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Literatures for the beginners

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00I have not read many novels before. One of the reason is English is not my native language. Now I want to start reading novels. But the sheer number of books available really overwhelms me. Besides The first two novels that I read was "To Kill a Mocking Bird" and "The Lord of The Flies". But honestly I feel like those are the kind of books that I should have read the last. The first book was ok but sometimes many sentences seem to be impenetrable. And for the last one, I had really a hard time reading the book. So I think I should begin with relatively easier books. I imagine that even the grade school students of english speaking children are some what in my situation and there must be a chronological order of the books that are used in the instructions at those schools. Say, some thing like first Shakespeare then Stevenson etc. or whatever. So I am requesting the english speakers to suggest a reading list according to the order of the books they read in their schools. 02br
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0 I know several ESL teachers who use Orwell's 01i 00Animal Farm 02i 00and St-Exupéry's 01i 00The Little Prince 02i 00(in translation from the French, of course) for reading projects for their students. 0-

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  • 0 I know several ESL teachers who use Orwell's 01i 00Animal Farm 02i 00and St-Exupéry's 01i 00The Little Prince 02i 00(in translation from the French, of course) for reading projects for their students.
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0 I know several ESL teachers who use Orwell's 01i00Animal Farm 02i00and St-Exupéry's 01i00The Little Prince 02i00(in translation from the French, of course) for reading projects for their students. 0-
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0 If you're not comfortable with your current level of vocabulary and believe you should start from the easier ones in order to increase your vocabulary, I would suggest different kinds of detective books. Agatha Christie has wrote many and many wonderful books which aren't too hard to understand. Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, too, are relatively easy to approach. Longman Fiction has made many compi
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0 Ernest Hemingway was famous for his economy of style, and most American high school students are required to read his short novel, "The Old Man and the Sea." I personally prefer his short stories.02br
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00 I have always admired E.B. White and James Thurber for the simplicity of their writing. Although to my knowledge neither one wrote a novel, Thurber wrote fiction; "The
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0 E.B. White wrote one of the great 20th century children's classics: 01b00Charlotte's Web; 02b00also 01b00The Trumpet of the Swan 02b00and 01b00Stuart Little.02b02br
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00Don't dismiss "children's books". There are some great writers out there. Margaret Mahy
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0I love to read children's books, and I agree about Charlotte's Web. But I hesitated to recommend any Official "children's books" to an adult English student, fearing it might be, I don't know, patronizing or insulting somehow. 02br
00 Actually there is plenty in Charlotte's Web for an adult to enjoy, and at a more profound level than a child could appreciate. 02br
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0"Memory" about an unhappy 19-year old boy who becomes the sole support of an old woman with Alzheimers. 02br
00"The Tricksters" - a family is permanently changed by three incomers.02br
00 "The Haunting" - a boy is haunted.02br
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00These are three of her books for older readers - I believe they have a lot for an adult reader. "Memory" in particular
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0 I have another question, how much time did u take to read the book 'Lord of the flies' 0-
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0A fast reader could read it in no more than three hours. 050010id76
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0Dan Brown's novels would be good for a beginner. 01i00Da Vinci Code02i00 and 01i00Angels and Demons 02i00are rather popular.02br
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00Sci-fi and Fantasy novels are abundant as well, and should be easy to get through. If you like things like Star Trek and Star Wars, there are hundreds of novels available. A friend of mine is rea
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these three books are really nice. and these books improve my english. thanks
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