<p>Haha Heart of Darkness. I really kind of TRY to appreciate that book but find myself incapable. This was possibly because I was asleep while I read the last half of the book, but who knows.</p>
<p>ah i hate that book. i never finished it even though we need it for ap english. good luck!</p>
<p>Whoa! We just finished HOD in English. Our discussion was amazing (if not a little vicious)</p>
<p>I read Heart of Darkness for history class. Luckily, no need to discuss literary techniques!
Right now in English we just started "Waiting for Godot." It is soooooo weird.</p>
<p>^I read Waiting for Godot (well, En Attendant Godot) in French class in 10th grade. I think "weird" is precisely the right word to describe it. :p</p>
<p>What is your favorite book that you've read for any class in high school?
I definitely don't know the answer...we've read so many awesome things.</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby, probably. There have been others that I've liked, but that has to be my favorite.</p>
<p>(edit: getting closer to that 1,000th post! there's no way I can shut up until Thursday, though, so I guess I'll be shooting for 1,500? ;))</p>
<p>Let's see, 1984 and Brothers Karamazov are right there at the top, partly because I actually wanted to read them. I liked Brothers K partly because I was so proud of myself that I finished the 974 pages or whatever, so I felt I had to like it. But in seriousness, it was a phenomenally written book, and has fascinating themes.</p>
<p>haha j07 i know what you mean about HOD. i believe i was half asleep through the entire thing. all i remember of it is a river and a forest and heads on stakes or something...</p>
<p>anyone else read crime and punishment for school? i thought it was amazing... although i would have liked it even better if we hadn't been reading it right before the ED decisions came out, when all i wanted to do was pace up and down and stress out on CC haha.</p>
<p>The other IB English HL class at my school read Crime and Punishment; we read something else instead, I can't remember what.</p>
<p>We read C&P too! The first book for AP4--summer reading. Lots of snide remarks made about the English dept during that time, but mostly in friendly banter.</p>
<h1>1 Post I will put my stat after my possible rejection!! I got a likely from Cornell , got accepted to UVA to their Honors program, UMDCP Honors and Gemstone with a full ride, I think I will live but I am 99% sure that I will be rejected.</h1>
<p>I think my fave book was perhaps Age of Innocence. Or Frankenstein.</p>
<p>Frankenstein was pretty awesome. Favorite book - with less of literary merit than the above choices >=( - has got to be Pullman's His Dark Materials.</p>
<p>I loved Crime and Punishment. Frankenstein was also very good. I think my favorite book still has to be Animal Farm, though. It's a very simple book, but that's what makes it so incredible.</p>
<p>I seriously can't even begin to pick a favorite. Animal Farm, Night, The Great Gatsby, All the Pretty Horses, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, 1984, All My Sons (not even a novel), Lolita, The God of Small Things, Of Mice and Men, etc. etc. I could think of about 75 more.</p>