<p>^Haha, yes indeed. 
Good stuff.</p>
<p>^^I liked The Things They Carried as well, and though I’m not generally into war books, it was worth the read.</p>
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<p>I hate this book. So much. It’s just not my type of thing. I read it along with Jane Eyre and I have to say Jane Eyre is better (but to me that’s like…cutting off my right hand is slightly better than cutting off my left)</p>
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<p>Aw, you made me cry. 
I actually prefer Wuthering Heights to Jane Eyre by a wide margin.</p>
<p>^Sorry, I don’t care to read romances, and some classics drag. So a classic romance with no humor just…bugged me. I hate wuthering heights byronic dude more than jane eyres’ byronic dude. That’s mainly why, it’s not a wide margin that I like one more, it’s like…a lesser of two evils to me.</p>
<p>I was tired of reading Guns,Germs, and Steel so I decided to read Confessions of a Shopaholic because it sounded like a fun read. It was actually a very funny book. I couldn’t really relate to Rebecca because I can’t imagine lying to banks and being in debt, but it was still a good read.</p>
<p>^^You didn’t even like Jane Eyre :(?</p>
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<p>Haha, I actually preferred Jane Eyre over the other one by a wide margin… Idk, I just never liked Heathcliff that much :].</p>
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<p>Heh, good 'ol Healthcliff is an acquired taste. Plus, I wouldn’t consider it to be an entirely romantic novel - it has more correlations with the Neo-Gothic artistic movement than with that of the Romanticists, though you could make an exceptionally strong case for the latter as it pertains to literature. However, I like tying literature to the fine arts more, as the parallels become a bit clearer - at least for me. :)</p>
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<p>Fair enough.</p>
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<p>People on this thread are determined to hack my heart into pieces. I am rereading Guns, Germs, and Steel and redoing the assignment that came with it sophomore year for pleasure. How can you not like the book?! I mean, that story with the sheep is classic. 
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<p>I guess the brooding male stereotype is losing its appeal…?</p>
<p>@calico It was…okay, I liked it when she was on her own and turning down her religious cousin, also telling off her aunt in the beginning and that friend of hers that basically calls her a brat. Otherwise…nah.</p>
<p>@crimsonivy You only need to read, like, 2 chapters of guns, germs, and steel anyway since it all just repeats itself.</p>
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<p>LOL. Sad, but true.</p>
<p>But the book is still fire.</p>
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<p>I actually wanted to see that pairing happen, because in the back of my mind, a question was nagging me: could Jane melt the ice surrounding his poor, shriveled heart?</p>
<p>Dude, I hate how many ways there were to analyze jane eyre and wuthering height, my ee on the two was nearly TWICE of the max so I narrowed it down to just the gothic elements and all that and that just went over my max. Both set in depressing settings (compared to how the sisters grew up), hauntings, sickness, yadda yadda (I concluded something about jane eyre being less gothic because of the different endings, something about romance, a dash of subtle sarcasm but my IB teacher never caught it and I remember my EE was ranked as the second highest in the class…hated it). Still did nothing since I don’t care for classic gothic work (black cat by poe and dr. jekyll&hyde are the only ones that I can think of that I liked, and I’ve read a good amount sadly).</p>
<p>^seriously? I was like…no way, he needs to marry that pretty girl and get over himself</p>
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<p>No one likes a happy man in a romance novel. ;)</p>
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<p>"/endgeneralization " -> You don’t need to say ‘end’. That’s what the ‘/’ is for.</p>
<p>^Ugh, why be a stickler this late? Let it fly. :p</p>
<p>I feel it is my duty to be annoying at any time of day or night.</p>
<p>^It’s not annoying, just sadly pedantic. ;)</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby - LOVED it. I had to read it a while ago for school, and I loved it so I read it again. And again.</p>
<p>anyone read the human touch: our part in the creation of a universe before?</p>
<p>^^I thoroughly enjoyed The Great Gatsby.</p>