I shall just repost this here as i came a bit late to becky's weekend thread
Tonight I'll be going over my To Kill a Mockingbird GCSE notes, because tomorrow I'll be helping my nephew prepare for a timed essay on tension in Chapter 15. Then I'm taking him for tapas.
Tomorrow evening it's Nana's 70th and we're having a little soirée in my folks' house.
Sunday I haz work and household chores to attend to.

At some point amid all this I am hoping to see a mate or two and maybe have a beverage. In the house, not in the pub as I am skint.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:16, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I didn't have to read Mockingbird at school
so I only got round to reading it last year, it was brilliant. I think if I'd done it at school I would have hated it because I always ended up hating whatever book they chose, having spent a year picking it to pieces.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:18, Reply)

That is the one book that English Lit classes could not ruin for me

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:20, Reply)

I studied Capote's In Cold Blood and The Colour Purple
The latter I can't read without finding it really twee, but ICB seems to have stood the test of time for me. I keep returning to it over the years.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:24, Reply)

I have a total hatred for Jane Austen
which may not have sprung up if I'd been able to read objectively.
Damned school.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:27, Reply)

That probably explains my disdain for Wilfred Owen

(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:27, Reply)

Gawd, we had added hatred for him
because he was a 'local lad'.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:31, Reply)

I had to read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at A-Level
the constant analysis made it dull.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:44, Reply)

I read one of her tedious tomes objectively
and the rest at school. They are all shite. Boring, boring, boring, and shite.
( ascorbate, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 13:00, Reply)

Oh I'm glad I've not missed out on the boring bitch then

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 13:02, Reply)

I read Mockingbird
The Crucible (which I still love), Henry IV which we only half read, 2 books of Virgil (who I hate anyway), the most boring bit of Tacitus ever, two books of the Iliad, which were excellent, Juvenal, who is hilarious, some tragedy which was alright... Oh and assorted bits from Livy, Ovid, Xenophon, Euripides and Seneca, if I remember correctly.

I enjoyed all of them, apart from Virgil- he's not that difficult, just that his hero is the worst character ever.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:30, Reply)

I had The Crucible.
Loved it too.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:31, Reply)

Someone who was studying it at GCSE asked me a few weeks ago
if he was the only one who saw parallels with McCarthyism.

I almost punched him.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:32, Reply)

you were in my dream last night :(

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:33, Reply)

What did I do?
I had vaguely horrible dreams last night. Nto as bad as some have been
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:36, Reply)

my dreams were terrible last night
I generally have nightmares whenever I sleep, but last nights were especially bad. The first one (the one you were in) you were being mean to me ( can't remember the specifics.) The second one I was missing a leg and running through a computer generated world trying to avoid patches of mould on the ground that would infect my stump. Then lots of bizarre things happened
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:38, Reply)

I'm sorry for being mean to you!
My dream last night involved a cat who'd been hit by a car :( V. upsetting. And walking very far but not being able to.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:41, Reply)

haha thats okay
my dreams never match up to real life- they always take place on a different planet or in a different universe or whatever. So I never extrapolate from them. I know you're nice :)
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:45, Reply)

I don't like The Crucible
Too much snooker on television already.

/coat
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:33, Reply)

-burns for being a witch-

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:36, Reply)

I had the Crucible
Didn't love it though. And you know how you write your name and date in the front of school books in case you lose it? Mine had a woman's name from 1946 which freaked me out about the futility of life every time I opened it.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:45, Reply)

Aeneas is a wanker
pure and simple.

Luckily most of the set texts I had in school, I'd either read beforehand or would have disliked on principle.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:32, Reply)

He spends the first 6 books crying
forgets about his wife, fucks up an emotionally damaged yet strong and successful woman to the extent she commits suicide
then goes and shits on another guy's turf, taking everything away from him- his land, his bride and his dignity. Then he has a hissy fit over a perfectly justifiable spoils of war and BAM end of book.

Thank god he died about 5 years later.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:36, Reply)

Yeah
and people think Achilles was a bad guy.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:47, Reply)

Mockingbird
was one of only two books I enjoyed in English at school (Of Mice and Men was the other one).

I have an absolute hatred for Macbeth - I studied that shit for THREE FUCKING YEARS, for a shitty single page exam question to appear at the end
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:55, Reply)

I liked Macbeth
I only did Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Othello and the Winter's Tale.
I've read the taming of the Shrew of my own accord and that's it when it comes to William.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Fri 11 Jun 2010, 12:57, Reply)