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Fri Sep-19-03 11:55 PM
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What are the best books you read for college or high school classes? |
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My favorite books in high school: Darkness at Noon, Brave New World, Ethan Frome (for some reason, I was totally in love with that book--not when I reread it many years later), and The Worldly Philosophers.
In college: The Awakening (woke *me* up!), Middlemarch (one of the few books that actually made me weep in sorrow for the characters), Song of Solomon (holy cow! They're all by women so far!), Paradise Lost...I could go on and on and on, actually. I loved a LOT of what I read in college.
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Fri Sep-19-03 11:57 PM
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:01 AM
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My junior year of high school. I had this hippy teacher who even let us watch the movie. Do they still let people read this in high school or has the Department of Homeland Security cracked down on it yet?
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:16 AM
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8. I know I read that in high school |
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I can't remember if it was for a class. It was definitely one of my favorite books. It's time to reread it to see if it holds up.
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:03 AM
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:05 AM
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4. That was one of my favorites in college |
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I was living it, too. I mean I was starving, and all the scenes of food preparation had a special poignancy for me.
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:10 AM
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5. Way of the Peaceful Warrior. |
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:11 AM
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6. What class did you read that in? |
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:14 AM
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7. A Seperate Peace in HS... All Faulkner in College |
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And Deconstructing Huck Finn in College as well.
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:16 AM
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I also liked Le Germinal and Things Fall Apart, which I read in college. We didn't read books at my high school.
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:17 AM
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10. Was it a Steiner school? |
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:17 AM
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11. You didn't read books in HS????? |
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:33 AM
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18. We had assigned text book readings |
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We didn't read novels or anything. We saw a lot of videos, though. Teachers taught at us during most of the class. We didn't have much homework. It was a poor public high school.
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:55 AM
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20. Wow... I was afraid of that (the vids) |
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Now's the time to make up for it!
I want you to have read all of Twain's published work, As I Lay Dying & Of Mice and Men by Faulkner, The complete Emily Dickenson and Moby Dick by this time next week. There will be a test with 35 essay questions. :evilgrin:
That's the first week in American Literature. I'll let someone else assign the English lit.
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:38 PM
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39. Of Mice and Men by Faulkner?? |
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WOW! I could have sworn Stienbeck wrote that :)
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:22 AM
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12. Burt, we share so many of the same likes, but I have to disagree... |
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with you about "The Awakening" When I was in school, I used to resent how that trifle found its way onto so many syllabi. I had to cover it in five different classes. Grrr...
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:28 AM
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15. I read it in a state of altered consciousness--not artificially altered |
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though lack of sleep and food may have had something to do with it. In any case, I fell completely in love with Edna Pontellier. I thought her predicament was horrible. And real. And I think Chopin was brave to write about it at the time she did.
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:26 AM
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13. Silas Marner, 1984, Brave New World and Farenhiet 451 |
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:27 AM
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Edited on Sat Sep-20-03 12:34 AM by SOteric
Victor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning; Hannah Arendt, Anton Schultz, Franz Kafka, The Castle and Metamorphosis; Marcel Proust A Remembrance of Things Past; Louis Fernand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan (Best in the original French); Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being; Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One...and many, many more.
I never found a reading assignment to be a burden.
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:32 AM
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17. I felt the same way about reading assignments. |
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In college, anyway. In high school, I was not quite so enamored of them. Quite a few of the books I had an antipathy to in high school I fell in love with in college.
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:31 AM
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16. Fiction and Nonfiction |
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Fiction: Orwell duology. 1984 and Animal Farm.
History Book: "Coming Apart: An Informal History of the United States In The 1960's."
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:50 AM
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19. Mine were in college..... |
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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, and Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl (I was a Psych major). Both books were life-changing for me.
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Sat Sep-20-03 01:26 AM
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:55 AM
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21. Several and agree about Brave New World ( Who knew!) |
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Walden, and the essays Civil Disobedience and Life Without Principle..I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings..Johnny Got His Gun...MainStreet.....The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are...
