Please recommend first book

Please recommend first book asked 775 days ago by Kirsty S. - 6 answers

Please recommend a book for amale adult around 25 left school at 11 never read a book. can read words ok, needs to become familiar with grammar, punctuation etc, but also needs to be somehow exciting to hold attention so we finish the book! should be relatively short. he has the ability to be wowed! eg he was amazed by the 9 times table. something where you get that magic feeling, where you are amazed, uplifted, open eyed. feel like the author is saying exactly what you think, this will enourage and add feeling of security i'm thinking. in fact, a few recs would be fine i could offer him a choice he could chose, this will add to self esteem.

Lee says:

I'd love to recommend a book - and you are correct as it will help with his self-esteem.

What are his interests? That will help tremendously in making recommendations.

Jeanette says:

The Lightning Thief was great and entertaining for adults and children. It also gives some good drop-off points if he is interested in mythology and studying further there and is in a series, so if he gets hooked he would have more practice. (Also has an interesing twist for those with learning disabilities that they are actually fluent in ancient Greek, but have issues with English)

Hillary says:

Some others to check out that might be interesting and fun for an adult, but are of varying levels of juvenile to young adult to adult-straightforwardly-structure difficulty. These are presented in no particular order:

-- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
-- The Hunger Games
-- Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go
-- Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card (might be read while simultaneously listening to the unabridged audio book)
-- The short stories of Isaac Asimov
-- Already Dead, by Charlie Huston
-- Mister Monday (the first in the Keys to the Kingdom series), by Garth Nix
-- Gone
-- The Name of this book is Secret
-- Pendragon
-- Artemis Fowl
-- The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman
-- A Wrinkle in Time
-- The Giver
-- Gifts, by Ursula K. Le Guin
-- Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
-- Gregor the Overlander (Book 1 of Underlander series), by Suzanne Collins
-- books by Gary Paulsen
-- The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke
-- Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke
-- The Invention of Hugo Cabret
-- I Am the Messenger, by Markus Zusak
-- The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
-- the Bunnicula mysteries

Many of these might be too difficult, but all are very good and might work at different stages of his reading development. I hope this helps.

Mick says:

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway

EK says:

A good thing to try might be "hi-low" books, which are high interest, low readability books aimed at just the kind of reader you're describing.

Your librarian (or even a google search of the term) should give you lots of choices of hi-low books, and you can then choose one that matches your friend's interests.

Good luck!

Kirsty S. (who asked the original question) says:

many thanks all. Lee he is into sport and carpentry.

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