Engerlish bookies

[I Took the Red Pill]

Reading 6 books of our choice, but they have to be approved by the teacher because they have to be usable on the AP Exam. I'm reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man now and plan to read Candide next. Not really sure what else yet though.

If I could get a practical, well-paying job in Literature, I probably would go for it because it's really my favorite subject, but that's not the case.

Yeah I'm looking forward to "The Great Gatsby", been meaning to read it for the longest time.

I looked forward to it too, but oh man, I could hardly get through it.

[Heath]

Yeah I'm looking forward to "The Great Gatsby", been meaning to read it for the longest time.

I looked forward to it too, but oh man, I could hardly get through it.

I'm not a big fan of the book, but I thought the fact that it was really quite dull and hollow at times it was an accurate reflection of the society that Fitzgerald describes in the book.

[Resha]

He was describing the glamorous '20s though The Jazz Age! Before the Depression! Man, I just loved it. I thought the way he wrote about sparkling society at the start and then about them at the end -- what turncoats. It was tragic. The funeral bit actually made me cry, it was just so lonesome, and you start hating them all so MUCH for being so shallow. grrrrr

And on "Waiting For Godot" -- !! We've never studied this, but I watched quite a brilliant performance of it by the A2 Drama class last year, and I've been immensely interested in Beckett ever since. Theatre of the Absurd is just so...wow. Because I just can't figure it out at ALL, and everything about Godot is just speculation, but I love that it makes me think so much -- like who is Godot, and why're they waiting, etc etc... Yeah

[Woodinator]

hmm these are books i had to read in highschool

Great Expectations
David Copperfield
There Eyes Were Watching God
As I Lay Dying
Cry the Beloved Country
Great Gatsby
The Things They Carried
Farenheit 451
Of Mice and Men
Pride and Prejudice
Importance of being Earnest
Frankenstein

These are only ones that are more well-known...there were other books and essays that we read too...but i can't remember them all...and the only ones i enjoyed were Great Gatsby, MIce and men, Frankenstein, and things they carried...oh and I read Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird in middleschool, which were both great

[Heath]

He was describing the glamorous '20s though :cry: The Jazz Age! Before the Depression! Man, I just loved it. I thought the way he wrote about sparkling society at the start and then about them at the end -- what turncoats. It was tragic. The funeral bit actually made me cry, it was just so lonesome, and you start hating them all so MUCH for being so shallow. :irked: grrrrr

And on "Waiting For Godot" -- :D!! We've never studied this, but I watched quite a brilliant performance of it by the A2 Drama class last year, and I've been immensely interested in Beckett ever since. Theatre of the Absurd is just so...wow. Because I just can't figure it out at ALL, and everything about Godot is just speculation, but I love that it makes me think so much -- like who is Godot, and why're they waiting, etc etc... Yeah

Oh yes, but Fitzgerald certainly didn't come across as a fan of the 1920s from the way he wrote the novel and certainly portrayed it as being a hollow and relatively superficial decade. It was a good book, but I'm just not a fan.

As for Godot, I think there's a fair bit you can read into it when you think about other absurdist literature such as things by Kafka and Camus (granted I had a little grounding in it). I don't think it's something that is supposed to make sense by convention. It's supposed to take people out of their comfort zone of understanding why and how things happen in order to really make them consider their lives and take a step back from reality in order to do so. A lot of people seem to think that 'Godot' is in fact God, but as Beckett said "if by Godot I had meant God I would have said God."

[Boney King]

Man, now my expectations have tempered.

Thanks boyos.

Ah well, there's still "The Wars" to look forward to. Unless anyone has any objections to that and would like to spoil my anticipation? Nay?

[rubah]

You should read As I Lay Dying then, resha.

[Resha]

Ohh, who's it by?

[rubah]

william faulkner. not exactly *english* lit, but pretty insane reading just the same.

[Jess]

Once upon a time I studied;
Of Mice and Men
Blood Brothers
Romeo and Juliet

[Polaris]

I'm going to study this semestre:

Othello
Henry V
Twelfth Night

and

Antony and Cleopatra

Of course I still have the german books ^^

[Resha]

S-shakespeare overload, much? I mean, I love the fellow and stuff -- but four -- Jesus.

[Polaris]

I have a subject in uni that is all about Shakespeare ^^ and the german one is all about Goethe! ^^ I don't mind at all ^^

[Shauna]

I no longer do any form of English studies, but last year I studied:

The Great Gatsby - oh man. I couldn't stand this novel. I mean, it may be greatly descriptive and all that, but... ugh, it was so... dry and boring. Although, we did watch the movie version. That's really the only reason I actually know anything about the story - I hardly read any of the novel. But, I did hate Tom and Daisy at the end of it (I actually read the end of it xD). But, at the same time, I was rejoicing. The book was over!

and... umm...

All My Sons, Arthur Miller. I can't even remember much about this play. We read through it, some of the lines in it were hilarious. I just remember laughing my way through the play. Although, I laughed everyday in English ANYWAY. xD

But yeah, they're the stuff I did. But, no more books and novels and plays for me!