Guest Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Animal Farm was a spectacular book. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nino Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh. Takes a while to get into, but its worth it. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsjustib Posted May 28, 2012 Report Share Posted May 28, 2012 (edited) I really enjoyed Things Fall Apart for A2 English, and Woyzeck wasn't bad for A1 German. Everything else was more or less a pain to read. Edited May 28, 2012 by itsjustib Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ro_1293x Posted June 11, 2012 Report Share Posted June 11, 2012 The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh quite a brilliant book. Don't think you can fall in love with it so much though if you aren't Indian.Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje is almost a great read. A memoir-type of text, but really funny and after a few reads you start to get some really universal ideas out of it. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
miss mel Posted June 12, 2012 Report Share Posted June 12, 2012 I loved The Great Gatsby, God of Small Things, Pablo Neruda, Gwen Harwood and Perfume. A lot of love for Keats, Orwell and Wordsworth as well. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
macrofire Posted June 14, 2012 Report Share Posted June 14, 2012 Lone Wolf, Jodi Picoult. Have fun. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Babydolleyes Posted July 3, 2012 Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 I LOVED Wuthering Heights and Everything & More. Pure joy! The only novels that I didn't rush through.. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pravzcool Posted July 6, 2012 Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 Reading "We" by Yevgeny Zamyatin. Really great novel, one of the finest novels based on dystopia Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eizhowa Posted July 6, 2012 Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 Pan by Knut Hamsun Had more discussions about the authors nazi symphaties then I cared for, though. Why can't people just let a good book be a good book, end of story? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktn Posted July 6, 2012 Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 House of Spirits & Song of Solomon! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlfy Posted July 8, 2012 Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 The Great Gatsby was my favourite. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aeronymous Posted July 8, 2012 Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 (edited) I love the philosophic topics, and while most English A1 books are not quite as "deep" as I like, I had German A1 and my teacher loved existentialist literature so I was lucky on that part Books I liked in German A1"The Plague" by Albert Camus- A great read + a buckload of symbolism and applications to life as a general (my favorite)"Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Becket (I know its Eng A1 as well), I loved this, might have been boring in parts but the way that Beckett promotes his ideas, priceless"Homo Faber" by Max Frisch- Also one of these great books that make you really think about how you want to live and what you want to do with your lifeBooks I liked in English A2"The Glass Menagerie" by Tennessee Williams- I love the way this play seems (if it makes any sense) so surreal but still you feel the motivations and issues of each character and it somehow reflects issues you might have but weren't able to previously seeOverall, I think literature isn't (only? haha) to be fun/interesting, but meant to have a purpose beyond this and I believe that all of these books have each in their own way changed me a little bit Edited July 8, 2012 by Aeronymous Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alliekitkat Posted July 8, 2012 Report Share Posted July 8, 2012 I rather enjoyed 1984. It was great in depth, especially as it was written so close to his death. It is therefore an admirable book. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anurmu11 Posted July 9, 2012 Report Share Posted July 9, 2012 I really liked "The Unbearable lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
emmcho640 Posted July 18, 2012 Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 I loved The Remains of the Day and Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaleb337 Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 The Count of Monte Christo hands down; for poetry, Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickenson was awe inspiring... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jess.kk Posted November 29, 2012 Report Share Posted November 29, 2012 I like The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, and 1984 by Orwell. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplelily8 Posted December 1, 2012 Report Share Posted December 1, 2012 This is my second year in English A, I enjoyed most of the books we read :The Getting of Wisdon- Handel RichardsonMedea- EuripidesThe Tempest- ShakespeareThings Fall Apart- Chinua AchebeA Doll's House- Henrik IbsenI think those book are a must read for literature, I got to learn and connect to different periods and cultures. Also, My English teacher made me love them JihadEnglish A Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
R_Z Posted December 2, 2012 Report Share Posted December 2, 2012 This is my first year in English A. We've been reading plays so far, and I love "The Taming of the Shrew" and "A Streetcar named Desire". We've also been assigned books to read during the summer break, and my favorites are "One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink. Personally, though, I've read quite a lot of the books from the IB prescribed list, and my favorite is "Wuthering Heights"And...just wondering, is "Gone with the Wind" on the list? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rookie Studier Posted December 2, 2012 Report Share Posted December 2, 2012 Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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