brushing up on the classics

[manikaitwing]

Now that HP is done with, I'm reading classic books I never got a chance to read in school. I've started with 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' and I really like it so far. I mean, it's almost as hard to put down as Deathy Hallows was (mostly because I had a serious need to find out what happened to the Malfoys and to Snape). It might have something to do with

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[bonnieslasher]

Eeek. Man, I liked TKaM, but I only had to read it once! The Great Gatsby and Taming of the Shrew were the banes of my going through various schools.

The Good Earth is a heartwrenching read, as far as assigned reading goes. I read it by mistake when I got confused about which class reading list was mine >_<

[manikaitwing]

heh, I've done the whole 'read from the wrong list' bit before. Luckily my teacher gave me credit anyway. :P I've read Great Gatsby before. Also, Jane Eyre. But I've never had a book repeated as much as TKaM.

[thorintatge]

Clearly, you killed a mockingbird when you were young and have been punished for it ever since.

I've been vaguely thinking of making a story I'm going to be working on soon sort of emotionally similar to TKaM. If you feel like spewing any random insight about the book just to get it out of your system, feel free. :)

With me, it was Plato's dialogues. I had to read them four times in college. I got really sick of Plato and wished I could study some kooky pre-Socratics and whatnot.

[manikaitwing]

lol. Not a mockingbird, but I did do something that lead to the death of a rabbit. Felt horrible. ;_; Basically, since I know you're gonna ask, I was a dumb 5 year old and brought the bunny up into the treehouse. It decided it wanted to try and get down by itself. -.-; So it jumped.

But I heard Aristotle's a prick when it comes to woman. Have never read Plato.

[manikaitwing]

Ahem. Women. XD

[freke_whitemane]

I missed almost every single classic going through public school. And inc ollege we got assigned different stuff so,,,,,,

now if you want to talk about classics of scifi, fantasy etc... I'm all ears :)