<p>Hi there I'm a junior who might be taking SAT for the second time this October. I usually read New Yorker for fun and to improve my reading comprehension. But this summer i mgith be going back to Taiwan for 1 and half month. So.... since i can't take New Yoker with me, are there any big long books i can take home to read? How about War and Peace?? or soemthing not that dry??<br>
thankyou very much</p>
<p>bumps..............</p>
<p>the new yorker</p>
<p>they make books with SAT words in them </p>
<p>specifically to study for the SAT</p>
<p>mm....thanks for the advice, but i think i said prety clear that i do read the New Yorker. But i'm going to stay in Taiwan for 2monhts this summer, soooo... i can't take the New Yorker with me. Any other suggestions?</p>
<p>have them subscribe the new yorker to you in new york. how hard is that</p>
<p>not new york, <em>TAIWAN</em></p>
<p>i've heard To Kill a Mockingbird, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and anything remotely known in terms of Shakespeare are decent to know.</p>
<p>Ulysses. char.</p>
<p>Tolstoy's War and Peace is the greatest book I've read... So give it a try if you like Russian literature!</p>
<p>I also recommend:</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment/Notes from the Underground/The Brothers Karamazov, by Dostoevsky (any of his short stories are great too)</p>
<p>Dune, by Frank Herbert</p>
<p>Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley</p>
<p>1984, by George Orwell</p>
<p>Atlas Shrugged/Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand</p>
<p>If you like philosophy, try Plato's Republic, or Nietzsche's Anti-Christ/Thus Spake Zarathustra, or Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, or Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling, or Kafka's The Trial/The Castle. </p>
<p>There are a myriad books you can read... though I duly recommend that you try and indulge yourself with the beauty of War and Peace. It has forever been my favorite book.</p>
<p>Taipei sells copies of The New Yorker. You can find them in Eslite bookstores or the Page One downtown.</p>
<p>I don't know if their good or not, but I heard a teacher recommend Frankestien. The vocab in it is suppose to be frequent on the SATs. Also I know Kaplan has books that they call "A Kaplan SAT Score-Raising Classic" which are classic novels that have highlighted words to raise scores. Its not bad considering their like $5-6 and just a bit more then the normal and sometimes the same price. Any one heard or used these?</p>
<p>you know what, George Eliot's books help a lot about vocab and reading...like Middlemarch and the Mill on the Floss
they are long and stuffed with beautiful sentences</p>