/lit/ - Literature

WUTHERING HEIGHTS BRO ITS JUST LIKE TWILIGHT WITHOUT THEM VAMPIRES OR NOITHIN

What has she already read? What genre/style do you think she would like? The Great Gatsby is a sort of social-political soap opera which is interesting but probably not ideal for a 21-year old girl who doesn't usually read "modern classics."

for the record she hates twilight with a passion and has read a bit herself

she's read quite a bit, a fair bit of Jane Austen and stuff like that. The Great Gatsby is something she specificly asked for so I'd definately get her that, I was really just after other suggestions, it doesnt matter if she might not like them aslong as it isnt something she might feel offended me buying for her, like a clockwork orange.

I'm just not wide read enough to know what I should be looking at

The sun also rises?
Portrait of the artist...?

Middlemarch is also excellent

Anything by Thomas Hardy or any of the darker Victorian-era writers and realists. Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Dubliners by James Joyce. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. If she is looking for something like Gatsby, she'll probably like these or at least find them interesting. Google them and see if you think they'd appeal to her.

if she's into jazz age stuff get her some Truman Capote.

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Hurr durr Gatsby dies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel#List_of_possible_Great_American_Novels

Here's a decent list of American classics to look through.

gatsby is insipid garbage. waste of time.