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i want to read some classic books (although ones that are easy to read) either adults or childrens. any suggestions?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Got a book a few years ago....it was a slim paperback...titled "How to be well read in one Year" I loved it ....it gave a list of "good books".... on each page it introduced you to one book, a brief synopsis and then gave you the titles of two or three others that were similar should you want to dip in to that type of writing....just to browse thru the book opened so much for me.....
george orwell - animal farm, nineteen eighty four, lord of the flies - all classics and should all be read, not only are they a great and grinpping read but the ideas they raised are still being revisited by other books, tv programmes and in general conversation to such an extent that we almost assume understanding.
definitely steinbeck - "the grapes of wrath" ; though he can be a bit wordy, he is a great storyteller. also, solzhenytsin - "one day in the life of ivan denisovich" - a wonderfully straightforward, readable book. "poor things" by alisdair gray (perhaps not exactly a "classic"). albert camus: "the plague". graham greene "our man in havana". marvellous, marvellous, marvellous.
"themayor of casterbridge" by thomas hardy. (maybe not as easy to read as it might be...) and "far from the madding crowd" is less depressing. at times. charles bukowski, if you're not *at all* easily offended, is extremely readable and considered "classic" by many... ("post office", "women", "factotum", for examples)
Oh, you have to try the "His Dark Materials' Trilogy by Phillip Pullman. They are called 'Northern Lights', 'The Subtle Knife' and "The Amber Spyglass" and come in that order and they are just terrific. Not children's books by any means, they are brilliant and completely different from anything you would have read I'm sure, encompassing physics, religion and other worlds.