Yeah sparknotes got me through 11th and 12th grade lit/civ classes. Not so much for the reading part, which is easy to do if you have the time and resolve, but more for the comprehension part.
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Yeah sparknotes got me through 11th and 12th grade lit/civ classes. Not so much for the reading part, which is easy to do if you have the time and resolve, but more for the comprehension part.
I have a suggestion, how about we catalog our recommandations into :
fiction&literatue/science/fantasy/historical
That will make it easier to browse :cheese:
I recommand:
Fantasy: The War of Ancient trilogy by Richard A. Knaak. and The Last Guardian by Jeff Grubb. Both are great book for Warcraft fans and general fantasy reader.
Fiction&Literature: Sens & Sensibility by Jane Austen. This recommadation is for the classic fans. this book is incredible which deal with the social life of a typical middle-upper class family in 19th centural England. The ever self-concious vioce of the Jane Austen was never better convened.
science: Art of Being A Lion, yes, that's also the best in my collecitons. Another one is Tiger by Stephen Mills, provide variety of up-to-date information accompanied by quality photographs
Unclassified The Gentle Kindom by John Burkitt and David Mories. This is offical name of CoTPL and its related sequal. Despite what everyone have said about it, this novel remains the truest it not the best words I've ever read.
Ahhh....sparknotes, my saviour! :D
I am currently reading some children's books for my Children's Literature course at University. I have to read:
Some classical fairy tale collection.
A Wrinkle in Time by M. L. Engle.
Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L.F. Baum.
Has anyone read any of those? I have read the Harry Potter one, but that's it, lol.
:D
I've read Philosopher's Stone and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.. I thought the latter was kinda boring :confused:
The C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia should really be read as a whole series. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the most popular book but it doesn't go into much detail about the world that Lewis created.
Good Reads:
"Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriquez" (autobiographical essays)
"Teaching a Stone to Talk" by Annie Dillard (crazy random musings)
shouldn't find that surprising if you know the time they were wrote have a difference of a half century.Quote:
Originally posted by Sombolia
I've read Philosopher's Stone and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.. I thought the latter was kinda boring :confused:
in that regard, is The Migican's Nephew a far better one than the rest or it's just me?Quote:
Originally posted by SoulImbibe
The C.S. Lewis Chronicles of Narnia should really be read as a whole series. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the most popular book but it doesn't go into much detail about the world that Lewis created.
I wasn't comparing the two in any sense.. I was just saying, I thought it was boring. And yea, I'm aware of the time difference.Quote:
Originally posted by Huma
shouldn't find that surprising if you know the time they were wrote have a difference of a half century.
I personally like the 1st and the last book the most. Some people have other favorites but those seem to be the best-written.Quote:
Originally posted by Huma
in that regard, is The Magican's Nephew a far better one than the rest or it's just me?
CHRONICLES OF NARNIA-C.S Lewis
A WRINKLE IN TIME and A WIND IN THE DOOR and MANY WATERS and A RING OF ENDLESS LIGHT by Madeliene L'Engle
ART OF THE LION KING =D
ONCE AND FUTURE KING-T.H White
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-Roald Dahl
My favorite is The Silver Chair .Quote:
Originally posted by SoulImbibe
I personally like the 1st and the last book the most. Some people have other favorites but those seem to be the best-written.
Just wondering here has any one read or is reading The Time Traver's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger ? i m going to read it soon :)
:thinks: No...never heard of it, actually. Do you know what it's about?
my misunderstanding then, just found interesting how fantasies changed with the era.Quote:
Originally posted by Sombolia
I wasn't comparing the two in any sense.. I was just saying, I thought it was boring. And yea, I'm aware of the time difference.
I havn't read the last one, got stuck on The Sliver Chair, thought this one revealed plot too quickly.Quote:
I personally like the 1st and the last book the most. Some people have other favorites but those seem to be the best-written
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler :p Very good, though I must warn thee of profanity and sexual moments...sort of.
I'm currently reading Jane Eyre. I'm still kinda in the beginning. If anyone has read it, please give me your opinion, I would like to know if I should continue or not...
The greatest book, I think, is 'Fearless' by Francine Pascal. It's actualy a book series about a girl named Gaia (pronounced: guy-uh) who was born without the fear gene. There are 36 books in the series, at least 3 super editions, and now there is a new series called 'Fearless:FBI' where she's 20 and joins the FBI. The only bad thing that I can think of is that it's rated PG-13.
"National Geographic's: Encyclopedia of SPACE"
-BY: Linda K. Glover.
''Like Water for Chocolate'' by Laura Esquivel :D Read this if you enjoy drama/romance. It's a little surreal in some ways, but it's a very good novel. After you read it, try and watch the film too :D
"The Witch of Blackbird Pond" and "A Wrinkle in Time" are both good, even for adults--and I'm 16.
"More Ghost Stories of Saskatchewan" by Jo-Anne Christensen.
Okay, about two nights ago, I finished a very sad book titled Kira-Kira. It's about a Japanese family struggling to live comfortably in Georgia. But the story really focuses on a pair of sisters that are closer than close. It's so sweet, but so sad at the end :(
No way STL dude...Of Mice and Men is a great book...shame its so damn short.
We had to do little performances of some of the parts which was awesome and funny.
You could of got a much worse book STL...I think you got the easy of the books compared to other classes...if they got diffrent books like they did in my old school.
Anyway at the moment I am reading 'Immortal' by Christopher Pike for like the fifth time ^^.
