Barnard17

Humbly disagree. I found it pretentious to the extreme with very uninteresting writing and a ridiculous storyline required to construe a miserable and opinionative moral behind the book.

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FETCHER.

poor show. i thought it was excellent. of course it was unrealistic. i found it evoked a range of emoticons, very emotive.

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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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Are you reading Crime and Punishment for AP English or on your own? If you're in Senior AP English it might be on your required reading, at least it was for ours around Solstice time.

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Barnard17

1984 I found worse than Lord of the Flies, for much the same reasons. Dracula I enjoyed a lot though it mightn't go amiss to skim through the "and then they went here, and then they went here". Page upon page of walking through scenery is not my preferred reading subject but unfortunately Bram Stoker created much of this for the book. When stuff is happening, however, it's good.

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Seltzer

I read both Dracula and Of Mice and Men back in high school.

Dracula was quite a good read, especially after having been enthralled with the film in my childhood.

I still occasionally quote Of Mice and Men nowadays. There are some strong themes going on there; loneliness, hope, dreams etc. And of course the touchy topic of euthanasia crops up.

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Astronomer

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.

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