<p>My English class is currently reading “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad.</p>
<p>“The Things They Carried” is an amazing book. Wish more high schools assigned it instead of forcing the students to read dreck like “Their Eyes Were Watching God”. Dear lord, that book was terrible.</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness was madness. Sooo much stuff going on.</p>
<p>I remember when we read Catch 22. I had my wisdom teeth removed so I was all hopped up on painkillers when I was trying to get through the middle third of the book (which incidentally felt like it took forever). I fell asleep and had a dream that I was flying in a plane with Yossarian, in the scene where Snowden gets wounded, and Yossarian keeps yelling “Dive, dive, dive!” and the plane would tip forward and then climb sharply and I got all dizzy and then I woke up with an awful headache. It sucked so bad. It might be part of the reason why I hate Catch 22 so much (even though I used it (and Heart of Darkness) in my AP Lit exam).</p>
<p>Just finishing up The Sun Also Rises. My teacher has a major man-crush on Hemingway.</p>
<p>Next is gonna be Hamlet…</p>
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Jealous. I have little time to read for fun during school and I miss it. But this is on my long list of “To read.” Which will probably not be started until summer. :(</p>
<p>Jane Eyre, Heart of Darkness, Mrs. Dalloway, Hamlet (currently).</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness is excruciatingly wonderful.</p>
<p>Right now we’re studying greek drama, so we’re reading both Medea and Oedipus Rex.</p>
<p>Both are surprisingly good reads. For someone who never reads for pleasure, I’m actually finding that I want to read ahead out of class, which is a first for me.</p>
<p>We’re on Beloved right now. We just finished Hamlet. We’ve read Things Fall Apart, Heart of Darkness, and I think there was another that I can’t remember</p>
<p>I’m studying war literature, which isn’t as bad I expected…, I’m reading Regeneration by Pat Barker, Up the Line to Death by Brian Gardner, Scars Upon my Heart by Catherine Reilly and Blackadder by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton…</p>
<p>I’m dreading Shakespeare, which come next, I’ve never been a fan. Hopefully it, too, won’t be as bad as I expect…</p>
<p>As of 30 seconds ago, Of Plymouth Plantation.</p>