Anyone got any experience on great books?
I recommend these few, I will give a little synopsis on them:
Lucky: - Alice Sebold- About an 18 yr old college freshman woman getting raped. Based on her life story. Yet, after everything happens, she calls herself Lucky. So it only gets worse.
Down These Mean Streets: -Piri Thomas- A great book about his life growing up as a dark skinned Puerto Rican suffering racism even in his own family. He goes through life in Spanish Harlem in the early 1900's dealing with drugs, street fighting, armed robbery....etc...VERY detailed. (Sex scene too for you pervs.)
A Good Man Is Hard To Find: -Flannery O' Connor- Short stories. My favorite is the title of the book, a good man is hard to find.
The Things They Carried: -Tim O Brien - Short stories about men carrying emotional/physical burdens about wars, very interesting and insightful.
Also this play I read for English class a while back:
The Piano Lesson: August Wilson - About a family with the slave history inscribed on a piano. In the play, the characters fight and learn valuable lessons in life. The play won a Pulitzer prize.
I recommend these few, I will give a little synopsis on them:
Lucky: - Alice Sebold- About an 18 yr old college freshman woman getting raped. Based on her life story. Yet, after everything happens, she calls herself Lucky. So it only gets worse.
Down These Mean Streets: -Piri Thomas- A great book about his life growing up as a dark skinned Puerto Rican suffering racism even in his own family. He goes through life in Spanish Harlem in the early 1900's dealing with drugs, street fighting, armed robbery....etc...VERY detailed. (Sex scene too for you pervs.)
A Good Man Is Hard To Find: -Flannery O' Connor- Short stories. My favorite is the title of the book, a good man is hard to find.
The Things They Carried: -Tim O Brien - Short stories about men carrying emotional/physical burdens about wars, very interesting and insightful.
Also this play I read for English class a while back:
The Piano Lesson: August Wilson - About a family with the slave history inscribed on a piano. In the play, the characters fight and learn valuable lessons in life. The play won a Pulitzer prize.
Haha you must be in a modern American Lit class? Flannery O'Connor is an AMAZING short story author...she is one of my favorites along with Hemingway, Borges, and Gogol. As for novels...
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson