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07-26-2006, 01:54 PM
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Re: Best Books You\'ve Been Assigned to Read
I've had a few. Beowulf, Crime and Punishment, The Iliad, The Odyssey. I'm sure there are a couple more that I'm forgetting. I've also read Catch-22 and Dune for class, but those were much more open-ended rather than assigned.
Of course, even these don't come close to outweighing all of the garbage I got assigned. 
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07-26-2006, 01:54 PM
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07-26-2006, 04:43 PM
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A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Trial - Kafka Both in high school. [/ QUOTE ] Wow - impressive. Where in TO did you go to high school? We never got anything close to that. It was all Fifth Business and Margaret Atwood for us.
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07-26-2006, 05:24 PM
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Hhmmm...
I really liked Emerson a lot. But the best are The Iliad and The Odyssey as well as Discourses on Livy, Master and Margarita, and The Republic. Oh, King Lear too TPK
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07-26-2006, 05:58 PM
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[ QUOTE ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Trial - Kafka Both in high school. [/ QUOTE ] Wow - impressive. Where in TO did you go to high school? We never got anything close to that. It was all Fifth Business and Margaret Atwood for us. [/ QUOTE ] Bishop Allen. Its on Royal York south of Bloor St. Both were for a course called "The Quest" that the teacher wrote himself. Possibly the smartest man I've ever known, far better teacher than any university profs I've had. And the course was amazing. In addition to those two books we read The Fall by Camus, Siddhartha by Hesse, Night by Wiesel, and Waiting for Godot. Best class I've ever taken.
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#28
07-26-2006, 06:06 PM
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Re: Best Books You\'ve Been Assigned to Read
High School - Crime and Punishment
College - The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount by Calvino (im a bio major)
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#29
07-26-2006, 06:31 PM
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Re: Best Books You\'ve Been Assigned to Read
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[ QUOTE ] A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving The Trial - Kafka Both in high school. [/ QUOTE ] Wow - impressive. Where in TO did you go to high school? We never got anything close to that. It was all Fifth Business and Margaret Atwood for us. [/ QUOTE ] Owen Meaney was assigned here in Lafayette. Didn't get Kafka though.
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07-26-2006, 06:39 PM
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  [/ QUOTE ] These were my two favorites with Ovid's Metamorphoses coming in third.
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