For the past year I've been trying to read a lot of books that are pre college books or just plain old classic books that in general you should just read but some of them are just so boring. I got a Gossip Girl book and a William Faulner book and I've read like the first 15 pages of the Faulkner book and have already finished the Gossip Girl book. Why is it that books full of drama and straight up gossip are just way more interesting then literary classics. I hate that I can't get into those books that are suppose to be so great. I hate that I enjoy books full of contrevesy and gossip that in real life I hate. Are there great classic pre college books that are just as intersting as Gossip Girl books are? Or even Harry Potter books. I dont know why I like books like that. Any help? Are there good classic books that you would read in college or that you should read before you get to college that are full of drama and gossip like Gossip Girl books and the sisterhood of the traveling pants or ones full of drama and that have an interesting storyline or mystery like the harry potter books?
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So many classics have all of those elements! Try The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton. It's got all the drama and gossip of the GG books, but it's set in late 19th century old New York. It's fantastic. Maybe also try "Love in the Time of Cholera" or "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Both have the drama aspect, and the latter also has some elements of fantasy in it. Or even East of Eden by John Steinbeck, which has family secrets and gossip and...well, it's just amazing. And all of these books have a little more literary merit than Gossip Girl. ;-)
With a lot of "classic" literature, it may take more than 15 pages to get into it...give these books a fair chance! It may take a while to become engaged in them, but it will be so worth it in the end.
Thanks for the tips. I will try to read them all!
Gossip Girl is very addicting, I have read the first book. I guess it's the same appeal that grocery store magazines have. Although I have not read them, the Twilight books are supposed to be really good, even though they are not College books. In college you will read several plays. Tennessee Williams wrote about some pretty intense issues. His two most popular plays are Cat on a hot Tin Roof and Glass Menangerie. They involve a bit of family feuding. Same with Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. I really enjoyed his play the Crucible, about the Salem Witch Trials. As for a non play, try some Greek Literature if you think you would be interested in battle scenes and such. For example, the Illiad and the Aenid, which is Roman. These will be a bit more difficult to read since it is in a different format than what you are used to, so it might take some patience.
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