Does anyone else enjoy their required reading books?

Shakespeare · 01-22-2005, 02:23 PM

I am currently required to read a book called, "beyond bumper sticker ethics" and I really enjoy it. What is everyone required to read this year/semester and do you enjoy reading it?

**Epaphras** · 01-22-2005, 02:54 PM

I'm enjoying Life of Pi.

ForgivenPix · 01-22-2005, 03:20 PM

yes, I like Macbeth alot, even though there was alot of killing. It was really interesting. I liked The Giver to by Lois Lowry

backtoreality · 01-22-2005, 03:26 PM

I just finished English Lit/Comp and I liked a lot of the required reading in that class. Catch 22, Crime and Punishment, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Frankenstein, and King Lear were all quite good IMO. I've got German IS (independent study) next term, and I get to read whatever I want so that should be interesting (started Thus Spake Zarathrustra, didn't like it so much (hard to read in German), and am currently working on Maus (lots of fun, I recommend it)

BackToReality

Mattlock · 01-22-2005, 04:06 PM

My ~~Nazi English-teacher is forcing me~~is requireing us to read a book called "Homecoming." I don't like it much. At al..

SupergirlOO6 · 01-22-2005, 04:10 PM

I LOVE THE GIVER!! our teacher read it to us in like...7th grade oohhh it was awesome! Anyway, i had to read "the adventures of huckleberry finn" and err...something else. Huck finn wasn't TERRIBLE...but the other one was pretty bad. I'm usually not a big fan of the books i get assigned to read.

Btw, when i read "homecoming" it was quite misserable...i didn't like it at all either.

Mattlock · 01-22-2005, 05:23 PM

"The Giver" was a good book.

I'll give you a breif summary of "Homecoming" for those who haven't read it.

Mom drops here 4 kids off at a mall. She leaves. They never see them again. For the next 200 pages, they are hungry, tired, have no money, and no food. And they try to get to their aunts house. When they get there, she's dead. Their cousin is living at her house. Their cousin adopts them. They want to go to their grandmother's house.

Andrew · 01-22-2005, 05:55 PM

This quarter I am required to read 25 different books. I am done with nine, and not one of the books was under 200 pages. That speaks for itself.

Shakespeare · 01-22-2005, 09:33 PM

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yes, I like Macbeth alot, even though there was alot of killing. It was really interesting. I liked The Giver to by Lois Lowry

yes, those are two wonderful books

Of course anything by the Bard is great

bobthecockroach · 01-22-2005, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Shakespeare

I am currently required to read a book called, "beyond bumper sticker ethics" and I really enjoy it. What is everyone required to read this year/semester and do you enjoy reading it?

I think I saw that book in Loyola's bookstore... interesting.

This semester I am required to read a bunch of short religious texts from different religions. Some stoic thing, some anciet Indian epic, some Buddhist religious text, some Bible passage. I'd give names but I don't think the names would mean much to anyone anyway.

*EDIT* Oh, hehe, I forgot to say whether I enjoy them. Yes, I do.

I enjoy reading philosophical/religious stuff. Most interesting.

Shakespeare · 01-22-2005, 10:17 PM

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I think I saw that book in Loyola's bookstore... interesting.

really? that is interesting

I wouldn't think loyola would carry that, it's a really good book though

. And your books sound interesting too

bobthecockroach · 01-22-2005, 10:19 PM

I believe it was for a Christian Ethics course. Are you forgetting that Loyola, loosely speaking, is a Catholic school?

Shakespeare · 01-22-2005, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by bobthecockroach

I believe it was for a Christian Ethics course. Are you forgetting that Loyola, loosely speaking, is a Catholic school?

I suppose I am forgeting that

ForgivenPix · 01-23-2005, 08:48 AM

you know what book is the worst I ever had to read in school? The Old Man and the Sea. The title pretty much sums up the entire book. An old man goes out to sea. He sits there for like 100 pages...then a bird goes by! hahaha

los angeles · 01-25-2005, 04:06 PM

Who doesn't? (hint: I am a book junkie)
This semester I am taking a Liturature of War class. We have a dozen books to read. (o.k. some of them are only selected portions of a book) Right now we are reading WWI poetry and "All Quiet on the Western Front". This is the kind of history I like, it is so much easier to remember and understand when writen in novel form instead of a list of names and dates. It has been very interesting getting into the minds of the solders and learning about what it was like on a day to day basis.