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I’m looking for some really good novels. Most of the novels I read, many of the ideas in the book are obvious. I’m looking for something that will shock you. When the end of the story is not something that was obvious through the whole book.
One really, really good example is “Pyramid Base”. You think one thing but then the author takes you to a much different ending. All of Eli Shekter’s books are fabulous, but Pyramid Base stands above the rest!
So, if you know of a novel that I am looking for, please let me know. Thanks!
I really enjoyed Crime and Punishment. Its not a Jewish book though.
The Cat in the Hat.
I think the Tintin series would be great for you- really intriguing plots!
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I love Tintin!!! (and HP too!), but i think d a was looking for Jewish novels.
Ha ha good to hear that I’m not the only guy here who hasn’t grown up! But tintins were great I think I still remember some of them- “A little more to the West” lol!!!
I didn’t realize how much weltanschauung there was in the CR – I thought the OP was asking for some easy light reading, but the folks come back with epics such as Tintin and the works of Dr. Seuss! Astounding!
Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!! (Thompson and Thompson were my favorite guys)
Anything by Rav Marcus Lehmann.
lol- to be precise they were my favorites too!!! Wow i actually remember them!!!
Couldn’t you at least spell the names of your favorite characters correctly? To be precise….
d a: The Will is very good (I forgot the author). Btw are we talking about only jewish books here?
Anything by Mark Twain is excellent light reading. Best is Life on the Mississippi
Nachman Seltzers books- The Link and The Network
squeak- billions of blue blistering barnacles, your right!
ten thousand thundering typhoons! tintin is the best!
AGREED!!?@?#!*!@%?*/!!!!! (well not as good as the other ones but it was all i could think of now)
Not a huge reader (esp of Jewish books) but Sun Inside Rain (I’m pretty sure thats what it was called, was very good.
“A Separate Peace,” by John Knowles. Tells the story of two high-school boys at boarding school in the waning years of the Second World War. No objectionable scenes; the action takes place on the campus of the school, involves the relationships of students and their view of the war as it affects their lives. A tremendous novel, lavishly written.
Ahhhh we had to read “A Separate Peace” in school and I hated it. Compared to the other books it was not the worst.
Hearts of Gold is was a good book. They have a second one too. The plots not that obvious.
Deep Blue was okay and with a twist in the plot, kind of.
Does anyone know of any really good non-jewish novels that are a Eve Vogel style? (Her books are usually about some boarding school in england- or something of that type…) I’m a big reader and read all the jewish books in the stores which I happen to prefer.
While were about relieving memories, how bout Asterix guys??? Anyone into them at some stage???
I was a massive fan of Vitalstatistix!!!
anything by jodi picoult
mw13- the will is really amazing. the author is Chaim Greenbaum.
Another amazing book is Switched Identities- I forgot the author but it’s about the holocust. I gotta agree that Pyramid Base is one of the best books out there. I also love the book Inquisition by Yair Weinstock.
Just a reminder… it’s Elul and there are more important things to do then read fiction. Maybe you can wait to novel up until after the yomim Noraim?!:)
a K’siva V’chasima Tova Everyone!
Wasn’t the book called Switched Identity, not Identities?
There is two books; Double Identity, and Switced Identity
I think Meyer Bendet wrote them.
Yes, I think it’s a seqel
here’s alist of novels the marked ones / ive read and most were pretty good
a promise fulfilled
all the hidden children
choices/
deep blue/
dual destiny
harp strings
hidden in the deep
interupted journey/
lone star/
music of the soul
mystery in spain
on a golden chain
plan b/
the lost treasure of chelton
the selby printout/
whispers/
yesterdays child
blackout/
double identity/
dual allegiance/
entanglement/
the network/
the betrayal
d a- I happened to like it. sorry if you didnt.
Riva Pomerantz- Breaking Point.
Professionally written with a captivating storyline
Les Miserables– best novel ever written–try to get the abridged edition (a few hundred pages ) very uplifting!
did anyone here read aleph-shin?
was it any good?
is it worth buying?
In a different thread it was mentioned that the same author (possibly using different names) wrote four books;
1) Aleph Shin,
2) Samsons Lion,
3) Every Man A Slave and
4) Ten Lost.
Supposedly they are very well written and researched and most readers find them very addicting.
If you can’t find it I’ll try to look it up.
I read Aleph Shin and enjoyed it. The plot definitely took unexpected turns but at some point I figured out what would happen at the end.
Personally I can’t say how well researched the book was as I am unfamiliar with the streets in Iran, the flight controls on a fighter jet, the different chambers on a submarine and the geological makeup of the ground under the Aswan Dam. I am basing that on what other readers wrote. I did enjoy it and found it addicting.
I did not read the other three books.
short changed and changing tides were by far the best novels so far this year .
Every Man A Slave by Sender Zeyv
Captive Soul by Shoshana Schwartz
In Full Bloom by Shoshana Schwartz
ABSOLUTELY LOVE ‘EM!!!
aqua blue: Ever read School For One? I’m not sure who the author is, but, it’s gr8.
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