and grammar all improve because of it. Enjoy
God I had to do that for GCSE. Hated it and never even read more than a few chapters! :yuck:
what? its a fuckin classic
I haven't read that, i tried to read Popcorn, and i just didn't get into it. Inconcievable is a good book by him though, definately worh reading, and has some very very funny parts in it! It's also partly based on a true story as Ben Elton and his wife went through a course of fertility treatment.