American Literature

[Xelebes]

Now, now. No thread derailing here... there is more to discuss still.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Now, now. No thread derailing here... there is more to discuss still.

I had meant to start a new thread! I pushedte wrong button.





All fixed!

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Aside from 1984, the other awsom book that I love from back in high school is Grapes of Wrath. I really love that book.



ONly book I started and purposly never finished- for whom the bell tolls

As a HS freshman they hit us with "David Copperfield" and "Ivanhoe" by Walter Scott and I just about gave up reading right then and there. Still can't look at Dickens to this day. Luckily we also had a book of short stories called "Great Tales of Action and Adventure" (still remember the title) that had some great stuff in it: "Leninger Versus the Ants", "The Tell-tale Heart".

As a sophomore I had a great English teacher who had us read "Catcher in ther Rye", "Inherit the Wind", "Of Mice and Men". He also made us write like fiends: at least 3 pieces a week, essays, stories (a fairy tale, a perfect murder, a horror story, all sorts of stuff), even TV ads for fictitious products. One of the essay topics was "euthanasia", and of course some kids handed in essays that began "The youth in Asia are very poor..."

---dr.M.

 

[sweetnpetite]

LOVE Dickens!

That reminds me-

Great Expectations :swoon:

 

[dee1124]

LOVE Dickens!

That reminds me-

Great Expectations :swoon:

Yeah, love Dickens, too! Sorry, Dr. M, but you might want to try him now that it's been a few years.

Haven't gotten to Great Expectatons, Sweet, but Little Dorritt, Copperfield, Olver Twist ... ah!

Of course, this is a little off track for American Lit. Speaking of which, try Breakfast at Tiffany's. Not the Holly Golightly you know from the movies.

-- Dee