Spring beckons and there's nothing more fun than we think in a lounge chair on your patio or dive a bench at the park pond in a book. The hours before ticking while you disappear into a story. Wereldboekendag we asked around on our editorial and these are our tips for you!
1. George Orwell - 1984
Yes, we know: many of you have read this book for school and read for school is boring. And yet. Take the book again at hand when you can read it without pressure, without you a boring task to solve or about without being questioned about it on the exam in June and you will see why all those teachers you just have this book want to impose.
The book was published in 1949, then in 1984 was still very far away.Meanwhile, also in 1984 is just as in the past and now it appears that George Orwell had a damn good picture of what the future would look like. 1984 is set in the Big Brother society, a society where privacy for yourself and think out of the is evil. Why would you think of yourself as a Big Brother feel to you?
But more still in 1984 a love story.A love story about Winston Smith, the main character in the book, and Julia who are in love in a society where love is forbidden. The story of an impossible love in a critique of society.
2. Redmond O'Hanlon - Into The Heart Of Borneo
This travel book is often described as a book to put the time and it still is not that what we all really looking for when we take a book in hand?
This book describes Redmond O'Hanlon the journey he made in 1983 along with his good friend and James Fenton, deep in the jungle, to an even white spot on the map, in one go in search of the rare white rhino.
What Into The Heart Of Borneo so irresistible is the frequently used humor which graces the book. And extra fun is that humor has also remained intact in the translation.The precariousness of the trip is soundly perspective, the inconveniences are filtered by the beauty of memory.
If the expedition finally reached the area of the famous Ukit tribe, the white members of the expedition are soon surrounded by excited young people who are not very impressed by the elders of the tribe, and would rather learn the latest disco dance. A book that should have read every young person ever.
3. Caitlin Moran - How To Build A Girl
The main character in How To Build A Girl is the fourteen-year-old Johanna. Johanna loves sex. At home she is not happy: her father is a failed popstar who lives on benefits, her mother has postpartum depression. Johanna grew up in a working-class family that does not have wide and looks like she is ashamed of her origins and how. She also loves to masturbate and she wants to be deflowered quickly.
We have witnessed how Johanna chooses a new name, Dolly, who embroiders on her clothes. How she just yet but will dress in black.How herself a new guise by the pop music she listens to, by starting smoking and drinking and having as much sex as possible.
The sex scenes Moran describes in all its details, even the bad sexual experiences she does completely revealed. Shame is unknown to her and she does it also think of Lena Dunham in Girls which incidentally fan of Moran .
Like Girls 's How To Build A Girl incidentally intended not only for girls but for all young people, because finally gets to face every young person with uncertainty, everyone is looking at themselves for an identity. How To Build A Girl is a story on these themes in a very smooth style.
4. David Nicholls - One Day
July 15 is the crucial date in this book. On July 15, 1988, the day of their graduation, Emma and Dexter meet for the first time. It clicked, they spend the night together and the next day their separate ways.Where do they stand one year later? And two years later? And five? And ten?
Each year between 1988 and 2007 zooms on that 15th of July to see what made Emma and Dexter have on their lives. And, crossing each other's paths yet?
Like the beautiful filming of four years ago with Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess is the book alternately endearing, funny and sad. And sometimes confrontational. The relationship between Emma and Dexter changed over the years, they struggle with themselves, with their lives and with each other.
David Nicholls makes a nice exercise, watching from helicopter view for a lifetime and then again and again while zooming in and focusing on details and differences between the two main characters.
One Day has become a best seller, thanks to its smooth writing style and smooth dialogues that make the book accessible to a wide audience.
5. Tina Fey - Bossypants
Tina Fey we probably all know. She is a writer, actress, producer and comedian. She wrote include Mean Girls and 30 Rock and wrote sketches for Saturday Night Live.Her imitation of Sarah Palin has become legend rich.
Well, the Tina Fey so wrote an autobiographical book, Bossypants , where she takes her life with her characteristic humor under scrutiny. It is the first comic, but on a deeper level, you also get much wisdoms.
The various chapters have titles that are both hilarious if you do dwell on things like All Girls Must Be Everything, My Honeymoon Or A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again Either or Remembrances Of Being Very, Very Skinny.
In the US, the book sold more than a million copies. Fey Who wants to hear himself tell her story can buy the audiobook. It was nominated for a Grammy and was already more than 150,000 copies sold.
6. Joseph Heller - Catch-22
A classic. One of the most impressive and most important war novels of all time. The book first appeared in 1961 after Heller had worked on as many as ten years.Catch-22 is therefore an incredibly ambitious and idealistic book.
Catch-22 is a difficult but essential.Or as she then wrote in The New York Times: who the book can digest will not easily forget.
Catch-22 is the Apocalypse Now of literature and tries to capture the absurdity of war. This also applies to the reference in the title, theCatch-22 : the fall as a rule applied in the Air Force - the environment in which the novel is set.
