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pittenweem

Humiliation: 20th-century American Fiction

Jun 14, 2006 21:14

To give me a bit of distraction from major field reading, I bring you the newest version of Humiliation. This round is twentieth-century American literary classics, books generally read in high school or college English classes that, for some reason, you never read. I realize that "classic" is somewhat subjective, but I'll be fairly open to what is ( Read more... )

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silly_dan June 15 2006, 01:32:55 UTC

OK...I haven't read anything by Hemingway other than a few short stories I don't remember well. How about The Old Man and the Sea?

pittenweem June 15 2006, 01:45:26 UTC

Yep, that's acceptable. :)

I wouldn't advise reading it, by the way. I read it in junior high and it has completely put me off Hemingway.

pittenweem June 15 2006, 01:53:55 UTC

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

spss_member June 15 2006, 01:58:00 UTC

Huckleberry Finn-Mark Twain

-ok I read the first couple lines of it but that doesn't really count does it?

pittenweem June 15 2006, 02:08:37 UTC

Huck Finn was published in 1884, so it isn't eligible for this round. Sorry!

spss_member June 15 2006, 17:25:43 UTC

ack missed the century part...

gleodream June 15 2006, 02:14:13 UTC

The Great Gatsby. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

pittenweem June 15 2006, 02:19:47 UTC

Seriously?

That's pretty good!

gleodream June 16 2006, 18:12:05 UTC

Seriously. It's quite possible that this makes a bad person. Someday, I will feel concerned and rectify the situation. Perhaps this summer, inspired by this round of Humiliation....

snowdrifted June 15 2006, 03:04:37 UTC

I'll go for Catcher in the Rye.