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JUMAJI Posted 21 years ago
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Can natural English speaker recommend some good English language novels

0 Hello, I'm a Chinese girl, and I hope to study English language and culture by reading some interesting novels. But I don't know what novels I can read? 02br
00For example, if someone want to study Chinese language and culture, I would recommend ??(Fortress Besieged) written by Qian Zhongshu. 02br
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0 There are so many popular novels in English that it's a bit difficult to know where to begin. Still, I would personally ecommend (in no particular order): 02br 02br 00Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 02br 00A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 02br 00Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 02br 00To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 02br 00Lord of the Flies by William Golding 02br 00Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 02br 00The Call of the Wild by Jack London 02br 00Dune by Frank Herbert 02br 00The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 0-

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  • 0 There are so many popular novels in English that it's a bit difficult to know where to begin.
  • Still, I would personally ecommend (in no particular order): 02br 02br 00Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 02br 00A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 02br 00Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 02br 00To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 02br 00Lord of the Flies by William Golding 02br 00Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 02br 00The Call of the Wild by Jack London 02br 00Dune by Frank Herbert 02br 00The Great Gatsby by F.
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0 There are so many popular novels in English that it's a bit difficult to know where to begin. Still, I would personally ecommend (in no particular order): 02br
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00Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 02br
00To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 02br
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0 Hehe, thanks for the recommendation. I was reading A tale of two cities now. and Bergdorf blondes. Have met difficulty on reading these novels, hard to understand........... 02br
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00I think the artifice of the first is much better than that of the later. Although the first is an old novel and maybe the language is not completely same with the current english.05001
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0 Would you like to read Agatha Cristie? The language of her books is more or less simple, but it is perfectly fine - including many current idioms and informal expressions. I did learn a lot of new useful vocabulary from her stories in due course. 0-
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1font00 00Hi Jumaji! Maybe, since you're just learning English, you might start out reading a simpler novel, such as 'The Wind in the Willows' by Kenneth Grahame (sp.?) Also, if we're talking simple, 'The Little House on the Prairie' by Laura Inglalls Wilder is a really simple, easy read. Almost every girl in the United States has read it, probably many times. But,
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0I always advise students to start with A. Christie. First the short-stories, then the novels. There's a plot, so it's not boring, and the plus is that the vocabulary's rather recurrent, so, after a while, you don't have to look up all the words 050010id1
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I also like A.Christie’s novels but I think they’re not too easy and not too hard to read. Anyway, when I was reading one of her books (Cards on the table) its style seemed a bit old-fashioned to me. (Actually, I like reading old-fashioned stories) I look upon The little prince as light and good learner reading. I’ve learnt a lot from it. What about Harry Potter books? To my mind they are exc
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This may seem like a strange recommendation, but the Harry Potter series would provide a great insight into what it's like to be a teenager in modern England. Obviously it's got a lot of mythical stuff in it, but otherwise, and especially with regard to characters, it's very 'realistic'.


I think The Lord of the Flies was a great recommedation, by the way; it would be of
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I think any of Harry Potter's series is a good option. I'm not a native speaker of English and I've read books that people have recommended above which are very very hard and boring. Another option is "The curious indicent of the dog in the night-time" by Mark Haddon.

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Well the reason I recommended books like Dracula and The Day of the Triffids is that they would help a non-English person to understand what England used to be like.
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Hi? Myname is Aziah, just call me Jia.....I need help, actually I got problem in my english.....its very hard for me to speak in english instead of writing.....Can u just let me know on how to be good like you, I know that you would say I have to read a lot of book, newspaper etc.......I've tried but nothing change.
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