goraiders Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 anyone got any good recommendations for something easy to read and enjoyable for someone who doesn't read much? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oakland Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 anyone got any good recommendations for something easy to read and enjoyable for someone who doesn't read much? Bukowski. His novels are like the male version of supermarket trash romance novels for women. And they are very gritty. They aren't supposed to be fiction, but it reads like fiction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xadamhudsonx Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 extremely loud and incredibly close - jonathan safran foer(Oskar Schell, hero of this brilliant follow-up to Foer's bestselling Everything Is Illuminated, is a nine-year-old amateur inventor, jewelry designer, astrophysicist, tambourine player and pacifist. Like the second-language narrator of Illuminated, Oskar turns his naïvely precocious vocabulary to the understanding of historical tragedy, as he searches New York for the lock that matches a mysterious key left by his father when he was killed in the September 11 attacks, a quest that intertwines with the story of his grandparents, whose lives were blighted by the firebombing of Dresden.) Excellent choice Allison. Amazing book, but super emotional. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotterson Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 anyone got any good recommendations for something easy to read and enjoyable for someone who doesn't read much? The Sunset Limited - Cormac McCarthy Short dialogue between two people basically about good and evil. Really quick, and very interesting. Usually found in the drama/plays section of big book stores. The Giver - Lois Lowry If you haven't read this, do it. Easily one of my favorite books, despite it's targeted audience. I have read it a few times since I first did in middle school, and it only gets better. Also, updated my earlier post with descriptions and a correction... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alertthemute Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell The book consists of six nested stories that take us from the remote South Pacific in the nineteenth century to a distant, post-apocalyptic future. Each tale is revealed to be a story that is read (or watched) by the main character in the next. All stories but the last one get interrupted at some moment, and after "Sloosha's Crossin' an' Ev'rythin' After" concludes at the center of the book, the novel "goes back" in time, "closing" each story as the book progresses in terms of pages but regresses in terms of the historical period in which the action takes place. Eventually, readers end where they started, with Adam Ewing in the Pacific Ocean, circa 1850. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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