1. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo 2. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 3. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton 4. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 5. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery 6. The Giver - Lois Lowry 7. 1984 - George Orwell 8. Lord of the Flies - William Golding 9. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 10. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 11. Wuthering Heights- Emily Brontë 12. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 13. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell 14. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 15. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ***BONUS 16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Personally, I would add Frankenstein to the list. Dr Frankenstein demonstrates how we sometimes get caught up in the idea that we can do something but without looking at the bigger picture and asking the question 'should I do it?' It's not until shortly after that he realizes that he has created something that is destructive. In the end it had destroyed everything in his life. It reminds us to stop and think before we do.
I would recommend Anna Karenina. I. Believe this book shows the reality of life for many people in this world. It is truly a tragic story, where Anna is caught between a lifeless marriage and her passion for her young lover. Tolstoy had deep insight when he wrote this book.
1. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo 2. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 3. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton 4. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 5. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery 6. The Giver - Lois Lowry 7. 1984 - George Orwell 8. Lord of the Flies - William Golding 9. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho 10. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak 11. Wuthering Heights- Emily Brontë 12. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 13. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell 14. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 15. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini Watch video till the end to find out the bonus
Reading is increasing the power of thinking. Read to read the new face of words for future creation. Books are our real wealth to distribute the knowledgeable treasure.
I AM SUCCESS .If you read the book every body else read it is like you sharing secret with others and through that secret come familiarity . U meet some one in parr with you . You could talk what do thing Book Club is ?
I have a letter from Margaret Mitchell, she wrote it to my grandfather and it has some insightful personal information about her not in public knowledge.
Dracula should be on there. I never tire of reading this classic, which bears no resemblance to the many amateurish films made on the subject. Reading it will make you wonder if vampires do indeed exist. Well worth a read!
As much as I hated reading the Scarlet Letter last year for school, I have made choices in the past, and everything is reflected in the Scarlet Letter. Literally everything. It’s such a realistic fictional story, it’s crazy.
Alux i learn so much from you guys. Wednesday is my all time favorite to look forward to. The book club. I built the best library because of you guys. Thank you.
I think there should be some Latin American books here. So, I will just leave this: Pedro Páramo by Juán Rulfo The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges Hopscotch by Julio Córtazar One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Open veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Irwin Shaw....great mid century novelist...”Rich Man, Poor Man”...also a riveting early TV Miniseries..young, handsome Nick Nolte, Ed Asner., Peter Strauss.....also...”The Young Lions”....
The only reason I watched the second part was to find out if the great Marcel Proust has managed to find his way to your list.... But no. I guess this epic masterpiece, "In search of lost time", is not as "classic" as some of those (32!) books...Not to mention that almost the 3/4 are written by American and English authors.
I must be a reader ,the only one I did not read was ALCHEMIST the book you mentioned some off them read it twice or moor All this books were translated to my Language So My family had the book and kids must spend summer afternoon reading you forget one of my fAvert one BLUE BIRD by Morris Miterling .. Well after moving to NYC at age 23 I must learn English and Just because I was familiar with the subject matter of the book I started reading them I saved the books for my daughter one book was Good Solider Sowake every page I read I have to go to dictionaries over 20 times to know the meaning of the word and I use to write meaning right under the word by the time you get to the end of the book every page do not have moor than 1 or2 under writing I was so proud of my self I Kant book and show it to anybody’s is interested . I thought I learn English .after all this years 50 , my humble Opinion on English is: One Off the most difficult with the creative writing and Pronunciation. And the book writing withe original language is way better ,to bad Ido not speak RUSSAN.my next life .
Anne of Green Gables, where entire passages are lifted verbatim out of Little Women without giving credit to the original author. Unfortunately, that was a common and accepted practice back then.
As always, ANY book list is subjective, because somebody will always believe something else shoulda been added. Sure, it's good to read the classics so you'll know the references folk seem to be talking about all the time, but some of these classics are over-rated. If YOU like it, it's good, because only YOU know what YOU like.
6:00 instead of 8. Lord of the flies read Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman. The Bregmans book(introductory chapter) speaks of the truthfulness of the event described in the book Lord of the Flies...
Watched 2 parts Amazing how there is no Catcher and the Rye, Slaughterhouse-Five, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Lord of the Rings, Fahrenheit 451, Great Expectations, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Don Quixote, The Great Gatsby, Call of the Wild, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Heart of Darkness, Gulliver's Travels and so many more are missing. BTW I read the Giver and The Outsiders in 7th grade, they were crap back then and still are.
