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I just was looking at something else at the moment. But a good books thread would be good.
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Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Marlowe isn't all that great, he had potential, but most of the works he turned out during his lifetime come acorss as pompous and tend to pontificate a bit. I'm not crazy about him, but he's okay. I'd recommend Goethe's Faust instead if you want to read a play on the Faust legend.
You didn't like Marlowe's Faustus?
Wow. Personally, I loved it.
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I had to read it twice D:
Once in 8th grade and again when I was a Sophmore.
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AH! You've just reminded me of a shitty book I read in the 10th grade. It was called A Separate Peace. It was awful. The story was very weak, stupid things happened, and one of the main characters dies in the most anti-climactic way. Some guy is jealous of his friend and decides to push him - or bump, rather - off a tree. Instead, the guy ends up breaking his leg (or some body part. I forget which) and the whole story revolves around these two college students trying to get along even though one is jealous of the other. Overall, it was a waste of time.
Also, this spoiler is so bad I won't even tag it. The guy who fell off a tree and broke his leg was having someone try to fix it back into his socket. The doctor fails and ends up killing him because bone marrow seeped into his blood veins. What the shit?
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Not all books forced on me by the education system have been bad.
But I did NOT like that one where the main character was Abbie Deal. Don't remember the name of it, sorry.
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But I have to say... To Kill a Mockingbird...
WAY TOO BORING FOR MY TASTES
*LE GASP*
THAT BOOK IS GOLD! (and the movie shines brighter)
I acctually forced myself in like 3rd grade to read the first one, then I tried the 2nd one but could never get past the 2nd chapter.... It was way too cliche. Seriously, a bunch of siblings are abandoned then go live in a boxcar then just HAPPEN to find their freakin rich relative? The whole series was a joke, THEY ONLY LIVED IN THE BOXCAR FOR THE FIRST DAMN BOOK!!
Looking back, I think I like that alot more now then I did when I first read it (which was 6th grade I think), it probably is a bit slow and just plain boring for most, alot of "stranded on a deserted island" books are =P
Read that sophmore year, and it wasn't that bad. We're about to read Grapes of Wrath, I'm afraid xD
For some reason, "Of Mice and Men" acctually interested me, for some strange wierd reason. Overall the story is just plain dumb and dull, but there were parts that I really liked for some reason.
We're put thru the torture of reading Steinbeck because of its historical content and alot of the "good lessons" that they contain =P Despite being boring as hell.
Anne Rice because she's just plain shite, and Stephen King because he's R.L Stine but with profanity sprinkled through his works.
Quoted for truth.
Anne Rice is way overrated.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
I blame my 11th grade English for tormenting us with 'The American Dream' theme throughout the year. This wasn't a bad book but I just couldn't sit down and read it. Maybe because it was a school reading assignment and not something I would do in my free time.
We acctually just finished that book the other week in my class. My teacher as well put "The American Dream" like 3546598 times on both the reviews and the exam itself. That book was hardly about the stupid american dream, there were many other topics that book addressed that were WAY more important and way more emphasized than the "American Dream", I think thats where I got lost. I was looking for everything BUT a general idea of the american dream presented in the book. I THINK I got it, but I really didn't care. I was more absorbed in the characters and culture of that era rather then the stupid vauge underlying theme.
I guess I'm more of a leisure reader, I do read for the content but unless its something very deep that really affects me, I could care LESS about analyzing it.
And FUCK RHETORICAL STRATEGIES
NO. ONE. CARES. (99% of us, even in our AP class, don't plan on becoming professional writers!!!)For me, the most boring book I've ever read that I can think of, in school and just in general would be The Martian Chronicles. OMFG
I WANTED TO BLOW MY BRAINS OUT. Boring as hell, the only interesting part was the chapter where it described in detail the effects of the nuclear war specificaly on your regular average neighborhood. Seriously, that was the only part that I thought was any good. It was poorly written, IMO, there was WAY too much going on. The central conflict was pretty clear, you knew the stem of the big situation, but it was filled with so many subplots and 3954967 characters it got too crazy, it was totally uninteresting.
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Yeah, it's kinda boring at the first chapters, but it gets kinda good as it gets further. A really bad book is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I read the "unabridge" version with old-fashioned English. It's really boring an really long...Took me about 1 month to finish it....
