English texts you actually liked!? (1 Viewer)

[Rahul]

Originally posted by kini mini


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.

hahhaha.....i could read it. i got up to 100 sumthing page and couldnt handle it......thank god for the net!!!! saved me. ended up getting full marks for my essay on heart of darkness.

hope my teacher isnt on the forum!!

 

[bobo123]

orson scott card is good

 

[Rahul]

Originally posted by bobo123
orson scott card is good

have u read the sequel to enders game....."speaker for the dead" right?

 

[lbft]

I loved:

Looking for Alibrandi (12)
Tomorrow When The War Began (10)
Animal Farm (9)
Frontline (11)

Especially Alibrandi..someone said they couldn't put it down..me neither!

 

[bobo123]

Originally posted by Rahul

have u read the sequel to enders game....."speaker for the dead" right?

nope i havent
is it crap or something?

i've read the shadow saga series and i found that to be kickass
so i might go pickup the sequel soon somewhere

 

[Rahul]

Originally posted by bobo123


nope i havent
is it crap or something?

i've read the shadow saga series and i found that to be kickass
so i might go pickup the sequel soon somewhere

if the first one is anythign to go bye, i dont think the sequel will be crap.
the book leaves u wanting to know wat happens to ender, which makes u wanna read it huh?
i might read it l8r on sumtym.


also john marsden's tomorrow when the war began was a great book too.....i did it in yr 10.....seriously could not put it down.

 

[MiuMiu]

I liked Animal Farm too.
Also The Real Inspector Hound for extension. Really good!

 

[Almighty Jafar]

Originally posted by AGB
nup...hated em all

but we (obviously) did different texts to those

raw was good

 

[SaveFerris]

Originally posted by YEAR12
I liked Animal Farm too.
Also The Real Inspector Hound for extension. Really good!

The Real Inspector Hound was great, sooooo much better than Snow Falling On Cedars and The Big Sleep!! Even my Ext 1 teacher despised The Big Sleep. It was awful...

I also grew to love Ros & Guil Are Dead. Didn't like it at first but saw a production of it (the one in Erskineville where you had to move around a lot) and then read it again and got so much more out of it.

Tom Stoppard is a clever, clever man...

 

[hgpstar]

i realloy liked "back home" in year 8, nothing in year nine, to kill a mockingbird was SOOO good, must read that again. hmmm...we did a poet in yr 11 that was really good but i cant remember his name. oooh i liked "the removalists", even tho heeps of people in our year hated it.

i only really liked "hamlet" and "ros and guil" this year. and my related texts i guess! do they count?

 

[Rahul]

Originally posted by hgpstar
oooh i liked "the removalists", even tho heeps of people in our year hated it.

i did it for ext in yr 11. it was different, but i didnt mind it. some of the background study got a bit boring, but that is generally the case wid most texts.

what makes it even better is that u can watch it on video, as its exactly as it is in the book

 

[Almighty Jafar]

Originally posted by YEAR12
I liked Animal Farm too.
Also The Real Inspector Hound for extension. Really good!

hey, isn't animal farm the book that the film ' Babe ' was based on?

 

[snakeoils]

Originally posted by Rahul

anyone read heart of darkness...??

when i read heart of darkness in year 11, i HATED it at first... but after staying up til 5:44am doing an assessment task on it the night before it was due, i found myself totally in LOVE with it... its kinda become my trademark in 3unit english to make some kind of HOD or Conrad reference in all my essays from then on

 

[MiuMiu]

Originally posted by Almighty Jafar


hey, isn't animal farm the book that the film ' Babe ' was based on?

Its about communism, I can't see how it would be.

 

[loziscool:D]

Freidrick, To Kill a Mockingbird, Hamlet, Jane Eyre..

 

[Almighty Jafar]

i found ' how to kill a mocking bird ' a really compelling and fascinating text

 

[MiuMiu]

Friedrich was sad