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Post by Trey on Sept 13, 2007 17:59:04 GMT -5
Sorry Rachle, but it's not mandatory everywhere. I've never even heard of it.
Also, The Great Gatsby and Pride and Prejudice were my all-time favorite required books. Which was funny because all of my high school career, people were telling me how much I'd hate twelfth grade English because I'd have to read Pride and Prejudice, but that book owns. (So does the movie. Not the new one, but the six hour one.)
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Post by Clover on Sept 13, 2007 19:35:42 GMT -5
I absolutely despised 'The Great Gatsby'... I just could never get into it. We had to read "The Handmaid's Tale", which I loved. I even went to go see the opera of it, and it was brilliant. I seem to have a penchant for dystopian literature. Romeo and Juliet made me want to kick a kitten; Romeo was a moron and Juliet a twat, and they both deserved their ignomious ends.
The Illiad and the Odyssey I read for a lark, the Divine Comedy was bedtime reading material... And to be honest and I confess: my favourite Shakespearean play is actually 'The Taming of the Shrew'. I read it super-feministly, so in the end, where Kate actually decides to mellow down a bit.. I basically just take it as her learning how to fight her battles and work in the realm of subterfuge. Not so noble, but infinitely more effective.
The Portrait of Dorian Grey was another I loved (Wilde is one of my favourite authors), as was 'A Brave New World' by Huxley. Dystopian, once again. And in poetry, "The Waste Land" by T.S Eliot. The man makes me cream myself. Srsly.
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Post by child-of-fae on Sept 13, 2007 19:39:51 GMT -5
my sister summed up romeo and juliet in a romantic way,
"Let's face it; Romeo was an idiot And Juliet was a whore. But they still managed to make the greatest love story ever told."
I read and fell in love with Lord of the FLies. It scared me quite a bit, and i almost cried for Piggy.
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Post by bubbles on Sept 13, 2007 22:44:29 GMT -5
my sister summed up romeo and juliet in a romantic way, "Let's face it; Romeo Christian was an idiot And Juliet Satine was a whore. But they still managed to make the greatest love story ever told"
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Post by AndrogynousMelon on Sept 13, 2007 23:39:46 GMT -5
ROFL. Bravo Poppy.
You know my issues with incest, Clover. Imagine my joys reading Oedipus.
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Post by Clover on Sept 14, 2007 13:38:40 GMT -5
Take a bow, Poppy.
And JESUS, Mellie. How did you get through that!? I don't have as big an incest squick as you (in that it's gross, but it doesn't give me the shudders like it does to you. I just don't care as much, in general terms) and I was sketched by the Oedipus. Seriously. How did you get through that?
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Post by Aindel on Sept 14, 2007 18:40:30 GMT -5
I found Oedipus kinda dry, really. Not nearly so bad as Agamemnon (if you ever have trouble sleeping, read this play. It's a good couple hours of NOTHING HAPPENING. Like an Ancient Greek version of Waiting for Godot). Antigone, though, is absolutely amazing. I think it beats out Lysistrata as my favourite Greek play (and let's face it, it takes a lot to beat out a sex comedy with a tragedy). It's like Romeo and Juliet, only better, because Antigone has something resembling a backbone.
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Post by AndrogynousMelon on Sept 14, 2007 20:29:37 GMT -5
I actually laughed through a lot of it. "ROFL SHE GOUGED OUT HER EYES ROFLROFLROFL" I'm kind of sick, I know. I did enjoy Antigone though. Even if she is the evil by product of loathsome incest.
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Post by limbowoman on Sept 14, 2007 21:44:50 GMT -5
I dislike most Greek literature... I think it was more from the fact that my uncle goes on and on and on about it...
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Post by gothicruffle on Sept 15, 2007 12:19:29 GMT -5
2Rachle: The Lovely Bones is probably on of my favorite books; I actually was reading it again last night.But sadly it isn't mandatory for most schools. May I ask who your favorite character was? Mine would have to be Ruth, just because I can relate to her personality, and artistic sense.
Have you read any of the other books written by that author? I really reccomend that you read Lucky since you enjoyed The Lovely Bones so much.
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Post by Trey on Sept 15, 2007 18:06:44 GMT -5
I actually laughed through a lot of it. "ROFL HE GOUGED OUT HER EYES ROFLROFLROFL" Yeah, we had to do a Tableu of it once, and the class had to guess who each of us was by us being clever. So we made me a crown(I was playing Oedoface) and I coloured all of my eyelids red and drew blood dripping down my cheeks. They were like, "Is she Oedoface?" They were right.
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Post by bubbles on Sept 15, 2007 19:43:43 GMT -5
I hate Greek tragedy, and wish it burned and was devoured by the roaring flames of my passionate rage, because it spawned the travesty of an entertainment that is the foul, unbearable crime known as French classic tragedy.
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Post by Clover on Sept 15, 2007 20:51:01 GMT -5
Good grief.
I noticed something, though, while wikisurfing.... SO many of the canons of BDSM lit. are from French authors. Why? Is it something in the water? I mean.. jeez.
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Post by Aindel on Sept 15, 2007 21:32:52 GMT -5
I hate Greek tragedy, and wish it burned and was devoured by the roaring flames of my passionate rage, because it spawned the travesty of an entertainment that is the foul, unbearable crime known as French classic tragedy. Ah yes. I was subjected to Phedre last year, after slogging through Hippolytus in First Year. That was evil. This was after being forced into Tartuffe, which gave me the impression that French classic comedy really isn't any better. Though, I suppose it was necessary in order to get to the point we're at today, with all of the French Canadian playwrights we have. Without all that crap throughout history (because the French Absurdist movement didn't exactly improve anything, either), we'd never have the glory that is Les Belles-Soeurs. But perhaps I'm a bit partial, since we put on that show last season here at school.
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Post by The Star Fox on Sept 15, 2007 22:43:31 GMT -5
Gahh you are hurting my soul..... If I still have one that is.
Greek Tragedy is amazing.... The fact that it still applies in modern day is a testament to that. You must have not had good teachers... I wrote an entire thesis on the Oedipus series and another on The Illiad, The Odyssey, and The Aeneid. The were my favourite ones, not the easiest, but favourite
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