azulverde:) Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 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? 7 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumps Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. I originally thought it was just creepy but I learned to love it. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplisticwonders Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 The Importance of Being Earnest.Defintely.one of my friends gave me a 2 minute crash course summary of that play-- hilarious. 3 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
larry Posted October 21, 2010 Report Share Posted October 21, 2010 The Age of Innocence. You need to read it a few times to pick up on all the irony.Broken April 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Summer Glau Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 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. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grammar Girl Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 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. 3 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Polaris Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 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 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandwich Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 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. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedalus Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 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. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILM Posted October 23, 2010 Report Share Posted October 23, 2010 The stranger wasnot really nice, but i can say that animal farm by george orwell is amazing, hamlet by shekspear is amazing too. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julia32 Posted October 25, 2010 Report Share Posted October 25, 2010 f. scott fitzgeralds ' the great gatsby' was amazing 4 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBVeryStressed Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 The Picture of Dorian Grey. All of my friends hated it. 3 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexandrakk Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 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. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Chance Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 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. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EccentricPianist Posted October 26, 2010 Report Share Posted October 26, 2010 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!) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondertheworld Posted October 27, 2010 Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko.I adore this novel. I could probably reread it five hundred more times and still find new information. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeciliaL Posted October 27, 2010 Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 I enjoyed re-reading 1984 for IB English. Looking forward to reading Beloved! 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrenazbib Posted October 27, 2010 Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 The House of the Spirits, without a doubt.As for poetry, Ariel by Sylvia Plath. 1 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mahuta ♥ Posted October 27, 2010 Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 I loved almost all of them..All My Sons by Arthur MillerHiroshima by John HerseyI loved Romeo & Juliet as well, lol. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrypton Posted October 27, 2010 Report Share Posted October 27, 2010 Hunger, by Knut Hamsun. 2 Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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