So we got our next book today in Senior English...

All Quiet on the Western Front. That's our 1st book for 2nd semester. For 1st semester, we did The Kite Runner and Brave New World.

 

We got A Streetcar Named Desire. And before that, A Man for All Seasons. And before that, Hamlet.

My school loves plays. So much.

 

I cannot decide how I feel about the books I'm reading in my English class this year. I enjoyed Jane Eyre quite a bit (but me enjoying 19th century literature, big surprise), and I didn't mind Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man either, but I am not looking forward to Heart of Darkness or The Road.

I don't think I could handle All Quiet though, warbooks are not my thing. Provided I'm thinking of the right thing.

 

I was really hoping it was not that book. All Quiet on the Western Front that is. I read it in Sophmore year. Actually "read" it. The book bored my classmates and I. All my classmates thought I did read it because usually I read the "boring books." It was so bad I couldn't remember what I just read. All I remember of that book is that they used outside toilets and how the author took the time to describe farts. "He then let out a hearty fart." Something about butterflies, something about French woman, something about how someone took a dead man's boots and something about how the enemy (French man) was no different from the main character himself.

Books this year:
Fredrick Douglas, The Great Gatsby, Hunger (filled with short stories, all of them are depressing, and all of them have characters that are Chinese. It was nice reading it but though I understood that the book has 1 theme "hunger". Having the same them shown in the same light (a depressing tone) is just D:), and now we're just reading essays by the same writer, High Tide in Tuscan and Go Go Boots.

 

For my English class, we've read The Alchemist, Bless Me Ultima, Antigone, Persepolis 1&2, and we're currently reading Frankenstein and planning to read 1984.

Sophomore class, guys. Yeah...

 

1984 would probably have been better if I had read the last chapter... I've never read any of the others though. Should I?

 

All Quiet on the Western Front was a reading option for me in 7th grade (we got a list we could pick from); my friend really liked it but I picked Alas, Babylon instead. I really enjoyed Alas, Babylon but I've always been meaning to try All Quiet.
Never read The Kite Runner but when I was a freshman we read Brave New World. Pretty creepy book, I know a lot of people in my class didn't like it because of that but I thought it was okay haha.

Haha interesting, we also read Hamlet and A Man For All Seasons this year. We didn't do A Streetcar Named Desire though.

I read Heart of Darkness sophomore year and it was awful imo, good luck ;~;

 

Well, The Alchemist is pretty short compared to other things I've read. Frankenstein is written in the old English style, so if you're going to try it, keep that in mind. I personally enjoyed Bless Me Ultima, but there are quite a few passages in spanish, which might keep you from fully enjoying it.

Still, if you're willing, you can read any of them.