Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. Holden Caulfield is a very memorable character.
Wouldn't call this a classic, but I recommend Cujo by Stephen King. If I had the chance to own a St. Bernard, I'd call him Cujo. And I'd train him to attack those that p!$$ me off.
And let's not forget Beerlenium by Lyndon Gregorio. But you've probably read it at least once.
Pare, "War and Peace" para maiksi lang. O "Crime and Punishment" kaya? "Les Miserables"?
Okay, seriously, kung gusto mong mabaliw, read anything by Ernest Hemingway. "The Sun also Rises" is a good start. Try reading the following as well: "Lord of the Flies", "The Alchemist", and "Trainspottting".
whenever i hear the word classic, naiisip ko ung madalas ipa-book report sa amin ung HS..Little Women, The Secret Garden, Little Lord Fauntleroy, the adventures of tom sawyer, the three musketeers..ano pa? andami...
Okay, seriously, kung gusto mong mabaliw, read anything by Ernest Hemingway.
nung pinabasa sa amin nung high school yang kay Ernest Hemingway(The Old Man and the Sea),hindi ko naintindihan..pramis...kung di ko pa nabasa ibig sabihin niyan sa net di ko talaga maiintindihan
if you really want to know how it feels to be 'insane' read "the autobiography of a psychitzophrenic girl' 1st page pa lang naloka na ko! is it considered a classic?
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Whiz: read The Catcher in the Rye.Holden's cool...kaya lang i don't like him that much...he reminds me of me e.haha.
Cow: The Alchemist was a good read...Tunog Biblikal...are all PC's works like that?i got Veronika Decides to Die Lined up in my "Books to read" kase..lalang...
Would want to read "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Lord of The Flies", and "The Old Man and The Sea"...eram naman sa komikon
Reading Ann Packer's "The Dive From Clausen's Pier" from a friend right now...tas andame ng nakalineup...
I have read in HS, as required readings : The Little Prince, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, The lorf of Flies, Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and at least 2 short synopsis of Shakespeare among others. Not to mention El Fili and Noli me tangere.
If I were to recommend a classic to be read it will be : The Little Prince and Young Fu and the river Yangtze.. (ndi ko matandaan yung buong correct title.. )
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Porky: No, I found "Veronika..." much, MUCH better. It's my fave PC book. Try to get your hands on "By the River Piedra, I sat down and wept" as well. Truth be told, I found "Alchemist" too preachy, but it's a good intro to PC kasi.
Lorie: I didn't understand "The sun also rises" the first time I read it either. Weird ang style ni Hemingway; part rambling, part stream of consciousness. Hemingwey did force me to ante up on my analytical skills though, and I'm a better reader for it.
Rudyard Kipling's & Jules Verne's. Mga personal fave ko pong the Jungle Books (there are 2) and Journey to the Center of the Earth. Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug
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if you like paolo coelho then you should try eleven minutes.. its kinda different from PC's usual theme na reflection and learning more about life ek-ek..
yah the catcher in the rye was good.. one of my favorites..
ang librong hindi ko matapos-tapos dahil mahaba at mabango yung libro..nyahahaha
nakabili pa yata ako ng sequel nun. yung "Scarlet" but i just hate her character. ayaw nga ng lalaki sa kanya pinagpipilitan pa niya ang sarili niya. she will do anything para lang mapalapit sa guy.
I aqlso remember "Madame Bovary". Heto rin... yung asawa ng main character na doctor.... hindi rin nakokontento sa kanya.. naghahanap pa ng iba tapos binaon pa sa utang ang pamilya para masunod ang luho...
i also love "Secret Garden" kahit na pambata but it made me cry...
If you're up for something regency peiod (in other words lighter than Shakespeare but just as nice and mushy) read Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northhager Abbey, or anything by the Bronte sisters Wurthering Heights, Jane Eyre
Heathcliff and Mr. Darcy are two literary figures no person shouldn't meet.
Secret Garden is nice we got assigned that some years back and it was cute in a way.
Edgar Allan Poe is pretty good.
There was this one book that maybe a bit kiddy but is pretty entertaining, The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. Some very interesting characters there.
I agree with Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder can get boring but the things he discusses are still very interesting. Some other more modern ones would be Fight Club, Ben Okri's The Famished Road, and any of Neil Gaiman's books.
Someone mentioned Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, interesting fact, Lewis Caroll turns out to be a bit crazy. He actually saw the White Rabbit in front of him yelling "I'm late! I'm late for a very important date..."
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For a more contemporary touch, you can try anything by Nick Hornby. Start with "High Fidelity" and "About a Boy". And whatever you do, read it first before watching the movie versions (Although "High Fidelity" the movie was pretty okay)
Meron akong To Kill A Mockingbird, War and Peace, The Sun Also Rises, Frankenstein, Kama Sutra, The Art of War, Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, short novels by Edgar Allan Poe... ano pa nga ba... Just in case you wanna borrow Porky.
As a child, I loved Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
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