<p>We're about to finish 1984.</p>
<p>Finished Macbeth, reading The Handmaid's Tale... moving on to Gatsby.</p>
<p>Oh, and just to answer the OP's question, I just finished Emma and am currently 6 chapters into Catcher in the Rye (which I think is pointless so far). Emma was sooo boring at first, but wow, Jane Austen is amazing!</p>
<p>I have a question for all of you reading these books. Do you actually go over and analyze the books in class? Or do you just read it out of class and take plot quizzes/quotation quizzes/literary device quizzes?
If English Literature does not have a curriculum, wouldn't that mean the teachers will have an easier time preparing the class for the AP tests by teaching techniques and methods for analyzing texts? I'm just a bit confused because Eng Lit AP has literally been a hell of sorts for me this school year. We barely do anything in class (the teacher attempts to cover "key" points but usually only covers maybe 1/4 of the reading material's content) and the teacher comes up with these quizzes that don't seem to have any meaning except to see how badly we can fail them. Recalling one line quotations from a five act play doesn't seem to be relevant to the AP test.</p>
<p>On that note, I've read Hamlet and am reading the Inferno</p>
<p>LOL, we've taken... 1 quiz on the 12 books we've read thus far in AP Lit; all we do is discuss them in class and watch movies. We're not preparing for the AP exam or any silly nonsense like that, though; what we discuss pertains more to what we thought of various parts of the novels and not any careful analysis of theme (or things similar).</p>
<p>Moby Dick!</p>
<p>Scarlet Letter was brutal.</p>
<p>i adore the scarlet letter</p>
<p>Dubliners- great stuff</p>
<p>Jane Eyre. The idea behind the novel is good and quite progressive, in view of Charlotte Bronte's contemporaries, but the style is boring. I don't like to be one of those people who complain that the main point could be easily disclosed in a pithy sentence, because other authors meaningfully decorate and embellish, but I could really do without Bronte's stultiloquence.</p>
<p>Fahrenheit 451 and 1984 we have already finished; we're currently reading As You Like It.</p>
<p>We got to choose the book we're reading right now.
Right now I'm reading "First They Killed My Father" by Loung Ung.
I definitely think that this book is well worth the read.</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter was the worst book I've ever read, the only one I've ever completely given up on, not finished, and just used sparknotes for.</p>
<p>Just finished The Scarlet Letter and we're now reading certain sections of Leaves of Grass.</p>
<p>And I'm reading Love in the Time of Cholera for an independent project.</p>
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<p>I hate that book.</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness.</p>
<p>cringe.</p>
<p>I miss the novels from my last year's English class :|
Scarlet Letter is amazingg</p>
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<p>That book should be destroyed.</p>
<p>We have read 1984, Brave New World, Antigone, Catcher in the Rye, and Macbeth.</p>
<p>Currently reading Merchant of Venice.</p>
<p>Native Son! then Catch-22 after that. We just finished Scarlet Letter, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and a bunch of creative nonfiction essays and short stories.</p>
<p>I am starting Macbeth. Just read Oedipus Rex- it was great. Before Oedipus we read a bunch of short-stories.</p>
<p>Catch-22 is hilarious, I know some parts actually made me laugh out loud.</p>
<p>This whole site reminds me of Ender's Game. [Who's read it and knows what I'm talking about?]</p>