15yo boy likes john grisham but wants to read some classics. or at least things more literary. what would you recommend?

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  • 15yo boy likes john grisham but wants to read some classics. or at least things more literary. what would you recommend?

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    05.22.09, 08:41 AM Flag ]

    • Sherlock Holmes

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      05.22.09, 09:07 AM Flag

      • thanks. any other suggestions/

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        05.22.09, 09:12 AM Flag

    • Agatha Christie

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      05.22.09, 09:13 AM Flag

      • definitely a good suggestion. try nero wolfe as well.

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        05.22.09, 10:11 AM Flag

    • Small apt. Lives in small coat closet and gets tangled with longer coats.

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      05.22.09, 09:30 AM Flag

    • count of monte cristo, lord of flies, catcher in the rye

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      05.22.09, 09:37 AM Flag

      • thanks. great suggestions.

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        05.22.09, 09:56 AM Flag

    • Conrad's The Secret Agent. Great for a Grisham fan

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      05.22.09, 09:58 AM Flag

      • and the ken follett mysteries.

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        05.22.09, 10:14 AM Flag

    • The Great Gatsby. THE best american novel. EVERYONE should read it at least 3 times over the course of their lives....15yr old is perfect time for the first read...

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      05.22.09, 10:34 AM Flag

      • HATE that book

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        05.22.09, 10:34 AM Flag

        • Give it a re-read, you likely weren't mature enough to understand it the first time.

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          05.22.09, 10:49 AM Flag

      • i love it. i think a lot of kids love it. they relate to the partying and shallowness!

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        05.22.09, 10:49 AM Flag

    • Little Dorrit if he is interested in a storyline similar to the Madoff scandal that includes debtor's prison. Dickens at his best.

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      05.22.09, 10:48 AM Flag

    • Dickens is good. I read On the Road at 15 and it changed my life (note: am not a boy...but its a good Boy book too. Day of the Jackal is not a classic but is a fine fine mystery/suspense book.

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      05.22.09, 10:51 AM Flag

    • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, On the Road, agree with Dickens and Fitzgerald

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      05.22.09, 10:52 AM Flag

    • A Separate Peace

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      05.22.09, 10:56 AM Flag

    • John Buchan (author of the novel The 39 Steps)

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      05.22.09, 10:58 AM Flag

    • Red Badge of Courage (I read as a boy and LOVED it). (Civil War story)

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      05.22.09, 11:01 AM Flag

    • Trevanian especially Shibumi (But not the Twenty Mile one.) Dumas. Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls/Old Man and the Sea) Michner, Woulk (forgive my spelling.)

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      05.22.09, 11:05 AM Flag

    • Shane (super-short western theme)

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      05.22.09, 11:22 AM Flag

    • What about John LeCarre?

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      05.22.09, 01:26 PM Flag
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