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Novels for GASMAT
« on: February 07, 2012, 06:23:43 pm »
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Hi guys i'm just looking for some books/novels to read to help with Section I & II, any suggestions would be appreciated!
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Re: Novels for GASMAT
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2012, 06:13:13 pm »
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What's your reading background?

I will recommend Wuthering Heights though, there are enough themes and phrases in that to keep you busy thinking about them :P
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Re: Novels for GASMAT
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2012, 06:18:48 pm »
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I'm reading these two ATM:

'The God of Small Things' by Arundhati Roy
'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' by Douglas Adams ;D
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Re: Novels for GASMAT
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2012, 06:22:56 pm »
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Quote from: Russ on February 10, 2012, 06:13:13 pm
What's your reading background?

I will recommend Wuthering Heights though, there are enough themes and phrases in that to keep you busy thinking about them :P

Just basic VCE compulsory reading. Shakespeare etc. I havn't been a big reader but i want to start reading some classics ! :)
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Re: Novels for GASMAT
« Reply #4 on: July 28, 2012, 09:47:50 am »
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Read some Haruki Murakami. If you can plough through a good long book, then read all of 1Q84 - it's a masterpiece. If you can't, start with something short, like After the Quake. Both are fantastic novels.
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Re: Novels for GASMAT
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2012, 01:10:57 pm »
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Can anyone recommend some books for me? I only read on occassion and it's often just light reading. The only 'classics' I have read are Twelve Angry Men in year 12 and we also did Of Mice and Men in year 11. We did Shakespeare in year 9 and 10 but I don't really remember any of it.
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Re: Novels for GASMAT
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2012, 01:31:43 pm »
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How hard do the books have to be?  If you're looking more for the flexing of your literary muscles as opposed to giving them a hard work out, then...

Ian McEwan - Atonement
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Franz Kafka - The Metamorphosis
Gabriel García Márquez - Chronicle of a Death Foretold

If you want something a tiny/fair bit trickier (in ascending order of difficulty)...

Tim Winton - Cloudstreet
Maxine Hong-Kingston - The Woman Warrior
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Earnest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms
James Joyce - Finnegans Wake (only if you want to kill yourself)

And if you want stuff that is easy, but still difficult enough to train your reading skills...

Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club
David Malouf - Ransom
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Lloyd Jones - Mister Pip

I've generally tried to stick to shorter rather than longer here - it's better for your reading to get a taste of different styles rather than immersing yourself too fully in one text.
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Re: Novels for GASMAT
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2012, 04:21:28 pm »
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Quote from: EvangelionZeta on July 31, 2012, 01:31:43 pm
James Joyce - Finnegans Wake (only if you want to kill yourself)

Dude, he asked for novels, not collections of random words :P
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Re: Novels for GASMAT
« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2012, 12:34:44 pm »
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Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and The Road - unusual and challenging style of prose, good for language comprehension, poetry interpretation and themes. Reading discussions online about the text is good for prep.
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