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Post by ausaims on Mar 3, 2003 16:39:26 GMT -5
I was seventeen as it was my last year in high school, and I really liked it.  |
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Post by TeeMauree on Mar 3, 2003 19:57:28 GMT -5
I liked that book, too. I had to do a big literature project on it so that book and I became VERY aquainted with eachother!
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Post by ausaims on Mar 4, 2003 5:26:53 GMT -5
Same with me and the book |
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Post by Sampaguita on Mar 4, 2003 10:16:23 GMT -5
I really didn't like "Great Gatsby" all that much until I saw the movie with Paul Rudd (Nick) and Toby Stephens (Gatsby). I read it a little over 4 years ago, and have no desire to read it again. I think the only books that I liked that were assigned my junior year of high school were "The Scarlett Letter," "Macbeth," and "Inherit the Wind."
I keep seeing John Knowles' "Separate Peace" up on this board. I remember that I really liked it when I read it... but that was close to 6 years ago. I still can't believe that Phineas died when he did. I would try to read the book over again just to see if I still feel the same way about it, but my friend Sean stole it 4 years ago... and I don't want to buy it again.
Hey, are there any other English majors on this board?
If so, do you cheat on the reading sometimes? (I've read very little of all the books I've been assigned this quarter in an English class, and I think I'm going to get a B+ in the class.)
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Post by TeeMauree on Mar 4, 2003 12:00:16 GMT -5
Then the nest year I had to do projects with Pearl Buck, Emily D--enson, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
I edited Emily's name before the borad could.
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Post by Catriona on Mar 4, 2003 12:22:32 GMT -5
I remember being really lucky that I got to read The Great Gatsby in grade 12, because our schools generally try to push Canadian novels onto our curriculum. But I took an AP course that year, so I got to study it special. I like stuff having to do with the 20s.
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Post by TeeMauree on Mar 4, 2003 16:23:43 GMT -5
Really? Each year, our literature classes teach about books from specific countries. In 10th grade we do American lit, 11th we do British lit...and so on.
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Post by ausaims on Mar 4, 2003 23:46:18 GMT -5
I sometimes cheat- does it count if I am a law student though? LOL.....a cheating lawyer, who would ever have thought of it?!?!? Everyone knows lawyers are noble and upstanding people, and never, ever cheat anyone......don't they?!?!? |
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Post by ausaims on Mar 4, 2003 23:47:43 GMT -5
Also: with "The Great Gatsby" I never saw the movie because I didn't want to see it when I was doing the assignment in case I got confused. And afterwards I never got around to it. I also wrote two essays on the book: one for me, and one for one of my best friends Karina since she's not exactly a scholarly person to say the least- she hated school. |
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Post by MsPoet on Mar 5, 2003 0:10:11 GMT -5
Hey, are there any other English majors on this board? If so, do you cheat on the reading sometimes? (I've read very little of all the books I've been assigned this quarter in an English class, and I think I'm going to get a B+ in the class.) I was an English major for my first 2 yrs of college (university).....it was my best subject always.  In my soph yr of hs, our teacher was someone who basically didn't know how to teach well, or grade accurately; --- and hardly anyone did all the reading. In my jr yr, we had to read The Grapes of Wrath----(awful!) and I read the whole entire boring thing, but one of my best friends didn't. I'm bringing this up cuz she did better on the scan-tron multiple choice test than I did, and all she'd done was watch the movie!!!  lol....In my sr yr, I was in AP, which was fun because we read Hamlet and AMSND and TS Eliot whom I like, but only me and 1 other person did all the reading. lol Am I blabbering? I hope not. lol Donna |
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Post by Mandragora on Mar 5, 2003 1:37:51 GMT -5
Right now, I wish I were an English major (or maybe Comparative Lit, among other things I wish I were instead of my current major)... I remember reading Shakespeare stuff back in high school, but since I am not from an English-speaking country (though most of us here are quite good), we concentrated more on the local literature written by our national hero. I did Anne Frank for my book report in junior year, but in our senior year we did Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice)... we had to memorize that speech that starts with "A pound of flesh...", and then we kept making mistakes in the part , "if you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you prick us, do we not bleed?", and some of my classmates would say , "If you PRICKLE us..." ... AH, high school! Back in high school I didn't get to read the classics, I was into Christopher Pike, RL Stine.... okay, fine, so I had my share of Sweet Valley HIGH and TWINS (my sister collects them)... any Sweet Valley readers here? I hate Elizabeth, she's SO inhuman! I hate Jessica too, my favorite character is Lila Fowler (haha) and in TWINS, the whole Unicorn girls. They're so stuck-up, they're so hilarious! The most boring book I read, I am sorry to say, is Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". I don't know, but I just don't get it, the romance and all. There's this Sue Townsend book called the Adrian Mole diaries, and the guy, Adrian, works in the library, and then there's this part where the librarian fires him partly on the basis that he put Jane Austen in the Light Romance section and not in the Classics! ;D I ALWAYS laugh at that part. Oh well, Donna, now I'm blabbering! |
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Post by ackness on Mar 5, 2003 5:05:05 GMT -5
The most boring book I read, I am sorry to say, is Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". I don't know, but I just don't get it, the romance and all. Depending if you didn't like reading the book or didn't like the storyline, I really recommend watching the A&E miniseries made for it. Its really good and pretty much consistent to the book itself. Plus, Colin Firth...*sigh* I only read half of the book, then they just happened to show the miniseries the same time I read it, so I watched it instead. ^_^ |
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Post by ausaims on Mar 5, 2003 6:03:34 GMT -5
, I was into Christopher Pike, RL Stine.... okay, fine, so I had my share of Sweet Valley HIGH and TWINS (my sister collects them)... any Sweet Valley readers here? I hate Elizabeth, she's SO inhuman! I hate Jessica too, my favorite character is Lila Fowler (haha) and in TWINS, the whole Unicorn girls. They're so stuck-up, they're so hilarious! YES! ME TOO! I read all those sort of books, but I believe my SVH collection is still on a bookshelf somewhere in the house. Elizabeth annoyed me some times by being such a goody-goody, and Jessica annoyed me sometimes because of the way she treated people. I thought Winston was a crack up! |
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Post by TeeMauree on Mar 5, 2003 11:56:53 GMT -5
I used to read Christoper Pike and RL Stine. I never read those twins books you are talking about. I also read Allen Schwartz...I think that was his first name. It may have been Alvin...
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lol....In my sr yr, I was in AP, which was fun because we read Hamlet and AMSND and TS Eliot whom I like, but only me and 1 other person did all the reading. lol
