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StillILearn
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You need to give us your idea of "good" or we are going to be all over the place!
Long or short?
Fiction or non-?
Serious or funny?
Classic or best seller?
What was the last book you read that you thought was really, really good?
Long or short?
Fiction or non-?
Serious or funny?
Classic or best seller?
What was the last book you read that you thought was really, really good?
StillILearn
New Member
hav u red 2 kill a mockingbird?
StillILearn
New Member
Other kids have asked similar questions.
Use the search function and type in the words "top ten books for highschoolers"
Use the search function and type in the words "top ten books for highschoolers"
MonkeyCatcher
New Member
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood:
It's a great book, and easy to read, too
ValkyrieRaven88
New Member
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. It's about a future where the censors have gone overboard. Certain people felt uncomfortable about certain kinds of books, so they kept censoring and censoring until fiction was completely illegal. "Firemen" are not the firemen we know; they go to find people who still own books and burn the books. They wear hats with the numbers "451" on them--referring to the fact that books burn at 451 degrees Fahrenheit.
One fireman starts to look at life differently, to actually think, and realizes how strange the world he lives in is. He starts reading books instead of burning them and discovers he's been living a lie his whole life.
This is one of my very very very favorite books, and it's fairly short. Bradbury said once that it took him a week to write it. It takes longer, BTW, to write a book than it takes to read it. It's also very respected in the literature world, so if you read it, your teachers will probably approve very much of it.
One fireman starts to look at life differently, to actually think, and realizes how strange the world he lives in is. He starts reading books instead of burning them and discovers he's been living a lie his whole life.
This is one of my very very very favorite books, and it's fairly short. Bradbury said once that it took him a week to write it. It takes longer, BTW, to write a book than it takes to read it. It's also very respected in the literature world, so if you read it, your teachers will probably approve very much of it.
Kenny Shovel
Active Member
123tennis said:
...it's hard to tell what to recommend when I know so little about your taste but here goes...I've picked some smart, funny and strangly overlooked 20th century American gems...have a look at the info on amazon and see if any appeal, I enjoyed all of them...I'll start with a couple of novels that were adapted for film...
...The Hustler by Walter Tevis...207 pages...worth reading for the first pool game between Minisota Fats and Fast Eddie alone, that scene is as good a piece of descriptive writing as you'll ever come across...
...True Grit by Charles Portis...208 pages...in my top ten American books of all time...an absolute nailed on classic...if you like the film, you'll love the book, it's even better...
...The Roaches have no King by Daniel Evan Weiss...243 pages...easy to read and great fun... it's a modern take on the 'Voyage to Brobdingnag' from Gullivers Travels...and is narrated by a cockroach, obviously...
...'Fup'...more of a novellla/short story at only 60 odd pages...but yet probably as good an hours reading as you'll ever have...
...hope you find a book that fits the bill...
Regards,
K-S
abecedarian
Well-Known Member
How about Nine Princes of Amber by Roger Zelazny, or The Mirror of Her Dreams by Stephen R, Donaldson. Those are two fantasy favorites around here.
