Recommendations of Classic Books
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Re: Recommendations of Classic Books
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For me the positive aspects of this book is it's originality. The whole dystopian futuristic type of story was inspired by this book.
Although I think this book is excellent, I would have liked for it to not be as brief. I believe there was room for more exploration, but I have not read the second book of this series.
I especially think this book would be great for scientists and politicians, who are always wondering about what's best for humankind and what kind of laws/scientific advancements are a good idea, and which should best be avoided.
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Tale of two cities
Journey to the center of the earth
Those books we used to study when we were young in the school, we loved them so much.
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Lord of The Flies
The Old Man and The Sea
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Though also the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky i.e The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov are quite intriguing
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Writers such as Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Franz Kafka, even Chaucer, and Charlotte Bronte. A true and creative favorite of mine are the collective short stories of Kathrine Mansfield: she has a true skilled talent for writing with intent.
I cannot say I find true disregard for classical writers, I;m simple drawn to those who spea best with my soul.
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One Thousand and One Nights - a side note that it is a translated collection of stories and isn't necessarily seen as accurate or enjoyable by Arab scholars
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Odyssey and The Illiad by Homer
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
The Lusiads by Luis Vaz de Camões
Candide by Voltaire
Stories from the volume Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman"
Eileen Chang's "Sealed Off"
Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka
My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk
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84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (movie also available)
The Little World Of Don Camillo by Giovannino Guareschi (You'll love this one, even the author's introduction will have you LOL.)
The Lilies Of The Field by William Edmund Barrett (movie also available)
All are very easy reading, short, humorous, and excellent palate cleansers between those huge serious books on your list. I can all but promise you that you will love them.
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The book is about a group of women who live in a small New England town, where bachelors exceed the number of women. A doctor convinces several single women to come to Colorado with her. She wants her friend, Orella, to buy and run a boarding house, and she says there are ample opportunities for the other women.
The book focuses on STD's, which were running rampant at the time. Charlotte Perkins Gilman's goal was to educate young women about the prevalence of STD's and their horrible side-effects.
It is a lesser-known work and was never popular, so it is difficult to find. It also was not properly edited, so it has a few typos, but that doesn't detract from the story.