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And FUCK RHETORICAL STRATEGIES
NO. ONE. CARES. (99% of us, even in our AP class, don't plan on becoming professional writers!!!)lol, because you'll never need to ever put together a well versed and written report, document, or anything for the rest of your life? Man, this is what I love about teaching Freshmen in college; statements like this. Rhetorical strategies! Who needs them! I'll never write anything remotely important, useful, or at the very least, useful, in my entire life! I don't need to know these things! I'm going to get a business degree! Hell, I also never want to be able to engage in any sort of "adult" debate either, so pooh-pooh on these "rhetorical" strategies!
Also, I still find it hilarious that "high school / AP reading" can be considered deep, when it's nothing more than a New Criticism symbol hunt. If we use this as an analogy to digging, you think you've gone to China when you've hit twelve inches into your front yard.
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Comparing the reading I've done in college to my honors/AP stuff...I'm inclined to agree. While some of the material you read is genuinely good material that a lot can be taken from (i.e. Hamlet, Moby Dick). The way they teach you the material leaves a lot to be desired as you barely even scratch the surface, and most teachers are prepared to say, "This is the way you read this work. This way and only this way." It's a shame, really.
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Comparing the reading I've done in college to my honors/AP stuff...I'm inclined to agree. While some of the material you read is genuinely good material that a lot can be taken from (i.e. Hamlet, Moby Dick). The way they teach you the material leaves a lot to be desired as you barely even scratch the surface, and most teachers are prepared to say, "This is the way you read this work. This way and only this way." It's a shame, really.
Depending on which language literature you study, it stays the same if you're going for a bachelor's.
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True. Then again, we're not in the same language at all when it comes to our majors... French lit major here.
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The first 15 pages are the narrorator describing the area of his picnic. someone says, "what ever happened to your friend antonia". then the guy starts talking about how he went directly home and looked through his journals and starts talking about his friend. Every few chapters starts with him describing the season for like 10 pages, and then going on about a story of him and antonia. Then he says goodbye and that he will probably never see her again. then, at the beggining of the next chapter, he rambles on about unnecesary details about the setting, and then reintroduces antonia, they do something, and then he says that he'll never see her again. then a new chapter starts, and so on.... and so on....
1. there are too many unnecessary details
2. there is no concise plot to the story
3. there is on conflict, climax, resolution or any enjoyable part about the book
4. it drags on forever
DON"T READ THIS BOOK
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It's not an easy degree to get, at least after getting a BA. And a BA in Lit is good for one thing: Getting an MA in English Lit.
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The first 15 pages are the narrorator describing the area of his picnic. someone says, "what ever happened to your friend antonia". then the guy starts talking about how he went directly home and looked through his journals and starts talking about his friend. Every few chapters starts with him describing the season for like 10 pages, and then going on about a story of him and antonia. Then he says goodbye and that he will probably never see her again. then, at the beggining of the next chapter, he rambles on about unnecesary details about the setting, and then reintroduces antonia, they do something, and then he says that he'll never see her again. then a new chapter starts, and so on.... and so on....
1. there are too many unnecessary details
2. there is no concise plot to the story
3. there is on conflict, climax, resolution or any enjoyable part about the book
4. it drags on forever
DON"T READ THIS BOOK
I will then recommend to you La Comédie Humaine by Honoré de Balzac. Or even better, the entire "À la recherche du Temps Perdu" by Marcel Proust.
And this is mainly where our differences lie. The French Lit BA'll allow you a lot of possible MA choices (Comparative Lit, French Lit, etc.) whereas the Linguistics BA'll only net you the Linguistics MA.
That's all IIRC, mind you.
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In my college, for instance, there are three--Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Composition, and Literature. Other schools are structured the same way, with the Lit. program usually being a 'jack of all trades,' but to a further extent the MA in Lit is not a 'master of none.' Rhet. Comp and CW are sort of "specialized," where Lit is Specialized in Literature but able to do all of the others extremely well.
It's like getting a tool kit instead of a degree--Lit majors get the giant tool kit from sears PLUS the free power drill and hand saw. The others are just one or the other.
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But I have to say... To Kill a Mockingbird...
WAY TOO BORING FOR MY TASTES
*facepalm*
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Ya, my brother liked it. I can't wait to read it in High school.
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That book is like reading about a train wreck that's going to happen. You can see it coming and you want to stop it but you can't because the 11th grade english teacher requires that you read this crap and watch the crap movie.
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[/quote]Do remember what this book was about? I think it was about some guy in a male boarding or military school who was depressed and committed suicide and his friend was trying to figure out why or something but I can't quite remember.
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