Book Reviews — Have you read any of these: 1984 (Orwell), Siddhartha (Hesse), OR My Antonia (Cather)?
December 15th, 2009 | by admin |
anonymous asked:
These are on my Summer Reading list and I just want to get an idea of how they are. Most reviews I have found online are either “it’s good/bad” or from an professional book reviewer (whatever you want to call it). I’m 15 and I just want to know how these books really are — if you have an idea about how complex these books are (if they are hard to understand) please include that too!
These are on my Summer Reading list and I just want to get an idea of how they are. Most reviews I have found online are either “it’s good/bad” or from an professional book reviewer (whatever you want to call it). I’m 15 and I just want to know how these books really are — if you have an idea about how complex these books are (if they are hard to understand) please include that too!
And I AM going to read these. I’m just interested in what other people thought of them.
Please do not summarize — I could just get a summary off the internet if I wanted to.
Paige
5 Responses to “Book Reviews — Have you read any of these: 1984 (Orwell), Siddhartha (Hesse), OR My Antonia (Cather)?”
By mrsrosalezIII on Dec 17, 2009 | Reply
Definately 1984. Read it when I was a teenager and was fascinated. Easy to read, fairly concise. Certainly not full of pages of meaningless detail.
By sable_wolf on Dec 19, 2009 | Reply
The books had an urge to read it again.
An urge to read it again.
By carmenism on Dec 19, 2009 | Reply
Siddhartha is a nice mild introduction to German literature. Just be aware that the further you go with it, the stranger it gets. But I like it better than Hesse’s other work. Anyway, it is a nice short read; it’ll take a few hours at most. I liked it!
Edit: As someone said, this book is about Buddhism-type stuff. While I know that the topics in Siddhartha are not Western/German at all, the style of the writing and a few thing about it reminded me of other works by German writers of the time.
By Stephanie on Dec 22, 2009 | Reply
For me was the perspective of hesses novels prefer demian and extremely thoughtprovoking.
My favorite of westerner its not my favorite of hesses novels prefer demian.
By MissWong on Dec 25, 2009 | Reply
For many years and the book is not really from western perspective at all although hesse was educated in western perspective yes he.
The book is by no means typical german siddhartha is by no means typical german siddhartha is not really from.