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Sat Sep-20-03 12:57 AM
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22. I forgot about Main Street |
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Edited on Sat Sep-20-03 01:01 AM by BurtWorm
but that was also one of my favorite books in high school.
PS: I was supposed to read Walden in high school, but I didn't get around to actually reading it until many years later, on my own. I love that book.
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Sat Sep-20-03 01:00 AM
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23. Sister Carrie! The Magus! Doctor Faustus! |
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I'm gonna rummage through the book case! Gettin' "Good Book Hungry!"
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Sat Sep-20-03 01:10 AM
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24. HS: Old Man & The Sea; U: Island by Aldous Huxley (n/t) |
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Sat Sep-20-03 01:12 AM
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25. I read Island outside of school |
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and, though I barely remember it--did it have something to do with psychotropic drugs?--I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Sat Sep-20-03 01:25 AM
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26. My two absolute faves... |
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Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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Light in August by William Faulkner
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Sat Sep-20-03 02:07 AM
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Sat Sep-20-03 06:24 AM
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29. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck |
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Hard Times - Charles Dickens
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Sat Sep-20-03 06:40 AM
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For Freshman Sociology. Made a big impact on me, especially given the times - 1969-70.
"Mrs Mike" in HS. A not-well-known book about early Canada. I still remember it.
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Sat Sep-20-03 06:41 AM
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31. The Confessions of Nat Turner |
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Edited on Sat Sep-20-03 06:42 AM by jumptheshadow
Also, the Black Elk series. The professor, John Neihardt, had died but you attended taped lectures. The books were so moving that a couple of times I was moved to tears while watching the tapes.
Edit for punctuation.
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Sat Sep-20-03 09:12 AM
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by Chinua Achebe. I read it for a college world lit class.
I wish I could make everyone here read it.
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Sat Sep-20-03 10:32 AM
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34. I would help you make everyone here read "Things Fall Apart"... |
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it is a wonderful book (that I re-read every year)
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Sat Sep-20-03 11:06 AM
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Sat Sep-20-03 09:25 AM
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33. Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man |
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In high school. Everyone had trouble with that book. I started it about five times. And then it clicked and I devoured it. After all these years I've been tempted to read it again to compare its impact. But there are just so many books I haven't read that I'd like to delve into. It was probably one of the catalyts for a fierce lifetime reading habit.
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Sat Sep-20-03 10:37 AM
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I loved it and it turned me on to more of Bradbury's books.
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Sat Sep-20-03 11:04 AM
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36. 100 Years of Solitude- Marquez |
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Death In Venice. T Mann
My term paper for Frosh English was on Hemmingway's "the Sun also rises." I drew a comparison between the main characters and the players in the bull ring. A neutered bull is put with The Bull to keep him calm before the fight. Jake was neutered during the war. Don't remember the others.
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Sat Sep-20-03 11:08 AM
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38. Things fall apart and other books. Need help identifying one |
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Edited on Sat Sep-20-03 11:11 AM by Kamika
In high school
Things fall apart by chinua achebe
I know why the caged bird sings by maya angelou
a really funny book by some french guy in the 18th century about a guy that has tons of adventures he gets drafted into the army, he goes to south america etc etc etc it ends with him and his friend with the fake nose settling down in turkey i think growing stuff.
im very sad i cant remember the book but it was great fun and at the time very satirical of the ruling classes
I think the book starts with an "S" im not sure though
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Sat Sep-20-03 01:42 PM
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and don quijote de la mancha, pretty funny
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Sat Sep-20-03 01:47 PM
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41. In The Time of The Butterflies |
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by Julia Alvarez
Short, easy book, but good.
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Sat Sep-20-03 01:47 PM
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42. Non-fiction, Burke's Revolution in France |
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Sat Sep-20-03 01:59 PM
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43. The Good Earth~Pearl Buck..... |
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