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Originally posted by SimbaTheLion
I'm reading Of Mice and Men by... John Steinbeck I believe... his name is something like that anyway :D ... the book is... crap >_> ... but I have to read it for my English Literature GCSE :tears: :( ...
http://tinypic.com/f27hwh.jpg HAHA!
http://tinypic.com/f27hxu.jpg I got to read it for English too. Yea, but I'm reading The Old Man and The Sea right now, then Of Mice and Men, then Willy Shakey's Julius Caesar. http://tinypic.com/f27i4l.jpg I'M GUNNA DIE! I can't read stuff that I don't take interest in all too much.
Meh, my sister had to read a book called "Lord Of The Flies" for her GCSE coursework. Looks as though I won't have to read anything though since I've finished all my coursework... yay.
Just the bleedin' exams now. >.>
Wow, wanna talk about Freaky StL? I just got Of Men and Mice 2 seconds ago from UPS HAHA.
Lord of the Flies. Wow. What a Book. It's used as a classical family referance book for the Zacharko Household here. What do you mean you finished all yer coursework KS?
Finished all the essays and stuff we need to do for our GCSE exams. For some reason they never got us reading a book. O_oQuote:
Originally posted by Utora
Wow, wanna talk about Freaky StL? I just got Of Men and Mice 2 seconds ago from UPS HAHA.
Lord of the Flies. Wow. What a Book. It's used as a classical family referance book for the Zacharko Household here. What do you mean you finished all yer coursework KS?
Wow. It is WAY different, than my curiculum. We have like, 5 days of school on a web site, and lemme think, Spanish, Math, English, Web Design, Biology, and Bible, and you have something to do in them each day. Except for Web Design, that's every other day. We do on-line reading, free responeses, discussions boards, and thats about it. We sometimes of have a quiz at the end of the week. At the end of the quarter, [4 quarters in all] we have a Test in each course about everything we learned. We don't do SAT or any of that stupid STATE TESTS stuff. But we do read ALOT of books.
http://tinypic.com/f27r6v.jpg
Why do I get the feeling we'll have one at the very end of the year.
Lord of the Flies is a good book, I read it in my own time though, not for school. =D I am reading Peter Pan at the moment, for University. And a bunch of articles on the Novikov Telegram. Then I have to get through Dr Faustus by Christopher Marlowe. Ick. Hehe.
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King.
I'm currently reading 'Eldest' by Christopher Paolini. It's a pretty good book. It's the second in the Inheritance Trilogy. The first book (Eragon) was also pretty good, I mean I got into it and I usually don't get into books :p
I agree with you LKS , Of Mice and Men is a great book. I just wish it wasn't so short. Another book I read a few years ago was 'To Kill a Mockingbird' I was the only one in my class that actually liked reading the book :hehe: Another book I liked reading was 'Lord of the Flies' :cheese:
Did you know that he was only about 15 when he wrote Eragon, how amazing is that.
Yeah I know...I was shocked when I found that out. I found it out after I finished reading the book :pQuote:
Originally posted by Azerane
Did you know that he was only about 15 when he wrote Eragon, how amazing is that.
Yeah, it's pretty amazing stuff for someone of that age, he has a great imagination, I started reading Eragon but unfortunatly I didn't get to far in it, can't remember why, I'll have to read it again some day as well as the second book.
Right now I'm reading The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis, again.. we all got free copies at my school, even though I already have a huge book with the entire Narnia series. :P I really oughta read them sometime..
I've read a bit of Eragon, but I didn't get too far, it seemed like the pace was going slooooow and it bored me. I might pick it up again sometime, I dunno.. yeah.. I did a book report on it and I didn't even finish the book. XD I dunno what I got on that, I don't wanna know either lol..
We're reading short stories in my L.A. class, we just finished No-Guitar Blues by Gary Soto and we have to write a response to literature on it. I can relate to the main character, I really want a guitar but I dunno if we can afford one.. xP
I have to read this for school when I'm in year 12. From what my brother says, its pretty good, so I may try reading sometime next year.Quote:
Originally posted by la_reina
''Like Water for Chocolate'' by Laura Esquivel :D Read this if you enjoy drama/romance. It's a little surreal in some ways, but it's a very good novel. After you read it, try and watch the film too :D
Anyway, I haven't posted in this thread for a while, so recently, I've read Inkspell by Cornelia Funk, The Children of the Lamp and the Blue Djinn of Babylon by P.B Kerr, Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill, and the Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams.
I love fantasy, so if you like fantasy, then you should read these. Even if you don't, Hitchhikers Guide is more Sci-fi I guess, but its got some good humor in it.
i read about a novel a day, so ive read lots of good books. i like born free, the recruit, *goes on for hours*
Honestly, about Eragon...I'm an authoress my self, though unpublished, and I love writing. I give no great praise to my writing, though I've been called 'gifted'. I'm no Mark Twain or Charles Dickens or George Eliot. But anyway, I thought Eragon was the biggest bit of plagerism I've ever read. A lot of the names as well as creatures\descriptions were like Tolkein!!!Quote:
Originally posted by Azerane
Yeah, it's pretty amazing stuff for someone of that age, he has a great imagination, I started reading Eragon but unfortunatly I didn't get to far in it, can't remember why, I'll have to read it again some day as well as the second book.
^Hmmm... that's interesting, I've never read any of Tolkein's books myself so I wouldn't really know... but I'll have to look into that, you've got me all curious now...
@Simbaspirit: I read born free and living free (didn't quite get to read forever free before I had to return it ot the library) but anyway, I cried reading born free... as pathetic as that may seem, hehe, it was just so sad.
My brother loves the Eragon books. I think he's read both the first and second ones. I can't really get into them, and neither can Mooni. We find them boring, like we find our brother. And dorky. They seemed interesting to me at first, being a fantasy series. But, I dunno...just couldn't comprehend them. Maybe I'll give 'em a second chance when I'm extremely desparate for something to read...