Posted on 05/30/2014 12:34:14 PM PDT by EveningStar
You probably SparkNoted these books before, but now's your chance to read them.
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I need a copy of “Heart of Darkness” that uses a font large enough to actually read. The version I have is almost unreadable without a magnifying glass.
Except for #1,#7, and #10 good list.
I can’t believe they left out “Killdozer”.
I’d add The Sun Also Rises and The Scarlet Letter, which I teach. Great novels.
What don’t you like about Vikings, Hornblower, and Green Berets?
Ann Frank - I read a long time ago...
Please note the cover art for “Animal Farm.”
As I’ve written more about education, I’ve become convinced that that pig is, in truth, the face of the Education Establishment. You want to know why so many millions of children can’t read or do basic math, look at that face.
I just finished reading Frankenstein. Not as good as Middlemarch, but better than Love in the Time of Cholera.
I’m glad I read it. I’ve always been so impressed that she wrote the story as a lark, but created a tale that has lived forever after.
Could it be said the Frankenstein is the first science-fiction story?
Seriously, you need to read a book to understand that? You must have lead a very sheltered life!
Bttt
Ira Levin’s “This Perfect Day”
He wrote “Rosemary’s Baby”,didn’t he? That was a good, if terrifying read. The movie is great too. It so much captures that time in NYC, and the bright summer scenes are such a great contrast with the horror at the heart of the story.
Ill check our your recommendation.
“I would much rather see the movie first.”
That’s my non-reader daughter’s advice. And maybe it’s right. After my complete frustration with “Silver Linings Playbook”....I had to stop watching it because all I kept doing was saying “That’s not how it is in the book!”
And my kid said: you’d never say the reverse, would you? And I had to agree.
For example, I said before I just read Frankenstein, very different from the movie. But could I get annoyed with Ms. Shelley that other people changed her story? No, how could I?
Some have said just that, but the legend of The Golem of Prague may have inspired Mary Shelley.
The Golem didn’t involve science like the Monster. The Golem was strictly magic/miracle.
Yes-same author-I found the book-”Rosemary’s Baby” far more frightening than the movie-it captured Rosemary’s ongoing terror in much more detail-I gave birth to my own child shortly before I read the book, making it all the scarier...
“This Perfect Day” is a futuristic novel of a totalitarian world, written several years later, and it makes you feel the fear, frustration and anger of the principal characters in the same way most of Levin’s novels do, and builds the suspense to a breathless level. It is a frightening future vision, and a great suspense novel-I’m reading it again right now-for maybe the 15th time...
How many of the students don’t read because they can’t? UNC-Chapel Hill is under investigation for academic irregularities. A whistleblower has alleged that some members of the sports program read at or only slightly above elementary school level. UNC was offering worthless classes to pad the GPAS of student athletes.
My godson made it to 10th grade before the school acknowledged the fact that he could not read well enough to do high school level work. Testing showed that he read at 5th grade level. However he had made A’s and B’s throughout elementary and junior high.
“the legend of The Golem of Prague may have inspired Mary Shelley.”
That could be, and although I sort of know the basics of that story I’ve never read or seen any version of it.
But from what I’d know I’d say the story of the Golem is one of magic, that’s why I’d be tempted to give it to Mary on the “science” side.
It’s funny too *SPOILER ALERT* (odd for a story that all know, but just to be extra careful) - she really glosses over the whole gruesome creation of the creature. She gets the details across, but she doesn’t dwell on that aspect.
Also, it’s not really clear to me how Dr. F. sparks him to life, I didn’t notice any lightening strikes.
They actually souped that up for the movie pretty good.
That might be a good example of the difference between men and women right there.
Another thing I got a kick from - Mel Brooks really had the right title “Young Frankenstein”, in the book the guy is really young, he’s just a student. A lot younger than even Brooks own Dr. who’s actually a full fledged professor at the start.
I’m definitely going to read it. I really enjoyed “Children of Men”, the book was better than the movie, but the movie was OK.
I like those dystopian books for some bleak reason. I’ve always thought the Brits kind of had that market cornered, so it’ll be interesting to read one by an American.
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