I had to read Heart of Darkness in my senior AP English class...I never even got halfway through it. That book is, in my opinion anyway, far above high school comprehension level....I think I would have to really sit down and force my way through it now even.
If Dean Koontz re-wrote it, that would be next on your list.. (JFK) How did you like Velocity ?
I had to read Heart of Darkness in my senior AP English class...I never even got halfway through it. That book is, in my opinion anyway, far above high school comprehension level....I think I would have to really sit down and force my way through it now even.
That certainly wasn't on the list in my AP class. It's in British Literature II book this semester though, a sophomore level college class. I've tried to read it on my own before, because I wanted to see the inspiration for the movie. I agree, it's a tough one to get through. Needless to say, I didn't get very far.
I've read a McCarthy book before, it does take a bit of getting used to, but once your a fair bit in, you start to not even notice it. And once I finish this up, I'm going to bum The Road off one of my friends for a nice summer read.
I had to read Heart of Darkness in my senior AP English class...I never even got halfway through it. That book is, in my opinion anyway, far above high school comprehension level....I think I would have to really sit down and force my way through it now even.
I had to read it too in AP english my senior year. My teacher was a literature freak and not only made us read it, but has us spend a month analyzing it until we came to the right conclusion. It was awful. Same thing with A dolls house, A brave new world (messed up book) etc etc.
Today I am reading Winston Churchills memoirs WOOHOO. It is actually an amazing book. It is not the full memoirs its a collection of his most important writing but put together very fluidly.
I had to read Heart of Darkness in my senior AP English class...I never even got halfway through it. That book is, in my opinion anyway, far above high school comprehension level....I think I would have to really sit down and force my way through it now even.
I had to read it too in AP english my senior year. My teacher was a literature freak and not only made us read it, but has us spend a month analyzing it until we came to the right conclusion. It was awful. Same thing with A dolls house, A brave new world (messed up book) etc etc.
Today I am reading Winston Churchills memoirs WOOHOO. It is actually an amazing book. It is not the full memoirs its a collection of his most important writing but put together very fluidly.
I lucked out there. My teacher was a Shakespeare freak, so we read and analyzed several of his plays throughout the year. Heart of Darkness was excruciating, but I rather enjoy Shakespeare.
Not a huge Shakespeare fan, not because he is writing in Ye Olde English, but I just don't find him that interesting. On the other hand, I loved Brave New World, crazy, drugged out people that do nothing but have sex for fun and are also bred in huge nurseries, all being dominated by the alpha breed. That's my idea of a cool book.
I had to read Heart of Darkness in my senior AP English class...I never even got halfway through it. That book is, in my opinion anyway, far above high school comprehension level....I think I would have to really sit down and force my way through it now even.
I had to read it too in AP english my senior year. My teacher was a literature freak and not only made us read it, but has us spend a month analyzing it until we came to the right conclusion. It was awful. Same thing with A dolls house, A brave new world (messed up book) etc etc.
Today I am reading Winston Churchills memoirs WOOHOO. It is actually an amazing book. It is not the full memoirs its a collection of his most important writing but put together very fluidly.
What's the title here? This is something I'd most definitely be interested in picking up.
Working my way through the Sherlock Holmes canon once again. Except this time, instead of lugging about my huge fully annoted and illustrated bound version (about ten pounds!) I'm reading it on my Kindle - which has become my current favorite cigar smoking accessory.
I had to read Heart of Darkness in my senior AP English class...I never even got halfway through it. That book is, in my opinion anyway, far above high school comprehension level....I think I would have to really sit down and force my way through it now even.
I had to read it too in AP english my senior year. My teacher was a literature freak and not only made us read it, but has us spend a month analyzing it until we came to the right conclusion. It was awful. Same thing with A dolls house, A brave new world (messed up book) etc etc.
Today I am reading Winston Churchills memoirs WOOHOO. It is actually an amazing book. It is not the full memoirs its a collection of his most important writing but put together very fluidly.
What's the title here? This is something I'd most definitely be interested in picking up.
Its memoirs of the second world war written by winston churchill, great book, i was never interested in world war one, but because it played such a large part in world war two, he reviewed it briefly and it was very interesting I highly recommend it.
1984 is a great book, im reading a book called made men about the new jersey mafia. i have gotten a great deal of reading done because i get to spend 2 hours outside everyday drinking a few beers smoking a nice churchill and reading. It is the most relaxing/enjoyable part of my day
Isn't that the truth...On my weekends, I spend no less than 4 hours outside reading and smoking (not all at the same time), on the weekdays I manage 1 1/2 - 2 hours. Been plowing through books.
as crazy as it sounds, i think a book on pathological anthropology would be great. unless ive mixed my words here that would be a book about how diseases have changed the way a society works.
Um... I think that's correct. I was premed for the longest time (IE two years, double majoring in psychology and biology) but I was burning myself out. So I dropped the biology and premed status and now I get to graduate a year early, and hopefully (if my GPA can recover) go on to a doctoral program. But, along the book lines, for the past month I've been trying to memorize the DSM-IV TR. Which is a snoozefest.
as crazy as it sounds, i think a book on pathological anthropology would be great. unless ive mixed my words here that would be a book about how diseases have changed the way a society works.
A book right along this line is Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. A couple of boring parts but for the most part a very interesting and emcompassing book. Lots and lots in there about disease, its origin, its effect on society and the affect on other societies as they are introduced to it and why they didn't have it on their own, etc. etc. The main thesis of the book is why cultures evolved so differently from each other.
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