Book recommendation?
Um, so like yeah. I'm a junior in high school and I need an "independent reading book" for my english class where I have to pick out FIVE new vocabulary words everyday. Problem is, I can't seem to find any book that I could find 5 words a day from.
Any recommendations?
(My favorite books are: The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Youth in Revolt, The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Fight Club, Survivor, etc..)
Um, so like yeah.
You should read Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen.
It's History related but it's the only book I've had to read with a dictionary beside me.
"Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in the event, who wants one?"
"I do," Dunbar told him.
"Why?" Clevinger asked.
"What else is there?"
- Catch 22
Bingo.
ULYSSES will probably give you five new words every page. but i second the HOUSE OF LEAVES because its both awesome and badass and scary. i know i just said 'both' and proceeded to say three things.
supercilious. theres a new word for you. now look it up!
Haha thanks guys! I think I'll go for all 3 suggestions through out the school year. ;D
Gravity's Rainbow would meet the five-word-a-day requirement, but it may also break your face. Not an insult. It broke my face, and I haven't even finished it yet.
Though, it does make a good doorstop.
Though, it does make a good doorstop.
ive been meaning to read V for awhile. did you read it? and was it as good as i want to believe it is? ive not read any pynchon yet.
Yeah. V. is really good. It was actually where I started with him, since somebody at the Velvet recommended I read him in chronological order. Be prepared for lengthy digressions, historical and otherwise, but it's definitely worth checking out, and where I'd recommend starting with Pynchon. That or Lot 49, but if you're not put off by the length, go for V.
ah, good stuff. all of those things are actually things i like and i also heard starting chronologically is the way to go. one more book to add to the pile. though, i think close to the top.
for your request, i'm thinking a perfect book is Child of God by cormac mccarthy
for exceptional use of vocab
some words, i had to look up through encyclopedias because some words, like virid (means green), arent in the standard dictionary
two runners up are also cormac:
Blood Meridian
and
The Road
oh, and welcome to the cult
-kabol
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
I agree with JKabol. McCarthy is a good one to keep a dictionary close at hand while reading. Who knew there were so many different words to describe outcroppings of rock. Thanks to him I now know the difference between a butte and a mesa.
I do too! One's in Montana, the other's in Arizona!
I do too! One's in Montana, the other's in Arizona!
Nice. Though I thought one you climbed and one you wiped.
I didn't know what a catamite was until I read The Road.
now that's just gross
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
what about a carbuncle?
two runners up are also cormac:
Blood Meridian
and
The Road
The Road is really worth a read?
My friend read it but I haven't got around to pick it up.
"Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in the event, who wants one?"
"I do," Dunbar told him.
"Why?" Clevinger asked.
"What else is there?"
- Catch 22
The Road is really worth a read?
My friend read it but I haven't got around to pick it up.
i read it, my woman read it. my friends jay and smar have read it. my friend tavis has read it. my last intensive instructor read it and hailed it the way i did. i dont know if i'd say Child of God is for everybody because sometimes cormac can be an arrogant bastard to the reader and that book pissed even me off in parts, but the road amazed me through and through. not typically my type of story--post apocalyptic, the barren waste, no hope--but to quote my homie jay, the writing is phenomenal.
-kabol
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
what about a carbuncle?
No, I knew that one because my brother's friend's cousin's girlfriend (from Canada) had one on her butt.
i thought they were only on feet.. ?
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play hard, like it's work to be done.
I thought it was the locking mechanism on a seatbelt.
I would also recommend McCarthy.
...though House of Leaves is certainly good for new words as well.
McCarthy is no good. Go for Pynchon!
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
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"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
it shouldn't count if they're just made up words.
like in Finnegans Wake.
you need an entire library to get through even a page of that book.
House of Leaves should have plenty.