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It is currently Spring Break for me and I am looking for a really good sad book to read over break. Does anybody have any suggestions?

Have you tried Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights?

Set on the eerie Yorkshire moors, a classic tale of youthful beauty, true love, and the pitiless, soul-crushing doom that inevetably follows.



Seriously though, I don't generally care for that genre, but this one stood out.

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez - I believe that the edition I read was translated by Edith Grossman who did a wonderful job with the beautiful language.

Thanks for the quick reply I will be going to the school library to check both those books out tomorrow.

It's a long, langorous read. Definitely not a quick read, but a pleasure to read the beautiful writing.

I liked Wuthering Heights too - very tragic.

Another heartbreaker - Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos. I have the edition translated by P.W.K. Stone, which is pretty good. It's nice to read something for the writing as well as the plot.

La Dame aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas fils (the son of the Alexandre Dumas who wrote The Three Musketeers) - the book that the opera La Traviata and the movie Camille were based upon.

i just recently read The Lovely Bones. very sad, moving, touching.

I've been meaning to read To Kill a Mockingbird again.

Sammi wrote:It is currently Spring Break for me and I am looking for a really good sad book to read over break. Does anybody have any suggestions?

If you still need a book to read, and haven't read this one yet, try The World According to Garp, a John Irving classic. I think it qualifies definitely as good and is also sad (and touching) in the relentless way it handles its characters.

The Red Tent

Dracula

The Secret Garden

To Kill a Mockingbird

Looking for a good book?

Try some graphic novels. Quick reads, great color, action, what more do you want?

Best,

Lance Man

lance wrote:Looking for a good book?

Try some graphic novels. Quick reads, great color, action, what more do you want?

Best,

Lance Man

Lance likes to look at the purty pictures

fnordboy wrote:Lance likes to look at the purty pictures

Hee hee, at first glance I thought that said "durty pictures."

That works too.

fnordboy wrote:

lance wrote:Looking for a good book?

Try some graphic novels. Quick reads, great color, action, what more do you want?

Best,

Lance Man

Lance likes to look at the purty pictures

LOL!

Lance Man

"Catcher in the Rye" is always a good one
For any females in their early twenties, late teens who are real girly girls i highly recommend the three chic lit books "Confessions of a Shopaholic", "Shopaholic takes Manhattan" and "Shopaholic ties the knot" by Sophie Kinsella They are fun!

crimsonglowgurl wrote:"Catcher in the Rye" is always a good one
For any females in their early twenties, late teens who are real girly girls i highly recommend the three chic lit books "Confessions of a Shopaholic", "Shopaholic takes Manhattan" and "Shopaholic ties the knot" by Sophie Kinsella They are fun!

Just a random question:

What are "girly girls"? I have often heard the term but never quite got the gist.

Best,

Lance Man