What are you currently Reading? (4 Viewers)

[mim91]

i've just read Brave New World by Huxley
would be an awesome belonging text but not sure if i'm allowed...
is it a core text for any eng course?
im doing 3u eng btw

thanks

 

[joshwah]

Wild Swans and One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.

first post ever. exciting.

 

[Tangent]

lol, that part was weird, if i were in his position i would've done it lol
funny how he gets bashed in the end by the maurice dude...

i dont remember him getting bashed

 

[Taskan]

By Any Means - Charley Boorman

 

[BlackDragon]

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolsoy

it seems really beautiful, though I have only read a few pages.

 

[Empyrean444]

i've just read Brave New World by Huxley
would be an awesome belonging text but not sure if i'm allowed...
is it a core text for any eng course?
im doing 3u eng btw

thanks

Yes it is an excellent book. I don't think it is advisable (i myself queried the teacher on this and got told thus) because it was used as a prescribed last year in a common elective, and - more importantly - it is currently a prescribed for the sci fi ext 1 elective. Whilst I think you would be 'allowed' to use it, you would frowned upon by the markers for doing so.

 

[paperpromises]

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolsoy

it seems really beautiful, though I have only read a few pages.

I studied this book in Year 12 as a World Lit text for IB. Hated it upon first reading, but studying it helped me understand it a bit better... I reckon if I tried reading it again I'd love it.

I'm currently reading Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov. Great book Trying to get my hands on a copy of Brave New World but amazingly (for such a popular book!) I haven't been able to find it at any of the bookstores I've been going to!

 

[*Jezzza]

i've just read Brave New World by Huxley
would be an awesome belonging text but not sure if i'm allowed...
is it a core text for any eng course?
im doing 3u eng btw

thanks

Um.. I'm using Brave New World as a related authority text, a bit different to belonging but I know that some people at our school did that last year

Wild Swans and One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest.

first post ever. exciting.

Wild Swans, I love that book. Changed my views on China and what the people had to go through. Made me realise how lucky we are in Australia.

So, as mentioned, I'm reading Brave New World and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It's a really good book, I'm enjoying it so far.

 

[i.am.amanda]

Howl and other poems - Allen Ginsberg

Favorite so far: "Song"

 

[rockchickwannab]

I just read "the book thief" by markus zusak... its freaking awesome!
I'm doing it as my related text 4 belonging

halfway through "angela's ashes"... im not liking it atm, another cliche sob "my childhood was so bad" story... it won a pulitzer though

 

[irvine]

At the moment "The Aeneid - Virgil"
Pretty dry at the moment

 

[Absolutezero]

Robert Rankin - The Garden Of Unearthly Delights

I started it ages ago, but I've been so busy I've hardly read any of it.

 

[Nashie]

clive cussler - corsair (trashy i know)

still waiting for one flew over the cockoo's nest to pick up

 

[favlova]

Alice's adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
fantastic book. 4th time reading it now.

Catch me before I fall - Rosie Childs

 

[electrolysis]

Havnt read anything for ages due to half yearlies...
But, just started on The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare, reading City of Bones... her writing reminds me of Stephanie Meyer for some weird reason...

 

[Nashie]

still trying to get through cuckoo's nest, in the meantime reading another literary classic

the magic faraway tree - enid blyton

 

[Pacchiru]

umm i think i'm going with the last two books of the hitchhikers galaxy trilogy

 

[bell531]

Now, "The Brass Verdict" - Micheal Conelly

After that I will be reading "Hamlet", by none other than W Shakespeare

Then I think I might check out "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu, which has been in my room for ages



How bout that for diversity

 

[gella]

the catcher in the rye - j.d salinger

is it wrong to be in love with a fictitious character?

 

[Taskan]

The Big Sleep