NO FAIR!!!!!!!
You guys got to read the good books.I was stuck with The Scarlett letter and Great Expectations AKA Snorefest 3000
Of Mice and Men!!! Jane Eyre!!!!The Catcher in the Rye!!!!!
You guys suck.
NO FAIR!!!!!!!
You guys got to read the good books.I was stuck with The Scarlett letter and Great Expectations AKA Snorefest 3000
Of Mice and Men!!! Jane Eyre!!!!The Catcher in the Rye!!!!!
You guys suck.
hey i liked The Scarlett Letter, you have'nt read Hucklberry Finn?
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My hart, my trust were all yours, my love was all I could give but that didn't seem enough. I gave you all I had until I had a depth with myself. You took my love and treated it like trash the best I had wasn't enough, the best I could give never seemed enough, but those great moments I had with you were enough to move on without you.
I really dont get how people could dislike any Dickens novel - sure he has a tendency to use 25 words when 1 might do, but he is hilariously funny (or that could be just my wierd sense of humour).Originally Posted by Ryduce
On Topic.........At school I got to read:
Romeo & Juliet
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (which the teacher completely ruined)
Some poems by Blake (Little Lamb, Tyger, and Sick Rose)
The rest of the time in english class was spent doing pointless worksheets cos' the teacher couldnt be bothered teaching us.
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
Dickens was achingly sad and hilariously funny in my opinion. G.K.Chesterton once wrote of him something like this' Hans Christian Anderson came to stay with Charles Dickenson at a particularly hard time in his life. When he left Dickenson stuck a sign outside his house that said that Anderson had stayed there two weeks. It seemed like a month.
This year I've read:
Invisible Man (no not the "the invisible man"- I was disappointed)
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Lord of the Flies
1984
Heart of Darkness
and we plan to read:
Animal Farm and Hamlet
I wanted to read "Flowers for Algernon" (not sure if i've spelled that right) but my teacher wouldn't let us.
Wow, some of you guys are lucky to get to read so much good stuff in school. Here for required we have had,
Of Mice and Men
Several Edgar Allen Poe short stories
Midsummer Night's Dream
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
and I think thats it although they are trying to remove Hamlet.Also since I had a really cool English teacher we got to read 1984 this year. Next year she said we'll do Hamlet even though they're removing it and Watership down, and she said for me she might teach us one of Kafka's short stories
"Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls."
-Walt WhitmanThey have their worries, they’re counting the miles, they’re thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they’ll get there—and all the time they’ll get there anyway, you see.
-Jack Kerouac
Somehow all the lists contain not a lot of books. I graduated from a Russian high school- here is an approximate list of what we were reading during our next to last year:
Gogol "Dead souls"
Ostrovsky "Storm" and other plays
Turgenev "Fathers and sons"
Dostoevsky "Poor folk", "Crime and punishment"+ 1 out of "Idiot", "Brothers Karamazov" and "Devils"
Tolstoy "War and Peace" + either "Anna Karenina" or "Resurrection"
Chekhov short stories, "Cherry orchard"
Orwell 1984+ 1 out of Strugatskiy's "Doomed city", Zamyatin's "We" and Huxley "Brave new world"
Chernishevskiy "what to do" (one of the most horrible books I've ever read)
I'm probably forgetting something. The number of books is not a lot bigger, but the size of them is
"Flowers for Algernon" is one of my favorite short stories- I absolutely love it
The God of Small Things
Heart of Darkness---my eyes bled
Things Fall Apart
Much Ado About Nothing
Brave New World
Macbeth
The Awakening
The Great Gatsby
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
"Sometimes reality is an ugly thing. Oh yes this world is still a mess, but you still have one more complaint to add on to this list. Just one more dead weight to help pull down this sinking ship. Same old heartbreaking story."
against me!
""what school do you go to?" i told her pencey, and she'd heard of it. she said it was a very good school. i let it pass, though"
holden caulfield
a lot of shakespeare
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I had to read..
To kill a mocking bird
A merchant of venice
King Lear
Silas Marner (Jane eyre or pride and prejudice could also have been picked)
and poetry by TS Eliot, Sylvia Plath, WB Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elizabeth Bishop, Michael Longley.
weeell my GCSE course seemed to have some awful, some brillaint things to study
To Kill a Mockingbird (grrrrr)
Twelfth Night (actually didn't mind this)
Strange Meeting (tedious)
An Inspector Calls (loved it - lucky as i had to do a workshop, a portfolio and an essay on it)
Then i got to choose a pre 1900 novel to read, so i did tess of the D'urbervilles, but if i hadn't been taking literature as an extra i would have done 'A view from a bridge' *shudder* lucky escape
i think that's all the novels/plays certaintly not the best selection
'What you believe is wrong. My opinion is fact'
Ivan Foul
'I will die unavenged, but let me die' she said 'Thus, thus it pleases me to go beneath the shadows.'
]'Most of our imports come from overseas'
George Bush
Well most of this seems pretty familiar to what I read in high school when I was living in California....good to know...
when I moved to St. Thomas my mom sent us to a private school and my education went to hell, though I do remember reading "The Glass Menagerie" and "Death of a Salesman" my senior year...I think that's about it.
Perhaps he/she was busy on Lit Net.
Perhaps he/she was busy on Lit Net.
No, I have my doubts over her ability to even switch a computer on let alone use it.
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
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