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#1 User is offline   MiddleMan 

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Posted 23 August 2008 - 05:33 PM

What books do you have to read this year?

I finally found my old post. tongue.gif

So, I would like to ask again, for this Summer, what's assigned to you, especially if you have any non-fictions to read.
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Posted 23 August 2008 - 05:36 PM

1. Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
2. The Stranger Albert Camus
3. The Awakening Kate Chopin
4. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
5. Medea Euripides
6. The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
7. Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
8. Beloved Toni Morrison

D:

This is summer reading. I'm not exactly sure what books I have to read during the school year. I only remember...Moby Richard (LOL, swear filters) D...! D:
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#3 User is offline   niihn 

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Posted 23 August 2008 - 05:52 PM

well. For the school year...lots.

but for the summer...slightly less:
"Othello" Shakespeare
"Oedipus Rex" Sophocles
"The Glass Menagerie" Tennessee Williams
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
East of Eden John Steinbeck
College SAT 100 vocab. words (2 sentences)
List of literary terms (flashcards)

so far, I completed East of Eden and The Kite Runner.
I love 'em both, but Kite Runner slightly more.
Diner Cook: She (Marge) left with rugged man.
Homer: (worried) Rugged? Is that the same thing as 'handsome'?
Diner Cook: Oh no. Handsome means he looks at himself in the mirror. Rugged means you look at him.
Homer: (groans)
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Posted 23 August 2008 - 05:55 PM

QUOTE (alicimoo @ Aug 23 2008, 07:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
1. Three Cups of Tea Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
2. The Stranger Albert Camus
3. The Awakening Kate Chopin
4. The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
5. Medea Euripides
6. The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri
7. Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
8. Beloved Toni Morrison

D:

This is summer reading. I'm not exactly sure what books I have to read during the school year. I only remember...Moby Richard (LOL, swear filters) D...! D:



Oh! I've read Siddhartha, THe stranger, & the awakening
all pretty good books (:


For my summer reading, I only had to read one book - White Noise by Don Delillo
but then a buttload of essays T_T seriously, how do they expect us to type up 14 pages of "analysis"
I hate analyzing books. -0-

Anyways, I'm not exactly sure what I'm gonna read this year for AP LANG
I'll find out soon~
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Posted 23 August 2008 - 06:00 PM

QUOTE (eunhae @ Aug 23 2008, 09:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Oh! I've read Siddhartha, THe stranger, & the awakening
all pretty good books (:

mellow.gif Are you serious?

I haven't read Siddhartha yet, but from what I hear from my friends, it's written in a really weird style and it's not that good.

I reaaally didn't like The Awakening, it was SO slow. I didn't like The Stranger either, especially the last 10 pages or so.
>__> I pretty much hate all my summer reading books, except for The Kite Runner, great book. I've gotten mixed reviews about Three Cups of Tea, but I'm just starting it now.
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Posted 23 August 2008 - 06:38 PM

QUOTE (alicimoo @ Aug 23 2008, 08:00 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
mellow.gif Are you serious?

I haven't read Siddhartha yet, but from what I hear from my friends, it's written in a really weird style and it's not that good.

I reaaally didn't like The Awakening, it was SO slow. I didn't like The Stranger either, especially the last 10 pages or so.
>__> I pretty much hate all my summer reading books, except for The Kite Runner, great book. I've gotten mixed reviews about Three Cups of Tea, but I'm just starting it now.


Haha, well, they were pretty good compared to some really strange & boring books I've read in the past lol
The awakening was SO much better than reading grapes of wrath. I nearly died reading that book
I read Siddhartha when I was in 10th grade for english & i have to admit, it was kind of strange
bc it goes back and forth so much & since it's mostly about buddhism & the journey to enlightenment
but i thought it was interesting plus a fastttt read

Yeah, the last part of The Starnger wasn't good at all
but the other parts were ok (again, compared to other books like Lone Ranger & Tonto (wtf), it was reasonable)


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#7 User is offline   alicimoo 

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Posted 23 August 2008 - 06:45 PM

QUOTE (eunhae @ Aug 23 2008, 10:38 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Haha, well, they were pretty good compared to some really strange & boring books I've read in the past lol
The awakening was SO much better than reading grapes of wrath. I nearly died reading that book
I read Siddhartha when I was in 10th grade for english & i have to admit, it was kind of strange
bc it goes back and forth so much & since it's mostly about buddhism & the journey to enlightenment
but i thought it was interesting plus a fastttt read

Yeah, the last part of The Starnger wasn't good at all
but the other parts were ok (again, compared to other books like Lone Ranger & Tonto (wtf), it was reasonable)

lol, okay, I gotta agree that those books are at least okay compared to the other books you've had to read.
I heard Grapes of Wrath was just.....hell.
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Posted 23 August 2008 - 06:48 PM

QUOTE (alicimoo @ Aug 23 2008, 08:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
lol, okay, I gotta agree that those books are at least okay compared to the other books you've had to read.
I heard Grapes of Wrath was just.....hell.


