想增大一下阅读量，看些什么书比较有趣。

火马

想增大一下阅读量，却不知道看些什么好，我的词汇量在5000左右，试着看原版《简爱》，在词典的帮助下，虽然能看懂，但真的很累。
看些什么书比较好，比较有趣，词汇量又不太大。请大家推荐几本好吗？谢谢。

雪绒花

可以看一下ALFRED HITCHCOCK的书或者剧本，还有Isaac Asimov的科幻小说。

雪绒花

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In late March, 2002, Prometheus Books published It's Been a Good Life, an autobiography edited by Janet Jeppson Asimov. The new book was compiled from selections made from the three previous autobiographical volumes In Memory Yet Green (1979), In Joy Still Felt (1980), and I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994). The book also features "A Way of Thinking", Asimov's 400th essay for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, which Janet put together from conversations they had and letters they had exchanged during many years of correspondence. In addition, there are excerpts from those letters sprinkled throughout the book. The result is a portrait of the life of Isaac Asimov, the writer, humanist, thinker, wit, and bon vivant, which lovingly illustrates why he was able to truthfully say "It's been a good life".
The book also includes an epilogue in which Janet Jeppson Asimov reveals for the first time that Isaac's 1992 death from heart and kidney failure was a consequence of AIDS contracted from a transfusion of tainted blood during his December 1983 triple-bypass operation. She explains how and when he learned he had the disease, and why his doctors convinced him to keep it a secret from the public. The epilogue includes a description of Asimov's final days, together with some poignant passages that describe his views of life and death.

[There have been some erroneous published reports stating that it was Janet Asimov who convinced her husband to keep the fact that he had contracted AIDS a secret. This is absolutely untrue. In fact it was Asimov's doctors who urged that the matter be kept a secret. See Janet's April 4, 2002 letter to Locus magazine.]

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Janet and Robyn Asimov, working with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, established the Isaac Asimov Fund to support the annual Isaac Asimov Memorial Panel Debate at the Museum's Hayden Planetarium. The first debate, on the "Theory of Everything", took place at the planetarium on February 13, 2001 and was a resounding success. The second debate occurred on the evening of June 10, 2002, and it too was presented to an enthusuastic audience that filled the auditorium of the museum's LeFrak Theater.
The topic of the second debate was "The Search For Life in the Universe", and featured a panel of five distinguished scientists with wide-ranging expertise and diverse viewpoints who discussed the outlook for the discovery of life elsewhere in the universe, in the context of the most recent scientific findings.

Topics in the debate included the hunt for sub-surface liquid water on Mars and Jupiter's moon Europa, the evidence for and against living organisms in the Martian meteorite ALH84001, the search for planets in other solar systems, the wide range of organisms found in the most extreme environments on Earth, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

The participants were astrophysicist Seth Shostak of the SETI Institute, geologist Peter Ward of the University of Washington, astrobiologist Chris McKay of the NASA Ames Research Center, microbiologist Penelope Boston of Complex Systems Research, Inc., and physicist Frank Tipler of the University of Tennessee.

Thanks to the many contributors, the Isaac Asimov Memorial Fund continues to grow. If you would like to participate in this extraordinary opportunity to perpetuate Isaac's memory and support the cause of science education, please read the details.

An article from Rotunda, the newsletter of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, profiles the career of Dr. Janet Jeppson Asimov, her involvement with the museum, and the establishment of the Isaac Asimov Memorial Fund.