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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Serenity on July 22, 2008, 08:04:24 PM
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Alright, I have to pick one of the following books to read:
The Glass Menagerie
Summer and Smoke
Sweet Bird of Youth
Suddenly Last Summer
So, having never heard of any of these, I was hoping you all could suggest one to pick. I have a LOT of stuff to do in addition to reading one, so the shortest, least boring would be very nice.
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Is Playboy out of the question?
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Is Playboy out of the question?
lol. Sadly. This is an assignment for english class. I have to pick one to read, and compare and contrast the main female charactor to another female charactor in some play.
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just find some summaries online and go with one that looks good.
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just find some summaries online and go with one that looks good.
Eh, summaries are fine I was just hoping someone here might have read one of them. Always helps to have an honest oppinion.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Menagerie
wikipedia is your friend
read this - get sum culcher
a good book to read and know
They are all Tennesse Williams plays, so they are all considered classics
NwBie
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They are all Tennesse Williams plays, so they are all considered classics
NwBie
Thats kinda the point of the assignment. So the Glass Managerie has your recomendation? Thanks!
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wow those books suck. Sorry cant help you more then that.
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Glass Menagerie. Check out the 1987 film. Think of it as video CliffsNotes.
Or why not just go for the real thing (online & FREE):
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/LitNote/The-Glass-Menagerie.id-114.html
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I have read The Glass Menagerie and from what I remember it was a pretty good book. I don't remember a whole lot about it since I read it for an english lit class my freshman year of college.
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The Glass Menagerie.
Tennessee Williams is a good writer. This would probably be the least boring of the choices as Williams originally wrote it as a screenplay for MGM. It was actually written with the intent of it being a play or movie.
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What's the point of all this?
Won't your bag of books just get stolen by a couple large-bellied Islanders?
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I have read The Glass Menagerie and from what I remember it was a pretty good book. I don't remember a whole lot about it since I read it for an english lit class my freshman year of college.
We get to read it as Juniors in Highschool! lol.
So, glass managerie it is! Thanks all!
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This is actually a pretty good list:
http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/
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Serenity if you get assigned old books, there's some chance some of them are available here.. http://www.gutenberg.org/
A digital version could be useful when you need to backtrack to some section using the find (ctrl+f) function. Idealy though, when you write these kinds of essays, you know the material by heart, from head to toe.
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This is actually a pretty good list:
http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/
I have read 18 of the books listed on the first page - from grade school through college -- I struggled to finish Atlas Shrugged - even though i remember it clearly - I couldn't believe how fricken boring it was -- i may read it again now that I am an old codger
Newbs
:aok
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Ayn Rand boring, NOT! She was wrong, but not boring.
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Serenity if you get assigned old books, there's some chance some of them are available here.. http://www.gutenberg.org/
A digital version could be useful when you need to backtrack to some section using the find (ctrl+f) function. Idealy though, when you write these kinds of essays, you know the material by heart, from head to toe.
Looks like a good idea. Usually we dont have time to really KNOW the material though... In fact, one of the things im most known for is geting a perfect paper on a book report I did using only cliffnotes (I didnt even open the book.). Thats not because im too lazy to read them, they just stack our homework rather high at times.
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Ayn Rand boring, NOT! She was wrong, but not boring.
I really liked Ayn Rand.
However, I have yet to make it through any of her "Monologues" without jumping ahead. I agree with most of the stuff, however after 10 pages of material covering in detail how things are and should be, you really don't need another 60-70 more pages to do it again / in more depth.