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Thu 5 Feb, 2004 03:40 pm
I love too read but i have trouble finding books. I really liked the story "Echo and Narcissist", and a book titled "Haunted." Have and suggestions?
P.S I DO NOT LIKE HARRY POTTER
What is your favorite genre?
I like adult fiction, and "growing up stories" alot, I really liked the book "A day when no pigs would die"
Read Bleachers, by John Grisham. Then go read the rest of his stuff.
Paulo Coelho.
I've read 3 so far and I wouldn't hesitate recommending them to someone who likes adult fiction. There's a common theme throughout the ones I've read so far, mainly the search for answers- meaning to life type stuff. I've read The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, and Veronika Decides to Die. I believe The Alchemist is his most famous.
Growing up stories? DEFINITELY fits the ones I've mentioned above.
Thanks people! I check them out
Wilso wrote:Paulo Coelho.
I've read 3 so far and I wouldn't hesitate recommending them to someone who likes adult fiction. There's a common theme throughout the ones I've read so far, mainly the search for answers- meaning to life type stuff. I've read The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, and Veronika Decides to Die. I believe The Alchemist is his most famous.
Brazil's pride and glory. lol
Well, 'tis old - but JD Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" is a classic gowing up story.
"The Yearling" by Marjorie Kinnan Rawling is likewise a classic - though slanted at a younger audience as well, it is a wonderful book - as is Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird".
I will go away and think - hope to find some more recent books for you...
Hmm - still on classics! James Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is wonderful, I think - and the most accessible of Joyce's works.
The first volume of Simone de Beauvoir's autobiography - "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" offers a very different view. Maxim Gorky's three volume autobiography is a delight - though very harrowing - the first volume is a wonder - it is called "My Childhood". -
Guess I am stuck with classics! Speaking of which, "Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is an enduring and wonderful read.
More damn classics! Laurie Lee's "Cider With Rosie" is an astounding account of growing up in Edwardian England.
I don't know any of the books you listed as likeable, BA, but I'm reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Hadden and it's pretty good. Written as if from a 15 year old autistic's perspective.
Ah - thank you Little k! I was trying to remember that one - I want to read it!
Actually, growing up with a twist - Jeffrey Eugenides' "Middlesex". Great book, I think.
Love to read
Dlowan - I didn't know anybody read Laurie Lee any more. I loved that one!
The Curious Incident... is a great book - Hadden really gets inside that boy's head. BTW - it seems to be less autism that he suffers from, than a "milder" variant, called Asperger's Disease.
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