At some point in my life, I'm hoping to broaden my reading horizons back into the novel world.
I don't have a lot of insight when it comes to entering this world though. Outside of some of the classics that I've wanted to read for a long time (I'll buy and read The Brothers Karamazov eventually) I don't have ideas of who or what to start reading.
What would you recommend and why? You can freely assume I haven't read many of the classics themselves.
Saturday, November 24, 2007
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I have gotten on a fiction kick in the last few months. I don't know that any of the bpoks I have recently completed qualify as "classics" but they are all awesome. I have read The Giver by Lois Lowry, My Name is Asher Lev, The Gift of Asher Lev, and The Chosen all by Chaim Potok (you must read his work - it's awesome. So hard to explain why - start with The Chosen). I am soon to be finishing the Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, also a great read, and then I will probably be on to The Promise by Chaim Potok.
I read one of the Potok novels in an American Literature class in college. I believe it was The Chosen.
I remember enjoying it, and being deeply challenged with how central my faith was to my life as I read the story of an adolescent Jewish boy. Is that the one?
Yep. The Promise is the follow-up to it. I haven't read that one but I am yet to be disappointed with Potok's writing.
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