Best Books You've Been Assigned to Read

[livenowson]

The World According to Garp- John Irving = Tite Ass Book.

[MyTurn2Raise]

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A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

The Trial - Kafka

Both in high school.

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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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We did a bunch of Kafka, and we did clockwork orange.

My school has its own friggin website: www.imsa.edu

Yes, i'm glad it's done.

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yeah...I remember reading Waiting for Godot and Dante's Inferno while a student there...kind of intense

[Little_Jim]

Mein Kampf, don't think I'm a neo-nazi or anything, I just think its v. interesting to see what was actually going on in his head.

[itsmesteve]

Moon Sun and Witches: Gender Ideologies and Class in Inca and Colonial Peru. Irene Silverblatt.

The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System. Milovan Djilas, disillusioned former higher up in, I believe, the Yugoslavian C.P.

Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Kevin Bales. I think the title about says it all.

I also assigned myself ALL of Howard Zinn's writings while writing a thesis. A People' History of the United States is a must, but the other stuff is good too (see, The Politics of History).

Disposing of politics/history:

Dostoevsky- Poor Folk and The Brothers Karamazov.

[Ben Young]

I'm going to tell my poker class to read HOH I and II

[i am run]

paradise lost.
the bible.

[lippy]

The Promise of Rest by Reynolds Price
My Antonia by Willa Cather
The Brothers Karamazov by Doestoevsky