Engerlish bookies

Resha · 09-23-2007, 05:17 AM

rawr. So surely everybody who does English Lit or the equivalent will be studying texts and analysing them and writing lots and lots of esssays (joy!!!). And I want to know which ones, and what you think of them!

Or if you don't do them anymore...but what you did ONCE UPON A TIME.

This year we're doing Thomas Hardy's "The Mayor of Casterbridge", which is brilliant. We're also doing Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming", "King Lear" by the shaking spear and "Top Girls", by Caryl Churchill (because feminist literature is always a massive win).

Now your turn!

Boney King · 09-23-2007, 05:27 AM

This year's Shakespeare study is "Hamlet", I finished it ahead of time and I quite liked it. After that is a Timothy Leary book (either "The Wars" or "Fifth Business"), then finally "The Great Gatsby", in addition to two independent study books of our choice (I've picked "Requiem For A Dream" and Chuck Palahniuk's "Choke").

Mmm. Minty.

Resha · 09-23-2007, 05:45 AM

You guys get to study two books of your choice? That's pretty sweet. I'd love to do that. And "The Great Gatsby" would be such a fantastic book to study...there's so much in it

Boney King · 09-23-2007, 06:57 PM

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

I'm surprised that you don't get independent study novels, I've been getting them since Grade 8.

Harle-Quin · 09-23-2007, 07:35 PM

I had to do To Kill A Mockingbird for GCSEs.

Psychotic · 09-23-2007, 10:43 PM

I did Jane Eyre and I'm the King of the Castle for GCSE.

Yeah. Yeah I know, right.

Levian · 09-23-2007, 11:28 PM

At GCSE I did Of Mice and Men and Blood Brothers, as well as a load of Shakespeare. Once again the education system managed to make something which was probably pretty interesting the most boring experience ever. I absolutely despised English Lit, it's a wonder how I managed a C.

Kirobaito · 09-24-2007, 08:01 AM

I am not taking English Literature until next semester, but this semester for my Great Texts class, we are reading Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, Averroes's Decisive Treatise and Epistle Dedicatory, some lais from Marie de France, some readings from Thomas Aquinas, Dante's Divine Comedy, Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, More's Utopia, and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.

Boney King Location: kanaduh	#2 (permalink) This year's Shakespeare study is "Hamlet", I finished it ahead of time and I quite liked it. After that is a Timothy Leary book (either "The Wars" or "Fifth Business"), then finally "The Great Gatsby", in addition to two independent study books of our choice (I've picked "Requiem For A Dream" and Chuck Palahniuk's "Choke"). Mmm. Minty.
09-23-2007, 05:27 AM

Resha toothpaste kisses Location: Who knows?	#3 (permalink) You guys get to study two books of your choice? That's pretty sweet. I'd love to do that. And "The Great Gatsby" would be such a fantastic book to study...there's so much in it
09-23-2007, 05:45 AM

Boney King Location: kanaduh	#4 (permalink) Yeah I'm looking forward to "The Great Gatsby", been meaning to read it for the longest time. I'm surprised that you don't get independent study novels, I've been getting them since Grade 8.
09-23-2007, 06:57 PM

Harle-Quin How goes the thinking? Location: 74LS00.	#5 (permalink) I had to do To Kill A Mockingbird for GCSEs.
09-23-2007, 07:35 PM

Psychotic Cid's Knight For Mother Russia Location: I'll be late for bread line.	#6 (permalink) I did Jane Eyre and I'm the King of the Castle for GCSE. Yeah. Yeah I know, right.
09-23-2007, 10:43 PM

Levian GUADOSALAM!!!!! Location: cum ree	#7 (permalink) At GCSE I did Of Mice and Men and Blood Brothers, as well as a load of Shakespeare. Once again the education system managed to make something which was probably pretty interesting the most boring experience ever. I absolutely despised English Lit, it's a wonder how I managed a C.
09-23-2007, 11:28 PM