If you're still in school...................

[hpk37067]

What kinda books are you reading for school? I have to read THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH, TEMAEUS AND CRITIEAS, INFERNO, and THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS. How about you?

[Dogbert0228]

Over the summer for AP English, I've been reading Brave New World, Jane Eyre, and A Farewell to Arms.

[obsessedwithsnl]

watership down, night, roll of thunder hear my cry, ummm.forgot the rest

[hpk37067]

Oh, and say what grade you're in so that we can talk and stuff like that.

[freakyplatypus]

I'm a freshman - my English teacher is making us read poetry from some jewish lesbian (true)

[Alien]

Well I'm reading The Wing Singer by William Nicholson, one of the writers of the movie Gladiator. I'll have to do my talk on that or Harry Potter since they are the only books I've read recently.

[evilsquishy]

Whatever you're reading, it has to be better than "Red Badge Of Courage"!!!!:rolleyes:
I wish they'd make us read harder stuff, though.

[PsychoMike]

Has anyone had to read Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

If so I feel really sorry for you worst book I had to read in HS, very slow and dull.

[evilsquishy]

Read that on my own. So the whole story was relatively pointless and boring, and the end was completely ridiculous!
Oh, we love each other so let's figure out a way to die with each other that could paralyze us! :rolleyes:
Aghh, they could have at least explained it more or picked something more sensible!

[hpk37067]

I hate love stories. And yet, we must read a lot.

[Kitty]

Originally posted by PsychoMike
Has anyone had to read Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

If so I feel really sorry for you worst book I had to read in HS, very slow and dull.
i most certainly did last semester. i agree with squishy, that was a stupid ending. they deserve to stay locked up there in that town for the rest of their days with that gal paralyzed, heh

[Alien]

Originally posted by Alien
Well I'm reading The Wing Singer by William Nicholson, one of the writers of the movie Gladiator. I'll have to do my talk on that or Harry Potter since they are the only books I've read recently. I'm now reading the sequels of The Wing Singer, don't remember the name. But it's a good trilogy (so far).

[Cirith Ungol]

Originally posted by obsessedwithsnl
watership down, night, roll of thunder hear my cry, ummm.forgot the rest

Watership Down is awesome!






Well I think it is.

[Citizen Kane]

Of Mice and Men (10th Grade GATE English) right now, though I wish I could read something I haven't already read.

And though it's not required, I'll probably end up reading Bocaccio's The Decameron or More's Utopia to supplement my experience in European History AP.

[Mr.Matinee]

This year,my class is(probably,and if so only pationlally) reading:
The Oddessy-like Greek Mythology
Something by Tolkien-Score!
Of Mice and Men-heard it's funny...
Romeo and Juliet-boring,always found ending stupid.
Farhienhit(sp?)451-Sounds good.

and I'm reading the first Dune prequel for kicks.

[The Moose]

i read the catcher in the rye earlier this year, but i also get to choose 6 books, and read them and then write a report on them. i don't know what grade i am in, as i am in NZ, and we don't have grades

[Brock Landers]

Originally posted by The Moose
i read the catcher in the rye earlier this year, but i also get to choose 6 books, and read them and then write a report on them. i don't know what grade i am in, as i am in NZ, and we don't have grades

Nice choice with "Catcher in the Rye"(my personal favorite book)

[Citizen Kane]

I always wish I could pick books to do projects on. As much as I loved my English teacher last year (one of my favorite teachers ever) we never got to do book reports about what we were reading on our own (it was sort of close to that, though, when he reccommended to me A Confederacy of Dunces after I let him borrow The Corrections)

[Mat]

We just started Beowulf and then it's off to The Illiad and Paradise Lost. I've already read The Illiad and Paradise Lost, so that won't be too exciting, but Beowulf is pretty entertaining so far.

[Brock Landers]

Originally posted by Mat
We just started Beowulf and then it's off to The Illiad and Paradise Lost. I've already read The Illiad and Paradise Lost, so that won't be too exciting, but Beowulf is pretty entertaining so far.

Beowulf was great. Bloody medieval stuff, just the way I like it! Grendel would be an absolute fright! :D

[PsychoMike]

Beowulf was a great book. never read the other 2.

[sniktawt]

Things sure have changed since I was in school, We had to read "The Outsiders", "Lord Of The Flies", "That was then...This is now" and "Charly" Those are the only ones I remember.
What was cool was that they let us watch the movies in class after we read the books.The 80's were great!!!!

[Citizen Kane]

I've seen a few of the movies, they borrowed my copy of the live action Animal Farm last year to show our class. This year we get to watch Of Mice And Men, luckily it's the Gary Sinise-John Malkovich version that went to Cannes, not that old one with Lon Chaney.

[Mat]

I watched a crappy futuristic version of Beowulf with Christopher Lambert as Beowulf. Christopher Lambert as Beowulf? Eh... No.

[PsychoMike]

Originally posted by sniktawt
Things sure have changed since I was in school, We had to read "The Outsiders", "Lord Of The Flies", "That was then...This is now" and "Charly" Those are the only ones I remember.
What was cool was that they let us watch the movies in class after we read the books.The 80's were great!!!!


What was "Charly" about?

[Skinny]

I think Charly is based on the book "Flowers for Algernon"... Im not sure though

[Il Duce]

I had to read Heart of Darkness, Brave New World and Passage to India.

[Citizen Kane]

Originally posted by Skinny
I think Charly is based on the book "Flowers for Algernon"... Im not sure though

It is.

[Il Duce]

We hardly ever got to watch movies of books in my Ap English class.
Though our teacher did lets us watch scenes from three different versions of Hamlet, to show us how different people viewed the play.

[Citizen Kane]

Last year we watched Animal Farm, part of the Odyssey, and two versions of Romeo and Juliet, and this year we're watching Of Mice and Men. I suppose movies are just a way to occupy students, but still...it's movies in school!:D

[Skinny]

I liked reading "Of Mice and Men''... one of the few books I ever got into my whole life...