Post-HSC reading group. Anyone interested? (1 Viewer)

[MiuMiu]

Hey guys
One thing I have soooo been looking forward is being able to go back to reading books for pure interest and enjoyment rather than the crappy texts set by the damn BOS. Ive noticed some people on this board have expressed similar ideas.

So heres what I was thinking. Each week or so (starting after the HSC exams have all finished of course) we start a new novel that we all agree on and after an agreed time we discuss what we thought about it etc. Im sure we'd be able to get our own forum set up for this purpose.

I really want to be well-read for uni and am very interested as such in reading the classics (some listed below). But off course if there was something new that people wanted to read, we could do that to.

I find it good to have someone to talk to after I have finished reading a novel, and I thought since a lot of you appear to be readers....why not?

Heres the novels I really wanna read, and Im sure you all have ones to add:

• 1984
• Crime and Punishment
• The Great gatsby
• Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
• Mein Kampf
• The Scarlet Letter
• Notes from the Underground
• Farenheit 451
• Lolita
• I am the Cheese
• The Rape of the Lock (poem, I know)
• Persuasion
• Gulliver's Travels
• A Clockwork Orange
• Ragtime
• The Communist Manifesto
• Of Mice and Men
• Out of Africa
• Six Characters in Search of an Author
• The Bell Jar
• A Streetcar named desire
• Das Kapital

Let me know what you guys think!

 

[shazabdazla]

hi ms 12....yeah, i'd be interested in this idea if there were a forum..cos i live in byron so couldn't without one...but yeah...

i've been wanting to read 1984, the clockwork orange, and the scarlet letter...i'm also interested in books about law such as crime and punishment..

hmm....ok ....

 

[glitter burns]

A reading group would be neat!
I've already read a few of those books, but I'd happily read em again.

Would it be like a forum-group thing? (wow, I sound intellectual!)

 

[Giddy_Kitty69]

yeah i'd join! A clockwork orange is my fav book!!! Its soo hilarious...has anyone read fight club? - that reminded me of ACO. Hmm... but yeah i read a lot when i'm not being a ho

 

[hurrotisrobbo]

I am very, very interested.

When do we start?

(I might have to kick anyone who wants to include Harry Potter on the above list. _Classics_, please. )

 

[PRSOV]

yeh sign me up too, NOT!

 

[Nearlythere]

That sounds cool! Have you guys started this yet? Cos im interested. Also sick of crappy detective books.

 

[Huy]

I thought this thread was moved from Extension 1 English.

Post-HSC reading group. Anyone interested?
http://www.boredofstudies.org/community/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18463

I am (partially) interested, as I've noted in the above thread.

 

[Kittycat]

I so wanted to read Mein Kampf because I want to see what Hitler was thinking at the time (of course we already got a rough idea but still....). My history teacher said that it was real boring.
I wonder where I could get it....hmm....

 

[edd91]

you don't wanna read fahrenheight 451

 

[Kittycat]

what's wrong with fahrenheight 451?
(okay, I have never read the book nor have I heard of it but just am wondering what is so bad about it)

 

[s2ophie]

Originally posted by melbournian
Farenheight 451 is by Ray Bradbury isn't it?

yes