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I liked Twelfth Night and Comedy of Errors in high school, and also Chaucer.
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Really though what the gently caress are you supposed to learn from Ethan Frome other than that it's boring and lovely? Yeah wow sad farmer in the snow with sick wife has a sad life and then fucks his cousin for awhile but then that gets hosed up too and now he's sad farmer in the snow with sick wife and a limp. Like I guess maybe the lesson is supposed to be "if she can't gently caress, leave her"?
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Feb 3, 2016 06:29
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Julius Caesar, because our teacher brought in a cassette tape and we had to follow along in the book while listening to the tape, and she'd walk around to make sure everyone was on the correct page so you couldn't even read ahead without getting in trouble. The tape wasn't a recording of a performance either, it was just some dude reading the lines from the book.
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Feb 3, 2016 07:05
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Uncle Toms cabin Historically significant but as literature what a mess
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Feb 3, 2016 07:17
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worst book was homecoming by cynthia voigt what a piece of depressing hot garbage my god she somehow cranked out 7 books on the same characters jesus christ it couldnt be less interesting and more depressing and cheerless if it wanted to
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Feb 4, 2016 19:53
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Suzuki Method posted:in high school we had to read this book out loud in class taking turns and it was about some black slave kid on a plantation, and every student kept pausing uncomfortably and then saying ahem... 'the ennnn werdddddd' every time it came up. at one point i actually read aloud the word friend of the family (heh... im a edge lord Frozen register, it's fine.
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Feb 4, 2016 20:32
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Did anyone else have to reenact Shakespeare books on camera then watch them in class? We had to do this poo poo twice and it was absolute hell. In 9th grade we had to do it for Romeo and Juliet and in 11th for Othello. The video had to be like 20 minutes long and we had 2 options: A. Dress in costumes from that era and translate the script into contemporary English or B. Say the original lines completely from memory and make it a reimagining (we used Grease) and dress according to that It was horrible, no one in our assigned group had a video camera so we had to pool money to buy a camera then get it edited and it took for loving ever to memorize lines in a dialect we barely understood because we were 14 and English wasn't the first language of half our group. Also our teacher had a complete meltdown anytime a kid said Shakespeare wasn't modern English.
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Feb 5, 2016 18:59
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The Crucible
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Feb 5, 2016 19:03
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That sounds dumb, the only time I can remember having to make a video for an English class was for my Senior year after the AP test (but also after there was a new rule from the district saying AP class students still have to show up after the AP test because attendance money YOU loving ASSHOLES) and the teacher said 'just make a short movie we can watch, keep it PG.' I have some recollection of banging some prop swords together in Freshman English for some reason but idk. Usually we just watched actual movies that were modern takes on that stuff - like that version of Hamlet with Leonardo di Caprio in it. Also there was a Romeo and Juliet where the teacher was like 'okay this next part has naked boobs so if you don't want to see just look away' and then 'accidentally' slow-mo'd it for a bit. That was cool. Did anyone read Turn of the Screw? loving boring for what it was imo but maybe I just don't remember it well or I was a dumb kid when I read it.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:03
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"School"... What a retard concept for automaton tools
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Feb 5, 2016 19:06
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KIT HAGS posted:Did anyone else have to reenact Shakespeare books on camera then watch them in class? We had to do this poo poo twice and it was absolute hell. In 9th grade we had to do it for Romeo and Juliet and in 11th for Othello. Yeah that teacher was a tool. How dare they give you some creative freedom while forcing you to understand and interpret a piece of literature.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:08
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KIT HAGS posted:Did anyone else have to reenact Shakespeare books on camera then watch them in class? We had to do this poo poo twice and it was absolute hell. In 9th grade we had to do it for Romeo and Juliet and in 11th for Othello. I remember a few of these--we had to do one for Julius Caesar and one for the Canterbury Tales. I remember having cheesy credits for the Julius Caesar one and playing Bad Religion's "Stranger Than Fiction" over them, get it? Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction! Which got this cute punk chick to start talking to me in 9th grade, which was cool, though nothing ever really came of it, I guess.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:10
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Jerry Mumphrey posted:i'm trying to find it! i wish i could remember the title Voted 5
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Feb 5, 2016 19:18
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KIT HAGS posted:Did anyone else have to reenact Shakespeare books on camera then watch them in class? We did have to do a creative work based on MacBeth, but we could choose the medium and whether or not to work in a group. I performed the cauldron scene in front of the class with a group of other girls, we used dry ice and Beanie Babies as prop ingredients. When it came time for the witches to dance around the cauldron the other girls playing witches hung back when I expected them to dance with me, so I was jumping and twirling around all by myself. (Why would you volunteer to perform as a character who's supposed to dance and then not dance? It's wasn't like they were forced to perform the cauldron scene, it was a free choice assignment!  ) At least I got compliments on my performance.  The only other work I remember from that unit was a series of drawings one boy did of MacBeth and MacDuff as dueling samurai. You'd think they'd have been lame seeing as how they were drawn by a teenage boy, but he was actually really talented and they came out great.
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Feb 5, 2016 19:24
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FishionMailed posted:Did anyone read Turn of the Screw? loving boring for what it was imo but maybe I just don't remember it well or I was a dumb kid when I read it. now i wait for that one mouthbreather to defend it as a modern psychological horror masterpiece like he did before
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Feb 5, 2016 20:19
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The Catcher in the Rye for me, but that probably had to do with the fact that it hit a little too close to home in a few aspects.
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Feb 5, 2016 20:48
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KIT HAGS posted:It was horrible, no one in our assigned group had a video camera so we had to pool money to buy a camera then get it edited and it took for loving ever to memorize lines in a dialect we barely understood because we were 14 and English wasn't the first language of half our group. maybe this is my first world problems, but your school didn't have an a/v department or club that would let you borrow equipment?
