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[azulverde:)]

I loved Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front", I fell in love with "The Wars" by Timothy Findley, love Jane Austin (too bad I wont get to read her books at all ) love and am looking forward to "The Stranger" by Camus.

What about you? what books do you need for IB that you absolutely want to read?

[Grumps]

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. I originally thought it was just creepy but I learned to love it.

[simplisticwonders]

The Importance of Being Earnest.
Defintely.

one of my friends gave me a 2 minute crash course summary of that play-- hilarious.

[larry]

The Age of Innocence. You need to read it a few times to pick up on all the irony.
Broken April

[Summer Glau]

None so far. Brave New World was OK, but I didn't like 1984 that much. Then again it's my first year of IB, so maybe there's a good book in there somewhere.

[Grammar Girl]

I loved House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende), The Age of Innocence and Ethan Frome (both Edith Wharton). I wish we could have spent more time on House of the Spirits. We only spent about a week going through it in class.

[Dr. Polaris]

well The Stranger was good to analyse, ditto for The Metamorphosis.

but favorite books have to be The Things They Carried by Tim OBrien and We by Zamyatin

[Sandwich]

I loved The Leopard by Giuseppe di Lampedusa

Also the poems of Ted Hughes and John Keats.

Basically anything with absolutely sublime writing. The Leopard was, in that respect, legendary.

[Daedalus]

azulverde:), on Oct 21, 2010 - 22:13, said:

I loved Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front", I fell in love with "The Wars" by Timothy Findley, love Jane Austin (too bad I wont get to read her books at all ) love and am looking forward to "The Stranger" by Camus.

What about you? what books do you need for IB that you absolutely want to read?

We didn't read All Quiet on the Western Front in class but I definitely thought it was amazing. Haven't read Austen or Findley, and I've read The Stranger in both French and English several times and don't like it much :\ but Candide in French was definitely good, House of Spirits I think somebody mentioned, and I also liked The Great Gatsby of course as well as Death of a Salesman. Kafka I can't stand.

[King Glau]

The stranger wasnot really nice, but i can say that animal farm by george orwell is amazing, hamlet by shekspear is amazing too.

[Julia32]

f. scott fitzgeralds ' the great gatsby' was amazing

[IBVeryStressed]

The Picture of Dorian Grey. All of my friends hated it.

[alexandrakk]

Out of the first three books I've studied so far, I haven't loved any, but Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse was alright.
An Imaginary Life - David Malouf was very difficult to decipher, because of the many abstract possibilities. A Small Place - Jamaica Kincaid was just really unbearable, because of her ill-mannered satire.

[Chance]

Usually I find analysing books takes some of the joy out of them, but I LOVED dissecting Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Gatesby was great too obviously, as was Atonement.

[EccentricPianist]

azulverde:), on Oct 21, 2010 - 22:13, said:

I loved Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front", I fell in love with "The Wars" by Timothy Findley, love Jane Austin (too bad I wont get to read her books at all ) love and am looking forward to "The Stranger" by Camus.

What about you? what books do you need for IB that you absolutely want to read?

I'm currently working on "The Book of Disquiet"-Fernando Pessoa and analysing "Frankenstein" -Mary Shelley not so much Beowulf. They're both really fun to read (well, Pessoa's is a little more depressing, but great for picking up motifs!)

Last year it was the Picture of Dorian Grey. I LOOOVED that book. Had a lot of memorable quotes!

Off the top of my head;
"My older brothers never die and my younger brothers seem to do nothing else!" Lord Henry (LOL!)

[pondertheworld]

Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko.

I adore this novel. I could probably reread it five hundred more times and still find new information.

[CeciliaL]

I enjoyed re-reading 1984 for IB English.

Looking forward to reading Beloved!

[cyrenazbib]

The House of the Spirits, without a doubt.
As for poetry, Ariel by Sylvia Plath.

[Mahuta ♥]

I loved almost all of them..

All My Sons by Arthur Miller

Hiroshima by John Hersey

I loved Romeo & Juliet as well, lol.

[chrypton]

Hunger, by Knut Hamsun.