I WANT A MASTERPIECE!!!

[erebos92]

Oke guys!!Here's a new subject for your eyes only!<3:
I'm taking exams and i don't have much time. However, I'd really like to read a nice book. I'd love it to be sth modern and maybe romantic, but I'm not the kind of person that's addicted to "twilight" or stuff like that. Just for help:I enjoy reading philosophy, Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Dickens.
i'm in the mood for reading a masterpiece!! Any idea of one???

[atrixa]

I suppose it depends on what you define masterpiece as. Here's a few that I've heard described as such, might give you some ideas:

The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen

[Shakeelah]

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by... Louis de Bernieres I think is the author's name. That book blew my mind away. Don't judge it based on the stupid abortion of a movie.

[atrixa]

Captain Corelli's Mandolin by... Louis de Bernieres I think is the author's name. That book blew my mind away. Don't judge it based on the stupid abortion of a movie.

I've never read the book, but I didn't think much of the film. Hollywood often slaughters what's on the page.

[Shakeelah]

so true! the film really was terrible. read the book!

[TeddyP]

Grapes of Wrath

It single handedly moved me from reading fantasy and sports bio;s to serious literature. It was my favourite book until I read Crime and Punishment.

[atrixa]

Grapes of Wrath

It single handedly moved me from reading fantasy and sports bio;s to serious literature. It was my favourite book until I read Crime and Punishment.

I liked Of Mice and Men, too.

[PCLady]

I recommend Middlemarch by George Eliot. Has romance and a great story to it. It's long, but worth it.

[sheaman]

Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger. Real short read, but it has a lot of great things in it.
Oh, and if you're into philosophy, you may want to check out some Ayn Rand. I'd try The Fountainhead out.

[BlondeNicole]

Oke guys!!Here's a new subject for your eyes only!<3:
I'm taking exams and i don't have much time. However, I'd really like to read a nice book. I'd love it to be sth modern and maybe romantic, but I'm not the kind of person that's addicted to "twilight" or stuff like that. Just for help:I enjoy reading philosophy, Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Dickens.
i'm in the mood for reading a masterpiece!! Any idea of one???

SOPHIE'S CHOICE!

Or something by Jane Austen.

Have you read DR. SHIVAGO?

I liked that a lot.

[Oneday]

You want an Epic Masterpiece?

"Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett

[mohses]

i maybe alittle biased but, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee is great if u have little time tilll exams. NARCISSUS and GOLDMUND by Herman Hesse (also the author of steppenwolf, the glassbead game ) is a masterpiece. [/i]

[Jolaade Idowu]

I am pilgrim by Terry Hayes is definitely a masterpiece.

[Alissa Nesson]

This post was obviously a loooooong time ago but on the off chance that you’re still here and interested, I think you would like The Witching Hour by Anne Rice. It was recently made into a bad tv show but the book itself is very different and definitely what I’d call a masterpiece. It’s not YA and involves some taboo subjects but the story is incredible.