I've read about half of these books. The Alchemist in a list of the 15 best books of all time? No. Lord of the Flies? No. Gone with the Wind? No. 1984? No. The Kite Runner? No. Yes they are good reads but THE BEST 15 of all time? Yikes. You need to do a much deeper dive than this. Crime and Punishment? Yes definitely. Perhaps War and Peace. What about Macheavelli? What about St. Augustines Confessions? The City of God? Don Quixote? Pilgrims Progress? Dickens books? Hawthorne? Beckett? Mark Twain? Sun Tzu? Read more books and try again....
Plus its a fiction list. To the best of my knowledge Machiavelli and sun tzu didn't write fiction through the books they are famous for, the Prince and the art of war respectively good
Thank you for that thought. I totally agree. Most of these struck me as chick flick books. What's wrong with Homer, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Dante, the list goes on.
This list should be renamed with “western” in it :) it’s simply illogical there’s no best novels from eastern and Middle East worlds when China and Egypt were part of the 4 ancient civilizations in human history... *weak smile*
the giver is a story that is anchored in God's promises of a world of peace and prosperity. All in this paradise are healthy and industrious, enjoying eternal life 😊
So many books which should have been somewhere in your top 30 such as Madame Bovary by Flaubert, The Red and the Black by Stendahl, and Don Quixote by Cervantes. Oh, the reviewer prefers books by women authors!
Well i would recommend the not well knowed in the list but known where i am from. Would recomend "The Maias" book or "Crime of father Amaro" by Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa book of disquiet and The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas or " Dom Casmurro" by Machado de Assis.
I hadn't read many titles of part one, but for this part, including movies of the books, I know about 2/3rds and read almost half. Which I think is enough 😉.
i wouldn't like to waste my pocket money on books cuz i think there are other ways to get the same thing that too without any money, this what i am gonna do my friends have the alchemist and wuthering heights with them, sense and sensibility is in the library, other books for free in youtube yeah i know shame on me not using my on these but hey, i never hesitate to use my money for my health or wealth
I’d recommend The Chocolate War. It’s pretty good and was one of the few fiction books I read whose characters didn’t overlap with me (why I don’t read a lot of fiction)
Don't know if you guys have started The Outlander Series however if you want a perfect blend of Scottish History and drama try them QUITE GOOD MAYBE EVEN GREAT 🤗🤗😘🤗🤗🤗
It is amazing now that the extreme right is burning books, promoting fear and ignorance that books are becoming essential to the survival of the culture. We need to promote critical thinking and imagination, otherwise, civilization will be destroyed by fanatics. I love crime and punishment because allowed me to enter the field of clinical psychology and learn that everyone has a dark side and the potential to become a monster or a savior. Before Freud and Jung, this novel advanced the study of the mind.
I would like to recommend 1984, Kite Runner, Lord of the Flies cause they all are wonderful evergreen classic books to read AND LEARN about the different aspects of our society
Anything by Jane Austin. And Wuthering Heights is...well, how a shy rural girl could write one of the most shocking and rip-snorting novels ever is one of literature's great miracles.
Alex’s or what ever your name is ! You should get a job in PBS one off GETHO Show for Children . That CLICHÉ voice off you is too much for my old ears and all this books are CLASSIC and if you are forty and did not read any of them ,You never read one now .
Here is a great must read book from Project Gutenberg `files 50029` "Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven" (Psalm 85:11). It is a sacred text which contains actual visit of Jesus Christ among His other sheep (see John@) and writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent and bore witnesses of the Savior of the world from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.
Sorry, just one Language Arts teacher's opinion, but I found The Secret Garden truly insufferable. One of the strangest things about it is how unbelievably often the author uses the word "queer". You wouldn't believe me if I told you how many times. It got to be a running joke in the class I was teaching (I was required to use it as a text). Anyway, found the book the opposite of pleasurable.
1. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
2. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
3. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
4. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
5. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
6. The Giver - Lois Lowry
7. 1984 - George Orwell
8. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
9. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
10. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
11. Wuthering Heights- Emily Brontë
12. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
14. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
15. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
***BONUS 16. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
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Personally, I would add Frankenstein to the list. Dr Frankenstein demonstrates how we sometimes get caught up in the idea that we can do something but without looking at the bigger picture and asking the question 'should I do it?' It's not until shortly after that he realizes that he has created something that is destructive. In the end it had destroyed everything in his life. It reminds us to stop and think before we do.
Rhonda Ray, Frankenstein is a good concept, but it reads like it was written by a 19 year old girl.