YESSSSS. I couldn't even finish the book.
I completely BS-ed the written & discussion portion of the assignment
hahahah

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Posted 23 August 2008 - 08:35 PM

My summer reading list includes:
The Scarlet Letter
In Cold Blood
Nickel and Dimed (on NOT getting by in america) <--I had a choice of 4, but I chose this one.
1st 11 chapters of "A People's History of the United States"

idk my reading list for the actual school year though...
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Posted 23 August 2008 - 08:42 PM

We got to choose our books out of a pretty selected section. Two of mine were required by my teacher.
Summer Reading for my junior year English class: Hamlet, Lord of the Flies, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Collector

Then I have to read books throughout the year
Physics: Cosmos
English: Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights
Am. History: Their Eyes Were Watching God

How long have you guys been forced to do summer reading? I did it since middle school which was the summer after 7th grade until now. Just one more year of it left ph34r.gif
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Posted 24 August 2008 - 11:11 PM

US History: The Jungle - Uptain Sinclair

Pretty good book. Tedious in the beginning but it gets interesting.

I'm pretty lucky I only have one book. Last year, I had reading for AP Lang, but the teacher for AP Lit got changed, so there wasn't any summer homework handed out due to it. xD
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Posted 25 August 2008 - 05:27 AM

Wow you guys seem to have a long list of summer reading books hhahas.

Well for me, t his is what we have to read for this summer for AP Eng Lang:
1. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand & write an essay
2. Grendel by John Gardner or The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

I chose Grendel even though I wanted to read TCOMC since I had no time to read such a huge book.
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Posted 25 August 2008 - 05:45 AM

lol, we have a list of books that we can choose from; they're categorized by the school subjects (math, science, english, history, spanish, etc).
we can either read one book from one category, or as many as we want.

i'm reading the glass castle. it's pretty good.
i wish we had twilight in our list; that'd be great. tongue.gif

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Posted 25 August 2008 - 06:25 AM

I dont have a summer reading list, but the past year(freshman)< my class read Ethan Frome, Waiting, The Bad Seed, Romeo and Juliet, and The Catcher In The Rye. Sorry, i forgot who the authors are
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Posted 25 August 2008 - 12:31 PM

-1984 : Orwell
-Pride & Prejudice : Austen
-L'Oeuvre : Zola
-Madame Bovary : Flaubert
all of them was good, Madame Bovary was a little boring through

Summer reading:

-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing : Shakespeare
-Jacques le fataliste et son maitre : Diderot

still have 2 books to read TT_TT
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Posted 25 August 2008 - 01:16 PM

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Beowulf
Grendel - John Gardner
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
The Homecoming - Harold Pinter

and some other outside readings and an entire thick poetry book....

This is the joy of taking AP English lit smile.gif
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Posted 25 August 2008 - 01:24 PM

eh i don't know my list for eng yet but for

ap gov:
money makes the world go around
worldly philosophers
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ap eng, summer readin, we just had to choose 2 from a list of 10?12?
i chose, wuthering heights, and catch 22


but for last year in honors euro lit we had to read:
the stranger
pride and prejudice <3333
beowulf, other epic poetry stuff
macbeth
a room of one's own
candide
one day in the life of ivan denisovich
A LOT OF POETRY (rime of anc mariner, and more of the really long poems sleep.gif)
we had like 3?4? poetry units sleep.gif;

& for extra credit: tale of two cities & mrs. dalloway but i didn't read the latter.

i really enjoyed reading everything above EPS PRIDE AND PREJUDICE<3
i think reading a room of one's own was enlightening. i seriously felt smarter
LOL after every class discussion.

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Posted 25 August 2008 - 01:41 PM

the system --- for gov

for english:

pride and prejudice <3 darcy smile.gif
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Posted 25 August 2008 - 01:50 PM

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I read Pride&Prejudice last year for English Honors. I loooooved it. Mr.Darcy's charming. happy.gif

QUOTE (ylk7a @ Aug 25 2008, 05:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Beowulf
Grendel - John Gardner
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard
The Homecoming - Harold Pinter

and some other outside readings and an entire thick poetry book....

This is the joy of taking AP English lit smile.gif

Please tell me this is throughout the whole year, not summer reading. mellow.gif

I read these last year in English Honors:
Beowulf
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Hamlet - Shakespeare.

I actually kinda liked Rime of the Ancient Mariner after we got through analyzing it.

And I read The Stranger for summer reading, bad book IMO.
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Posted 25 August 2008 - 03:01 PM

alicimoo: No~, haha, no way I'd read all that over the summer. My school doesn't have summer homework. It's for the whole year and apparently I got the hardest AP lit teacher this year. While we are supposed to receive 3 textbooks today, the other teacher haven't assigned a single book yet.
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