Freshly Squeezed by Ed Stein for August 04, 2012

Is he too young for Catch-22?

I’ll second the Pratchett recommendation – the Discworld novels are terrific. For fantasy I’d also throw in Terry Brooks Shannara novels and the late great David & Leigh Eddings Belgariad, Mallorean, Elenium & Tamuli series.

I will add:Christopher Paolini -Inheritance series -great dragon storyYann Martel -The Life of Pi -unusual book to read, they are filming it now.

He could do “Catch-22” and everything by Vonnegut.

Don’t forget Brian Jacques’ Redwall series. : ) Summertime = Reading Time

I read one book in 7th grade and used it to do book reports in the 8th, 9th, and 10th, picking up astute reflections from the teacher’s remarks to augment the report each year. By the time I was in the 11th grade, I was a genius and the teacher said it was the best report she ever read!

I third the Pratchett recommendation. Also – nobody’s mentioned “The Hobbit” and the Lord of the Rings trilogy???

Piers Anthony’s Xanth books. There are over 30 in that series now. That should take him a while.

Piers Anthony World of TiersFrank Herbert Dune Series

And I agree – every Heinlein & Asimov book