一位剑桥的语言学家曾经告诉我，作为非母语使用者，我们在英语方面，唯一能超过母语使用者的领域，就是写作。
而写作的基础，就是广泛的阅读。
那么，从何读起呢？
其实，好的东西，并不是那么难，也不是那么遥远。
为此，汤婆婆为大家甄选5本超级牛的英文小说，希望大家快乐有效地学习英文，同时提升人文素养（sometimes we have to pretend to be better than ourselves）。
1，其中一本，3个小时就可以看完。是哪一本呢？试着找找看。
2，每本书封面后的必读理由为英文，如果读着辛苦，你可以把那些文字，统统理解为“这书巨好，巨牛逼”。恭喜你顺利实现了“快速且准确地”英文阅读
3，必读理由后，附有英文书pdf下载地址，推荐使用moon reader搭配（加载了两三本原版词典的）欧路词典 进行阅读。
4，当然，如果，你实在不想看书，至少看看这几本英文小说改编的电影（建议wifi下观看
Most of us struggle to find just a little reading time every day, so you might wind up reading War and Peace for half the year if you’re particularly busy. So maybe that list of 100 novels is a bit... ambitious. Instead, let’s get down to brass tacks: If you’re having an "Eat Your Vegetables" moment in regards to classic novels, what are the five novels you should read? These five classics are not only great books, but they also laid the groundwork for all the current bestsellers and remain some of the most evergreen works of literature ever produced.
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Why You Must Read It: Despite these surface difficulties, you should make Moby-Dick one of the classics you read for several reasons:
Pop Culture Status. There’s a reason the term “white whale” has become shorthand for a foolhardy and dangerous obsession, after all. The name Captain Ahab is also used as cultural shorthand for an obsession-crazed authority figure. In other words, much of our daily conversation references the novel whether we realize it or not, and that tells you something about just how powerful the book really is.
The Deep Themes. This isn’t a long book about a guy hunting a whale. It explores complex and elusive themes about existence, morality, and the nature of reality. From the famous opening line “Call me Ishmael” to the desolate ending, if you stick with this novel it will change the way you view the world.
Moby-Dick is dense, challenging, and absolutely awesome. Set aside 13-15 hours this month and read it, if only to scratch it off the bucket list and be able to tell people smugly that yeah, you read it, NBD.
小说下载地址：
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1c1ZEiVQ
电影在线观看：
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Why You Must Read It: If you’re still unconvinced, there are two other reasons you have to read Pride and Prejudice:
The Language. This is one of the most sharply written novels ever composed; you can enjoy the novel solely for its language and wit, beginning with its epic and perfect opening line: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
The Story. Put simply, you could tweak Pride and Prejudice for some anachronisms in language and technology and the story still plays 100% in the modern world. In other words, things haven’t changed much when it comes to marriage, relationships, or family since Austen’s day.
In other words, Pride and Prejudice is that rare classic novel that you can simply enjoy without thinking too hard. And at about 10 hours of reading time, you can squeeze it into a week or two (or one epic day spent in bed).
小说下载地址：
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1jHYLShw
电影在线观看：
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Why You Must Read It: Enjoy it for the smutty, hilarious, rambling epic it is. If that's not enough, here are two more reasons:
The Humor. Joyce had a wicked sense of humor and a big brain, and the ultimate joke of Ulysses is that he borrowed the structure of Homer’s epic poetry to tell a series of jokes about sex and bodily functions. Sure, the jokes are phrased in a riddling literary style and you will need the Internet to look up references, but the key is that this novel doesn’t take itself too seriously, and neither should you.
The Difficulty. Don’t worry if you read it and don’t understand a word of it the first time — if someone tells you they understand everything in this book they are lying to you. That means when you read Ulysses you're joining a worldwide club of people who have chosen to do something difficult—but ultimately rewarding.
Per-word, it should take about eight or nine hours to read — but add on another month for the thought and research.
小说下载地址：
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1pLE9gIB
电影在线观看：
这个不好找，如果有兴趣，大家可以把下面的链接复制到浏览器网址中，打开即可观看（画质有点考验人啊
http://my.tv.sohu.com/us/5886877/31420032.shtml
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Why You Must Read It: Sure, a book written in the 1950s and set in the 1930s might not sound so compelling — but here are two things to consider:
It Still Feels Modern. In some ways we’re all Scout Finch. In the novel, part of Scout’s growing-up is realizing that the people in her town, people she thought were good and righteous, are deeply and disappointingly flawed. For a lot of people in this country today that’s exactly how we feel every day when we turn on the news.
It's a Cultural Key. To Kill a Mockingbird is referenced (subtly and obviously) in so much of our culture you're literally missing out if you're not familiar with the book. Once you read it, you start seeing it everywhere.
It’s rare for a novel to remain as on-point as Mockingbird for more than five decades. If you want to know how Harper Lee managed the trick, you’re gonna have to read it. At about seven hours to read, you can totally squeeze it in.
小说下载地址：
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1bpddXqJ
电影在线观看：
这个不好找，如果有兴趣，大家可以把下面的链接复制到浏览器网址中，打开即可观看（1962年的电影，个人觉得画质还不错
http://www.fun.tv/vplay/g-51391.e-1/?alliance=155085&vfm=bdvtx&frp=v.baidu.com%2Fmovie_intro%2F
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Raymond Chandler’s classic 1939 novel isn’t often cited on lists like these; nearly a century after its publication it’s still regarded in some circles as “pulp,” trashy disposable escapism. It’s true that the book is written in what seems to modern audiences like a self-consciously tough style, peppered with old-fashioned slang, and the plot is famously complex, even for a mystery, and actually has several loose ends that never get resolved, but it doesn’t matter. You still have to read this book, for two reasons:
It’s the Template. Whenever you hear “hard boiled” or “noir” dialog or descriptions today, you’re hearing second- and third-hand imitations of The Big Sleep. Chandler (along with a few other contemporaries like Dashiell Hammett) more or less invented the hard-boiled detective story.
It’s Beautiful. Chandler has a style that is simultaneously violent, bleak, and gorgeous — the whole book reads like a tone poem with violence and greed as its subject. Coupled with its status as the original, it’s the one detective story everyone has to read no matter what they normally think about detective stories.
The Big Sleep shouldn’t take you more than a few hours to tear through. Just be prepared: Not every mystery is solved.
小说下载地址：
http://pan.baidu.com/s/1bp2MvqZ
电影在线观看：
把下面的链接复制到浏览器网址中，打开即可观看（1946年的电影，个人觉得画质还不错
http://www.le.com/ptv/vplay/1235480.html
最后，希望大家快乐学习英文，同时考试顺利，谢谢大家的持续关注，有好的英文学习材料和考试资讯，汤婆婆和钱婆婆会第一时间，分享给大家的。