Kila Bee Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 I loved Waiting for Godot and Like Water for Chocolate...simple yet elegant, that about sums them up. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbails Posted February 18, 2011 Report Share Posted February 18, 2011 My favorite book that I've read so far would have to be "The Assault" by Harry Mullisch. Absolutely amazing! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninetyfour Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 I kind of liked "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel. It wasn't the best book I've ever read, but it was the best of the 5 I read for first semester of HL English. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sike Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 so far my favorite would have to be the play Death and the Maiden Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgia112 Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera for sure it was so amazing Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proletariat Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 New fav: James Joyce's Dubliners. That man is a genius; Araby, Counterparts, and Little Cloud are some of the best short stories I've ever read, and I'm still working on The Dead. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmar Posted March 25, 2011 Report Share Posted March 25, 2011 The Catcher in the Rye. We haven't read it for IB, but I wish we did. I tried convincing my teacher to somehow incorporate it into the curriculum once I found out it was listed as a possible work study for English A1. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sous la pluie Posted March 26, 2011 Report Share Posted March 26, 2011 I usually love all books we read in school because I would never pick them up on my own but they always end up so darn good. (:So far, I adored The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende. Loved it. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston was another really good one and I really enjoyed Brave New World by Aldous Huxley but we read that one in Honours English, not IB... Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dessskris Posted March 26, 2011 Report Share Posted March 26, 2011 I haven't finished all my IB books but so far I like:Rumah Boneka (A Doll's House) by Henrik IbsenNyai Dasima by S.M. ArdanAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (<-- still reading it)I personally hate reading but those books successfully interest me PS. Those 3 books are all small, thin and the fonts are quite big lol Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austin Glau Posted March 26, 2011 Report Share Posted March 26, 2011 Dolls House and Streetcar are so simalar yet so different... i don't really like either but if i had a choice it would be Streetcar just because Dolls house has a terrible ending.. well they both have a bad ending actually Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lijas93 Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Just finished The Handmaid's Tale by Margret Atwood in my English class and I have to say, one of my favorites. I might just go and read her other books.Also, I enjoyed The Stranger, Doll's House and The Things They Carried. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingaly Posted March 29, 2011 Report Share Posted March 29, 2011 Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.Also Robert Frosts poetry was amazingly beautiful. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyAleira Posted March 30, 2011 Report Share Posted March 30, 2011 All Quiet on the Western Front was very well done and I definitely enjoyed reading it. Everyone said All the Pretty Horses was their least favorite book, but I actually enjoyed it. I usually love Shakespeare, but King Lear is driving me crazy. I think it's because we're not actually reading the whole thing, just random chapters and so it's really difficult to tell what's going on. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
computerlove Posted April 14, 2011 Report Share Posted April 14, 2011 (edited) I've loved every book I've ever read for school! My class just read Such a Long Journey which is fantastic, and Life of Pi. Both are amazing. Edited April 14, 2011 by computerlove Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmacabre310 Posted April 15, 2011 Report Share Posted April 15, 2011 We've had some pretty hit and miss books at my school. Absolutely hated Antigone (part of this was the translation, because Fitzgerald kept tossing in all kinds of Christianity references that had nothing to do with the play at all) and pretty much all of the Greek plays we had to read - I can understand their importance but they really just aren't too riveting or intriguing. Siddhartha was alright, though in my opinion, Hesse's book Demian is a much more interesting read. I enjoyed Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, We by Zamyatin, and A Doll's House, but I loved reading Frankenstein and Macbeth so much that I read them both twice. It seems a lot of people read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, but my class read Going After Cacciato (same author), and I think it's an excellent book - O'Brien wrote very meticulously and it was a very well done novel. Currently reading Catch-22 for my A1 class, and though I'm not very far in I like it a lot. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Censored Dreams Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Allende's The House of the Spirits, Lorca's House of Bernarda Alba and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Almost everyone else hated Midnight's Children, but I loved it Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky911 Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 My favorite was A Streetcar Named Desire.... it helps that I'm from South Louisiana though Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maze05 Posted April 27, 2011 Report Share Posted April 27, 2011 I really loved Disgrace by Coetzee. Oh, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. It's a great play and it's quite fun to act out.I see a lot of you enjoyed T Williams' plays. I wasn't very fond of Baby Doll but maybe A Streetcar(...) is better! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HiddenDreamer Posted April 29, 2011 Report Share Posted April 29, 2011 MacbethThe Importance of Being ErnestElegance of the Hedgehog - this book was beautifully written and an overall great read!The Book Thief Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbird Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 I read The Importance of Being Earnest, too. Hilarious (maybe because we read Death of a Salesman right before it so anything mildly funny seemed hysterical) but I always felt like I was missing something deeper with that play. Death of a Salesman is depressing but beautiful. Hamlet was good, too. Had a lot of suspense, although it has a depressing ending! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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