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Hello everyone!
I am now learning English as my second language, and I really like it. I took all the english courses at my school (I am from Spain) and now I want to start reading typical american literature :).
Are the books A Streetcar Named Desire and The Catcher in the Rye really difficult? My friend recommends them.
I read one book by Ernest Hemingway already, and it was an okay level for me, but my teacher tells me that his writing is very basic. Will the writing style and vocabulary in those books be much more complicated?
Thank you!
Answer
Imho, you have a good command of the written English language. As you probably know, a given book with more than a single level can be read for a single level, usually the more basic, and reread at a later time and understood in another perspective. You would likely benefit from reading any of these, as their plots are clear.
(Alas, typical American literature has been typical, in any given style, for briefer and briefer periods of time.)
In terms of classic English novels, mostly U.S., suggesting these in their chronological order:
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Christmas Carol, and also The Pickwick Papers (British)
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (British)
The Ambassadors
The Age of Innocence
Sense and Sensibility (British)
The Great Gatsby
The Old Man and the Sea
Animal Farm (British)
The Great Divorce (British)
West with the Night (nonfiction, British)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Slaughterhouse-Five
And several more recent, populist, young adult novels:
Paper Towns
Tree Shepherd's Daughter (trilogy)
Also worthwhile: The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom
The Western Canon, Harold Bloom
Shakespeare, Harold Bloom
Shakespeare in the Light of Sacred Art
Creation: Artistic and Spiritual
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
Imho, you have a good command of the written English language. As you probably know, a given book with more than a single level can be read for a single level, usually the more basic, and reread at a later time and understood in another perspective. You would likely benefit from reading any of these, as their plots are clear.
(Alas, typical American literature has been typical, in any given style, for briefer and briefer periods of time.)
In terms of classic English novels, mostly U.S., suggesting these in their chronological order:
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Christmas Carol, and also The Pickwick Papers (British)
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (British)
The Ambassadors
The Age of Innocence
Sense and Sensibility (British)
The Great Gatsby
The Old Man and the Sea
Animal Farm (British)
The Great Divorce (British)
West with the Night (nonfiction, British)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Slaughterhouse-Five
And several more recent, populist, young adult novels:
Paper Towns
Tree Shepherd's Daughter (trilogy)
Also worthwhile: The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom
The Western Canon, Harold Bloom
Shakespeare, Harold Bloom
Shakespeare in the Light of Sacred Art
Creation: Artistic and Spiritual
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
Recommend me the best book to give my friend as a present?
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He likes Poe, Lovecraft, Borges, british authors, american authors, which could be the best book you can think of to give him???? I really want to get him a great book, he loves literature and I owe him a lot. Thanks for your suggestions. Perhaps an anthology, he doesn't like poetry. He's 30
I'm looking for something really nice, but not ordinary, he's already read harry potter's books
I'm willing to spend a lot in the present, as long as it is something memorable.
Answer
Terry Pratchett writes fantasy satire, really good... Guards! Guards! or Nightwatch or Small Gods or Monstrous Regiment.
Neil Gaiman is an excellent author, writes kinda dark fantasy for the most part. Good novel would be American Gods, good anthologies would be Fragile Things or Smoke and Mirrors.
Simon Green writes the Nightside series, that's kinda fantasy-horror film-noir. You might need to give him the first couple books at once, because the first few books in the series have about 150 pages each. First book Something from the Nightside.
All authors above are British, though I think Gaiman is now an American citizen.
Terry Pratchett writes fantasy satire, really good... Guards! Guards! or Nightwatch or Small Gods or Monstrous Regiment.
Neil Gaiman is an excellent author, writes kinda dark fantasy for the most part. Good novel would be American Gods, good anthologies would be Fragile Things or Smoke and Mirrors.
Simon Green writes the Nightside series, that's kinda fantasy-horror film-noir. You might need to give him the first couple books at once, because the first few books in the series have about 150 pages each. First book Something from the Nightside.
All authors above are British, though I think Gaiman is now an American citizen.
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