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[Heath]

Originally Posted by I Took the Red Pill ^

Originally Posted by Boner Guy

Yeah I'm looking forward to "The Great Gatsby", been meaning to read it for the longest time.

I looked forward to it too, but oh man, I could hardly get through it.

I'm not a big fan of the book, but I thought the fact that it was really quite dull and hollow at times it was an accurate reflection of the society that Fitzgerald describes in the book.

[Resha]

He was describing the glamorous '20s though The Jazz Age! Before the Depression! Man, I just loved it. I thought the way he wrote about sparkling society at the start and then about them at the end -- what turncoats. It was tragic. The funeral bit actually made me cry, it was just so lonesome, and you start hating them all so MUCH for being so shallow. grrrrr

And on "Waiting For Godot" -- !! We've never studied this, but I watched quite a brilliant performance of it by the A2 Drama class last year, and I've been immensely interested in Beckett ever since. Theatre of the Absurd is just so...wow. Because I just can't figure it out at ALL, and everything about Godot is just speculation, but I love that it makes me think so much -- like who is Godot, and why're they waiting, etc etc... Yeah

[Woodinator]

hmm these are books i had to read in highschool

Great Expectations
David Copperfield
There Eyes Were Watching God
As I Lay Dying
Cry the Beloved Country
Great Gatsby
The Things They Carried
Farenheit 451
Of Mice and Men
Pride and Prejudice
Importance of being Earnest
Frankenstein

These are only ones that are more well-known...there were other books and essays that we read too...but i can't remember them all...and the only ones i enjoyed were Great Gatsby, MIce and men, Frankenstein, and things they carried...oh and I read Lord of the Flies and To Kill a Mockingbird in middleschool, which were both great

[Heath]

Originally Posted by Resha ^

He was describing the glamorous '20s though :cry: The Jazz Age! Before the Depression! Man, I just loved it. I thought the way he wrote about sparkling society at the start and then about them at the end -- what turncoats. It was tragic. The funeral bit actually made me cry, it was just so lonesome, and you start hating them all so MUCH for being so shallow. :irked: grrrrr

And on "Waiting For Godot" -- :D!! We've never studied this, but I watched quite a brilliant performance of it by the A2 Drama class last year, and I've been immensely interested in Beckett ever since. Theatre of the Absurd is just so...wow. Because I just can't figure it out at ALL, and everything about Godot is just speculation, but I love that it makes me think so much -- like who is Godot, and why're they waiting, etc etc... Yeah

Oh yes, but Fitzgerald certainly didn't come across as a fan of the 1920s from the way he wrote the novel and certainly portrayed it as being a hollow and relatively superficial decade. It was a good book, but I'm just not a fan.

As for Godot, I think there's a fair bit you can read into it when you think about other absurdist literature such as things by Kafka and Camus (granted I had a little grounding in it). I don't think it's something that is supposed to make sense by convention. It's supposed to take people out of their comfort zone of understanding why and how things happen in order to really make them consider their lives and take a step back from reality in order to do so. A lot of people seem to think that 'Godot' is in fact God, but as Beckett said "if by Godot I had meant God I would have said God."

[Boney King]

Man, now my expectations have tempered.

Thanks boyos.

Ah well, there's still "The Wars" to look forward to. Unless anyone has any objections to that and would like to spoil my anticipation? Nay?

[rubah]

You should read As I Lay Dying then, resha.

[Resha]

Ohh, who's it by?

[rubah]

william faulkner. not exactly *english* lit, but pretty insane reading just the same.