Which goes like this: anyone who is not in his right mind, can go home.In contrast, the actual Catch-22: anyone who wants to go home, is too good senses to qualify for dismissal. A vicious circle.
Also want to fierce criticism of capitalism as a system, and Heller tries to capture the madness of war by describing war trauma.
We say it one more time with the words of The New York Times: who gets digested, it will not easily forget.
7. Dimitri Verhulst -Problemski Hotel
One from their own country, because of course we have our clever writers and we have not it always look elsewhere.
Little more than 100 pages hasProblemski Hotel and knows the author of The Misfortunates all that must be said, to say.
This book is the result of a magazine report that Verhulst wrote and for which he would imprison a few days in the detention center Arendonk.Tensions between the groups that he had seen there, but also the daily humiliations and desperate escape attempts not let go of him and so Verhulst decided to write a book about it.
The only way to absurd situations in which the applicants had to live to life daily use of it for him was absurd, but wry humor. His distinctive style of laconic, ironic and cynical humor in crisp sentences is also recognizable.
Problemski Hotel (2003) was the first novel he wrote Verhulst still behind at this moment, where he found his voice and his style. The novel is currently being filmed and Verhulst itself was therefore closely involved in writing the screenplay and dialogues.
The story about asylum seekers therefore seems more relevant than ever. The great strength of Problemski Hotel is that these heavy issues approached in a light way, it's a story of hope in a desperate situation. The film is expected in theaters in the autumn of this year.
8. Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-time
A brilliant title, and for that reason alone already worth reading. In Dutch this title is The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night .Admit it, you still want to read?
The good news is that the rest of the book is as special as the title.Without giving too much away about the storyline about the content of the book, we can say that Mark Haddon on a beautiful, moving and funny way describes the world of a fifteen-year-old autistic boy. The search for Christopher starts when the dog of his neighbor is murdered.
The wonder that Haddon - like Jonathan Safran Foer E xtremely Loud And Incredibly Close also easily could have been in this list - in a language other than the usual Christopher has sought to make express themselves. Drawings, lists and mathematical formulas are but a few of those ways.
Strictly speaking, The Curious Incident a youth novel and the great pressure also makes you finish this book in a few hours, but believe us when we say that the book is equally effective for children and for adults who wonder which one child to the world can look even possess or want to find.
9. Julian Barnes - The Sense Of An Ending
Much thicker than The Curious Incident and Problemski Hotel isThe Sense Of An Ending, with its 160 pages, but he divides his readers much more. We know people who slammed it after ten pages, and we know people who liked best book they ever read. We would say try and decide for yourself.
Tony Webster is the main character of the book. He has become a middle-aged man, time has caught up with him and he looks back with nostalgia on his school years and the years that followed. He had a fairly ordinary life, he was reasonably happy with it. He had friendships, has been in love, got married, had a child and divorced again, as so many. How do these things? And in that whole process, he never try to hurt someone.
He must, however, take his life back in about chimney when he gets a diary in the hands of one of his former friends already beyond that which is put in a different perspective.
The Sense Of An Ending is beautifully written and contains every page at least one wisdom. The book won the Man Booker Prize in 2011.
10. Art Spiegelman - Maus
Maus is perhaps the best known and the most important graphic novel ever published. The story appeared in 1972 as only a three-page story and was resumed in 1977 as a longer story. .
Maus actually tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman's father and how hard it had to be the Polish Jew to survive the Holocaust. The difficult relationship between Art and his father and the effect the war has had on the different family generations is not avoided.
Not too heavy on the hand to make the story, Spiegelman tells the story using a large animal metaphor: the Jews are mice in the story, the Germans are cats, and the Americans have been assigned the role of dogs.
In 1992, when the graphic novel was reissued, received Maus the Pulitzer Prize and was the first cartoon was assigned to that price. That put Maus , the graphic novel or graphic novel as a literary genre definitively on the map.
11. Haruki Murakami -Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Pilgrim Years
Here also had Norwegian Wood can state what is generally regarded as the best entry in the universe novel by Haruki Murakami, but because the latter Murakami is less well known and has touched us in our diaphragm, we still choose this.After the last page had capsized we had to let this sink in schrijfsel and we could read four days nothing else.
Why is that so? This Murakami gets you into the essence of being human. It is to belong to to hear and feel there are not real. It's about living your life without you there to feel any necessity, simply because it belongs. It is about friendships and losing those friendships. It's actually just like earlier in this list, how essential it is to have an identity and develop.This book is about making choices and left alone.
Tsukuru Tazaki's friends want from one day to the other nothing to do with him and Tsukuru has no idea why. Sixteen years after the fact, right in his colorless life where happiness fails, he goes looking for why.
That all sounds very heavy and that's something too, but even more difficult than it is endearing. And the best, do you realize how valuable it is your own life.
This book gets you where every book you should hit: in your heart.
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