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    Why do you read?

    Until the Harry Potter movies came out... Now, those early Gen Z kids are absorbing Rowling's story through the DVD and the cinema and not through the books - thus their reading capabilities remain insufficient and their imagination unstimulated. While my parents and I have read the entire...
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    Share your fave snippets/quotes (from books, poetry, etc)

    "Pensive poets painful vigils keep / Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep" - Alexander Pope, "The Dunciad" Other Pope quotes exist that I like - but this is all I can remember. "To err is human, to forgive divine" ["Essay on Criticism"] is another one of Pope's but everyone...
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    Attention: those who dropped Ext 1 cause of Romanticism [Austen/Bronte]

    It's not that bad, really. Wuthering Heights - Exciting and engaging; fascinating characters (Heathcliff); impressionable scenes (beginning of Vol. 2); it's just one of those books that they tell you to read before you die. Northanger Abbey - Shorter and easier to read than Emma (if you can...
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    Paradise Lost - Worth the effort?

    Yeah, the language is a bit alienating. Personally, I went from Alexander Pope to Milton and I found Milton to be a bit disappointing ("where's the rhyme, wtf?"). But, yeah, I aspire to read Paradise Lost. When I get the time I'm going to devote myself to read the entirety of it. I look...
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    What are you currently Reading?

    Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ALMOST finished (30 pages left). I'm absolutely loving it. After that, I'll have Wuthering Heights, Northanger Abbey and Frankenstein to read for school.
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    Who has read Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events?

    I've read the whole series. I'm always a big fan of those 'what if...?' situations that arises in books, and I have a feeling that this series is possibly an over-the-top, enjoyable parody of the story technique. And the ending was just the ultimate 'what if...?' as it combined all the...
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    Epic Gayness

    Drawing? o.O Drawing what, exactly?
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    Romanticism

    Um... Blackwattle Bay Campus
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    Romanticism

    Yeah, I'm doing Romanticism. Reading Coleridge at the moment, which is a blast. To be honest, as a heterosexual male, I'm quite looking forward to Wuthering Heights and Northanger Abbey... :S Compared to doing Emma (which I could never finish) in year 11, reading these two texts, I reckon...
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    2009 EE2 Rollcall.

    Sup all. I'll be doing critical response... First idea I've had is something with a biblical focus. I'm not sure if that's the path I'll take since I haven't had a proper informative class yet for EEX2.
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