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| Loyal Fan   Joined: Feb 2003
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| I'm reading English at university, but since I'm a linguist freak more than a literator the required reading for lit classes is hell to me. note that all classes are 13 week periods... 1st year 1st semester: theme: introduction -eureka street -assorted poetry -much ado about nothing (shakespeare) -the moonstone (wilkie collins) -dr jekyll and mr hyde -the ebb-tide -waiting for godot can't remember most of the titles anymore 1st year 2nd semester: theme: renaissance -lots of poetry, the faerie queene, sonnets etc, -hamlet -a midsummernights dream -volpone, the fox (ben jonson) also first year: lots of biblical texts and mythology for background knowledge 2nd year 1st semester: theme: augustans to romantics note...i didn't read a single book from this list....i had personal problems, but still passed the class due to basic insight and very good essays -again with the poetry -Clarissa -Don Juan -Tom Jones -the vicar of wakefield -gulliver's travels -tristram shandy -emma -defoe (now, that's quote a lot of reading for just 13 weeks of classes!) thrid& fourth year courses: victorian literature (somehow due to class restructuring i skipped romantics): -old curiosity shop -the mayor of casterbridge -wuthering heights -brownings dramatic monologues -other poetry -tennysson (in memoriam a.h.h. etc.) -the time machine & the secret agent -middlemarch (oh noooooooooo) -the importance of being earnest modernism (never completed the course, replaced it with victorian lit.): -parts of ulysses and finnegan's wake -to the lighthouse -interbellum poetry/war poetry -a passage to india -a portrait of the artist as a young man -heartbreak house -a handful of dust -sons and lovers and american literature of the twentieth century(again didn't finish: was really starting to understand that i am not a good pressure reader...switched it for middle englis literature (middle english texts are more fun for me): -o pioneers -black boy -the great gatsby -beloved -hemingway -lolita -the invisible man -beat poetry -vorticist and imagist poetry a course on fairytales: -our ancestors (italo calvino) -sayf ben dhi yazan (arab fairy tales) -perraults fairytales -rushdie's Haroun and the sea of stories Option course lit (on books set in another time or space and images in that sort of literature): -Ivanhoe -A connecticut yankee in king arthur's court -idylls of the king -the monk -blake -the wood beyond the world -the lord of the rings -saint joan (shaw) I swear! I love reading, but ten books in thirteen weeks for every course (sometimes coinciding with each other) is just insane! It's put me off reading almost... __________________ {Sophie }<3{Smitty #666 }<3{Java Junkie }<3{Cerulean #19} {ILY #17}{LL #12}{Keeper of Lorelai's arms during the ESK}  addict | |||
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| Loyal Fan Joined: Feb 2003
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| weirdest thing is, now that I'm almost done with the programme, I look at the lit courses I never took and see the required reading and have this pang of longing to have been in that class and read and understand all that.... I am so turning into a bookworm as soon as I graduate... __________________ {Sophie }<3{Smitty #666 }<3{Java Junkie }<3{Cerulean #19} {ILY #17}{LL #12}{Keeper of Lorelai's arms during the ESK} addict | |||
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| Extreme Fan  Joined: Sep 2004
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| I posted before, but now we're in the second half of my English class and in addition to what I put down for 11th grade already we've done The Crucible, Huck Finn, and some outside reading. We've stopped though because she wants us to start preparing for our AP exam. Froukje, there are some books on your list that I have read/want to read. I wish I had the time. __________________ This is our country's test. Germ - icon | |||
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| Ultimate Fan  Joined: Jan 2005
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| I have to read No Great Mischief, so far. University English requires alot of textbooks though, like Echos 12 The Act of Wrting Thinking through the Essay In grade 11 I had to read A Seperate Peace, I found it boring And in Grade 10, It was To Kill a Mockingbird Hey, has anyone noticed that most books you have to read for school are boring I've only enjoyed maybe 3 and they were all Shakespeare. | |||
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| Total Fan Joined: Mar 2005
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| I'm not in college and it has been a long time since I was actually in school. I remember having to read Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, A Tale of Two Cities and To Kill A Mockingbird. I know that there were many more than that but I can't remember them anymore. I think I read Romeo and Juliet, but I think that story was the only Shakespeare I had to read. | |||
