People have read books many times as a source of entertainment. However, only those publications with stories that transcend time, human experiences and culture can stand out as true classics. Another great quality about such work is their plot, emotional connection, character and conflict. Authors just know how to come up with great setting for their work to outdo others in the market. Even old good reads can fit the new classic books category due to their timelessness.
Any enthusiastic reader would want to learn about several of these classic reads. The list is long, with some published many years in the past. An adult will find various interesting reads in the book stores today.
Set in Belgian Congo, 1959, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover is a great novel fitting this category. In this story, Nathan Price, who is a fiery Baptist missionary chooses Congo as his home and mission ground. With him are his wife and four young daughters. His ambition is to snatch the not so civilized souls in this place from eternal fire. Despite his determination, a revolution by Congo against Belgium undermines his efforts as the country undergoes the worst political event of the twentieth century. Price and his family are trapped in this bloody fallout.
Three highly acclaimed classics are collections of short stories. These include Birds of America by Lorrie Moore, Selected Stories by Alice Munro and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. One can hardly talk about classic reads without mentioning such.
Another good read is a novel by Yann Martel, Life of Pi(2001). An Indian boy, Pi Patel, boards a Japanese cargo ship with his family to begin a new life in North America. With him in the ship are zoo animals brought by his father, a zoo keeper. This novel depicts Pi as having wide knowledge of animal behaviour and keen interest in stories. During the journey, Pi is to survive a shipwreck alone with the wild animals. Those animals in the lifeboat include an orangutan, a hyena, an injured zebra and Richard Parker, a Bengal tiger.
Pi relies on his knowledge of tiger behaviour to escape death from claws of Parker. The surprising bit is that they later coexist at the sea for close to 230 days. However, Parker gets lost into the jungle once they reach the coast of Mexico. Pi is questioned by Japanese authorities on his extraordinary survival only to realize that they do not agree with his account. This leaves him with no choice but to make up a story that they could believe. Readers have to discover on their own if this could be the true encounter.
Young adults have numerous choices too. Good examples are The Chronicles of Narnia, The Giver, A wrinkle in Time and To Kill a Mockingbird among others. Some of these are long-time classics but can qualify as new because of their timelessness. Recent releases like The Book Thief, Harry Potter and The Hunger Games series make this list.
Since there are various classics one can explore, it is impossible to lack entertaining reads, whether you are young or old. You could begin by checking local book stores to find out what they have. At the same time, the internet provides a great shopping option with possibility of finding both hard and soft copy forms of such good reads.
Any enthusiastic reader would want to learn about several of these classic reads. The list is long, with some published many years in the past. An adult will find various interesting reads in the book stores today.
Set in Belgian Congo, 1959, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover is a great novel fitting this category. In this story, Nathan Price, who is a fiery Baptist missionary chooses Congo as his home and mission ground. With him are his wife and four young daughters. His ambition is to snatch the not so civilized souls in this place from eternal fire. Despite his determination, a revolution by Congo against Belgium undermines his efforts as the country undergoes the worst political event of the twentieth century. Price and his family are trapped in this bloody fallout.
Three highly acclaimed classics are collections of short stories. These include Birds of America by Lorrie Moore, Selected Stories by Alice Munro and Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. One can hardly talk about classic reads without mentioning such.
Another good read is a novel by Yann Martel, Life of Pi(2001). An Indian boy, Pi Patel, boards a Japanese cargo ship with his family to begin a new life in North America. With him in the ship are zoo animals brought by his father, a zoo keeper. This novel depicts Pi as having wide knowledge of animal behaviour and keen interest in stories. During the journey, Pi is to survive a shipwreck alone with the wild animals. Those animals in the lifeboat include an orangutan, a hyena, an injured zebra and Richard Parker, a Bengal tiger.
Pi relies on his knowledge of tiger behaviour to escape death from claws of Parker. The surprising bit is that they later coexist at the sea for close to 230 days. However, Parker gets lost into the jungle once they reach the coast of Mexico. Pi is questioned by Japanese authorities on his extraordinary survival only to realize that they do not agree with his account. This leaves him with no choice but to make up a story that they could believe. Readers have to discover on their own if this could be the true encounter.
Young adults have numerous choices too. Good examples are The Chronicles of Narnia, The Giver, A wrinkle in Time and To Kill a Mockingbird among others. Some of these are long-time classics but can qualify as new because of their timelessness. Recent releases like The Book Thief, Harry Potter and The Hunger Games series make this list.
Since there are various classics one can explore, it is impossible to lack entertaining reads, whether you are young or old. You could begin by checking local book stores to find out what they have. At the same time, the internet provides a great shopping option with possibility of finding both hard and soft copy forms of such good reads.
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