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Just this page alone is a blast from the past! Caesar, Separate Piece, Crime and Punishment, the Metamorphasis..... oh high school....although I did like Hamlet and A Separate Piece....

Last I read was the Communist Manifesto (well what was previewed on google books....yes I'll admit it) and the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx. Don't see what all the Marx hype is about.... *shrug*

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Last I read was the Communist Manifesto (well what was previewed on google books....yes I'll admit it) and the 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx. Don't see what all the Marx hype is about.... *shrug*


I so so so so Agree about Marx, I really can't get my head round communism/Stalinism/Lenninism etc etc fullstop, I hate studying Marx... actually I hate studying ANY historical intellectual (Nietzsche, Weber, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Hegel... they can all go BURN)

Not particularly recent literary study, becuase most of the stuff I look at at university is mainly crappy history books, but course linked stuff has been:

MAUS- Art Spiegelman
This is Man - Primo Levi
Mr Norris Changes Trains - Christopher Ishewood
The Prince - Machiavelli
The Discourses- Machiavelli
Origins of inequality - Rousseau
The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels
On the Geanalogy of Morality- Nietzsche
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirity of Capitalism - Weber

& A levels
Duchess of Malfi- Webster
Oleanna - David Mamet
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
& A whole anthology of the famous poets pretty much from Chaucer up to Stephen Crane

Maus, Oleanna, Dof Malfi, This is Man and the poetry were pretty much the only ones I liked XD

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

Very good. :P


That's next for me. I'm reading David Copperfield first.

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Nienna Anárion wrote:
Calloniel (PD) wrote:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

Very good. :P


That's next for me. I'm reading David Copperfield first.


I am in love with Great Expectations I hated reading some of it because it didn't really make sense at the time, but I was so so so glad I finished it. I loved that book. :)

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Inwe Calaelen wrote:
Nienna Anárion wrote:
Calloniel (PD) wrote:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

Very good. :P


That's next for me. I'm reading David Copperfield first.


I am in love with Great Expectations I hated reading some of it because it didn't really make sense at the time, but I was so so so glad I finished it. I loved that book. :)


I'm actually reading Nicholas Nickleby right now.

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Nienna Anárion wrote:
Inwe Calaelen wrote:
Nienna Anárion wrote:
Calloniel (PD) wrote:
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

Very good. :P


That's next for me. I'm reading David Copperfield first.


I am in love with Great Expectations I hated reading some of it because it didn't really make sense at the time, but I was so so so glad I finished it. I loved that book. :)


I'm actually reading Nicholas Nickleby right now.


Aaaand? Whatcha think? (I've yet to read it... So your opinion may move it up or down my reading list :) )

I started reading a "just for fun" book called Beastly by Alex Flinn. Its a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Thus far it is hilarious and a fun fun read. ^.^

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I am doing a free studies in the Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories so I am reading Classic Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (Wordsworth Classics) by Rex Collings (Paperback - 1 Sep 1996)

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I'm reading a lot about volunteer work and recruiting for my thesis. It's quite interesting since I also work as a volunteer.

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Pascal's "Pensées", which...is currently a plague upon the rest of my reading because it's so difficult to navigate my way around and write about without reading each part of it carefully and thoroughly...

That and "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood, which is a fascinating book, and one I recommend!

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'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck for English at school. Read it through already, we're watching the 1992 film adaptation with John Malkovich, and then we have to write a critical essay on it.
We then have to memorise our quotes and analysis, or basically the whole essay, and write it out without any notes for an exam in May :disgust: I actually don't mind the book, probably the only one in my class but still, but I don't see how memorising an essay shows how much we understood the book. The essay, yes, but any things that we forget can make our mark go way down, despite the fact it's a memory thing and not an essay thing.

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^ Know exactly what you mean, I always hated that too. I never liked closed-book exams because it just shows how well you can memorise quotes/your notes as opposed to how well you can actually write an essay.

The mark scheme for that sort of exam is also usually really vague; you have to mention certain points/facts/arguments, but it doesn't matter HOW you write them.

Best of luck, and all I can recommend is to enjoy the book, try to memorise some key quotes and facts and the critical essay at the end of it won't feel as daunting. I found the best way to write an essay like that was to consider what they -wanted- me to talk about...it's annoying, but it gets the job done.

Are you planning on studying literature later?
Because I promise that essays get a lot more interesting!

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We're doing Hemingway in class. I really like the guy. His writing style is so concise, which is something I appreciate. It's such a welcome break from things like Dickens where it just gets plain wordy in there. He's fantastic.

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I started Literature about a month ago and first we did some study on Greek Tragedy and now we're reading Antigone..I LOVE it lol but analizing a book is a *beep*, I still don't know how.

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I just wonder why every body hate great expectations ???

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