What are you reading right now?

**Janszoon** · 11-29-2010, 08:00 PM

Maybe I'm weird for saying this but I actually enjoyed a lot of the stuff I had to read for school. Except Wuthering Heights. That was crap.

debaserr · 11-29-2010, 08:01 PM

my favorite from school was A Tale of Two Cities.

Zarko · 11-30-2010, 03:10 AM

No one else got to read 1984 during school?

Astronomer · 11-30-2010, 04:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Zarko

No one else got to read 1984 during school?

Nope

Though I read it on my own accord during high school. All of our assigned books were shit.

Zarko · 11-30-2010, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Lateralus

Nope

Though I read it on my own accord during high school. All of our assigned books were shit.

Hmm that sucks. I was relatively happy with my reading list in school. Off the top of my head, 1984, Animal Farm, All Quiet on the Western Front, Wake In Fright, Richard III. Only one I remember hating was Fly Away Peter and having to analyse 8 Mile. Ended up wrting my final year essay on 1984 and A Clockwork Orange and their use of fictional language and it's impact on the reader or something or other.

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 11-29-2010, 08:04 PM

Mine was Flowers for Algernon. I had to read it twice for different schools. Anyone see the movie "Charly"? So awesome.

~~James~~ · 11-30-2010, 06:09 AM

I got to read To Kill A Mockingbird last year for school. Reading A View From The Bridge in class atm.
Also:

Love them both SO much so far. As much to say that so far they're both 5 stars in my book.

**Janszoon** · 11-30-2010, 06:23 AM

Ursula K. Le Guin—The Lathe of Heaven
Never read anything by her before but I've been on a big sci-fi kick lately and this is supposed to be a good book. I guess we'll see.

adidasss · 11-30-2010, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Ursula K. Le Guin—The Lathe of Heaven
Never read anything by her before but I've been on a big sci-fi kick lately and this is supposed to be a good book. I guess we'll see.

That's a great book. Everything I've read by Le Guin has been great. 60-70s were the golden age of sci-fi.

TheBig3 · 11-30-2010, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

That's a great book. Everything I've read by Le Guin has been great. 60-70s were the golden age of sci-fi.

Only because of a lack of effort now though. Things were such massive changes then that fear was easy to think and write about.

The changes today are small but are just as dangerous. The writers need to be a little more savvy to come up with the same gravity with today's Science Fiction.

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Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	Ursula K. Le Guin—The Lathe of Heaven Never read anything by her before but I've been on a big sci-fi kick lately and this is supposed to be a good book. I guess we'll see. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

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11-30-2010, 03:10 AM	#3 (permalink)
Zarko Barely Disheveled Zombie Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Australia Posts: 1,196	No one else got to read 1984 during school?

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~~Sansa Stark~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: The Eyrie, Vale of Arryn, Westeros Posts: 3,234	Mine was Flowers for Algernon. I had to read it twice for different schools. Anyone see the movie "Charly"? So awesome.

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~~James~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Scotland Posts: 4,483	I got to read To Kill A Mockingbird last year for school. Reading A View From The Bridge in class atm. Also: Love them both SO much so far. As much to say that so far they're both 5 stars in my book.