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 Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 5:44 pm
I was looking at my bookshelf earlier today- specifically the books I've collected since going to college- and I realized I only keep the books I really like despite their efforts to teach me things. xd
Right now for instance I'm reading this really good book about the lives of women in New York from 1789-1860 that I'll definitely be keeping. It's more interesting than it sounds, I swear.
And last quarter for my Holocaust class I read The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. - which is an amazing book about a group of Israeli Nazi hunters who find a very elderly Adolf Hitler hiding in the Amazon jungle in the 1970's.
I also tend to keep all my art books- but that's more because of the pretty pictures than the books themselves. smile
Have you ever had to read a book- novel or non-fiction- for a class that you actually really liked?
This question is aimed more at college students I guess, although you can list books from high school or lower too.
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Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 1:36 pm
I took a Shakespeare Lit class in college and for the class we had to buy the complete works in one big book. Loved the class loved the works we read and definitely kept the book.
I also had to read The Mabinogian as part of my Celts class, I had never heard of it before but it is awesome!
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Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:56 am
Animal Farm and 1982. Those are two books I read in high school that I ended up enjoying alot.
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Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:10 am
I'm doing a Gothic Narratives module at the moment so of course I'm really into that.
There have been quite alot of books I've studied but not liked but I like the following:
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
The Collecter by John Fowles
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott. Fitzgerald
The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Shakespeare plays I liked:
Taming of the Shrew
Macbeth
Othello
The Tempest
There have been books that I didn't enjoy reading but I actually liked studying and looking closely at...I liked studying the characters or language used but not the story itself...
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