<p>^Hm. Sounds interesting.</p>
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What does that mean?</p>
<p>^Yeah…I kind of went w.t.f to that?</p>
<p>A clockwork orange was a good book, it was a little weird but I don’t remember it being “too much to handle”</p>
<p>Maybe he/she is referring to the movie? Which can be a little much for some viewers, I guess.</p>
<p>Sophomore, intricacy of plot isn’t necessarily a good measure of a book’s merit. Nor is complex vocabulary. What IS ingenious can be a writer’s ability to distill their thoughts into something simple and elegant (think about adages - that’s a brilliant person summing up in a sentence what others struggle to explain in essays). You would probably hate Hemingway, though. </p>
<p>There’s such a languid, poetic quality to Fitzgerald’s language. Just love it.</p>
<p>“…of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.” </p>
<p>Lolita’s awesome, obviously. Read it in one sitting, it was so absorbing. </p>
<p>I want to see what all the fuss about Michael Pollan is about, and read the Tipping Point and some Virginia Woolf.</p>
<p>A Separate Peace by John Knowles and Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson are absolutely beautiful. :)</p>
<p>I love all the references to Flipped! Plus they are making it into a movie.</p>
<p>I suggest
Naked Economics by Charles Wheelan- very absorbing overview of economics
The Count of Monte Cristo- a classic; suspenseful, totally amazing plot</p>
<p>Oh yes! What an awesome thread!</p>
<p>A Clockwork Orange is actually quite difficult to get through because of the funky language it uses. However, I heard it’s a very good satirical piece, though I haven’t finished it myself. (Speaking of satire, anyone read Gulliver’s Travels before? The absolute worst!)</p>
<p>And to add to the list…</p>
<p>Love in the Time of Cholera --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The God of Small Things --Arundhati Roy
Middlesex --Jeffrey Eugenides
One Hundred Years of Solitude --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Logicomix --Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papdimitriou</p>
<p>The Space Trilogy by C. S. Lewis. You mileage may vary on the last one though.</p>
<p>I absolutely love the Great Gatsby, it has to be one of the most beautifully written books. Also, The Feminine Mystique is a really interesting read along with Dispatches From the Edge by Anderson Cooper and Flying Close to the Sun by Cathy Wilkerson.</p>
<p>currently reading The English Patient, it’s a good book, you might want to try it
The Catcher in the Rye is one of my favorite SAT prep books(lol) and for some reason, i keep writing essay examples based on Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. I should try Lolita, heard it’s fascinating.</p>
<p>Lolita (by Vladimir Nabokov) is the single greatest book I have ever had the privledge to lay eyes on. With a lovely narration that could charm a man faster than any used car salesman, Lolita is an absolute masterpiece. I’m not going to summarize the plot, but I definitely encourage you to take a look at the book if you have time. You won’t put down the book until you’ve read a hundred pages in and it’s 4 AM.</p>
<p>A Clockwork Orange is a fabulous book. The dialect was hard to read at first, but I managed to understand it pretty well. :)</p>
<p>I love a lot of the other books that have already been discussed too.</p>
<p>Also check out:
The Bell Jar-Sylvia Plath
The original Sherlock Holmes books-Arthur Conan Doyle
Rebecca-Daphne duMaurier
Murder on the Orient Express-Agatha Christie
The Killer Angels (if you’re interested in the Civil War)-Michael Shaara</p>
<p>I have not yet read lolita but I did read an article a few years ago discussing why it was popular. Nabokov is Russian and Russians are known for their masterful use of language. However, what separates this book from other Russian works is that it was originally written in English so nothing was lost in the translation. Just thought that was interesting 
(oh and btw please correct me if I was wrong on any of that, it has been awhile)</p>
<p>Check out [Newsweek’s</a> Top 100 Books: The Meta-List - Newsweek.com](<a href=“http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478]Newsweek’s”>http://www.newsweek.com/id/204478).</p>
<p>I’m reading Paradise Lost at the moment. It’s kind of confusing but an outstanding book.</p>
<p>^ Don’t get caught up in the pentameter. I did that for like the first 7 books and didn’t appreciate it like I should have. The ending is the work of sheer ethereal genius</p>
<p>Many of the slang words in A Clockwork Orange are based on Russian (e.g. horrorshow, meaning good, is from Russian xorosho, and droog is the Russian word for friend).</p>
<p>Any of the classics mentioned here are good. Even Moby Dick is an awesome read if you’re into it. I thought it was going to be deadly dull, but I found it fascinating, and even hilarious at times.</p>
<p>1984 and Animal Farm are still relevant – perhaps even more so now than when they were written.</p>
<p>There’s also a lot of great stuff being done in YA right now, by which I mean not Twilight.</p>
<p>Currently, my favs are “This Side of Paradise” and “Animal Farm” but there are a lot of good YA fictions out there that I forget the names to.</p>