A Clockwork Orange is really neat with its slang in that the end of the book is completely incomprehensible if you haven't gotten used to the slang by reading it from the beginning.
Oh, yeah, Shakespeare. I didn't read Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, or Hamlet all the way through. I liked being told about what the passages mean and the importance of the works and all this stuff, but I was no equipped to be reading Elizabethan English. Hell, I still aren't.
they were all good to read. if i read along the same pace as the class i'm sure i would've hated it, like any time i have to read at other people's pace.
would've rather read something other than the tragedies
edit: and i kept my brit lit books from my lit class last fall semester because like PI said, reading some of that old language stuff is fucking hard and having something to read along with that points out what's important and definitions and meanings and stuff is very useful
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What, no love for Coriolanus?
Twelfth Night is my favourite comedy, but I think if you ever really want to appreciate Shakespeare you have to see it as well as read it.
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"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
In High School we read R&J, Hamlet, and Othello. I was also in the drama club's productions of Midsummer Night's Dream and Taming of the Shrew. I love Shakespeare.
From what I remember we had to read Catcher in the Rye, 1984, The Old Man and the Sea, Les Miserables, Animal Farm, Farenheit 451, The Great Gatsby, A Separate Peace, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Fin, The Call of the Wild, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Bridge Over Toko-Ri, To Kill a Mockingbird, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Catch 22, and a bunch of plays.
I have to say I liked most of them withe the exception of the ones I already read and The Grapes of Wrath.
I'd have to single out The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird as my favorite of the bunch (at least as far as stuff I had read for the first time).
My high school was pretty good about giving us decent books to read.
I've only read a handful of Shakespeare's plays but Macbeth and Othello are probably my favorites. And I had some good times acting in my high school production of Romeo and Juliet, but reading it was not that great.
I took an AP English course where we read White Noise, Cold Mountain, and Cry The Beloved Country. Never came within two feet of Catcher in the Rye. I loved that class.
I'm re-reading The Eaters of the Dead along with a non-fiction book Vikings! by Magnus Magnusson, which is the most perfectly titled Viking book by the most perfectly named author.
So I grabbed the first Temeraire book on the thread's recommendation and I don't care how silly it might be, it is really fun and light reading.
They get better and better. I'm on the last chapter of the fifth one and have been really impressed with how they've stayed consistently fun and interesting. So many characters get introduced over the series and they are all great. I love seeing how Temeraire develops as well, he has become such a dude.
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So I grabbed the first Temeraire book on the thread's recommendation and I don't care how silly it might be, it is really fun and light reading.
They get better and better. I'm on the last chapter of the fifth one and have been really impressed with how they've stayed consistently fun and interesting. So many characters get introduced over the series and they are all great. I love seeing how Temeraire develops as well, he has become such a dude.
I'm basically almost done with the first one already after starting it yesterday because I stayed up all night reading it. I had to stop during what I am assuming is the climax of the book because I had to go to work
I'm re-reading The Eaters of the Dead along with a non-fiction book Vikings! by Magnus Magnusson, which is the most perfectly titled Viking book by the most perfectly named author.
I'm reading Warriors of the Way.
Been sitting on my closet floor for like 4 years and I decided Friday I'd read it. Viking books should never go unread.
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They're gay for each other, I get it. Let's move on with our lives.
I forgot about A Separate Peace. We read that in 8th grade along with Stotan, which was also tremendously bad.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
and
Of Human Bondage.
Those were the other two I found the most torturous .
I think we had to read some Dickens, as well, and I can't say that I'm a fan of people who get paid by the word.
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Merchant of Venice was rad, Romeo and Juliet was not
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they were all good to read. if i read along the same pace as the class i'm sure i would've hated it, like any time i have to read at other people's pace.
would've rather read something other than the tragedies
edit: and i kept my brit lit books from my lit class last fall semester because like PI said, reading some of that old language stuff is fucking hard and having something to read along with that points out what's important and definitions and meanings and stuff is very useful
Twelfth Night is my favourite comedy, but I think if you ever really want to appreciate Shakespeare you have to see it as well as read it.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I have to say I liked most of them withe the exception of the ones I already read and The Grapes of Wrath.
I'd have to single out The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird as my favorite of the bunch (at least as far as stuff I had read for the first time).
My high school was pretty good about giving us decent books to read.
my shakespeare resume isn't as complete as i'd like it to be
meanwhile
hurry up and go read flashman, LS.
severely disappointed in you, missy.
love love love animal farm
Okay! I'll read it next, you guys, I promise! I just have to finish at least one of the three books I'm already reading before I start something else.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
AAAAAH-AAAAAAAAAAAH
that won't stand
I have read all of the books
All of the books there are ever
Except those ones.
(Flash! Ah-aaaaaah! He'll save every one of us!)
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
but i think that calls for it, don't you?
this is excellent
I am waiting for Laurence to get his fucking ass kicked by the rest of the aviators
They get better and better. I'm on the last chapter of the fifth one and have been really impressed with how they've stayed consistently fun and interesting. So many characters get introduced over the series and they are all great. I love seeing how Temeraire develops as well, he has become such a dude.
I'm basically almost done with the first one already after starting it yesterday because I stayed up all night reading it. I had to stop during what I am assuming is the climax of the book because I had to go to work
I'm reading Warriors of the Way.
Been sitting on my closet floor for like 4 years and I decided Friday I'd read it. Viking books should never go unread.