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01-31-2006, 08:43 AM
| | |  Books students should read according to J.K.Rowling
The Herald has a feature today in which vaious authors list books they think students should read. The article includes choices from J.K.Rowling. Quote:
Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- Roald Dahl
Robinson Crusoe -- Daniel Defoe
David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens
Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
Animal Farm -- George Orwell
The Tale of Two Bad Mice -- Beatrix Potter
The Catcher in the Rye -- JD Salinger
Hamlet -- William Shakespeare
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02-01-2006, 04:24 AM
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Animal Farm and to Kill a Mockingnird... I read those in eighth grade. Wow, long time agao. I should read them again. I miss the pig dictator snowball and Dill.
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02-01-2006, 05:39 AM
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I have'nt read Catch-22 and Wuthering Heights..
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02-01-2006, 05:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Marcella_Riddle Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -- Roald Dahl
Robinson Crusoe -- Daniel Defoe
David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens
Catch-22 -- Joseph Heller
To Kill a Mockingbird -- Harper Lee
Animal Farm -- George Orwell
The Tale of Two Bad Mice -- Beatrix Potter
The Catcher in the Rye -- JD Salinger
Hamlet -- William Shakespeare You couldn't pay enough to read Wuthering Heights...Charlie & the...is nothing to brag about, I loved the movie though...Gene Wilder.
Robinson Crusoe? Dunno. Dickens is a GENIUS...read all of his books.
Catch22 is funny. To Kill a Mockingbird is genius. Animal Farm is okay, Brave New World is better. Can't say I've read Beatrix, Catcher in the Rye...*snickers* I can't post excerpts here on SS and that's all I'm sayin'
And everything by Shakespeare...even the sonnets...
Ottery's Required Reading:
Charles Dickens...everything, even the essays.
Shakespeare...everything even the poems.
The Bible...most of Western Literature alludes to it in some form.
Greek Mythology...ditto.
William Blake...he's good.
Ottery's Fics...he's really good...up there Shelly & Keats I'd say...LOL
UDDUP...uhm, it's really good too...*fires the cannons*
Grabiel Garcia Marquez...He's really really good...
Mark Twain...good and funny.
Edgar Allan Poe...good and morbidly funny.
The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Oz Books...you don't know what you're missing.
Don Quijote...or Don Quixote if you're reading it in English.
And lots and lots of poetry...
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02-01-2006, 09:43 AM
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I've read some of them and I'll be reading  the others preety soon specially To KIll A Mockingbird 
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02-01-2006, 09:47 AM
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I have read most of them!!!
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02-01-2006, 11:19 AM
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I want to read Animal Farm but I've read most of the others.. 
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02-01-2006, 01:01 PM
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Well even though I have not read all of those. I have certainly read my fair share of novels. I did love Hamlet though. I think I'm just a shakespearian at heart. I have a yen for the tragic love story and well just tragedy all in all, it fascinates me.
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02-01-2006, 01:24 PM
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02-01-2006, 01:32 PM
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dam- I've only read Hamlet and charlie and the chocolate factory, but will condsider the others aswell
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02-01-2006, 03:01 PM
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Quote:
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Love this book so much.
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02-01-2006, 11:57 PM
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All great books!
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02-02-2006, 12:35 PM
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Jo Rowling does have great taste in books!!! LOL ;D
I've read some. Mostly, I have heard or have only been planning to read. They're really good books! ;D
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02-02-2006, 05:47 PM
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Hamlet was brilliant and the chocolate factory was good too
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02-02-2006, 06:57 PM
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Ooh, I have read all of those, I feel like such a nerd! Most of them were really good... but I had to read the majority of them for school.
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02-03-2006, 01:58 AM
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Being very familiar with American history and culture, I would put To Kill A Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye on the very top of that list.
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02-03-2006, 02:56 PM
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 I've read all of that except Wuthering Heights
*buys and reads*
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02-05-2006, 02:40 AM
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nice choices but aren't some of them ment for children?
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03-24-2006, 05:50 PM
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i haven't read any of them but heard about them.
but that doesn't mean i dont like to read, i have read many books but none belong to the j.k lists and i really wanted to read the charlie and the chocalate factory but couldn't find it. i have read other shakespeare's books and they are awesome.anyways i m sure these would be good books if j.k suggested them and i might read one of them in summer vacations.
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