<p>Title... and how do you like it?</p>
<p>Right now I'm reading Tess of the d'Urbervilles for AP Lit... christ Thomas Hardy is wordy. It's an excellent book but it's extremely descriptive and depressing (like every other book we read in AP Lit or English classes in general)</p>
<p>We finished Madame Bovary in AP Lit and are supposed to be starting A Room with a View. Madame Bovary was all right, but I'm not usually a fan of that sort of "domestic drama". I liked Flaubert's take on realism, though, that was cool. Flaubert's kinda wordy too.</p>
<p>I haven't started Room yet, but one of my friends says it's really good.</p>
<p>Okay, of the 15 or so books my AP Eng Lit teacher made my class buy this year, I'm pretty sure 10 will not be mentioned on the AP test at all. We read The Invisible Man [Ralph Waldo Ellison, not George Orwell], Wuthering Heights, and The Stranger over the summer, and those are fine, but so far this year we've done Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and My Antonia. Does that seem right?</p>
<p>[Of them all, My Antonia is my favorite.]</p>
<p>AP Lit has no set curriculum. They don't expect you to go in to the test having read ANY of the selections on it. It's basically whatever the teacher wants you to read, as long as she teaches you the strategies for analyzing literature.</p>
<p>Cat on a hot tin roof and My Antonia are actually very famous, and My Antonia is on the junior year curriculum at my school, as is Glass Menagerie, which is also by Tennessee Williams.</p>
<p>We are reading Ishmael in my sophmore honors english class</p>
<p>We just finished Hamlet, A Man for All Seasons, Becket, and Much Ado About Nothing.</p>
<p>Right now I think we're going into our poetry unit, but the next two books that we have to read (and knowing the teacher they'll both be due on the monday after next, or so) are Cat's Cradle and Candide.</p>
<p>For Comp, I just read Brave New World, and we're starting Wuthering Heights next week :(</p>
<p>I hate Wuthering Heights.</p>
<p>We just got finished (thank god) with Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel [sadist] Hawthorne</p>
<p>We're going to start Fast Food Nation soon :)</p>
<p>I can't wait for the AP Lit exam, I'm going to write all my essays on A Clockwork Orange and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.</p>
<p>We're starting Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Fun.</p>
<p>Hamlet, currently. Just finished My Antonia before it (which is, by the way, a terrible work of literature).</p>
<p>In my Adv. English class, we're reading Great Expectations. Charles Dickens is brilliant, but is way to wordy for my own good.</p>
<p>We're doing an independent book selection now. I chose The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway.</p>
<p>The others read Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. I sparknoted the summary. </p>
<p>Other than that, no books; just a lot of boring short stories which I fell asleep in.</p>
<p>We are just finishing up "Bless Me, Ultima," and moving on to "A Separate Peace." </p>
<p>For separate AP English reading groups, we're reading Oedipus Rex and Heart of Darkness. </p>
<p>And for Gov, we're reading "Is Democracy Possible Here?" </p>
<p>Lots of reading, but all very good books.</p>
<p>I read Bless Me, Ultima last year, LOVED it!</p>
<p>We already read Tess of the d'Urbervilles (ugh). We just finished Macbeth and now we're starting The Sun Also Rises which is one of my favorite books of all time so I'm happy about it.</p>
<p>We read A Farewell to Arms at the beginning of the year, and then every few weeks we read two novels and write a kind of report/essay synthesizing the two. Last, I read The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World. I'm now reading Independence Day by Richard Ford and Rabbit is Rich by John Updike. Some of my friends read Shakespeare, Fight Club, Lolita, 1984, random poetry, Voltaire.</p>
<p>We finished Heart of Darkness, the worst book EVER.</p>
<p>We just read Hamlet and we read The Canterbury Tales a couple weeks ago. We are now going on to read Jane Eyre, in my English Lit. class.</p>