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Author:  Celebwen [ June 2nd, 2007, 5:01 am ]
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I thought it might be nice to be able to talk about the books/literature you have to study for school (or otherwise) in general...

I've just written my final essay on 'To Kill a Mockingbird', by Harper Lee, for school. Now we start Romeo and Juliet, by (you guessed it!) William Shakespeare.

Now I'm a huge fan of Shakespeare, but that doesn't mean it's going to be fun to have to delve deep into the hidden meanings of this tragedy, and unravel the essay-questions within.

I'm interested to know what books you guys are having to (or had to, or will have to) study?
Author:  Ánië Súrion [ June 2nd, 2007, 1:13 pm ]
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We're working on To Kill A Mockingbird now (I've already finished it :P) and before that we were reading Great Expectations by Dickens. I didn't like that one much. :yuck:
Author:  ethelfleda [ June 2nd, 2007, 2:11 pm ]
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i'm not studying anything right now as i'm on holiday, but...

last year is studied
- vathek by william beckford
- great expectations by charles dickens (i actually liked it, anie surion)
- the turn of the screw by henry james
- mrs dalloway by virginia woolf
- shooting an elephant and other essays by george orwell
- the woman warrior by maxine hong kingston
- well over 100 poems by various poets
- some old english literature (in translation) - the exeter book elegies, beowulf, judith, the battle of maldon
- a selection of icelandic family sagas
- a selection of the lais of marie de france
- the miller's tale and the franklin's tale from the canterbury tales by geoffrey chaucer
- three medieval mystery plays - noah's flood, the second shepherds' play, herod the great

you wouldn't believe i was doing an english degree, would you? ;)
Author:  Envied Alexander [ June 2nd, 2007, 2:19 pm ]
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This year we read so many books, it was insane. We had to read a non-fiction every week, a fiction of 100 pages or more every two months, and we read the following, easy books in class.

The Cay
Where The Red Fern Grows *
The Secret Garden
Holes
Tuck Everlasting

*I hated this book

And we read like, the entire literature book in my reading and English classes.
Author:  Elenya [ June 2nd, 2007, 8:08 pm ]
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I'm not studying any right now, but this past year I read:

Jane Eyre by one of the Bronte sisters (pretty good)
Farmer Giles of Ham by Tolkien (yay!)
A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens (yawn)

Erm, I think that was it, I can't remember for sure, though.
Author:  Starlight [ June 2nd, 2007, 8:10 pm ]
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Ánië Súrion wrote:
We're working on To Kill A Mockingbird now (I've already finished it :P) and before that we were reading Great Expectations by Dickens. I didn't like that one much. :yuck:


Those two books are brilliant. I love them both. Especially Great Expectations.

I'm takign AP World Lit next year, and over the summer we have to read:

The Illiad -Homer
The Odyssey -Homer
The Aeneid -Virgil
and some book of Greek Mythology by somone I can't remember.

I love Greek mythology so that will be fun, but I'm dreading the rest of them.

This past year at school we did:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -Mark Twain (EEEWWW.)
To Kill a Mockingbird -Harper Lee (Love.)
Death of a Salesman -Arthur Miller (Eh.)
The Scarlett Letter -Nathaniel Hawthorne (I've never read the word bosom so many times in my life. Did not like. :no:)
The Glass Menagerie -Tennesse Williams (Eh.)
and one other thing I can't remember, plus the text book stuff.

Oh. And I had to read Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis for history. Yuck.
Author:  Valenta [ June 3rd, 2007, 8:45 am ]
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Well, I've been doing an exchange year in Poland and they read about a new book every third week! And not just thin books...

I tried to get through various German classics, so I read: Faust, die Räuber, Maria Stuart, die Buddenbrooks and some otehrs.

For English I read: The Scarlet Letter, Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Huck Finn, Catch-22, The Mill on the Floss, Frankenstein and Rebecca.

