your favorite fiction book...

[RSK]

Shirley Jackson also wrote "The Lottery"...which you may have heard of. Her books aren't 'graphicly' scarey...she allows your own imagination to work with it.

I recently read this short story! And I was going to search for it and post it here! I was SHOCKED to read it. Shirley Jackson knows how to create that SICK FEELING inside readers...

...I won't give it away, but check it out if I interested you.

[Tone]

i like lord of the flies for some reason,also, to kill a mocking bird

Oh, GREAT choices!

Also I will add to my list:

Their Eyes Were Watching God

[misombra]

i've never heard of that. what's it about.

btw i'm not really into scary books per se. i'm most into historical fiction and science fiction. and of course the classics...

[Tone]

At the height of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston was the preeminent black woman writer in the United States. She was a sometime-collaborator with Langston Hughes and a fierce rival of Richard Wright. Her stories appeared in major magazines, she consulted on Hollywood screenplays, and she penned four novels, an autobiography, countless essays, and two books on black mythology. Yet by the late 1950s, Hurston was living in obscurity, working as a maid in a Florida hotel. She died in 1960 in a Welfare home, was buried in an unmarked grave, and quickly faded from literary consciousness until 1975 when Alice Walker almost single-handedly revived interest in her work.

Of Hurston's fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God is arguably the best-known and perhaps the most controversial. The novel follows the fortunes of Janie Crawford, a woman living in the black town of Eaton, Florida. Hurston sets up her characters and her locale in the first chapter, which, along with the last, acts as a framing device for the story of Janie's life. Unlike Wright and Ralph Ellison, Hurston does not write explicitly about black people in the context of a white world--a fact that earned her scathing criticism from the social realists--but she doesn't ignore the impact of black-white relations either:

"It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters had been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes had occupied their skins. But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. They became lords of sounds and lesser things. They passed nations through their mouths. They sat in judgment."

One person the citizens of Eaton are inclined to judge is Janie Crawford, who has married three men and been tried for the murder of one of them. Janie feels no compulsion to justify herself to the town, but she does explain herself to her friend, Phoeby, with the implicit understanding that Phoeby can "tell 'em what Ah say if you wants to. Dat's just de same as me 'cause mah tongue is in mah friend's mouf."

Hurston's use of dialect enraged other African American writers such as Wright, who accused her of pandering to white readers by giving them the black stereotypes they expected. Decades later, however, outrage has been replaced by admiration for her depictions of black life, and especially the lives of black women. In Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston breathes humanity into both her men and women, and allows them to speak in their own voices. --Alix Wilber

It's a great book, nice lil love story.

[aloha22]

Some of my favorite are:
Any book by Dan Brown (DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons and he has two others as of now)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Utopia
Shakespeare- Othello and Twelfth Night specifically
Yes, To Kill a Mockingbird is a definate classic

[misombra]

It's a great book, nice lil love story.

that sounds good. wright DID write with a lot of those stereotypes in mind.

another book along those lines is a short one called passing. i can't remember who wrote it but it was a really great story about these women who were able to pass as white women during segregation. they lived like affluent white women. very good.

[Tone]

Kiss me.

I must have you - NOW

[misombra]

wow. i never knew literacy was such a turn-on for you.

::kisses tone passionately::

[Tone]

It is.

That... and you.

:D

[Junket]

Alien vs Predator: PREY

Good call.

I just remembered why I liked you.

I'd also add Catch-22 to that list.

[Chlorine]

Picture of Dorian Gray.

You asked for books, but I'de like to add in comics. I've read and re-read Asterix and Obelix (the whole series) many many times and never tire of it :-D

[misombra]

picture of dorian gray... what's that about?

[TAVS]

I dont read/

[misombra]

well, good for you. you've just messed up your chances with tone.

[Tone]

LOL that made me laugh ;D