I would recommend Anna Karenina. I. Believe this book shows the reality of life for many people in this world. It is truly a tragic story, where Anna is caught between a lifeless marriage and her passion for her young lover. Tolstoy had deep insight when he wrote this book.
1. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
2. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
3. The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
4. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
5. Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
6. The Giver - Lois Lowry
7. 1984 - George Orwell
8. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
9. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
10. The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
11. Wuthering Heights- Emily Brontë
12. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
13. Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
14. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
15. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Watch video till the end to find out the bonus
Thank you!
I watched the Martín Scorsese film the age of Innocence and loved it, I’m curious to read the book and see how they compare.
Stop helping the lazy Aluxers
Reading is increasing the power of thinking. Read to read the new face of words for future creation. Books are our real wealth to distribute the knowledgeable treasure.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Haruki Murakami
I AM SUCCESS .If you read the book every body else read it is like you sharing secret with others and through that secret come familiarity . U meet some one in parr with you . You could talk what do thing Book Club is ?
Well, I was gonna read Anna Karenina...then I saw this comment and found it on the list. Now I’m conflicted
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Dylan Church make your own decisions
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Wuthering Heights is one of the best books I've ever read
My favourite is "Wuthering Heights"... i think that "The Tenant of Wildfellhall" also has its place on the list
I have a letter from Margaret Mitchell, she wrote it to my grandfather and it has some insightful personal information about her not in public knowledge.
Dracula should be on there. I never tire of reading this classic, which bears no resemblance to the many amateurish films made on the subject. Reading it will make you wonder if vampires do indeed exist. Well worth a read!
GREAT Expectations and The Scarlett Letter should be on lists
Yes
As much as I hated reading the Scarlet Letter last year for school, I have made choices in the past, and everything is reflected in the Scarlet Letter. Literally everything. It’s such a realistic fictional story, it’s crazy.
Crime and Punishment is my favorite novel of all time.
Thanks for compliment
I've ordered it yesterday
Same!!!!
Alux i learn so much from you guys. Wednesday is my all time favorite to look forward to. The book club. I built the best library because of you guys. Thank you.
The kite runner was the first book that made me cry while reading a book . you need to read this book guys. it is such a touching story.
I think there should be some Latin American books here. So, I will just leave this:
Pedro Páramo by Juán Rulfo
The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges
Hopscotch by Julio Córtazar
One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Open veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Irwin Shaw....great mid century novelist...”Rich Man, Poor Man”...also a riveting early TV Miniseries..young, handsome Nick Nolte, Ed Asner., Peter Strauss.....also...”The Young Lions”....
The only reason I watched the second part was to find out if the great Marcel Proust has managed to find his way to your list.... But no. I guess this epic masterpiece, "In search of lost time", is not as "classic" as some of those (32!) books...Not to mention that almost the 3/4 are written by American and English authors.
Yes, and so much of Jane Austen...seriously why? Like Russian clssics are great, but we have no French authors here, like, almost none...
I think this channel is all about business.
I must be a reader ,the only one I did not read was ALCHEMIST the book you mentioned some off them read it twice or moor All this books were translated to my Language So My family had the book and kids must spend summer afternoon reading you forget one of my fAvert one BLUE BIRD by Morris Miterling .. Well after moving to NYC at age 23 I must learn English and Just because I was familiar with the subject matter of the book I started reading them I saved the books for my daughter one book was Good Solider Sowake every page I read I have to go to dictionaries over 20 times to know the meaning of the word and I use to write meaning right under the word by the time you get to the end of the book every page do not have moor than 1 or2 under writing I was so proud of my self I Kant book and show it to anybody’s is interested . I thought I learn English .after all this years 50 , my humble Opinion on English is: One Off the most difficult with the creative writing and Pronunciation. And the book writing withe original language is way better ,to bad Ido not speak RUSSAN.my next life .
100% agree with number 12, crime and punishment is an amazing book
Thanks for compliment
Ordered it yesterday
“Little Dorit”......by Charles Dickens also “The Old Curiosity Shop”..... “Nicholas “ Nickleby” et al.
Rebecca is missing from the list! I loved the book as well as the film.
Anne of Green Gables, where entire passages are lifted verbatim out of Little Women without giving credit to the original author. Unfortunately, that was a common and accepted practice back then.
All the Austins. Lewis Carrol. Edith Wharton.
Any book by Fyodor Dostoevsky is amazing!
As always, ANY book list is subjective, because somebody will always believe something else shoulda been added. Sure, it's good to read the classics so you'll know the references folk seem to be talking about all the time, but some of these classics are over-rated. If YOU like it, it's good, because only YOU know what YOU like.
