Top 10 Escape From Reality Books
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Books provide an escape from reality, something that every human needs once in a while.
Have you found literature to be an escape from reality in your everyday life?
Well here is your chance to choose from these top 10 escape from reality books and to spend some time in a different world than the one in which you currently live.
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#10 Escape From Reality Book
The Legend of Aranrhod
By Geoff Anderson
The Legend of Aranrhod
Amazon Price: $32.60 (as of 02/22/2012)
The Legend of Aranrhod is a roller-coaster journey of suspense, danger and deceit with an incredible climax that will leave you breathless. Plunging you straight into the middle of a nightmare from the first sentence, from the minute you open the cover and start reading, you are sucked into an amazing novel that keeps you on the edge of your seat right up to the last few pages. Welcome to the world of Carys Aranrhod Cadwaladr. This book is a successful cocktail of myth, legend, religion and magic that keeps you guessing. Throughout the book various endings are hinted at leading you to countless possibilities, but though looking back the solution is obvious, you'll never guess how it happens.
#9 Escape From Reality Book
Escaping Reality
By Geoff Nelder
Escaping Reality
Amazon Price: $4.70 (as of 02/22/2012)
So who was the actual killer, the killer who framed Gerry for the jewel theft and the dead jewellery store clerk? It makes this book a 12 on a scale of 1-10, because a mystery/thriller where you don't know who the killer is by the fourth chapter, at the latest, is a hell of a twister of a mystery. Escaping Reality is more complicated than it looks at first glance. It'll keep you guessing, sometimes cringing for poor Gerry and always laughing from start to finish.
#8 Escape From Reality Book
The Subtle Knife
By Philip Pullman
The Subtle Knife, Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition (His Dark Materials, Book 2)(Rough-cut)
Amazon Price: $9.99 (as of 02/22/2012)
More than fulfilling the promise of The Golden Compass, this second volume in His Dark Materials trilogy starts off at a heart-thumping pace and never slows down. Throughout, Pullman is in absolute control of his several worlds, his plot and pace equal to his inspiration. Any number of astonishing scenes--small- and large-scale--will have readers on the edge. Truly one of the great fantasy works ever written.
Why Are Escape From Reality Books So Popular?
One of the most innovative inventions is the book. Books have expanded the memory and experience of entire civilizations. In books all the records and events are found for everyone to read. People no longer have to learn everything for themselves through experiences and exploration.When somebody discovers something and records it, no longer does another person have to make this breakthrough by his or herself. This reduces the amount of travelling and personal attainment of knowledge. People can easily be influenced by anyone with a pen and some ideas.
One example of this is the creation of the "armchair" anthropologists of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The anthropologists would rarely venture out to understand new cultures, but would rather sit in their den and read books written by missionaries and explorers. In turn, they would write their ideas about these cultures. Some where real, but most were fiction.
Although reading a book, was once considered a highly unnatural activity, it has become a foundation for our modern society.
In respect of their entertainment value, books provide an escape from the monotonous events of everyday life. People get lost in other worlds and other people's lives, whether fictional or not. They can partake in a great noble quest without wielding a sword. These breaks in reality give people experiences that are not their own, but simply just the thoughts of a writer. All that people require to live these adventures is the ability to read and turn words into pictures and actions.
#7 Escape From Reality Book
Pride And Prejudice
By Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice
Amazon Price: $3.00 (as of 02/22/2012)
Pride and Prejudice is a powerful and romantic story about two people who grow and change because of love. An absolute must-read. Austen's brilliance as a writer is evident -- she slowly unfolds the plot one act at a time, with several intricate subplots that tie together and play off each other. She also wrote some unbelievably sharp-edged dialogue with plenty of witty banter between Lizzie and Darcy. But Austen also weaves in startlingly romantic moments between them.
#6 Escape From Reality Book
Brave New World
By Aldous Huxley
Brave New World (P.S.)
Amazon Price: $10.19 (as of 02/22/2012)
Huxley uses his erudite knowledge of human relations to compare our actual world with his prophetic fantasy.. It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time. This surely is an important book. The amazing thing is, though, that even as such, it is a thrill to read. The dialogue is snappy, the narration rich, and the scenarios hilarious and frightening -- often at the same time. This is SF at its best. This is SF as literature.
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#5 Escape From Reality Book
Cat's Cradle
By Kurt Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle: A Novel
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 02/22/2012)
The thing that delighted me most about this book was the way in which it was written. Kurt Vonnegut has managed to write a powerful and memorable novel in a short, snappy style: this book has everything that makes a compelling, challenging read. Vonnegut lets you get a feel for the characters without going into lengthy descriptions, he manages to make sharp, subtle criticisms of religion, human nature and society without rambling or whining, his plot is exciting yet not unrealistic, he creates a hellish world that plays on everyone's fear of obliteration. I found this impossible to put down, and highly recommend it to any fan of literature.
#4 Escape From Reality Book
The Eye of the World
By Robert Jordan
The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1)
Amazon Price: $3.25 (as of 02/22/2012)
Robert Jordan is able to take familiar elements and make them his own, in this powerful novel of wide and complex scope. Open religious and political conflicts add a gritty realism, while the cities and courts provide plenty of drama and splendor. Women have a stronger role in Jordan's worlds than in Tolkien's. Each character in this large cast remains distinct and their adventures are varied, and exciting. The Eye of the World stands alone as a fantasy epic.
#3 Escape From Reality Book
What If...?
By Steve N. Lee
What If...?
Amazon Price: $25.99 (as of 02/22/2012)
An amazing suspense thriller. What If...? presents the reader with a question. What would humanity do if presented with the opportunity to end suffering, poverty, disease, and all the other evils of the world? Seldom do you see a work of fiction that you not only can't put down, but one that makes you think. Keeping you on the edge of your seat, it also makes you take a world that we live in and analyse where we might be heading and the consequences of getting there.
