Reccomend mee...

[Surtr]

A really good reading book that is also pretty much a giant similie for something else entirely.

I want something I can really read into.

[thedeadwalk!]

I'm a bit too inebriated to suggest things on a simile level, but I'm sure your high school teacher would love to recommend a few books that have subjects as such.

I guess simile can be equivocal to a metaphor (if getting into a general rather than micro level (again, I am drunk)), in which case, I'd recommend Lord of the Flies.

Also, I am assuming you're in high school.

[Der Übermensch]

Animal Farm

[Surtr]

I've read Animal Farm and started reading Lord of The Flies but couldn't get into it really.

[thedeadwalk!]

I've read Animal Farm and started reading Lord of The Flies but couldn't get into it really.
I didn't get into Lord of the Flies until my second reading (first, didn't get past the first few chapters), but it really picks up later on, and at the end, completely had me, and more frightened than any other book.

[Surtr]

By the way, I didn't just mean a Similie, it could be a metaphor too lol. Just something that means something else entirely compared to what its actually "about".

[Der Übermensch]

Allegories work?

[thedeadwalk!]

Isn't that what Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies would be?

[Against Miik!]

A simile? Ok, how about books are gay as aids.

But seriously, you mean allegory, and as said, Animal Farm is pretty much the best example of that.

[thedeadwalk!]

Aw, come on! Lord of the Flies!

[JumpTheF**kUp]

Yeah seriously, Lord of the Flies.

[Cybergasm]

Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man

[Smokey D]

I'm sure there are better allegories than Animal Farm. Animal Farm just happens to be one of the most accessible.

Does Heart of Darkness count? Not an easy read though.

[thedeadwalk!]

All I really know of Heart of Darkness is from the remake of King Kong where the one guy says, "it's not really an adventure novel, is it?" or something there of.

I do want to read that.

[Smokey D]

Have you seen Apocalypse Now? It's pretty much the same story.

[thedeadwalk!]

Saw it in my middle school years, but I wouldn't hold anything outside of school to have actually happened.

I should watch that again to better appreciate it, or some such.

[Meatplow]

René Daumal - Mount Analogue: A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing

[Violent_Bill]

Kurt Vonnegut - Mother Night. Although its not hidden or anything if you keep in mind the moral explicitly stated at the start of the book "we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be" it's fun to see how that relates to the events that follow. Plus it's one of my favourite books of all time and I would recommend it anyway.