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**smartdude1212** · 10-31-2010, 07:54 PM

There are two books that I want to point out:

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult

And a tad bit about them:

I've had to study a fair few of Atwood's poems in high school/university, but The Handmaid's Tale was the first novel of hers that I read. It's centered in a sort of dystopia, and she excels at fleshing out a significantly different world while telling the story from a rather narrow point of view. I've been meaning to pick up some of her other works, but I rarely set aside time to do textbook readings let alone reading for leisure.

As for Nineteen Minutes, it's such a memorable novel to me because Jodi Picoult does a stellar job of getting inside the minds of her characters. The central event is a school shooting, but Picoult focuses on the before and after and eloquently raises moral questions while maintaining a superb flow of events. To me, the novel seemed longer, and I was somewhat disappointed when it came to an end because I had become so immersed in the characters' lives.

10-31-2010, 07:54 PM	#49
smartdude1212 2 is poo Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 32 Posts: 6,687	Re: Serious reading There are two books that I want to point out: The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult And a tad bit about them: I've had to study a fair few of Atwood's poems in high school/university, but The Handmaid's Tale was the first novel of hers that I read. It's centered in a sort of dystopia, and she excels at fleshing out a significantly different world while telling the story from a rather narrow point of view. I've been meaning to pick up some of her other works, but I rarely set aside time to do textbook readings let alone reading for leisure. As for Nineteen Minutes, it's such a memorable novel to me because Jodi Picoult does a stellar job of getting inside the minds of her characters. The central event is a school shooting, but Picoult focuses on the before and after and eloquently raises moral questions while maintaining a superb flow of events. To me, the novel seemed longer, and I was somewhat disappointed when it came to an end because I had become so immersed in the characters' lives.