What Makes Escape From Reality Books So Compelling?
Escape from reality books can cover a varied set of subject matter, but it is worthy of noting that this list of the top 10 escape from reality books contains novels that are historic, adventurous, mysterious, full of intrique and are capable of taking your mind to a different world.Maybe this is the formula for their success and why they became the top 10 escape from reality books.
Ok, so now we are down to the last two books in the top 10 escape from reality books list.
Any guesses as to which books they are?
Enjoy your reading.
#2 Escape From Reality Book
The Lord of the Rings
By J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
Amazon Price: $18.33 (as of 02/22/2012)
Not just revolutionary because it was groundbreaking, the Lord of the Rings is timeless because it's the product of a truly top-shelf mind. Tolkien was a distinguished linguist and Oxford scholar of dead languages, with strong ideas about the importance of myth and story and a deep appreciation of nature. His epic recounts the Great War of the Ring and the closing of Middle-Earth's Third Age, a time when magic begins to fade from the world and men rise to dominance. Tolkien carefully details this transition with tremendous skill and love, creating in the Lord of the Rings a universal and all-embracing tale, a justly celebrated classic.
#1 Escape From Reality Book
The White Hotel
By D M Thomas
The White Hotel
Amazon Price: $8.52 (as of 02/22/2012)
A dream of electrifying eroticism recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud, and a horrifying yet calmly unsensational narrative of the Holocaust, this novel is now recognized as a modern classic that reconciles the nightmarish with the transcendent. Thomas spends most of the book getting you intimately involved with the heroine's life and mind. So much so, that the final impact of the book comes as an horrific shock. Give yourself time to get into the book, it is well worth it. Highly recommended. One of the greatest novels in the last 20 years.
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Frozen Dreams
Frozen Dreams
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This is the compelling personal story of a young woman who is determined to finally make more of her life. Portland was where Celeste had made her home, but it was not the place that she had one day hoped to be. And now she was going to do something about it, no more hesitating and no more of her frozen dreams. Setting out to change her life she meets many along the way that try to confuse her, but she is not going to let anything stand in her way.
In Danger of Dying
In Danger of Dying
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The unexpected crash of a maximum security prison bus in front of Stamford Town bank allows the escape of three dangerous convicts who in desperation decide to take hostages and enter the bank where they set up an armed siege. Police Inspector Pat Abbott deploys a special team led by negotiator Scott Bradley to secure the hostage's safe release. But Scott has much more than just the convicts to watch out for in this action filled suspense thriller.
Living on the Lost Edge of Time
By James Chapman
Living on the Lost Edge of Time
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Jennifer is a romantic at heart and adores reading in the tranquil calm of the old house that is her home. But everything changes when her sleep is suddenly disturbed in the middle of the night. Rising to investigate Jennifer soon finds herself immersed in a dark and mysterious adventure. She has lived alone in the old house for the last three and a half years since her mother died and never before had felt there was any need to think she should be afraid. But Jennifer does experience real fear and in the depths of the darkness she discovers a love that is destined to change her life forever.
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- Only Six Hours Before The World Ends, What Would You Do?
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- You would be surprised if you knew what the secrets of the night were. Under the cover of darkness and while most of our world is asleep, there are secret things happening. Come with us and discover the secrets of the night now.
- The Mysterious Mists Around Mount Waialeale
- There have been many tales of unsuspecting people just disappearing when these mysterious mists drift over them. And the walkers on the mountain have talked of the fear that they feel when the path beneath them is shrouded by the mists and there is a chill in the air.
- Footsteps Into The Unknown
- The winter was the coldest in anyone's living memory and snow covered the whole area, even the rivers were frozen over and nobody wanted to venture out for many days, until the icy cold winds subsided and it was all beginning to thaw.
- Do Ants Dream?
- In the distance he could hear the chattering of the colony, as they were going about their work, occasionally he thought that he heard his name being called, but maybe it was the wind in the trees.
- The Coffins That Kept Moving
- The Waldicotts were a rich family of planters, who had lived for most of their lives in Jamaica. They had decided a long time ago that when they died, they would all stay together in the rock-hewn tomb that had been built specifically for that purpose.
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Ericastanciu
Dec 31, 2011 @ 2:48 am | delete
- I haven't even heard of half of these. Thank you so much! Great lens. I have to like this. If you get a chance could you please check out my fantasy lens. It has some pretty great reads on there. If not it's okay. Have a happy new year.
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vikksimmons
Nov 21, 2011 @ 2:14 am | delete
- I certainly escaped with the Lord of the Rings.
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technospunky
Nov 14, 2011 @ 11:31 am | delete
- Kurt Vonnegut is one of my favorites as well, In fact I will be adding him to my list.
Thanks again for the lens
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xaniver
Nov 3, 2011 @ 2:10 am | delete
- A Brave New World. Brilliant!
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Sep 14, 2011 @ 7:04 pm | delete
- Thank you, there was a lot of book that I find very interesting.
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BelindaKnows
Aug 8, 2011 @ 1:19 pm | delete
- I have read most of these and agree they are amazing. So am anxious to get the titles I haven't yet..
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catherinelovestv
Jun 10, 2011 @ 6:05 pm | delete
- I love Pride and Prejudice one of my favorite books, I like lord of the rings too but I find it tough to read, though my husband has read it several times and loves Tolkein!
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lizziebeth
Oct 3, 2010 @ 3:51 pm | delete
- There are some new books here I hope to check out some day. Thanks for the listing! I especially like the Lord of the Rings.
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emmalarkins
Sep 8, 2010 @ 1:56 pm | delete
- Great idea for a lens!
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