English texts you actually liked!? (1 Viewer)

[Butterfly_Wings]

Were there any texts you wre forced to read for English that you actually liked?
I always complained about English at the time-but looking back at it, there were a few I really did like (at the time...)

Year 7- 'Tuck Everlasting'
Year 8- 'The China Coin' and 'Aurora'
Year 9- 'A Midsummer Nights Dream'
Year 11- 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf'
Year 12- 'Enders Game'

 

[AGB]

nup...hated em all

but we (obviously) did different texts to those

 

[Lord Ac]

Defintely Enders Game (12)
This play, i think: 12 Jurors (10) I really liked that ...

Ac

 

[Bambul]

1984, I read it in year 12. It was the only text I had to read in English that I liked. So much so that I actually <shock horror> read it cover to cover. That's right, I actually finished reading an English text!

 

[BlackJack]

I actually grew to like Lear after all the stuff we did. Probably the teacher though.

Other than that there is none from the ones I can rememeber I did. Maybe Tomorrow when the war began.

The non-book texts were more interesting.

 

[Leap]

hmm, I can't remember a lot of the books we studied back in year 7 and 8. But some of the ones that weren't too bad are:
Year 9: 'To kill a Mockingbird' (yes I actually liked that book! but no-one else in my class did)
Year 10: 'The Giver'
Year 11: 'Wuthering Heights'
Year 11: 'Antony and Cleopatra'
Year 12: 'Looking for Alibrandi'

 

[Minai]

Year 7: Fredriech
Thats the only one I ever enjoyed - Hamlet in Yr12 came close though

 

[Ultimate]

I liked To kill a mockingbird too. I also liked Bladerunner and Brave New World.

 

[zannaz]

I actually liked reading 'King Lear'. It was mores interesting than emma, let me tell you that. I also likes reading 'Angela's Ashes' in year 10.

But i agree with whoever said that the not-book textx were much more enjoyable.

 

[zannaz]

Originally posted by natstar
If i did Avdvanced i would have like to watch Cluless. That would have been fun considering i luv da movie.

Cluesless was good too watch, i wouldn't consider it a fave film of mine but it did provide a contrastfrom all the boring texts we had to watch.

 

[saladsurgery]

let's see...

frontline was good, and ros & guil are dead was also an interesting read. over the years i grew to like shakespeare (all up the ones i did were merchant of venice, 12th night, hamlet, henry v, macbeth).

and there are other things we just studied little bits of, like in year 10 we did a bit of bruce dawe's poetry, and that was really good as well. changed my whole view on poems.

personally, i couldn't stand watching clueless from start to finish, let alone study it for a year ...

 

[Butterfly_Wings]

Yeah, To Kill A Mockingbird was pretty good...we didn't have to read the book though, we just watched the movie.

 

[Rahul]

Ender's Game by a H--U--G--E margin.


anyone read heart of darkness...??

 

[tooheyz]

i really REALLY hated to kill a mockingbird... it was soOoO boring

ahahah the best english text for me was LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI and the gathering (year 10) and BRIAR ROSE (just finished reading it for HSC)

 

[flyin']

brave new world ... catcher in the rye ... othello ...

 

[kini mini]

Originally posted by Rahul

anyone read heart of darkness...??

I have, it wasn't easy . It was very interesting to read though, I studied it with Apocalypse Now in year 11. But thank goodness it's short

Of the year 12 texts I liked 1984 the most, followed by Hamlet . I didn't much like Donne's poetry.

 

[Rahul]

Originally posted by kini mini


I have, it wasn't easy . It was very interesting to read though, I studied it with Apocalypse Now in year 11. But thank goodness it's short

yeh we did the same in yr 11. it is jus so bloody hard to read. apoc now was slow at tyms(part of the appropriation technique i think ) but wasnt a bad movie.....not great but ok.

 

[schwang_thang]

i liked john donne in the metaphysical poets, surprising cos i usually hate poetry...the language n themes were interesting

 

[kini mini]

Originally posted by Rahul


yeh we did the same in yr 11. it is jus so bloody hard to read. apoc now was slow at tyms(part of the appropriation technique i think ) but wasnt a bad movie.....not great but ok.

Yeah its length did give some idea of Conrad's original style . I didn't want to pay for a copy so I just downloaded one hehe.

 

[eviltama]

uh, gawd i've read so many eng texts that i cant remember half of them

but the ones i remembered enuff to like were:
Lear
Merchant of Venice
that john marsden series... tommorrow something??? cant remember the name..
A Keats book of poetry
so many more too, but i have a mental blank at the moment!

ones i hated:
Del del
Dear Nobody
Emma/Clueless
i cant stand those texts... they should BURN!! :angry: :burn: