<p>i have to read American History A Survey</p>
<p>OP= good luck on the ODyssey..Its huge...</p>
<p>School reading:
Emma by Jane Austen
and something like life without Michael or something on those lines!
Non school reading:
Les miserables(was in opera last yr now i want to read book!)
umm one/2 history books from library...
imma about to go to library right now to get books!</p>
<p>apparently faulkner is the biggest load of rubbish...his meaningless stream of conciousness writings have been mistaken for profound, when in fact they are...meaningless.</p>
<p>to kill a mockingbird seems to be an essential read in america - is it like a core part of the curriculum or something?</p>
<p>thought huckleberry finn was the essential american read</p>
<p>Southern Lit is one of my favorites: Flannery O'Connor is a must, and Tennessee Williams too, if you're interested. Eudora Welty is another good Southern short story writer.</p>
<p>I finished White Noise by DeLillo, now maybe a book of Russian history or The Satanic Verses, we'll see what I'm in the mood for.</p>
<p>I read both the Illiad and the Odyssey. Fun stuff to read. Translations of course. I have the copy by Lombardo of the Illiad on my desk..its quite a classic.</p>
<p>satanic verses by salman rushdie, or satanic verses as in the actual verses in the Qur'an said to be influenced by satan (who doesn't exist in Islamic thought so i don't know what's going on there...)?</p>
<p>i read something by flannery o'connor - 'everything that rises must converge'. it was good. satirised the preconception that racism=bad and being liberal=good.</p>
<p>Dante's Inferno, some O.Henry short stories, Sidney Sheldon novels, and maybe (re)read some of the in-class reading from junior/senior year that I never read during the school year.</p>
<p>The freshman is really really good! it's hilarious and plus it'll make you think of all of the college times we have/had</p>
<p>I'm also reading: </p>
<p>Heart Myths by Dr. Chirstian Barnard</p>
<p>If I can. I hope so.</p>
<p>Faulkner's awesome because his works can be viewed in so many different ways: timeless "fables" meant to instill morals, traditional "epics," southern social commentaries specific to Faulkner's time period, modernistic--it just depends on how you look at them. :)</p>
<p>faulkner is a wanna be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! like you leah!</p>
<p>american pastoral
all the pretty horses
blood meridian or the evening redness in the west
the satanic verses
how to win friends and influence people***</p>
<p>Girl With a Pearl Earring
Lolita
Wide Sargasso Sea
The Woman in White
Gone With the Wind (yeah... I've never read that)
Anna Karenina (if I feel up to it)</p>
<p>get the anotated version of lolita...its got as many references and allusions in it as ullyses.</p>
<p>bought 'juliette' by marquis de sade today - a 1200 page meditation on sadism. should be a jaunty read.</p>
<p>Thanks, I will!</p>
<p>Life of Pi, The Good Earth, Crime and Punishment, Snow Falling on Cedar, King Lear, The Grapes of Wrath, Sons and Lovers, and A Tale of Two Cities.</p>
<p>I also might be reading this book called "Heart Myths" by Christian Barnard. :)</p>
<p>I started didn't finish.</p>
<p>You Are A Turd And A Very Dedicated Turd I Love Turds And Turds Are Nice But Not Clean Turd Were Aret Though Bitac</p>
<p>started 'magister ludi (the glass bead game)' by hermann hesse about an hour ago. not bad so far. i think most americans study 'siddhartha' so you're all familiar with him? he's very out of fashion in europe :(</p>