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Originally Posted by VeggieLover
I absolutely love books. Not possibly enough time to read all the ones i want to. just putting that out there.
Right now I'm reading Dracula for my AP lit class, and we'll be reading Frankenstein around halloween. I've been looking forward to this for a long time, but its never as good if you HAVE to read it. In my "free time" ill be plowing my way through crime and punishment. *sigh* i miss the days when i actually had time to read for pleasure. (says the girl who spent her entire day on MusicBanter rather than doing her calc homework. ah hypocrisy).
I also just finished 1984 (also for AP lit) and Steinbacks Of Mice and Men. Steinback has such a twisted sense of plot...i would have loved to have met him. Both books were incredibly depressing and completely void of hope...perhaps thats why i've been in such a ****ty mood lately. oh well, life will go on.
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I was never a huge of fan of Dracula, but Frankenstein (Mary Shelley's one of course, only hers) is quite possibly my favourite book of all time. Just the themes it raises and the things it makes you feel... I could talk about it for an eternity. Plus she wrote it when she was like 18 or something crazy like that. Amazing.
Nineteen Eighty-Four also made me depressed, but although I'm not an Orwell fan I loved how it was so advanced for its time (I think, anyway). Quite thought-provoking and again, issue-raising.