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Old 11-30-2010, 11:03 AM   #3061 (permalink)
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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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Old 11-30-2010, 06:19 PM   #3062 (permalink)
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That's a great book. Everything I've read by Le Guin has been great. 60-70s were the golden age of sci-fi.
They really were.

And now I'm even more excited to read this book!
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Old 11-30-2010, 06:43 PM   #3063 (permalink)
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Another great book, I feel. I actually read that one when I was supposed to (it's short).
I liked the book, but my English teacher sucks so it made reading it a much more arduous ordeal, because I always had to think about answering shit prompt questions about it. I've never really had a good English teacher
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Old 11-30-2010, 06:53 PM   #3064 (permalink)
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I feel like the reading lists for schools haven't changed since the 50s. Probably because they actually haven't.
They were just all written in the 50s. A lot of the books we read were challenged and banned when written, and only with in the last 10-30 years have they been accepted for teaching.

Books I've read for Frosh/Soph english ranked from best to worst:

Slaughterhouse-Five
Native Son
Of Mice and Men
A Raisin in the Sun
All Quiet on the Western Front
Huck Finn
The Glass Menagerie
The Scarlet Letter
The Great Gatsby
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Old 11-30-2010, 07:42 PM   #3065 (permalink)
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They were just all written in the 50s. A lot of the books we read were challenged and banned when written, and only with in the last 10-30 years have they been accepted for teaching.

Books I've read for Frosh/Soph english ranked from best to worst:

Slaughterhouse-Five
Native Son
Of Mice and Men
A Raisin in the Sun
All Quiet on the Western Front
Huck Finn
The Glass Menagerie
The Scarlet Letter
The Great Gatsby
I don't care if it doesn't matter, but I want you to know you've offended me. And you've offended america.
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Old 11-30-2010, 07:44 PM   #3066 (permalink)
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Old 11-30-2010, 07:46 PM   #3067 (permalink)
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Huck Finn?
Gatsby, you ass, the Great Gatsby. They named it that way for a reason. Because its Great.

You watch your ass, FaSho. I'll be watching you....like the eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleberg.
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Slaughterhouse-Five is the worst Vonnegut I've read

The Great Gatsby is reading really nicely though, his descriptive language is beautiful
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Old 11-30-2010, 10:55 PM   #3070 (permalink)
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Slaughterhouse-Five is the worst Vonnegut I've read
Yeah, I've always thought that as well.
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