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Books, books and some more books!
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Hello wonderful people of thesite!
I have decided that if i want to reach the target i have been set for english, i am going to have to read more!
I used to read loads and loads but lately i haven't have the time, but i am going to make some, so i was wondering if anyone has some really good books to suggest. (Thats not Jodi Picoult please lol i have only been able to read two of her books.)
At the minute i have to read lewis carrol and charles dickens for english anyway, and have loads in my room but you can't have too many books
I have decided that if i want to reach the target i have been set for english, i am going to have to read more!
I used to read loads and loads but lately i haven't have the time, but i am going to make some, so i was wondering if anyone has some really good books to suggest. (Thats not Jodi Picoult please lol i have only been able to read two of her books.)
At the minute i have to read lewis carrol and charles dickens for english anyway, and have loads in my room but you can't have too many books
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If you haven't read A clockwork orange, you should! It's amazing.
The bloody chamber is very good. And I hear catch 22 is great, but I couldn't get into it at all.
The spike miligan verious of frankenstine (spelling?) is very very very funny. But my fave book ever is a silent graphic novel (I know, it doesn't really count as reading) called The arrival.
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I'll check the others out. thanks
My favourite book of all time is A Thousand Splendid Suns, i can read it over and over.
OOOHHHHHHHHH THOUGHT OF ANOTHER BOOK. It's called Mr. Topsy-Turvy. And I do know it all off by heart.
"Mr. Topsy-Turvy was a funny sort of fellow... everything he did was either upside down, inside out or back to front." Call me what you may- I love Mr. Men.
On a serious note though, Benjamin Zephaniah is a great poet and I love his poems. I read poems more than books, but dunno if you want a list... it would be pretty long.
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I love Keats! he is the best poet ever! I actually love him lol
In A Bath Teashop by John Betjeman
"Let us not speak, for the love we bear one another—
Let us hold hands and look."
She such a very ordinary little woman;
He such a thumping crook;
But both, for a moment, little lower than the angels
In the teashop's ingle-nook.
Well, I think so.
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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors--
No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever--or else swoon to death.
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
The House of Bernarda Alba - Federico Garcia Lorca
Although being plays they are quite short... so I'll try and think of some more. :chin:
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I'm reading a lot of sciency books at the moment, so don't really think they'll cut it for English... A random selection of what i've enjoyed in the past... (haha still not sure if they fit into what you're after):
Chinese Cinderella - Adeline Yen Mah
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Chinese-Cinderella-Unwanted-Daughter-Teenage/dp/0141304871/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259351545&sr=8-1
Utopia - Licoln Child
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Utopia-Lincoln-Child/dp/0099462230
Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Gatsby-Penguin-Modern-Classics/dp/0141182636/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259351896&sr=1-3
Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Emile Zola - Therese Raquin
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Andrea Ashworth - Once in a House on Fire (this is my favourite book right now, I don't even have my own copy because I keep giving it away for people to read)
Orwell - 1984 and Animal Farm
Richard Adams - Watership Down
James Joyce - Dubliners
Federico Garcia Lorca - Blood Wedding
Seconding The Bloody Chamber
Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice
Alan Warner - Morvern Callar
Everything Stephen King has ever written (in particular The Stand and Christine)
Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials trilogy.
THIS, which I suggest you buy right away because it is immense (the lovely Thunderstruck bought it for my birthday a while ago and I loved it).
Ummmmmmm if I think of any more I will add them.
Edit: wow Franki lol I've read a few of those but will check out the rest!
now i need to find i site with cheap books haha!
Friut loop - i love horrors as well
Has anyone read Notes from an exhibition? i have it somewhere but i haven't started it yet.
Thank you guys
Amazing bit of writing. I just loved it from start to finish
If you like Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories is good. Same type of writing and story telling and just very odd, and a bit depressing.
My mum aaalllwwwaaayyyysss talks about that. If she didn't go on so much I'd probaly read it
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Terry Pratchet...
He's a fucking gienus (so clever that i can't spell that word)
catcher in the rye and also franny and zooey by JD Salinger
life of pi by yann martzel
the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky
the time traveller's wife by audrey niffenegger
a staggering work of heartbreaking genius by dave eggers.. <- really into this but keep having to stop to read others for my course
rules of attraction by brett easton ellis
kitchen by banana yoshimoto
maus by art spieglman
andd egg story by marc schmidt - about an egg that wants to become a ninja :shocking:
Ive started trying to read the time travellers wife but cant get into it
you should
My list of books:
Eragon, Eldest and Brisingr - Christopher Paolini (if you like fantasy - don't judge if you've seen the movie. Urgh).
The Diaries of Georgia Nicholson - Louise Rennison. Hahahaha. Brill. Prob not great for English class though.
Interview with a Vampire, The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Watermelon - Marion Keys