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Old 05-29-2014, 01:34 PM   #61 (permalink)
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I just found it boring, honestly. It dragged for me and didn't keep my interest. I didn't want to read it anymore but had to because of my project. I actually chose the book, because it was a class on American Classics and I hadn't read it before.
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Old 05-29-2014, 01:37 PM   #62 (permalink)
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I just found it boring, honestly. It dragged for me and didn't keep my interest. I didn't want to read it anymore but had to because of my project. I actually chose the book, because it was a class on American Classics and I hadn't read it before.
Interesting. I've never encountered anyone who didn't like it so some degree, but apples and orange, tomatoes, tomatos. Certainly an interesting selection for a school project.
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Actually Trainspotting and Marabou Stork Nightmares might be on my 'required reading for humanity' list.
The first time I tried reading Trainspotting I couldn't get into it at all. It was the first of Welsh's books I'd attempted to read and the whole "accent" thing made it hard for me to get into, hey give be a break I was like 15(?), but once I attempted it a little later I really liked it.
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Interesting. I've never encountered anyone who didn't like it so some degree, but apples and orange, tomatoes, tomatos. Certainly an interesting selection for a school project.
When I was an education major, I wanted to write a class plan. There's a name for it but I can't remember it for the life of me. Like I made a schedule and activities for the class and what we would do etcetc
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i honestly think that this is exactly what i liked about her writing

hmmm i have never read anything by Hornby or Copeland.....guess i need to remedy that

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

probably my favorite memoir
Yes! Love Eggers. Running With Scissors is another personal favorite but I don't know if I'd consider it a memoir due to the embellishments Burroughs made, nor would I call it required reading. Dave Eggers > David Sedaris too.



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Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange
W.G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn
Shakespeare's Hamlet
James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist As a Young Man


A Clockwork Orange, good choice. Ditto for Invisible Man.

I know this choice will be met with derision but The Perks Of Being A Wallflower has to be on there for me. It was the literary equivalent of playing songs on constant repeat as a teenager, I could read it over and over and still be emotionally affected. Same for Bastard Out Of Carolina by Dorothy Allison.
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If anyone has any e-Books they want to share, I'm always very appreciative haha.
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Yes! Love Eggers. Running With Scissors is another personal favorite but I don't know if I'd consider it a memoir due to the embellishments Burroughs made, nor would I call it required reading. Dave Eggers > David Sedaris too.







A Clockwork Orange, good choice. Ditto for Invisible Man.

I know this choice will be met with derision but The Perks Of Being A Wallflower has to be on there for me. It was the literary equivalent of playing songs on constant repeat as a teenager, I could read it over and over and still be emotionally affected. Same for Bastard Out Of Carolina by Dorothy Allison.
this actually reminds me that i really need to read more books by Eggers....suggestion?

it's weird....for as much that i absolutely love everything Burroughs ever did....i don't think i would call any of his work "required" reading

i have not read The Perks of Being a Wallflower....but i love the movie
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this actually reminds me that i really need to read more books by Eggers....suggestion?

it's weird....for as much that i absolutely love everything Burroughs ever did....i don't think i would call any of his work "required" reading

i have not read The Perks of Being a Wallflower....but i love the movie

Yeah, I don't think I could put anything by Augusten Burroughs on the list either. I briefly considered Dry but again, great book, not mandatory reading.

As far as more Eggers goes, I really enjoyed Zeitoun - it's about a Syrian immigrant helping to rebuild New Orleans post - Katrina.
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