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This is the kind of crap i had to write papers on.
http://www.shmoop.com/lord-of-the-fl...m-imagery.html
Felt the same way in college about As I Lay Dying, except the professor was kind enough to include his own published book on the book in the reading list. I hated that guy.
This is the kind of crap i had to write papers on.
http://www.shmoop.com/lord-of-the-fl...m-imagery.html
books being "taught" like that instead of stressing personal connections to themes and stories to promote understanding is just puzzling. it sure made a lot of my friends less willing to read books outside of them being assigned.
I liked almost everything listed here. I reread Tale of Two Cities just a couple of months ago; loved Jane Eyre and Ethan Frome. Great Gatsby is an easy read.
For me:
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man -- Great book but hard to read.
Oh, I was a voracious reader as a kid. All across the spectrum. I had read virtually every book in my elementary school library by the 6th grade. Do elementary schools still have hard cover libraries? By high school I had already read most of the required reading material (I had older sisters and would read the books they were assigned when they were done with them) but maybe that is why I resented the analysis so much. It's like these PHD English geeks had to justify their existence by trying to read second and third levels of meaning into some of these books instead of just taking them at face value and just wallowing in and enjoying gloriously phrased sentences and mental pictures painted.
My daughter's school has one, they rely heavily on donated books though and can only check out one at a time (i think). I take her to the public library every few days too.
The Scarlet Letter
I liked that one a lot, and loved his other stuff too - esp Young Goodman Brown.
I think I popped my first wood trying to imagine knocking up Hester.
The only novels I could ever read are the Classics. Jane Eyre, Little Women, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Vanity Fair, Wuthering Heights; much more partial to the "girly" stuff, than HG Wells, Jack London, or James Fennimore Cooper.
The brevity of Steinbeck was attractive, but they were always the most difficult for me because the stories are sooo depressing
Portrait is one of my all-time faves...Ulysses as well.
The only novels I could ever read are the Classics. Jane Eyre, Little Women, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Vanity Fair, Wuthering Heights; much more partial to the "girly" stuff, than HG Wells, Jack London, or James Fennimore Cooper.
The brevity of Steinbeck was attractive, but they were always the most difficult for me because the stories are sooo depressingI hated almost all of those, but for some reason always liked Wuthering Heights
Liked:
Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
Scarlet Letter
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
Fahrenheit 451
Anthem
Macbeth
Wuthering Heights
Catcher in the Rye (not school assigned, but have read it several times)
Hated:
Old Man and the Sea
Tale of two Cities
Canterbury Tales
Grapes of Wrath
King Lear
Importance of Being Earnest
Cyrano de Bergerac
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Wuthering Heights is pretty badass, I read it in college and did not think I would like it going in. I also like Austen though.
Good call on MacBeth...fav Shakespeare work,
Cup of Gold isn't terribly depressing, but it was his first.The only novels I could ever read are the Classics. Jane Eyre, Little Women, The Importance of Being Earnest, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Vanity Fair, Wuthering Heights; much more partial to the "girly" stuff, than HG Wells, Jack London, or James Fennimore Cooper.
The brevity of Steinbeck was attractive, but they were always the most difficult for me because the stories are sooo depressing
War and Peace
Don't know if it's a classic but One Hundred Years of Solitude pisses me off.
Red Bag of Courage
Scarlet Letter
Iliad and the Odyssey
As You Like It
Tale of Two Cities
Most of Shakespeare
Tale of Two Cities
You certainly didn't like Tale of Two Cities.
Hated it!
Crime and Punishment
Grapes of Wrath
I don't need a book to tell me life sucks. That being said, Thomas Hardy is one of my favorites. Maybe it has to do with artistry.
i ing hated the scarlet letter.
also didnt understand why the house on mango street was required reading, other than the author was hispanic and i was going to school in san antonio.
one book i truly enjoyed that i had to read during summer in high school was a bell for adano and the chosen.
also loved gone with the wind for some odd reason.
also didnt really get a farewell to arms, but that was also probably cause i was a dumb high school kid who didnt want to read and only wanted to spend time trying to chase women at the time....
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