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Couchpotato20 Will kill you from Hell Since: Apr, 2011
Will kill you
#1: Apr 19th 2012 at 3:39:55 PM

The books read for my college english class are:

Tuesdays with Morrie Death Of a Salesman

(can't remember the rest)

"I don't give a rat's ass about going to hell. I guess it's because I feel like I'm already there." -Mugen
BreadGod Autistic Metalhead from Kansas Since: Nov, 2011
Autistic Metalhead
#2: Apr 19th 2012 at 3:41:08 PM

Is it possible to turn this into a general now reading thread?

Couchpotato20 Will kill you from Hell Since: Apr, 2011
Will kill you
#3: Apr 19th 2012 at 3:59:17 PM

General now reading seems a bit imprecise seeing as how things school books you have to while general you can choose not to.

"I don't give a rat's ass about going to hell. I guess it's because I feel like I'm already there." -Mugen
Yuanchosaan antic disposition from Australia Since: Jan, 2010
antic disposition
#4: Apr 19th 2012 at 5:19:25 PM

I don't have any required reading anymore, but these were my prescribed texts in high school (chronologically from year 7. Also, I skipped a year):

That's what I can remember. Even when the course was awful, the texts themselves were good to wonderful - with the exception of My Brilliant Career which was horrid. We also got to choose some texts ourselces to supplement the prescribed texts.

"Doctor Who means never having to say you're kidding." - Bocaj
Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#5: Apr 19th 2012 at 9:49:50 PM

I think the only things we read in 3 years of HS English were a few scattered things:

  • English 1 had The Iliad (or the Odyssey, I forget which), Romeo & Juliet and a few short stories from a book.
  • I tried to comp out of English 2 by taking a summer class where I had to read Gone with the Wind and Grapes of Wrath, both of which I OUTRIGHT HATED. Ended up half-assing the comp.
  • English 2 had some newspaper serial story about a Weimaraner called Field of the Dogs. Otherwise, I think we did a couple poems and that was it.
  • English 3 had Scarlet Letter and I don't remember anything else. By this point, I'd also started reading Harry Potter of my own volition.

I don't know why my 3 years of English were so devoid of reading.

edited 19th Apr '12 9:52:02 PM by Twentington

Mort08 Pirate AND writer! from Oklahoma Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
Pirate AND writer!
#6: Apr 21st 2012 at 10:55:06 PM

Currently reading Death Of A Salesman. During the past school year I've read Lost Horizon, Brave New World, Lord Of The Flies, Fahrenheit 451 and Oedipus The King.

edited 21st Apr '12 10:55:21 PM by Mort08

Looking for some stories?
RobbieRotten Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#7: Apr 24th 2012 at 10:02:17 AM

Currently reading Animal Farm. it's actually kinda cool

Fresison Since: Feb, 2012
#8: Apr 24th 2012 at 3:03:00 PM

Reading for college —

(17th century literature)

  • La Princesse de Clèves (Mme de Lafayette)
  • Phèdre (Racine)
  • Le Cid (Corneille)
  • Lettres portugaises (Guilleragues)
  • Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Molière)

(19th-20th century lit)

  • Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe (3 chapters, not the entire thing) (Chateaubriand)
  • Spirite (Th. Gautier)
  • Une Histoire sans nom (Barbey d'Aurevilly)
  • La reine morte (Montherlant)

You know what the strangest thing is? All those 17th century books are much less dated than the more recent ones (with the exception of Chateaubriand.) They seem much more contemporary, with less Values Dissonance. Then again, the 17th century was the Golden Age of French culture...

edited 24th Apr '12 3:55:23 PM by Fresison

ObbyDent Since: Mar, 2012
Nyarly Das kann doch nicht sein! from Saksa Since: Feb, 2012
Das kann doch nicht sein!
#10: Apr 25th 2012 at 6:31:37 AM

The most interesting book we read as a whole (and the only one I remember the title and author of) was Der Schimmelreiter by Theodor Storm. And even that one was boring as hell.

However, we also read Morton Rhue's The Wave, but I don't remember whether we finished it or not (we also saw a movie about it, not the German one, which didn't even existed back then, so we did finish the story itself, at least). If we, then that was the most (and the only actually) interesting one.

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Rhea from Syracuse, NY, USA Since: Aug, 2010
#11: Apr 25th 2012 at 7:19:36 AM

For Western Humanities II I was assigned these. Can't say I read them all.

  • Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes (Edith Grossman translation)
  • Second Treatise of Government- John Locke
  • Candide
  • American History Documents- Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Iroquois Constitution, Various speeches
  • Faust: A Tragedy- Goethe (both parts)
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
  • Marx Selections
  • Lest Innocent Blood Be Shed- Philip Hallie
  • In the Time of the Butterflies- Julia Alvarez

For Western Humanities I it was these-

  • The Holy Bible- Selections
  • The Epic of Gilgamesh
  • The Oresteia- Aeschylus
  • Five Dialogues- Plato
  • Poetics, The Nichomachean Ethics- Aristotle
  • On Justice Power and Human Nature: Selections from the History of the Peloponnesian War- Thucydides
  • The Satires of Juvenal
  • The Consolation of Philosophy- Boethius
  • Utopia- Thomas More
  • The Tempest- Shakespeare
  • A Tempest- Aime Cesaire

edited 25th Apr '12 7:23:31 AM by Rhea

AugustulusJulius August Personage from None of your business Since: Feb, 2012
August Personage
#12: Apr 25th 2012 at 9:57:16 PM

