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Post by The Texas Rattlesnakes on Mar 17, 2017 12:16:22 GMT -5
I need to read some war novels for my English class, and they need to have a lexile score of above 700. . .
Books I already plan to read: American Sniper, Flags of Our Fathers, The Things They Carried, Lone Survivor, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Red Badge of Courage, Navajo Code Talkers, Unbroken.
So what war novels would you guy recommend? And if you could, please leave a summary of the plot for me so I can get an idea of what to post.
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Post by The Sandmen on Mar 17, 2017 12:25:11 GMT -5
Several of the books you listed are not novels, they are autobiographies or non-fiction.
Catch-22
Slaughterhouse-Five
I have heard Gravity's Rainbow is great, and the film for When the Wind Blows was very good, but I do not know if the book is any good.
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Post by The Texas Rattlesnakes on Mar 17, 2017 12:28:02 GMT -5
Several of the books you listed are not novels, they are autobiographies or non-fiction. Catch-22 Slaughterhouse-Five I have heard Gravity's Rainbow is great, and the film for When the Wind Blows was very good, but I do not know if the book is any good. Sorry, I misused that word. They just have to be a good war book. And thank you. |
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Post by The Sandmen on Mar 17, 2017 13:20:26 GMT -5
Novels are always easier to write about. If you have to write an English paper on it, go with fiction over non-fiction.
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Post by The Texas Rattlesnakes on Mar 17, 2017 13:50:17 GMT -5
Novels are always easier to write about. If you have to write an English paper on it, go with fiction over non-fiction. He wants us to have a mix of non-fiction and fiction though. |
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Post by The Sandmen on Mar 17, 2017 13:55:18 GMT -5
Then have a mix of non-fiction and fiction...
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Post by The Texas Rattlesnakes on Mar 17, 2017 14:08:08 GMT -5
That's why I came here for ideas lol
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Post by The Sandmen on Mar 17, 2017 14:16:49 GMT -5
...excellent.
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Post by xx - Team GAP on Mar 18, 2017 10:53:02 GMT -5
War and peace.... i dont know what its about but i figure its about war and peace.
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Post by Ferocity on Mar 18, 2017 15:19:58 GMT -5
Don't read War and peace. Try "Better Times Than these" by Winston Groom (a Vietnam war novel by the same guy who did Forrest Gump- it's well written, but not hard to understand or read), "Born on the 4th of July" and "in the lake is the Woods" by Tim O'Brian (this is short and amazingly disturbing novel about a man after the Vietnam war).
They are all novels. Very very good.
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Post by The Texas Rattlesnakes on Mar 18, 2017 15:24:03 GMT -5
Don't read War and peace. Try "Better Times Than these" by Winston Groom (a Vietnam war novel by the same guy who did Forrest Gump- it's well written, but not hard to understand or read), "Born on the 4th of July" and "in the lake is the Woods" by Tim O'Brian (this is short and amazingly disturbing novel about a man after the Vietnam war). They are all novels. Very very good. Thanks! I'll look into them! |
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