6:00 instead of 8. Lord of the flies read Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman. The Bregmans book(introductory chapter) speaks of the truthfulness of the event described in the book Lord of the Flies...
Anne of Green Gables movie had made by Canadian cinema , a perfect series.
Can believe Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens didn’t make the cut 🤔
Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Applied knowledge is power but knowledge dispells fear.
I like to read classics as well as new books like sapiens- a brief history of humankind, Voyagers of hell, The 5 AM club etc.
After few years these books will be considered as classics.
Glad to have read 4 books that are on this list 😊😊
Watched 2 parts
Amazing how there is no Catcher and the Rye, Slaughterhouse-Five, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Lord of the Rings, Fahrenheit 451, Great Expectations, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Don Quixote, The Great Gatsby, Call of the Wild, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Heart of Darkness, Gulliver's Travels and so many more are missing.
BTW I read the Giver and The Outsiders in 7th grade, they were crap back then and still are.
The Giver and The Outsiders are both classics, and they're great. All the books that you said really should have been put in this list.
What about "Don Quixote" " The Lord of the Rings" and" Great Getsby"?
No Brave New World? Atlas Shrugged? The Fountainhead? Shogun? Noblehouse? Roots?
why not Shakespeare books!!!!
Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello etc.....
My only complaint about these two lists, is that there is no part 3 or part 4. 😂😂😂 Great choices! I am going to check out your other lists now.
I've read about half of these books. The Alchemist in a list of the 15 best books of all time? No. Lord of the Flies? No. Gone with the Wind? No. 1984? No. The Kite Runner? No. Yes they are good reads but THE BEST 15 of all time? Yikes. You need to do a much deeper dive than this. Crime and Punishment? Yes definitely. Perhaps War and Peace. What about Macheavelli? What about St. Augustines Confessions? The City of God? Don Quixote? Pilgrims Progress? Dickens books? Hawthorne? Beckett? Mark Twain? Sun Tzu? Read more books and try again....
Some that you mentioned are in pt.1 video, this is part 2
Plus its a fiction list. To the best of my knowledge Machiavelli and sun tzu didn't write fiction through the books they are famous for, the Prince and the art of war respectively good
Thank you for that thought. I totally agree. Most of these struck me as chick flick books. What's wrong with Homer, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Dante, the list goes on.
@@stevenwunder8187 What's wrong with H.G.Wells- everything. Dante?- nothing.
This list should be renamed with “western” in it :) it’s simply illogical there’s no best novels from eastern and Middle East worlds when China and Egypt were part of the 4 ancient civilizations in human history... *weak smile*
I have a very hard time getting interested in Reading fiction books, ☹
That's a tragedy. ☹
Maybe you just haven’t found the right ones
That's okay man. There's nothing wrong with that. Everyone have their own genre in musics, films, and books.
I have the same problem reading fiction especially if it is really long.
How come noone reads Don Quixote anymore, considered by readers and scholars to be the best novel ever written?
the giver is a story that is anchored in God's promises of a world of peace and prosperity.
All in this paradise are healthy and industrious,
enjoying eternal life 😊
So many books which should have been somewhere in your top 30 such as Madame Bovary by Flaubert, The Red and the Black by Stendahl, and Don Quixote by Cervantes. Oh, the reviewer prefers books by women authors!
Well i would recommend the not well knowed in the list but known where i am from. Would recomend "The Maias" book or "Crime of father Amaro" by Eça de Queiroz, Fernando Pessoa book of disquiet and The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas or " Dom Casmurro" by Machado de Assis.
The Kite Runner is an amazing book
maybe all the books l would recommend reading, But the best stands out for me is The Alchemist,
Shoe dog by Phil Knight is also a good book which Warren buffet and bill gate and more billionaire have praised tht book
Where the hell is "Don Quixote"
You missed the greatest one of them all, the lord of the rings.
Goat So true...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll!
The mispronunciation of so many of the titles or authors makes me think few on this crew read or even heard of these books/authors.
Agreed
"Karen-eena" "Withering" 🤔
Is this a difference between British and American pronunciation?
@@legalvampire8136 I couldn't say for Karenina, but wuthering is a distinct word from withering (I'm from the UK).
I think she just does the voice-over. Of course she probably should have looked up the pronounciations :)
Anybody remembers Don Quixote?
Hey Alux, please make 15 best business books part 3. I'm waiting so long...
I hadn't read many titles of part one, but for this part, including movies of the books, I know about 2/3rds and read almost half. Which I think is enough 😉.
Why not The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison or Beloved By Toni Morrison?