Alias Grace by Margeret Atwood Candide by Voltaire And many more that I can't remember sat the moment.

wuggles (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#13: Apr 28th 2012 at 1:49:03 PM

9th grade:

  • A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines
  • Romeo And Juliet
  • A bunch of short stories

10th grade:

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Lord of the Flies
  • Life of Pi
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • ''The Kite Runner

11th grade:

  • The Scarlet Letter
  • The Awakening
  • As I Lay Dying
  • Native Son
  • 1984

KnownUnknown Since: Jan, 2001
#14: Apr 28th 2012 at 3:09:39 PM

Last semester I read a bunch of African American Lit, in addition Hegel, Kant, Plato, etc, etc, etc...

I've got to say this, last semester made me really enjoy Zora Neale Hurston as a writer.

This semester I'm reading a bunch of essays on mental causation. I miss last semester.

JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
Apparition in the Woods
#15: Apr 28th 2012 at 4:17:43 PM

Fresison and Rhea both have amazing reading lists. Seriously.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.
Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#16: Apr 28th 2012 at 4:37:46 PM

Wow, my school must've sucked then.

UmLovely The Darkness Grows from 2814 Since: Apr, 2011 Relationship Status: You cannot grasp the true form
The Darkness Grows
#17: Apr 29th 2012 at 1:19:39 PM

Let's see:

9th:

10th:

edited 29th Apr '12 8:00:39 PM by UmLovely

RISE
czhang from Canada Since: Sep, 2011 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#18: Apr 29th 2012 at 1:53:45 PM

Grade 9:

  • Romeo And Juliet (William Shakespeare)
  • To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
  • Deadline (Chris Crutcher)
  • Nessy Names et la malédiction du temps (Michèle Gavazzi)
  • Zone (Marcel Dubé)
  • Short stories and poems; I don't remember all of them

Grade 10:

Grade 11:

  • Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
  • The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
  • Happiness (Will Ferguson)
  • Le voyageur sans bagage (Jean Anouilh)
  • Là où la mer commence (Dominique Demers)
  • A few other short stories and poems

edited 29th Apr '12 2:01:44 PM by czhang

skarl Since: Jun, 2011
#19: Jun 22nd 2012 at 1:34:11 PM

I have read, sorted by language, spread over two years,

for english class:

  • the secret agent (don't remember the writer) BORING!
  • a clockwork orange (anthony burgess) Kind of cool, but not an easy or pleasant read.)
  • the lord of the rings (Tolkien) awesome that that is even allowed.

for dutch class:

  • mariken van nieuwmeghen (medieval, unknown author)okay.
  • lucifer (rennaissance, Vondel)okay, better than expected)
  • de schaapherder (romantic period, Oltmans)nice story, but to much Purple Prose.
  • kobus en agnietje (enlightment, don't remember the writer) okay, but too simple.
  • de aanslag (Mulish) okay.
  • dingetje (Koch) funny!
  • het woeden der gehele wereld ('t Hart) nice, but very far-fetched.
  • karakter (Borderwijk) I liked it. everybody hates it, but I liked it.

for german class:

  • die dreigroschenoper (brecht)deus ex machina ruined the story.
  • meine freie deutsche jugend (Rush) funny!
  • der schimmelreiter (Storm)
  • and one book of wich I don't remember the title. that must have made a BIG impression.

overall, I liked most of the books that I had to read. what helps is that only the german 'Brecht' book was the only book I couldn't choose from a long list.

edited 22nd Jun '12 1:36:02 PM by skarl

Explosivo25 How fleeting... from Beach City Since: Mar, 2012 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
How fleeting...
#20: Jul 31st 2012 at 9:56:18 AM

I remember books all the way back from when I was in grade 4:

4th Grade:

  • How to Eat Fried Worms

5th Grade:

  • Hatchet

6th Grade:

  • Where the Red Fern Grows
  • Hatchet (Again!)

7th Grade:

  • Something For Joey
  • The Outsiders
  • Voyage of the Frog

8th Grade:

  • The Westing Game
  • The Pigman
  • Flowers for Algernon**
  • Invitation to the Game**

Freshman year:

  • Romeo and Juliet
  • The Odyssey (condensed version)
  • The Cask of Amontillado
  • Of Mice and Men
  • The Fall of the House of Usher**
  • Pit and the Pendulum
  • The Necklace (short story unit)
  • The Most Dangerous Game (short story unit)
  • To Build a Fire (short story unit)

The ** represents the fact there was more than one book to read. The 2 in 8th grade were options for a reading competition (the others being Summer of My German Soldier and Holes, which I had already read), and the two for freshman were for an Edgar Allan Poe unit (The Cask of Amontillado was required, and we had to choose one other. I'm a fast reader, so I was able to finish 2)

I believe this year we have to read The Mask of Red Death, Red Badge of Courage, the Crucible, and Huckleberry Finn, if not more.

I don’t even know anymore.
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