School Texts; The Dark Side. (1 Viewer)

[s2ophie]

Originally posted by sei
wow, you must have been pretty motivated -that book is dense!

not motivated - forced to read it to discuss it in class the next day!

 

[ameh]

any of those traditional bks like jane austen and charles dickens AND that stupid wuthering heights, i always try to read past the first page everytime i get that bk but i neva seem to manage getting past the first sentence

 

[Buggdogg]

Originally posted by sei
wow, you must have been pretty motivated -that book is dense!

You want dense, the densest (is that word, no school and ive degenerated badly) is the Scarlet Letter.
WORST BOOK EVER!!! It really is, one sentence goes for about for paragraphs.

I also an avid hater of Shakespeare ( which ive had to do since year 9) to which i refer- As You Like it, A midsummernights dream, the tempest was fairly ordinary. I thought Macbeth was pretty good though and Othello was OK.

 

[PaleReflection]

Z For Zachariah. Worst book ever.

 

[Toodulu]

washington square by henry james i didn't like. erm, and the go-between i didn't really enjoy either.
i quite liked emma. a streetcar named desire was interesting to study. i don't like the historical plays by shakespeare, henry V was so boring, had no sense of drama at all.

 

[truly-in-bliss]

Originally posted by PaleReflection
Z For Zachariah. Worst book ever.

i actualli lyked it.. haha

 

[Macross]

The Real Inspector Hound - Crime Fiction Parody ...
"I have been living a double life .... at least!"

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Originally posted by Macross
The Real Inspector Hound - Crime Fiction Parody ...
"I have been living a double life .... at least!"

*GASP*

Sorry, but RIH was probably my favourite Year 12 text. Each to their own.

 

[hurrotisrobbo]

Loved Shakespeare. Particularily Othello.

I really do think you have to perform them (or see them performed) to appreciate them. You wouldn't believe how much I loved Midsummer Night's Dream after being part of a production. Damn good fun.

 

[mic]

We did Evelyn Waugh's "The loved one" once. i couldn't get past the first page

 

[Buggdogg]

Originally posted by hurrotisrobbo
Loved Shakespeare. Particularily Othello.

I really do think you have to perform them (or see them performed) to appreciate them. You wouldn't believe how much I loved Midsummer Night's Dream after being part of a production. Damn good fun.

I saw the tempest on stage....nup still a snore fest, shakespeares a fraud.

Originally posted by mic
We did Evelyn Waugh's "The loved one" once. i couldn't get past the first page

We did that last year, and to start with i hated it. but once you read it and realise what hes on about its a reall y good book, i ended up really liking it.

 

[hurrotisrobbo]

Ok, some performances of Shakespeare are horrid (the Hamlet production we had to sit through), but the good ones really let you appreciate Shakespeare properly...

Each to their own.

By the way, if you feel like being controversial: 's/Shakespeare/Sir\ Francis\ Bacon/g'

 

[glitter burns]

So many people hated the texts I loved... I loved the Great Gilly Hopkins and Playing Beattie Bow, Z For Zachariah and People Might Hear You... then again, I think the only one of those I read in class was Playing Beattie Bow, the rest I read for fun.

I really hated The Great Gatenby by John Marsden (Read that in like... yr9?) and the "Komninos by the Cupful" poems we had to read for yr12 standard English... soo boring.

 

[muldersgun]

yr 7 - The Giver, bloody brillian book, can't find it anymore, anyone got a copy?

yr 8 - midsummer nights dream, loved it, hated my teacher

yr9 - Galax Arena, really really annoying book, Liked R&J

yr 10 - Macbeth, loved it to bits, Lord of the Flies, skipped a whole load.

yr 11 - Othello, loved it, loved the film even more

yr12 - didn't like anything except for maybe BR/BNW and BBC P&P.

 

[truly-in-bliss]

i luved lord of the flies....

and i dont lyk most shakespearean works...

 

[ameh]

anything assessed and shakespearish i hate it

In junior years i never read the texts...in primary school the narnia fantasy collection was fantastic so was c.s. lewis...

wuthering heights is boring, reading chaucer is suicidal and so is ondaatje's anils ghost....argh OGS is zZzzz.....non fiction

pamela by samuel richardson was ok, sort of a condensed version of vanity fair, with more SM and male dominance...argh patrick whites ''tree of man'' was HELL, anything relating to the aust outback can go to hell

thea astley was ok, except i dont bother reading anything by her thats more than 1 page, usually really short stories...

the real inspector hound, stoppard is decent enough

 

[karen.koltrane]

I recall being forced to read a particularly terrible novel...about a drug addicted prostitute who befriends a little kid and they become good friends? and then she is admitted to rehab and he visits her or something?

yep, a very nicely selected text for a bunch of 12 year olds

edit: I think it's what spin spin sugar had to read - 'Came back to show you i could fly'