Monday, March 1, 2010

Three Books to Cover

I actually have a wide assortment of books that I might do covers for...I find myself not terribly interested in interpreting books that everyone has read or that are really mainstream. So I'll list some of the more "mainstream" books that I like, but also, some of the perhaps, lesser known.

(Children's Books)
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White (A pig befriends a spider who promises to save him from the fate of most pigs)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl (A poor boy wins a trip to a whimsical chocolate factory)
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (A young girl travels to an imaginary world, and tries to get home)

(Time Travel)
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (A man invents a time machine and travels to the distant future to discover that humanity has split into two very different species: the childlike Eloi and the carnivorous Morlocks)
Sky Coyote by Kage Baker (Operatives of a far-future company inhabit the past where they seek to preserve a tribe of Native Americans that will be destroyed. The operatives are cyborgs, created by augmenting children from various time-periods--they soon learn that their masters in the future aren't what they expected)
End Of Eternity by Isaac Asimov (Eternity is a organization/place that exists outside of time, and it is staffed by humans who carry out Reality Changes on earth in order to minimize human suffering throughout history. But who is really pulling the strings when the temporal world can be so manipulated? And is Eternity really beneficial for humanity?)

(Examining Good and Evil)
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (Two boys, Will Holloway and Jim Nightshade, encounter a mystical carnival. But Jim and Will discover that there are dark energies afoot in the carnival, as people in town begin to disappear. This story examines many profound themes, such as how our desires can come to command our lives, age and growth, belief and fear, and viewpoint on life.)
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (During the colonization of Africa, a man named Marlowe is sent into the African jungle to retrieve a esteemed officer who has gone rogue. On his journey, Marlowe comes face to face with the extreme duality of human nature and the depths of evil that man is capable of when social and moral accountability are removed from the picture.)
The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping by Nasdijj (A Navajo man adopts and cares for a young HIV-positive boy--somewhat interesting because this is a purported memoir that was later found to be entirely fictional and written by white American of European descent...)

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