I'm looking for one last fantastic read before grad school starts. So this may be my final read for pleasure in quite some time. I am looking for a novel. I read a lot of classics and only a handful of contemporary authors. If you had to pick one book to read what would it be?
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Final read of the summer. Suggestions?
I'm looking for one last fantastic read before grad school starts. So this may be my final read for pleasure in quite some time. I am looking for a novel. I read a lot of classics and only a handful of contemporary authors. If you had to pick one book to read what would it be?
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. TIME Magazine selected it as novel of the decade and added it to their Best Novels of All TIME list. Also been made into a film with Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, and Carrie Mulligan.
Haven't seen the film, but most people say it is done in a way that makes it a great companion to the book, but isn't really meant to be an alternative, so book first, then movie.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon. One of my favorite modern novels. And it even won the Pulitzer in 2001.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Amazing-Ad.../dp/0312282990
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Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. It really is a slog to get through-you'll be flicking back and forth between pages the whole time you're reading it-but I highly recommend it. The book works on so many different levels. At first, it seems like it's an epic poem, with a forward and editor's notes. As you progress though it, it's clear that the editor isn't particularly interested in proving any useful commentary. And then it gets really interesting, and more and more bizarre.
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