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 Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 10:00 pm
I'm just curious, what books have you guys read for school?
About a year ago, I had to read the Merchant of Venice. It was still in script form and it was so confuzifying crying and in the end, I didn't read it. I just got some summaries from Cliffnotes and studied them whee
After that I transferred schools and had to read the abridged version of Oliver Twist. In a way, I sort of detest that book... it was rather predictable and the ending was oh-so-happy and uneralistic stare
So, what books have you guys read?
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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2008 10:31 am
The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings series (language arts)
The World According to Garp (writing class)
The Odyssey and the Illiad (lit and humanities)
I enjoyed them all so I guess I lucked out.
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Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 9:38 pm
How I Live Now
Into the Mist
Where the Red Ferns Grow
currently i'm reading the Uglies
good books
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:15 am
I'll be true, I'll be useful, I'll be cavalier,
I'll be yours my dear
And I'll belong to you
If you just let me through I've just finished reading 'Of Mice and Men'
Before that we read 'An Inspector Calls' , that's a play though.
I remember the only book which I've liked that I've read at school is 'My Name is David' and that was in my last year of Primary School x] This is easy as lovers go.
So don't complicate it by hesitating.
This is wonderful as loving goes.
This is tailor made,
What's the sense in waiting?
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:09 pm
Hooooo boy. This is a long list....lemme see if I remember all we read
Freshman year: Romeo and Juliet, The Odyssey, How to Kill a Mockingbird
Sophmore year: A Tale of Two Cities, Gilgamesh, Antigone
Junior year: Great Gatsby, Scarlett Letter, Of Mice and Men, Adventures of Huck Finn, The Crucible, Death of a Salesman
Senior year: Beowulf, Hamlet, Wuthering Heights, Taming of the Shrew, Canterbury Tales, Picture of Dorian Gray, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Importance of Being Earnest
I know we read more but that's all I remember.
For college I've had to read The Kite Runner, Pride and Prejudice, a lot of short stories, three versions of Phaedra, The Man Who Would Be King, The Awakening, The Memoirs of Pontius Pilate, The Sparrow in various courses.
I've liked most of the books that I did read. The ones I didn't were Pride and Prejudice, Adventures of Huck Finn, Scarlett Letter, Death of a Salesman, Great Gatsby. I used SparkNotes and THANK GOD FOR THEM.
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Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:37 am
We're reading 'The Cone Gatherers' -can't remember the authors name Dx- it seems quite good, not that I can tell 'cause I've only read the first chapter >.>
We're reading it for Higher Still Novel...Disection?
Yeah, something like that ^^;
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Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:06 pm
Well, let's just say a LOT of books, but I think the best one I've read is Ender's Game. If you haven't read it, you're missing out. It's a great book. 3nodding
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:45 am
Currently for school I'm reading Macbeth. And to be quite frank, I would not hesitate to agree with what good Charles Dickens said:
"I have recently attempted to read Shakespeare, and have found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
I hate almost everything Shakespeare wrote; with the exception of Twelfth Night. Also, we've been asked to read various short stories written in the 18th Century. But aside from school, I'm reading The Lord of the Flies and am soon to read 'The Jungle is Neutral' which is a factual book about Malaya in the Emergency. I'm really anticipating reading it, as my grandfather aided Malaya in the Emergency and I'd love to know more about what he did. (I can't exactly ask him about it himself - as he's been dead for about 8 years now)
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