ShootingStars Posted August 28, 2011 Report Share Posted August 28, 2011 Othello.The Kite Runner. Ah most of them I've absolutely hated, sadly. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeZell Posted September 25, 2011 Report Share Posted September 25, 2011 I absolutely adored 1984 and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kim luffy Posted September 25, 2011 Report Share Posted September 25, 2011 Midaq Alley, the stranger, the great gatsby, macbeth and king lear very good books Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wind_bender12 Posted September 25, 2011 Report Share Posted September 25, 2011 The school year's just started for me, so I don't have a list. But we're reading Margaret Atwood's The Handmaids Tale (I've already finished it), and I absolutely loved it! Good read, very dense. Feminism, Oppression and lots of touchy subjects. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bradley Posted September 25, 2011 Report Share Posted September 25, 2011 Perfume by Patrick Süskind is really good, Temple of the Golden Pavilion is frightfully queer. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
(One Two) Posted September 26, 2011 Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 The Importance of Being Earnest.Only one so far for me, Lieutenant Gustl wasn't bad for me either but it's too short to get into. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpediem Posted September 26, 2011 Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 I really enjoyed We Need to Talk About Kevin. I wasn't sure which A1 course I was going to take, so I read it for the Lit homework; my only regret in choosing Lang/Lit is that I don't get to study that book. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kim luffy Posted September 26, 2011 Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 I really enjoyed We Need to Talk About Kevin. I wasn't sure which A1 course I was going to take, so I read it for the Lit homework; my only regret in choosing Lang/Lit is that I don't get to study that book. i love that book, i'm doing it for my EE, too bad it wasn't part of the IB books selection thingy :/ Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpediem Posted September 26, 2011 Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 i love that book, i'm doing it for my EE, too bad it wasn't part of the IB books selection thingy :/What is your EE about? Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azfar Posted September 26, 2011 Report Share Posted September 26, 2011 I loved Ibsen's A Doll's House. The theme of self-realization at the end, in the grand scheme of things, is something I've taken a liking to in literature. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kim luffy Posted September 27, 2011 Report Share Posted September 27, 2011 What is your EE about? uhm How a mother's nurturing of her child from birth and throughout adulthood can lead to the mother being blamed and alienated in The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing and We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver.. it's pretty long but yeah.. i loved the ending but i don't like Eva :/ i like kevin though lol Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
holly Posted October 2, 2011 Report Share Posted October 2, 2011 (edited) Brave New World was one of the most interesting books, I would say. We read Waiting for Godot for HL theatre and I didn't understand it at all but found some pretty interesting Christian symbols in there when we were required to write an essay on it last minute. The Stranger and Metamorphosis, I think I managed to find religious symbols in there as well. It was fun to analyse, haha. Oh! And we're reading Macbeth right now. I hate Shakespeare, but in the process of reading this play, I enjoyed Shakespeare more and more... Maybe it's just a really good play. I kind of wish I took HL English! I was scared about doing HL English because someone scared me by describing the class and its requirements, but SL English is one of my easiest classes, if not the easiest & HL seems to have a lot more interesting books... Edited October 2, 2011 by holly Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
christran Posted October 2, 2011 Report Share Posted October 2, 2011 I'm only in IB1 but a few of the books I really enjoyed for Pre-IB were 1984, Grendel, Life of Pi, the Great Gatsby and Black Boy. For IB, I found the Crucible to be really enjoyable, even though it's the only book we've finished this year. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
URA BOAT Posted November 5, 2011 Report Share Posted November 5, 2011 I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - by Maya Angelou Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChloeAnne95 Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan aaannnddd Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Marquez. It had my whole class shouting "MARIA ALEJANDRIA CERVANTESSSS" at every given chance. xxx. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ienni Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaylie Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Although I wasn't in DP at the time, we read 1984, and I actually based my EE on dystopia because of it Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procrastination Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Oblivion: A Memoir by Hector Abad Faciolince. It is an autobiography about the author's life and his relationship with his father and there are several critical moments such as his sister's dead because of Cancer and his father's murder due to his attempt to find equality and justice. It made me cry :'( Pretty emotional. Let me think of some other books, hum, maybe A Streetcar Named Desire and Perfume by Patrick Suskind. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marauder7 Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess. (At the beginning it was hard to understand because of Nadsat, but I ended up enjoying it)Lord of the Flies by William Golding (it was brilliantly written and full of symbolism) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyboi Posted November 22, 2011 Report Share Posted November 22, 2011 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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