Jimmy Neutron Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Read this one over the weekend before the new semester started. It's a very good book, but pretty disturbing. I enjoyed this one more than The Road and much more than No Country for Old Men. I really like McCarthy's style in this book - it's very lyrical and beautifully written. If you are a McCarthy fan or just want to read a good, dark western - this one is for you. The judge would make a spectacular movie character, but not much in this story could be effectivly put on film and be a commercial success. It's just that disturbing. On another note - I am taking a young adult lit class this semester and am looking for suggestions on books to read for the class. I haven't read a lot of books written for a young audience, so please help me out with memorable titles from Jr. High and high school. I need to review 25 titles for this class, so pile 'em on. TIA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiegie Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 I can remember: A Day No Pigs Would Die and Across Five Aprils as books I enjoyed reading when I was about 12 or so. I'll add others as they come to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsfan Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 I recall fondly Johnny Got His Gun The Hobbit Catch 22 The Catcher in the Rye The first is an excellent read. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckB Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Green Eggs and Ham Horton Here's A Who Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isleseeya Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 The bell jar by sylvia plath ( it is a bit twisted ) Great gatsby Crime and punishment by dostoyevsky ( spell check may be needed ) Grapes of wrath Of mice and men Good luck and good reading Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 I can remember: A Day No Pigs Would Die and Across Five Aprils as books I enjoyed reading when I was about 12 or so. I'll add others as they come to me. Just ordered the first from Amazon. I recall fondly Johnny Got His Gun The Hobbit Catch 22 The Catcher in the Rye The first is an excellent read. Is the protagonist a youg adult? That's one of the requisites for these books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 On another note - I am taking a young adult lit class this semester and am looking for suggestions on books to read for the class. I haven't read a lot of books written for a young audience, so please help me out with memorable titles from Jr. High and high school. I need to review 25 titles for this class, so pile 'em on. TIA. 1984 Watership Down The Hobbit Starship Troopers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isleseeya Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 I loved catcher in the rye Rcommend that one as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PantherDave Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Lord of the Flies The Thorn Birds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Just ordered the first from Amazon. Is the protagonist a youg adult? That's one of the requisites for these books. Well, scratch my list then. Except for Starship Troopers, which I find kind of forgotten and underrated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czarina Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Eragon. Not the best of its genre, but certainly fits the young adult coming of age type thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Los Gigantes Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Ursula Leguin's A wizard of earth Sea and sequels. Way Past Cool, by Jess Mowry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Los Gigantes Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 A good friend has written a young adult fantasy novel that is not yet published... any interest in reviewing the manuscript for the class? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted January 13, 2007 Author Share Posted January 13, 2007 A good friend has written a young adult fantasy novel that is not yet published... any interest in reviewing the manuscript for the class? Sure, that would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Los Gigantes Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Sure, that would be great. email me a little about your class and what you're doing, and i'll forward it to her. josh_aronovitch@yahoo.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skins Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 I knew you would like it, Jimmy. One of my favorite writers and books. And very different from his new stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh B Tool Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 The Hobbit The Outsiders The Stand Sitka Conan the Barbarian Hellstrom Chronicles Soylent Green Stranger in a Strangeland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsfan Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 If I recall correctly, the protagonist of Johnny Got His Gun is 17-18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yo mama Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 The Red Pony (Steinbeck) All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) Red Badge of Courage (Crane) Maggie, Girl of the Streets (Crane) The Cruise of the Dazzler (London) Light in August (Faulkner) To Kill A Mocking Bird (Lee) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yukon Cornelius Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 (edited) Eragon. Not the best of its genre, but certainly fits the young adult coming of age type thing. good along with the second one.. cant remember the name where the red fern grows... thats a good one i think the boy is 10 0r 11 in that one... moby dick... may qualify also Edited January 16, 2007 by Yukon Cornelius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted January 16, 2007 Author Share Posted January 16, 2007 The Red Pony (Steinbeck) All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque) Red Badge of Courage (Crane) Maggie, Girl of the Streets (Crane) The Cruise of the Dazzler (London) Light in August (Faulkner) To Kill A Mocking Bird (Lee) Good list there. Steinbeck, Crane, London and Faulkner are favorites. good along with the second one.. cant remember the name where the red fern grows... thats a good one i think the boy is 10 0r 11 in that one... moby dick... may qualify also I thought about that, but I don't want to I cried when I read it years ago, and now I have a redbone hound - it'd be worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PantherDave Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 ....Crique..authors name escapes me right now, but wrote "The Collector" and "The Magus"-good reads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czarina Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 Summerland by Michael Chabon I haven't read it myself, but it looks very interesting and I might pick it up soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Cid Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 I always like To Build a Fire by London. More of a short story though. Anthem by Ayn Rand Player Piano or Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Animal Farm by George Orwell Lord of the Flies by William Golding Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 My contribution would be Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson But then there is also this: 1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic Press, 2005). 2. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2005). 3. Eldest by Christopher Paolini (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2005). 4. Rebel Angels by Libba Bray (Delacorte Press, 2005). 5. Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (Razorbill, 2005). 6. 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson (HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2005). 7. Poison by Chris Wooding (Orchard Books, 2005). 8. Captain Hook: The Adventures of a Notorious Youth by J.V. Hart (Laura Geringer Books, 2005). 9. If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? by Melissa Kantor (Hyperion Books for Children, 2005). 10. Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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