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Axtech wrote:OMG We're reading that for English! I love Swift. A Modest Proposal is probably one of the best things I've ever read.

are you fricking kidding! swift = agggggggggggggg

oh, readings for school count? alright, add 'the great gatsby' to my list. i despise this book with a passion already, and now i'm being forced to analyze it. ugh.

i read almost all of the great gatsby, but didn't have the willpower to finish it

Sonya wrote:oh, readings for school count? alright, add 'the great gatsby' to my list. i despise this book with a passion already, and now i'm being forced to analyze it. ugh.

Gatsby is good!
I don't think I really enjoyed it when I was reading it, but it really made sense of the whole midwest-hometown thing. I never really understood the politics behind that until I read that book. And then there is the entire debate about being victims of circumstance. Which I had never realy thought about until I read that book. And then there was the whole "omg affairs and scandal!" thing that made reading a book like that in school, awesome. There is so much subltly to Gatsby that I love.
There is just something about it that I like when I think about it. Like how every character is presented as an idiot. But then they arn't. But then you find out they really are. Its good stuff.

Hope wrote:

Axtech wrote:OMG We're reading that for English! I love Swift. A Modest Proposal is probably one of the best things I've ever read.

are you fricking kidding! swift = agggggggggggggg

WHAT?! He's awesome! The very prospect of writing an essay declairing that the way to solve Ireland's poverty and famine problems by harvesting and eating children? Brilliant!

"Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed, and I have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken to ease the nation of so grievous an encumbrance. But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known that they are every day dying and rotting by cold and famine, and filth and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. And as to the young laborers, they are now in as hopeful a condition"

Black humour = win

!!!! Swift is my hero.

i had to write my own modest proposal. it had something to do with throwing the unemployed into a pit filled with angry hummingbirds. yeah.

but Swift is one of the greatest satirical writers ever. EVER!!!!

^ ha i did that same exact exercise in high school! mine was about using suicide bombers as building demolition.

^^ me too. i had to write my own modest proposal in grade 8. i forget what i wrote about, though.

You read a modest proposal in grade 8? wow...I read it in grade 12 english lit, and had some problems with it.

Swift is absolutely brilliant. One of the funniest writers I have ever encountered. Not to mention an Irish Hero to many.

hahaha

I just came back to this thread to post that I'm reading Swift to prepare for my exam tomorrow, and the last convo in here was the last time I mentioned Swift!

Anyways, I'm reading Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children Of Poor People In Ireland From Being A Burden To Their Parents Or Country, And For Making Them Beneficial To The Public"

I'm supposed to be reading my Soc text, but instead I'm wasting my time here!

i just finished reading "the tree tattoo" by karen rivers.

oh my. it was wonderful. hooray for random book purchases!!

i'm reading The Princess Bride again.

afealicious wrote:i'm reading The Princess Bride again.

ooh I haven't read that in years!! I wonder if I still have that somewhere... I've moved so many times in the last few years I don't know where anything is anymore.

Axtech wrote:hahaha

I just came back to this thread to post that I'm reading Swift to prepare for my exam tomorrow, and the last convo in here was the last time I mentioned Swift!

Anyways, I'm reading Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children Of Poor People In Ireland From Being A Burden To Their Parents Or Country, And For Making Them Beneficial To The Public"

my english lit class read that last week. i couldn't stop giggling through the entire thing.

Okay, firstly I LOVE GATSBY. Seriously. Love it.

And...I just finished "The Picture Of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde, and it was really really good. So different from his other work, but really goood.

And now I'm reading "Requiem For A Dream" by Hubert Selby jr. (again) <3 this book.

bukowski's short stories

"south of no north"

oh and "beyond good and evil" when i've got time