Gah!
Gah!
Gah!
I used to love reading. I'd go through at least two books per week. Fiction, Nonfiction, all genres, sizes, shapes, colors, and talent levels from across the spectrum of time.
Then came my English classes with their endless barrage of book reports and being forced to read trash like
To Kill a Mockingbird. I mean, where was the plot? Basically after reading that 2 years ago I completely stopped reading for fun. I didn't read a single book on my free time until this summer when
Harry Potter 7 came out. I almost decided not to even bother reading that. A few months later I read
Wicked and I finally decided to get back into reading, even if not as much as before. Currently I'm reading our own Lady Frog's
Machievellian Adventures of Princess Eleanor and I've managed to get a bit more than half way through it. I thought to myself, reading is fun again!!!!
But now English Class has struck again
We're being forced to do a massive "literary Analysis"(basically from what I understand it is about how the author uses a particular literary technique or something silly like that) paper about a novel that we choose from a list of choices the teacher gives us.
So which of these books will keep me from lapsing into another hatred of reading? Well done characters are probably the most important thing to me. "Preachy" books get on my nerves quickly.
The Great Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Scarlet Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Farewell To Arms-Hemingway
The Red Badge of Courage-
Stephen Crane
The Adventures of Huck Finn- Mark Twain
thx
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