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| Master Fan  Joined: Jan 2005
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| We just started Lord of the Flies to finish up the year  We've also read Macbeth this year. __________________ "There was nothing left in my life at this point that was more important than Jacob Black." Katie;icon Lucas/Peyton ♥ Jacob/Bella | |||
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| Total Fan Joined: Mar 2005
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| Lord of the Flies was my favorite book that I had to read in highschool. Somehow I managed to get two copies of it, so when we were done reading it, I only turned one in and took the other one home. There was another one I had to read, Flowers for Algernon, or maybe it was Letters for Algernon. I don't know if I am even spelling that right. It was a really good book though. | |||
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| Master Fan  Joined: May 2000
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I really loved Lord of the Flies. I think most people in my class did because we had some great discussions about the book. __________________ Procrastinate now don't put it off! | |||
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| Total Fan  Joined: Jan 2002
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| You know as much as I disliked reading for school I wished my teachers would have required more books for us to read. I haven't read half of the books people have listed so far. We read mostly short stories which I'm not a fan of. As for Shakespeare, during high school I read only two of his plays. Pretty sad really.  College hasn't been much different either, my school only requires three english courses for non-english majors. I only was required to read one novel for each course. We again spent a lot of time reading short stories and writing essays. This is why I feel the need to play catch up and read all the books that weren't assigned to me in the first place. __________________ "So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause." | |||
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| Master Fan Joined: Jan 2005
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My favorite required reading was To Kill A Mockingbird  Such a good book.__________________ "There was nothing left in my life at this point that was more important than Jacob Black." Katie;icon Lucas/Peyton ♥ Jacob/Bella | |||
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| Moderator Support Team   | I never had to read To Kill a Mockingbird even though I know a lot of people who did. Oh well.  Lord of the Flies was good. So was The Great Gatsby.  __________________ Help Threads! Homework  Love New! OT Board - Weekly Fun Questions  | |||
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| Master Fan Joined: May 2000
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| I love To Kill a Mocking Bird. I read it in 8th grade then moved to a new school district so I had to read it again in 9th  but a very good book.The Great Gatsby was also a good book. Shakespeare is great. But I think you start to understand and like him the more you read him. Although I hated Romeo and Juliet what a dumb story. I firmly believe they were just in "lust" not love..  Macbeth is my favorite play of Shakespeare. With Merchant of Venice being a close second. So hopefully the more you get to read them the better you like them. It also helps to see the plays. When I studied in England we went to see all of the plays we read. __________________ Procrastinate now don't put it off! | |||
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| Extreme Fan Joined: Oct 2001
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| I never had to read To Kill A Mockingbird either. I read it on my own. It was okay, but I didn't love it that much. My favorite required reading: Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, The Great Gatsby, and The Joy Luck Club. __________________ + Susan "Everything I've touched has been diminished." | |||
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| Extreme Fan  Joined: Jun 2003
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| I'll start from where I can remember... Year 8 - Macbeth - The Merchant of Venice - Jane Eyre Year 9: - The Importance of Being Earnest (I forgot which spelling was in the title )- Romeo and Juliet - The Catcher in the Rye - To Kill a Mockingbird Year 10 - Rebecca - A collection of Australian poetry - Much Ado About Nothing Year 11 - The Crucible - The Taming of the Shrew - Othello - The Life and Love of a She Devil - Jane Eyre - Vanity Fair Favourite out of the lot so far would be To Kill A Mockingbird and The Crucible (although Bridge to Terribithia in year 6 would beat the lot) and least favourite I would go with Jane Eyre and Vanity Fair. I'm definately not a fan of Victorian Literature | |||
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