Re: (no subject)
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Tue, 08 Jun 1999 17:38:28 +1000
To that I would add `Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley. Some have called it
1984 Lite but I found it a pretty enjoyable and insightful book while being
incredibly straightforward.
Happy reading,
Camille
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>
> Hello-
>
> None of this necessarily involves JDS, but I'm certain none will mind
> if I get some selfish use out of this list. :) I'm going away this
summer
> for a month and a half, and to appease the eminent boredom I've got a
full
> stock of books that I'd like to read and I want some input on them, or
any
> suggestions. I'm a Soph. in High school, 15 years old and just an OK
reader.
> I mean, I can read Salinger and Nabocov with little trouble but I have
> trouble tackling other stuff like The Grapes of Wraith, for example. But
I
> tried Wuthering Heights, and gave up after awhile then reread it alone at
> school and I was probably the only person in my class to thoroughly
> understand it (and enjoy it!). I'm wondering if any of the books are a
bit
> over my head or worth reading above others, please anything will help.
..
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> "Idiot" Dostoevsky
> "The Fountainhead" Ayn Rand
> "Nausea" & "Being And Nothingness" Jean-Paul Sartre
> "The Metamorphosis" Franz Kafka
> "The Picture Of Dorian Gray" Oscar Wilde
> "Tropic of Capricorn" Henry Miller
> "Americana" & "White Noise" Don DeLillo
> "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" Maya Angelou
> "Dharma Bums" & "Big Sur" Jack Kerouac
> "Naked Lunch" William S. Burroughs
> "Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" Tom Wolfe
> "1984" George Orwell
> "Lord of the Flies" William Golding
> "Catch 22" Joseph Heller
> and "Ham and Rye" (something like that) I think by Charles Burk..owski..
(I
> think)
>
> Thanks- Erinn