What are you currently Reading? (3 Viewers)

[Riproot]

I think you'll find this is very much NOT the way to obtain a high band 6 mark

19/20 in a year 11 essay I didn't study for is good enough.

Maybe I should've done that for year 12 too.
Damn it!

lol

because it is just such a heavy read. makes war and peace look like the tv guide.

you should be proud of yourself.

hehehe

 

[Delta Education]

19/20 in a year 11 essay I didn't study for is good enough.

Maybe I should've done that for year 12 too.
Damn it!

hehehe

Perhaps I should clarify that there's a difference between Yr 11 and Yr 12 in terms of what's expected from students. There is also a difference between the expectations of Standard and Advanced students and I seem to recall you did Standard.

It's great you did so well, but that's an unusual circumstance and certainly not something that is likely to be replicated by other students, especially when there are far more appropriate texts available.

 

[Riproot]

Perhaps I should clarify that there's a difference between Yr 11 and Yr 12 in terms of what's expected from students. There is also a difference between the expectations of Standard and Advanced students and I seem to recall you did Standard.

It's great you did so well, but that's an unusual circumstance and certainly not something that is likely to be replicated by other students, especially when there are far more appropriate texts available.

It was the AOS essay, but yeah, I don't think they expected much.

But the text was super appropriate, that's why I picked it when I started halfway through the first paragraph. Gosh.

 

[seremify007]

Animal Farm - George Orwell. Halfway through in one sitting.

Great book. First book I bought on the Apple bookstore and read it on an iPhone.

Currently reading Superfreakonomics on the Kindle app.

 

[Alexis Texas]

i am currently reading Anna Karenina and I really really like it. it is good. yep.

 

[Galapagos]

Mastery by Robert Greene. Pretty good so far.

 

[wannaspoon]

great effing book...

make sure you buy or borrow the one with english translations... its an italian book...

 

[SylviaB]

make sure you buy or borrow the one with english translations... its an italian book...

oh really.........

 

[Verify]

Just finished The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Time to watch the movie.

I'm probably going to read 1984 next.

 

[alstah]

Currently reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower. A pretty decent read!

 

[moll.]

Trainspotting. What the fuck. It's almost impossible to read because of the Scottish accent it's written in. When do they start talking English?

 

[Alexis Texas]

Trainspotting. What the fuck. It's almost impossible to read because of the Scottish accent it's written in. When do they start talking English?

seriously? it's written with the scottish pronounciation?

fuck clockwork orange was the same, i had to read it twice.
well i read it once. found a nadsat dictionary then read it again. do not want to watch the movie.

 

[SylviaB]

Trainspotting. What the fuck. It's almost impossible to read because of the Scottish accent it's written in. When do they start talking English?

anglicised Scots language**

 

[moll.]

anglicised Scots language**

aka Scottish accent.

 

[moll.]

Here is an example: "He turned tae Raymie, whae wis steadfastly keepin shoatie at the windae." The fuck?

 

[Alexis Texas]

he turned to raymie. we [were] steadfastly keeping something at the window ?

 

[moll.]

Gave up on Trainspotting. That shit was too difficult to read. Plus, I was disturbed by my reaction to how good they were making heroin sound.

Now reading Buffett: The Biography by Lowenstein. Much less illicit drugs involved.

 

[Alexis Texas]

Gave up on Trainspotting. That shit was too difficult to read. Plus, I was disturbed by my reaction to how good they were making heroin sound.

Now reading Buffett: The Biography by Lowenstein. Much less illicit drugs involved.

haha dude ikr

when i watched/read candy and watched trainspotting i was like 'yeah i want to try it'

BUT JUST ONCE

 

[moll.]

haha dude ikr

when i watched/read candy and watched trainspotting i was like 'yeah i want to try it'

BUT JUST ONCE

Yeah I kept thinking "yeah, I'm totally strong-willed enough to try it just once, walk away and be totally fine. I could do that." Then I was like, wait, I'm pretty sure that's what all the actual addicts thought too.

 

[RDX]

The Manipulated Man - Esther Vilar