Hey, I like/love every other bit of Hemingway I've read! And I absolutely loved the prose in the Sun Also Rises. But I was fed up with endless scenes of drinking while whining about values that I just didn't sympathize with.
I also hated how half the book was beating up on Cohn.
i liked all the books we read in highschool, even a separate peace was more "meh"'d at than outright hated
the only time i actually was unhappy in my english class was when they played an alfred hitchcock film and then disturbia, and tried to get us to compare the two
had to stop myself from diarrheaing all over my desk and scrawling 'FUCK TEEN FLICKS' into it
The Count of Monte Cristo was like three dozen kinds of badass. You know what else I read in high school that was badass? The Most Dangerous Game.
my proudest accomplishment was reading the entire unabridged count of monte cristo in 3 weeks so i could write my paper on it.
we got to choose from a list what book we read for that part of the class and i chose that and was like 'fuck this pussy abridged shit, i'm readin the 1500 page monster'
got an a on that paper what whaat
the only book that i'd rather read an abridged version of is les mis
jesus christ the full text can plod on
favorite thing I read for high school was the things they carried
I have also gotten to the point that I have trouble remembering things I had to read for classes, I know there were others that I liked but that is a stand out for me.
favorite thing I read for high school was the things they carried
I have also gotten to the point that I have trouble remembering things I had to read for classes, I know there were others that I liked but that is a stand out for me.
I'm having trouble remembering what I read last year
Catcher's not a bad book as long as you realize you're allowed to dislike Holden
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The worst book I read in high school was Kindred
God I hate that book
Also a runner-up is The Loon Feather, which was absolutely terrible but not required for me. My brother had it when he got to our high school and I read it because I didn't believe his complaints.
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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
Best thing I had to read in school was Hemingway short stories. I wouldn't have read them if they hadn't made me (my mother is staunchly anti-Hemingway and at the time I simply assumed she was right.)
Currently reading The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem. So good.
Roughly from Freshman to Senior year:
Romeo & Juliet
Catcher in the Rye
Cry, The Beloved Country
The Merchant of Venice
The Bridge over San Luis Rey
Our Town
A Doll's House
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ethan Frome
Macbeth
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
The Scarlet Letter
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Sound and the Fury
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
Brave New World
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Buncha Poems
My favorites were probably Macbeth, Ethan Frome, and Catch-22. We had to do a research paper on a poet one year, so I chose Edward Arlington Robinson, he had some good macabre stuff. I liked it.
Richard Cory
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich, richer than a king,
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
Catcher's not a bad book as long as you realize you're allowed to dislike Holden
I read it recently for the first time. I thought it was hilarious. I was laughing all the time. Holden is such an awful person and such an excellent character. He is completely full of crap and anything he says about anything is immediately suspect.
So anyway, I'm trying to read The Clockwork Orange for the first time. I am having a very hard time of it. The slang is extremely dense. Am I supposed to read this book while looking things up or just infer what these words mean by the context?
I'm trying to finish reading Fahrenheit 451, but I keep getting distracted by TV and my computer. The irony is not lost on me.
It is totally rad though, I cracked up at the part where (spoilering a book everyone has already read):
Montag starts ripping pages out of the bible, and the old guy is flipping out. Ok maybe it's not that funny, but the way it played out in my head was hysterical.
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My copy of the book doesn't even have a glossary.
Well I'd rather try figuring it out myself anyway.
i tried to read catcher in the rye really recently and i got past 3 chapters before i promptly returned it to the library and got kafka on the shore instead
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easily the best thing he wrote
I also hated how half the book was beating up on Cohn.
the only time i actually was unhappy in my english class was when they played an alfred hitchcock film and then disturbia, and tried to get us to compare the two
had to stop myself from diarrheaing all over my desk and scrawling 'FUCK TEEN FLICKS' into it
The Odyssey
Romeo and Juliet
Things Fall Apart
To Kill a Mockingbird
Julius Caesar
uh...I guess the House on Mango Street was okay?
oh my i love that book. it's brutal, but you only really realize how sad it all is at the very end
my proudest accomplishment was reading the entire unabridged count of monte cristo in 3 weeks so i could write my paper on it.
we got to choose from a list what book we read for that part of the class and i chose that and was like 'fuck this pussy abridged shit, i'm readin the 1500 page monster'
got an a on that paper what whaat
the only book that i'd rather read an abridged version of is les mis
jesus christ the full text can plod on
high school stuff that I remember liking:
Macbeth
TKAM
Antigone
Othello
Madame Bovary was okay
Streetcar
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A Doll's House
I have also gotten to the point that I have trouble remembering things I had to read for classes, I know there were others that I liked but that is a stand out for me.
I'm having trouble remembering what I read last year
so, it could be worse
I think I should give it another chance. Maybe I didn't give it the attention it needed.
Also: The Short Happy Life of Francis Maycomber is amazing.
THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME is fantastic
what a shitty book. the high point was the part where holden's roommate punches him in the face
God I hate that book
Also a runner-up is The Loon Feather, which was absolutely terrible but not required for me. My brother had it when he got to our high school and I read it because I didn't believe his complaints.
"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
if any of you haven't read The Martian Chronicles, you should keep an eye out for it. It's superb
Two terms on Australian war Poetry I swear to god.
Even though so much poetry is terrible, especially the war poetry
"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
Currently reading The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem. So good.
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Romeo & Juliet
Catcher in the Rye
Cry, The Beloved Country
The Merchant of Venice
The Bridge over San Luis Rey
Our Town
A Doll's House
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ethan Frome
Macbeth
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
The Grapes of Wrath
The Scarlet Letter
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Sound and the Fury
Wuthering Heights
Catch-22
Brave New World
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
Buncha Poems
My favorites were probably Macbeth, Ethan Frome, and Catch-22. We had to do a research paper on a poet one year, so I chose Edward Arlington Robinson, he had some good macabre stuff. I liked it.
I read it recently for the first time. I thought it was hilarious. I was laughing all the time. Holden is such an awful person and such an excellent character. He is completely full of crap and anything he says about anything is immediately suspect.
So anyway, I'm trying to read The Clockwork Orange for the first time. I am having a very hard time of it. The slang is extremely dense. Am I supposed to read this book while looking things up or just infer what these words mean by the context?
I couldn't get through the book
took me a while, but I loved the book
fuck you, Dickens is rad
It is totally rad though, I cracked up at the part where (spoilering a book everyone has already read):
Well I'd rather try figuring it out myself anyway.
that's my summer reading for right now.
I got about 20 pages in and decided to go for sparknotes instead. was it you who advised me to stay away from that shit?
because thank you