3800 American Literature

[iliveonnitro]

What are some good fiction novels 150-~300 pages written by american authors? I have no idea what to read for my english class

I really liked the Orson Scott Card::Ender's Game series, if that means anything.

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[BumpinGTP]

i dont know if this is an english author, but pretty much the only books i liked in HS were The Great Gatsby, and Lord of the Flies

 

[Fish]

Lord of the flies was an amazing book IMO. Im not sure if it is written by an american author though.

 

[BumpinGTP]

The Great Gatsby is by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Lord of the Flies is by William Golding

 

[atomicman]

what about Catcher ion the Rye, excellant book, or "The Sphere" by Crichton i believe that is an awesome book

 

[Aircal]

How about anything by Jack London? Also the western writer..Louis Lamour ? Can't remember the spelling. Lots of movies where books first to, see if your fav movies where ever books first.

 

[BumpinGTP]

read A Time To Kill......BADASS book!!!!!

 

[iliveonnitro]

Here's what our class has read (or me independently):
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game series
The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
like 3 Mark Twain books (im done reading those for a bit)

I'm interested in these so far, and I'll look into them a little more:
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
William Gibson - Neuromancer
Michael Crichton - Sphere

I like war books and stuff if that helps out, which is why I liked the Ender's Game series. Also, books that make you think is really good, also. I'm probably going into the Navy, so those related books are pretty interesting to me. Also, Sphere had a really crappy ending

 

[Royalgtp]

Read Shaun Hannitys new book, Let Freedom Ring. 300 or so pages about recent American politics/9-11/War in Iraq/etc......

I read it in 3 nights.

Great book.

 

[iliveonnitro]

Add these to the list:

Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
Joseph Heller - Catch 22
mayyybe Lord of the Flies

 

[Kyle]

Sphere was an awesome book but the movie is HORRIBLE. Lord of the flies is cool too.
The catcher in the rye IMO was terrible. It is what made me stop reading. I figured if a book that was supposed to be so great was so bad to me than the books than most other books I will dislike too. I only read nonfiction stuff now.

 

[iliveonnitro]

I forgot to put Michael Crichton - Sphere in the "already read" part of the list. I have read it, and although it was good, the ending was one of the crappiest pieces of work I've yet to experience. It was a totaly disappointment having a good burn turn sour with the ending, and I felt it wasted my time...

I've narrowed it down to:

John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle
Stephen Crane - The Red Badge of Courage
Joseph Heller - Catch 22

I'm really leaning to catch 22...

 

[xplicitt]

If you are into war books, read The Things they Carried by Scott O'brien (i believe is the author) That is an excellent war book that I had to read in school!!

 

[Kyle]

Well Critchon kinda likes to end his books like how sitcoms work. No matter what happens everything is reset and back to normal by the end. Nothing is truly changed.

 

[Dream]

There is a book called The Cobra Virus. I can't remember who the author was, but it was an awesome military/CDC book. Also, Catch 22 was great, I read it in school.

I know it's a long book, and I don't know if it's considered Amercan Literature, but War and Peace might be an option. I have a book called The Others, it's about shape shifters and the military's use of them as a war weapon. Degree of Guilt by Richard North Patterson-good law book, I have that also. Anything by Stephen King...I have the Dark Half(my fav by him), Skeleton Crew, Eyes of the Dragon, and a few more that i recall. Dean Koontz Servants of the Twightlight, Dragon Tears, The Funhouse, Door to December(military use of telepathy/ESP)...have a few of those. Anything by F. Scott Fitzgerald. To Kill a Mockingbird is good.

Dont know if you are into Medival/Fantasy/Sci-fi at all, but I have about 35-40 books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman...DragonLance series.

I have books coming out my ears, let me know if you want to borrow any.

 

[2KREDGHOST]

[/QUOTE]read A Time To Kill......BADASS book!!!!!

This is an awesome book.



So is the red badge of courage!!!

 

[atomicman]

Another Good book is "On The Road" by Jack Kerouak It takes a while but it is really good. Plus if you like war books i got plenty of front line WW2 infantrymen books, but those are fact, not fiction