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[MiuMiu]

Ok guys, obviously the first thing we need to do is compile a list of texts we all want to read. Heres the ones I have already listed (plus ones that were suggested in the thread in the non-school thread). List the ones you would like to read and I'll add them to this list and then we can work out what we're going to read from there!

• 1984
• A tale of two cities
• Crime and Punishment
• The Great Gatsby
• Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
• The Scarlet Letter
• Notes from the Underground
• Farenheit 451
• Lolita
• I am the Cheese
• The Rape of the Lock (poem)
• Persuasion
• Gulliver's Travels
• A Clockwork Orange
• Ragtime
• Of Mice and Men
• Out of Africa
• Six Characters in search of an Author
• The Bell Jar
• A Street Car named desire
• Catcher in the Rye
• To Kill a Mocking Bird
• Animal Farm
• Whose Life is it anyway?
• Emma
• Forrest Gump
• War and Peace
• Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine (Tribulations of a chinaman in china)
• Ulysses
• Les Miserables
• Paris in the 20th Century (Jules Verne)
• The House of Spirits
• Children of the Dust
• David Pelzer Series
• Soul Mountain
• Hound of the Baskervilles
• Utopia
• Stupid White Men (Mike Moore)

Historical Works

• Mein Kampf
• The Communist Manifesto
• Das Kapital
• A Modest Proposal

This is quite a comprehensive list, but if you have a suggestion, go for it!

 

[Frigid]

have we got to do every book or can we choose the ones we like?

 

[hipsta_jess]

and how about some biographies and stuff (eg the dave pelzer triology-a child called it, the lost boy, and a man named dave)

 

[Hottieflossy]

wat about The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende?

 

[MiuMiu]

Frigid this is just a preliminary list, which we can select texts off (we'll all decide together).

I'll add that Jess

 

[Frigid]

Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine (Tribulations of a chinaman in china) - what's this one about?

edit: OHOH, that reminds me! 12, add Soul Mountain, that chinese book which won the Nobel Literature Prize!

 

[ssj_goku]

How about something by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes). Also, perhaps something by Nietzsche, or "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift, could be a good addition to the historical section.

 

[MiuMiu]

Originally posted by Frigid
Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine (Tribulations of a chinaman in china) - what's this one about?

Thats another Jules Verne one

 

[hipsta_jess]

Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine (Tribulations of a chinaman in china)
....um is that written in english?

 

[Frigid]

jules verne is a frenchman... all his books are translated silly...

 

[MiuMiu]

yep its got an English translation, my school library has it so it can't be too hard to find (although I can read french so it doesn't worry me what its in)

 

[mic]

What about Anna Karenina (i know it's long) and Lady Chatterley's Lover?

 

[Supra]

yah lady chatterly's lover - D.H Lawrence- we're spose to read that part of our wide reading (for telling the truth-the justice game)

 

[eveajac]

Also
A.S. Byatt's Posession
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
kathy lette's Puberty Blues
a great one is "Montana 1948", Larry Watson
Wild Swans, Jung Chang

Also I have read the Communist Manifesto - it is really not as fascinating as one would think.

 

[PacifistWarrior]

I have read 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. The book is good, but the movie sux.
Contact, br Carl Sagan
The Shining, by Stephen King
The Republic, by Plato *can download it from http://promo.net/pg/ *

 

[2late]

Originally posted by hipsta_jess
and how about some biographies and stuff (eg the dave pelzer triology-a child called it, the lost boy, and a man named dave)

Yeah i'm a big fan on biographies... Not very interested in the classics though... but i'll give anything a go...

Hmmm... Emma's on the list... I shouldn't be admitting this but I didn't read it for english...

 

[Sassasas]

Originally posted by 2late
Hmmm... Emma's on the list... I shouldn't be admitting this but I didn't read it for english...

hey dont worry neither did half my class... i read about half of it... lol

anways... if you liked the tomorrow when the war began series... GUESS WHAT!!!
john marsden is writing a new series which comes after the first series... i saw the first book in a book shop today!!!

cant remember what its called... while i live - the ellie chronicles
i looked it up...

 

[Daemontreu]

I didn't really like that series. It was ok at first, but after a while... Eh, it was alright.

 

[fringey]

I really want to read mike moores book: "Stupid white men" i think!! That is supposed to be enlightening!

 

[~ForAGoodCause~]

I just bought "The Hours" and "Hannibal" yesterday