Lindsay M
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From the U.K - To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (beautiful modernist descriptive writing, but Shakespeare is the true classic of course)
France - Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert (not quite an epic but a true novel. Proust is the real classic)
Germany - Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse (very atmospheric! Goethe is probably the true classic)
Columbia - 100 years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (Really enjoyable. The breadth of humanity sort of thing).
Italy - If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino (my favourite book ever. The classic classic is Dante though, I should think).
Spain - Collected Poetry by Garcia Lorca (Cervantes is the true classic. I'm not too into poetry but I do like Garcia Lorca...)
U.S - The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (Post modern post modernity. Great stuff. The true classic is Mark Twain perhaps?)
Russia - The Queue by Vladimir Sokorov (The book is only dialogue which occurs whilst the characters are queuing to buy goods in the times of Soviet era shortages. Of course, Dostoevsky is the classic, or Gogol or Tolstoy or, well the Russians have produced so many it's hard to say.)
Not the whole world but a few countries to be getting on with...
From the U.K - To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (beautiful modernist descriptive writing, but Shakespeare is the true classic of course)
France - Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert (not quite an epic but a true novel. Proust is the real classic)
Germany - Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse (very atmospheric! Goethe is probably the true classic)
Columbia - 100 years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. (Really enjoyable. The breadth of humanity sort of thing).
Italy - If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino (my favourite book ever. The classic classic is Dante though, I should think).
Spain - Collected Poetry by Garcia Lorca (Cervantes is the true classic. I'm not too into poetry but I do like Garcia Lorca...)
U.S - The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (Post modern post modernity. Great stuff. The true classic is Mark Twain perhaps?)
Russia - The Queue by Vladimir Sokorov (The book is only dialogue which occurs whilst the characters are queuing to buy goods in the times of Soviet era shortages. Of course, Dostoevsky is the classic, or Gogol or Tolstoy or, well the Russians have produced so many it's hard to say.)
Not the whole world but a few countries to be getting on with...
Good Literature books I should read?
Nathan
I'm 17 years old and I am really into fantasy, like Lord of the Rings (I know, kindda nerdy), I'm just really into stories and all, I've read books by Dan Brown, genres like that and alot of fantasy books,
What literature books that are famous should I read that is pretty fun and not hard to read, any genre actually, just interesting stories I could get into and not get bored.
oh and recently I saw 2 books that I'm pretty interested in, are they any good?
The Life of Pi
World War Z (a zombie war novel)
Answer
World War Z is phenomenal. The writing is excellent and it tells the story from many different points of view. Definitely worth reading.
If you like funny or satire, you should look into books by Chris Moore. He writes satire with a supernatural twist. His work is great.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman are also excellent.
If you enjoyed Lord of the Rings, you would probably also like the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. It's written in much the same style and has similar elements.
Also, if Baby-G is recommending Twilight, she wouldn't know a good book if it slapped her in the face. The writing is atrocious, the characters are flat, and the story is essentially a message of how important it is to have a boyfriend. Definitely not worth wasting your time on.
World War Z is phenomenal. The writing is excellent and it tells the story from many different points of view. Definitely worth reading.
If you like funny or satire, you should look into books by Chris Moore. He writes satire with a supernatural twist. His work is great.
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman are also excellent.
If you enjoyed Lord of the Rings, you would probably also like the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. It's written in much the same style and has similar elements.
Also, if Baby-G is recommending Twilight, she wouldn't know a good book if it slapped her in the face. The writing is atrocious, the characters are flat, and the story is essentially a message of how important it is to have a boyfriend. Definitely not worth wasting your time on.
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