Wuthering Heights and my reasoning is because love is a very fickle and complicated thing
Anne of green gables 🍁🍁
i wouldn't like to waste my pocket money on books cuz i think there are other ways to get the same thing that too without any money, this what i am gonna do
my friends have the alchemist and wuthering heights with them,
sense and sensibility is in the library,
other books for free in youtube
yeah i know shame on me not using my on these but hey, i never hesitate to use my money for my health or wealth
I’d recommend The Chocolate War. It’s pretty good and was one of the few fiction books I read whose characters didn’t overlap with me (why I don’t read a lot of fiction)
Who's the author of this book?
@@quietstorm7684 that would be Robert Cormier
the alchemist is my all time favorite novel books
thanks Alux.om you are truely inspired
Can y’all do one over the books Keanu Reeves recommends?
I've read 10 on the list, not too bad!
Don't know if you guys have started The Outlander Series however if you want a perfect blend of Scottish History and drama try them QUITE GOOD MAYBE EVEN GREAT 🤗🤗😘🤗🤗🤗
Please make a video-"15 ways to avoid distractions."
captain obvious Heh?
It is amazing now that the extreme right is burning books, promoting fear and ignorance that books are becoming essential to the survival of the culture. We need to promote critical thinking and imagination, otherwise, civilization will be destroyed by fanatics. I love crime and punishment because allowed me to enter the field of clinical psychology and learn that everyone has a dark side and the potential to become a monster or a savior. Before Freud and Jung, this novel advanced the study of the mind.
I would like to recommend 1984, Kite Runner, Lord of the Flies cause they all are wonderful evergreen classic books to read AND LEARN about the different aspects of our society
I've read most of them.
I've read most of them. Anne of Green Gables read just a week ago
Anything by Jane Austin. And Wuthering Heights is...well, how a shy rural girl could write one of the most shocking and rip-snorting novels ever is one of literature's great miracles.
actually i've red all these books.., you are awesome
no, you are
First step tp whatch an alux video: speed up to at least 1.25x
I do that sometimes 😂😂😂
Literally just here for the sake of writing the first comment. And I'm out again. Enjoy the clip y'all
Anne of Green Gables vs. Tom Sawyer. Feminists have taken over.
Amazing Lists. Love it
The secret should be on this list.
Have read all of them except one .
WHERE IS MARK TWAIN, COME ON FOLKS!!
IN PART 1!
I have a book recommendation. Then again maybe I won't by Judy Blume
"The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins should have been included 🙂
I was about to say that Count of Montecristo should be on this list until I checked out the Part 1 video...
Alex’s or what ever your name is ! You should get a job in PBS one off GETHO Show for Children . That CLICHÉ voice off you is too much for my old ears and all this books are CLASSIC and if you are forty and did not read any of them ,You never read one now .
What about "the idiot" and "steppenwolf"
Right!! WHY aren't those included?
I just come to this channel to hear her voice 😂
The Alchemist is the only one I’ve read. It’s really good .
What about zola shteinbek Balzac george Sand simone de Beauvoir tcheikove Gabriel Garcia Sanchez gay de Maupassant
This is what I like, excellent #alux. 1984 is relevant today as it was then-1947-8.
No Don Quijote, Divine Comedy, Iliad, no Asimov???
I saw Johnny Depp in the thumbnail and clicked so fast
..only for it to be an honourable mention at the end🌚
ALUX please make a video about FOREX business i think its really making noise now and it will help many
It would have been a Crime if Crime and punishment wasn’t on this list
Make a video on 15 books recommended by Lary Page...
I wonder why u have not included Anne of green gables
0:23 lmao im not missing out
Goodmorning Alux Day 3 of 50! #FutureBillionaire
Do books on love
Hey Alux friend and have a happy Wednesday ❤️💙(okay alux friend and I'll see you tomorrow as useal)👍
Thank you!
Wuthering Heights, The Book Thief, and 1984 are my favorites so far.
Here is a great must read book from Project Gutenberg `files 50029` "Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven" (Psalm 85:11). It is a sacred text which contains actual visit of Jesus Christ among His other sheep (see John@) and writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent and bore witnesses of the Savior of the world from approximately 2200 BC to AD 421.
Not García Márquez, Murakami, Julio Cortázar....
Sorry, just one Language Arts teacher's opinion, but I found The Secret Garden truly insufferable. One of the strangest things about it is how unbelievably often the author uses the word "queer". You wouldn't believe me if I told you how many times. It got to be a running joke in the class I was teaching (I was required to use it as a text). Anyway, found the book the opposite of pleasurable.