Whew - didn't realise I'd read that much :P
Author:  Fíriel_18190 [ June 3rd, 2007, 9:12 am ]
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For German I've studied: Kabale und Liebe, Jakob der Lügner and der Tagträumer
For English I've read: Bend it like Beckham and Dead famous (by Ben Elton)
In Latin I've read de bello gallico by Caesar and epistulae by Pliny
Author:  Dark, Queen of Angmar [ June 3rd, 2007, 1:55 pm ]
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We did:

Animal Farm(boring)

Romeo and Juliet(even more boring)

and some short stories...

all very boring...
Author:  Estë Undómë [ June 4th, 2007, 6:50 am ]
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ethelfleda wrote:
- mrs dalloway by virginia woolf

Ooo, I want to read that, is it good? I've seen the film, The Hours, which is based on it I think and ever since I've wanted to read it.

Well for my English Lit. GCSE we've been studying Lord of the Flies, by William Golding which was really good. Not as fabulous after we'd pulled it apart, but then I never think they are afterwards. :lol: And I also studied Frankenstein by Mary Shelly (of course) and Romeo and Juliet by le one and only Shakespeare. :yes: Pretty good all in all. I don't think we've done any others. *Tries to think*
Author:  ethelfleda [ June 4th, 2007, 7:21 am ]
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Estë Undómë wrote:
ethelfleda wrote:
- mrs dalloway by virginia woolf

Ooo, I want to read that, is it good? I've seen the film, The Hours, which is based on it I think and ever since I've wanted to read it.

Well for my English Lit. GCSE we've been studying Lord of the Flies, by William Golding which was really good. Not as fabulous after we'd pulled it apart, but then I never think they are afterwards. :lol: And I also studied Frankenstein by Mary Shelly (of course) and Romeo and Juliet by le one and only Shakespeare. :yes: Pretty good all in all. I don't think we've done any others. *Tries to think*

mrs dalloway is alright. there are some great passages, and the stream of conciousness technique makes for intersting reading. i'll certainly read it again at some point.

the hours isn't exactly based on mrs dalloway, but i believe it's the book woolf is supposed to be writing in the film (the hours was the working title for mrs dalloway); and there are similarities between the book and the other two stories in the film, but you'll see that for yourself when you read it.

it sounds to me like you had a good year in english - lord of the flies and frankenstein are tow of my favourite books, and of course you can't beat the bard.
Author:  Estë Undómë [ June 4th, 2007, 11:27 am ]
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Coolio. :)

Ah right, I wasn't sure. I'll have to check the book out. :yes:

Yea, I guess it was a good year. Although technically I did Frankenstein last year, even though it was still for my GCSE.
Author:  tim4x [ June 5th, 2007, 12:09 am ]
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The Epic of Gilgamesh (Yuck)
Antigone (Yuck)
The Odyssey (Yawn)
A Separate Peace by John Knowles (YAY)
Romeo and Juliet (Yay!)
Jane Eyre (Yawn)

Last year was a far better year though as we read
Fahrenheit 451 (My favorite book ever)
1984 (I LOVE big Brother. :P)
Animal Farm (Creepy, but cool)
Lord of the Flies (w00t)
The Last Book in the Universe (Amazing)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Yawn)
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm (Woohoo!)

Last year was great, this year was pretty lame. :yes:
Author:  Lady Dark Moon [ June 5th, 2007, 9:00 pm ]
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The Illiad
The House on Mango Street
Animal Farm

I'm a hundred pages into The Iliad. A bit difficult to follow especially with the pronoun useage, but it's been all right so far. I've always liked Greek mythology.
Author:  Estë Undómë [ June 6th, 2007, 2:24 pm ]
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timtimtimtim wrote:
Jane Eyre (Yawn)


Lord of the Flies (w00t)

Mon dieu! Jane Eyre is fabulous. But then I guess it might appeal less to a male audience.


:yes: I agree, twas rather w00t. Lol.
Author:  TheThain [ June 10th, 2007, 4:04 pm ]
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Well, being homeschooled, my dad picked out the literature for the year. Which was good and bad.

I read a lot of different books this year (Animal Farm, Oliver Twist, etc.:yuck:), but the main book(s) I was studying was LOTR! :-D

That was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot more about the books and about Tolkien. (My dad now calls me a "Tolkien Snob" because I keep correcting him on how to pronounce names and so forth. "No, dad. His name is 'Aragorn' not 'Eragon'!" :P)
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