I´m going to gor for three, pushy creature that I am. 1) Vanity Fair, by Thackeray. Not only is it a many-splendored, shiny, sparkly thing in its prose and style, it is absolutely ruthless and heartless. But warm, humorous, sympathetic and wry at the same time. Does it make sense? Read it and it will. 2) Anna Karenina. You can´t be interested in the female psyche without having read this. 3) The Little Prince, by de Saint-Exupéry. The world classic par excellence in children´s literature.
There are a lot of books that I haven´t read in that list, but I´ll settle for The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, who is an author I avoid like the plague. I don´t think I will ever read anything by him, but I´m curious to know what led you to read any of his works.
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1) Vanity Fair, by Thackeray. Not only is it a many-splendored, shiny, sparkly thing in its prose and style, it is absolutely ruthless and heartless. But warm, humorous, sympathetic and wry at the same time. Does it make sense? Read it and it will.
2) Anna Karenina. You can´t be interested in the female psyche without having read this.
3) The Little Prince, by de Saint-Exupéry. The world classic par excellence in children´s literature.
There are a lot of books that I haven´t read in that list, but I´ll settle for The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, who is an author I avoid like the plague. I don´t think I will ever read anything by him, but I´m curious to know what led you to read any of his works.