A Good Novel To Review For A College Creative Writing Class?
Posted by admin on November 21st, 2009 at 12:23am
i have to write a summary and review paper on a novel for a college creative writing class. any ideas on what would be a good book? my favorites type of book is historical fiction, but any book that you could recommend i’ll look into. thanks.
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1. Rose | November 21st, 2009 at 5:41 am
SCHINDLER’S LIST!!!!!!!!!!!!
by Thomas Keneally
2. LK | November 21st, 2009 at 8:48 am
The 2008 Pulitzer winner: “The Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” by Junot Diaz …It is fiction, yet the footnotes (which make up a large and very well-written, often amusing, often sad, part of this book) give you historical content regarding people from Santo Domingo and what happened there in the past as well as what is happening there now.
Joyce Carol Oates has a new book out that is based on all she knows about one of her grandmothers. It is also fiction, yet historical fiction. I’ve read a very good review already on this book in which Oates states her grandmother was the daughter of an immigrant teacher forced to be a gravedigger because of barriers at the time he entered the US.
She also states that it is mainly true from the little she was told about this relative; the family was ashamed of this woman for years. Oates said she put up the one picture she had of the woman for inspiration.
The book is “The Gravediggers Daughter: A Novel” which I hope to read soon.
You can probably find other reviews and ‘look inside’ either of these books at http://www.amazon.com I didn’t go ahead to check. It is a safe link.
3. TSR | November 21st, 2009 at 3:28 pm
“The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien.
Seriously–one of the most brilliant, yet underrated writers of today. And this is one of my favorite books.
It takes place in the Vietnam War, and it’s sort of disjointed and jumbled–some of the characters are dead, then they’re alive, and then you see how they die–that kind of stuff. But it makes it more interesting, and it’s definitely worth the read.
4. ksotikou | November 21st, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Jane Eyre – its interesting, emotionally strong unless you dislike romances and gothic elements. It is mostly about the growth of an orphan heroine in a quite tough world. Contains passages of early feminism as she tries to combine her two needs of love and independence.
5. Jen | November 21st, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Check out the Outlander series, by Diana Gabaldon, for fun historical fiction. Or the Flashman novels.
6. Beyond The Wheel | November 21st, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Atlas Shrugged– Ayn Rand
1984– George Orwell
Season of Migration to the North
Grapes of Wrath
neither are historical fiction really, but all influential on certain regions (Russia, England, America, Middle East)
7. JC | November 22nd, 2009 at 1:04 am
Where to start
Personally I’d go for Remains Of the Day – Ishiguro
The Life of Pi – Martell
or Enduring Love – McEwan
8. Marissa | November 22nd, 2009 at 6:24 am
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Beautiful, beautiful book.
9. missmisc | November 22nd, 2009 at 11:16 am
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy.
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