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Feb 5, 2016 21:05
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a separate peace was super dumb ahhh god im a piece of poo poo gently caress i killed my best friend who i also hate.
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Feb 5, 2016 22:13
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Feb 5, 2016 22:14
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exethan posted:a separate peace was super dumb Dude wanted to gently caress him, hth.
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Feb 5, 2016 22:16
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Catcher in the Rye is great. How can you not laugh at Holden getting beat up by a pimp?
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Feb 5, 2016 22:27
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Of Human Bondage is garbage that burned into my brain forever Oh yeah and I had to read it over the SUMMER
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Feb 5, 2016 22:43
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gently caress classes that gave summer work out for real though. Signed up for AP Euro History as an incoming freshman because of adults encouraging me to do so, next thing I knew I had to attend some meeting in June at the high school where I was given a massive reading/notes/homework assignment. I mean poo poo I hadn't even started attending the loving school yet and I had a huge-rear end homework project!!!
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Feb 5, 2016 23:03
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Man, there were a bunch I hated. Beloved was a total snooze. I can't remember the name of it now, but there was one about a woman that wasn't happy in her marriage, and I think at the end she drowned herself? It's bugging me that I can't remember the title of that crap-fest. Any time we had to read Ernest Hemingway. Seriously, eff Hemingway. No wonder he offed himself.
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Feb 5, 2016 23:59
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"A Crime in the Neighbourhood" - not so much for the book, but because it was set against a backdrop that our country had absolutely no context for and wasn't even taught in our history classes. It's kind of hard to appreciate the loss of innocence as a theme when your only exposure to Richard Nixon is a head in a jar.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:03
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LadyPictureShow posted:I can't remember the name of it now, but there was one about a woman that wasn't happy in her marriage, and I think at the end she drowned herself? It's bugging me that I can't remember the title of that crap-fest. i'm afraid you're going to have to be more specific. i mean this is the plot to m night shyamalan's children's book
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Feb 6, 2016 00:05
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The White Dragon posted:maybe this is my first world problems, but your school didn't have an a/v department or club that would let you borrow equipment? There weren't enough between the other classes that had the assignment and the artsy kids doing whatever they were doing.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:15
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LadyPictureShow posted:Man, there were a bunch I hated. Thats the awakening, OP.
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Feb 6, 2016 00:19
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is it cool not to like Hemingway or something? what's so offensive about him? anyone can read his prose and the books are good, so what the gently caress?
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Feb 6, 2016 00:40
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radiatinglines posted:anyone can read his prose and the books are good, so what the gently caress? i mean i don't read hemingway habitually or anything but hell that plain modern english tone is one of my favorite parts same thing with ee cummings
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Feb 6, 2016 00:51
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Anais Nun posted:The Reverend Dimmesdale did it. He honestly loving does. the book would be better if Hawthorne actually shat on the puritans as much as he pretends to. the only sorta likable person is the bad guy. hester prynne is to much of an idiot/jesus stand-in to sell old dimmsdale down the river for leaving her with some spastic bastard. the book is boring and sucks and hawthorne is a pretentious oval office. but honestly the worst book i read was the picture of dorian gray. its boring, everyone is cut out. dorian is some fop who does awful poo poo because he made a dumb wish and because he read some french porno book. he causes some peoples death then dies when he kills his soul. sucks, because i like Oscar Wildes other stuff.
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The Revenant posted:Thats the awakening, OP. Ah, thanks! Looked up the summary on wikipedia, and yep, that's the one. radiatinglines posted:is it cool not to like Hemingway or something? what's so offensive about him? anyone can read his prose and the books are good, so what the gently caress? I'm not hating on Hemingway trying to be 'cool', I just don't care for the fact that all his stuff is just bleak as Hell. I dunno, I do like books with downer subject matter, but I just don't care for his writing. LadyPictureShow fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Feb 6, 2016 |
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Feb 6, 2016 00:53
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I hate to read the french lieutenant's woman for a british lit class in college and it was really really really loving bad. the author just had a huge loving boner for victorian england and would go off on like 15 page rants about hwo much whatever was going on in the story was better then than it is now. the worst was like this 12 page derail about how much better sex was in victorian england because people didnt just run around loving all willynilly like they do now so it was special and super good and it actually meant something. and then the sex scene was like "he humped her three times and blew his load" only like he tried to make that sound erotic and romantic lmao
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radiatinglines posted:is it cool not to like Hemingway or something? what's so offensive about him? anyone can read his prose and the books are good, so what the gently caress?
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Feb 6, 2016 01:27
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symbolic posted:i tried reading For Whom the Bell Tolls sophomore year and could not get into it at all it starts a little slow i guess but it is really good
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Feb 6, 2016 01:28
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Nooner posted:it starts a little slow i guess but it is really good
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Raku posted:Of Human Bondage is garbage that burned into my brain forever ya having kids read books over the summer is just bound to make said books seem worse than they actually are like i had to read king lear. i hated it. but i dunno if it was because of the book itself, or because it was summer and i was stuck inside having to annotate freaking king lear.
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Skipped the whole thread to say "All Quiet On The Western Front". Like WWI might have been one of the most hosed up things that has ever happened, and that fucker still managed to make it into a very boring book. Also one time I had an English teacher give me a copy of "The Mayor of Casterbridge" about a dude who gets drunk and sells his wife, then faces consequences later. Addendum: gently caress Johnny Tremaine right in his rear end too, but I guess that was more like junior high. sock it to me! fucked around with this message at 07:08 on Feb 6, 2016 |
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Mak0rz posted:Are you seriously not familiar with the story of Oedipus Rex? Everyone is
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