Suggestions for my "book report"

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<p>Hey all... I need to choose a novel of "literary merit" for my AP english class... have to read it and then find three criticisms of it, write about them, etc...</p>

<p>And I know that I'll pretty muh never willfully read classic literature for pleasure, so I like to make these assignments count...</p>

<p>So what do you guys like? Some of my favorites have been The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Black Boy</p>

<p>I just found out how to use italics on CC, so I kind of went overboard... I realize that :)</p>

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<p>Heart of Darkness.</p>

<p>Also, Chinua Achebe has a famous essay on this novel.</p>

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<p>Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky is a very good book!</p>

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<p>The Great Gatsby! It's so short, yet packed full with literary merit. You can't ever go wrong with that book! (unless of course the question 3 on the AP test is random enough to ask about a COUNTRYSIDE!!!) </p>

<p>Sorry about that last part lol.</p>

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<p>"War and Peace" is a nice, short, and enjoyable read.</p>

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<p>haha yeah, go with war and peace. jk i'd go with The Great Gatsby as erhswimming said or The Catcher in the Rye</p>

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<p>hmmmm maybe Huck Finn or Native Son both have lit merit and re pretty good books.</p>

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<p>The Great Gatsby is pretty good.</p>

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<p>I also recommend The Catcher in the Rye. It's a great book!</p>

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<p>Read Albert Camus's "The Outsider" (The Stranger in some translations)</p>

<p>It's a really short read- only like 120 pages and it's written in a really simple and clean style that's not hard to understand.</p>

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<p>I love The Stranger! It's one of my favorite books!</p>

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<p>Yes! It is my favorite out of all the books I've ever read, and that's quite a lot.</p>

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<p>I love the work of Albert Camus!</p>

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<p>Me too. He's the greatest. It's such a shame he died young.</p>

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<p>I know! He achieved so much in so little time!</p>

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<p>Indeed. That's what's so incredible.</p>

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<p>His views were also very revolutionary. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for his writings against capital punishment.</p>

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<p>I know. I've read almost all of his works and several biographies, I'm still working on a few of his plays. The ideas he puts out there are so amazing.</p>

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<p>I admire him most for his support of human rights and his pacifism.</p>

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<p>Agreed. The play I'm reading right now discusses the issue of terrorism. It's called "The Just Assasins" and follows Russian revolutionaries as they are planning to assassinate a tyrannical duke. I'm not very far, but its so interesting.</p>