RE: Books that brought you to tears
July 7, 2014 at 1:08 am
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2014 at 1:13 am by Jenny A.)
There are so, so many good books:
I read most of Hermann Hesse during college. I recommend The Glass Bead Game and Steppenwolf next.
Just about anything by A.S. Byatt but The Virgin in the Bower and the rest of that series (two very intellectual girls in a militantly atheist family in the late 50s and sixties, Oxford, sex, religion) are very fine as are the novellas in Angels and Insects (Victorian and psycosexual) , and Possession about academic life, mysteries, Victorian sensibilities, mystery and modern romance.
If you like black humor and tear jerkers John Green's The Fault in Our Stars is the best antidote to bad cancer novels I've every read.
George Elliot was a closet atheist and it comes out beautifully in Middlemarche.
I read most of Hermann Hesse during college. I recommend The Glass Bead Game and Steppenwolf next.
Just about anything by A.S. Byatt but The Virgin in the Bower and the rest of that series (two very intellectual girls in a militantly atheist family in the late 50s and sixties, Oxford, sex, religion) are very fine as are the novellas in Angels and Insects (Victorian and psycosexual) , and Possession about academic life, mysteries, Victorian sensibilities, mystery and modern romance.
If you like black humor and tear jerkers John Green's The Fault in Our Stars is the best antidote to bad cancer novels I've every read.
George Elliot was a closet atheist and it comes out beautifully in Middlemarche.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
