book recomendations:
- anything by P.G. Wodehouse, master of the English language and the writer that other writers read for laughs. - anything by Douglas Adams. -anything by terry Pratchett. - The Poisonwood Bible and High Tide in Tucson by Barbara Kingsolver - anything by Dave Barry, especially The complete guide to Guys. - Bill Bryson's travel books - Three men in a boat, Jerome K. Jerome - The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov - Calcium Made Interesting, Graham Chapman (the dead one from Monty Python) - just about anything by P.J. O'Rourke (a good staring point is his "Holidays in Hell" and "give War a Chance") - James Clavell, especially "Shogun" (the later books I like less) - Tom Wolfe's novels (maybe except the last one) and his "Electric Kool-Aid acid test" and "The Right Stuff". - The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens. - The Ancestor's Tale, Richard Dawkins - Watership Down, Richard Adams - The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein - all the short stories of O'Henry - McCarthy's Bar, Pete McCarthy. - How to travel With a Salmon, essays by Umberto Eco. - Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, by Johnathan Lynn and Anthony Jay. - Animal Stories, Just So Stories, Soldiers Three, and basically anything about India written by Rudiard Kipling. - The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Stories, Mark Twain - The Complete Short Stories, Saki - the Doonesbury books - Calvin and Hobbes this is a little less than two hundered books. Let me know when you're done and I'll give you some more titles
So, English lovers Let's put your love to the test How often do you read English books/newspapers, and Hebrew books/newspapers? (suremising you do read....) In case you read, recommed one of the books/journals! This is for the guys here who would like to improve their English skills- the more you read, the better you phrase ?So... any volunteer
