Recommendations of Classic Books
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- BookLover451
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Re: Recommendations of Classic Books
Anthem - Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead- Ayn Rand
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan
Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
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I recently read The Stranger by Albert Camus and it is officially one of my favorite books. This book gives us a look through the eyes of an indifferent man and how he goes about his life, but it isn't as simple as that. It starts of at his mothers funeral where it shows a view a lot of us can't give. He also the next day, gets a fiancé. We then about his pimp friend and various other things. He ends killing a man, and that's just the first part. He ends up going to a trial where he is proclaimed to have no soul. That seems like an overexageration of his indifference and listlessness. I like when he talks about how a man can spend such a long time in jail living off the memories of one day. My favorite part was when he was with the chaplain. I like how the chaplain is appalled at his way of thinking and pity's him for it. Though the part where the chaplain says that he will pray for him, set him off into a burst of anger that was very unusual for the indifferent man. Though the part that really sticks to me is the ending, it is honestly, in my opinion, one of the best ways to end a book a day before the protagonist's execution. He thought that he now only wishes for, at the day of his execution, to be greeted with howls of loathing and hate.
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.The words and details in the books are far from as primal as Tarzan can be .The books almost have their own language for names of things etc.They leave long lasting images and if you like adventure it is not only adventurous ,it is intelligent ,mysterious at times,romantic ,and you will find yourself lost in the character and ecerything that is Tarzan of the apes.
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Agree with you...I love the book.windchime64 wrote:"Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
About a 14 year old boy growing up in a poor rural town in the 1920's alongside his beloved grandfather. Will Tweedy has many adventures and close-calls. This book will keep you laughing and probably make you shed a tear or two.
My ALL TIME FAVORITE!
A little bit of "Tom Sawyer" mixed with "To Kill a Mockingbird" style.
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I am also a big fan of classic novels. There are plenty of reasons of why these survived through ages (some even more than 1000 years!) and all the others have been forgoten.
My favorites are The three mosketeers and The Sherlock Holmes series. But Oscar Wilde and Jane Austen definetly hank high as well.
Anyway, I have recently started a website about classical novels (the newsletter comes with e-books every month ) please check it up and let me know if you like it! classics4classics.wixsite.com/classics4classics
Thanks
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Published during modernism's ascendency in literary art, 'Jacob's Room' is Woolf's third experimental novel set in London prior to World War 1. Without divulging too much of the plot for those who intend to read it, 'Jacobs Room' cleverly depicts protagonist Jacob as more a faceless avatar placed for the title's sake alone than your quintessential war hero. Though he is present in many of the scenes, it is always narrated from another character's perspective and thus we are never given access to what Jacob is actually thinking. Woolf's authorial intention was to convey what academics refer to as 'realism' whereby Jacob's interlocutors are oblivious to his true thoughts and can only guess them based on impressions much like a real life conversation. Furthermore, the realist approach is taken further in the sense that Woolf's portrayal of the enigmatic Jacob matches how bereaved families of the novel's setting perceived the remains of their loved ones who served during The Great War but tragically died because of it- from a collection of shared memories and photographs.
For those seeking an unconventional war novel, Virginia Woolf's 'Jacob's Room' is a definite one to look out for
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For some reason I waited quite awhile to read Midnight's Children--I'm not sure why, because I had already read and loved a couple of Rushdie's other novels. All I can say is he's a great author, and his books are well written and very enjoyable.pyb wrote:I recently read Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and it is one of my new favorites. A brilliant epic tale that mirrors important historical events in India. But even if you miss the political connections it makes, the story stands on its own.
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