Chris Kuno Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 The Outsider (The Stranger) by Camus and Waiting for Godot by Beckett. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair isn't too shabby either (Pablo Neruda) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChikkyD Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Only 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' so far. Although, I did like 'The Metamorphosis' too. The rest (Like Water for Chocoalte, Death and the Maiden and Love in the Time of Cholera) were all terrible in my opinion; especially 'Death and the Maiden' - such bad writing that an excessive use of swear words was necessary to convey the emotions... Love in the Time of Cholera is the most horrible book I've read to date! But at least some good novels counteract that Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loeszie. Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 Up to now my favourite IB book is 'Atonement'. It's a book that I would also have read just for fun, and I also did my IOP on it. But I also liked 'Metamorphosis', 'Pride and Prejudice' and 'Death in Venice'. My favourite book that I read for Dutch is 'The Perfume', which I just finished. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
evaos Posted June 6, 2011 Report Share Posted June 6, 2011 My part 4 books were brilliant. I'm doing A1. The books we read were Pride & Prejudice (cliché I know, but Jane Austen is just brilliant), the crucible, to kill a mockingbird (classic!) and Balzac and the little chinese seamstress (if you haven't read that one yet, you should. It's brilliant and gives you an insight in chinese literature.!) Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coralilyy Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 The God of Small Things Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaryamB Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 A dolls house by Henrik Ibsen and The Stranger by Albert Camus, were my absolute favourite Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serene Z Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 Jane Eyre for English... Charlotte Bronte is a brilliant writer. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazmine Posted June 8, 2011 Report Share Posted June 8, 2011 Interpreter of Maladies and Season of Migration to the North Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Req Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 Pic of Dorian Gray, Death of a Salesman and Catcher in the Rye. Also The time of the Hero by Vargas Llosa. Beat that, Neruda Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferivan Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 (edited) 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. I read James Joyce's Dubliners too, and I think it was ok, my friends loved it . I also read Danilo Kis Encyclopedia of the Dead, and I think it was amazing, I loved specially The Encyclopedia of the Dead (a Whole Life). One of the books I loved was Delirio By Laura Restrepo, even though I don't think there's an English tranlation of it |:. And I read The Stranger but I didn't like it that much... I will read One Hundred Years of Solitude (which I've alredy read), Pedro Paramo, and alsoDeath of a Salesman. Edited June 12, 2011 by Ferivan Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunstorm Posted June 30, 2011 Report Share Posted June 30, 2011 Not really a fan of any English a2 books that my school has chosen this year, although A Street car named Desire seems to be a good one(reading it now over the summer.) I like the swedish IB books like I skuggan av ett brott, or Ondskan! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naala Posted July 4, 2011 Report Share Posted July 4, 2011 I enjoyed Things Fall Apart, A Dry White Season and The Stranger for French A1, and Wuthering Heights wasn't too bad. For English A2, I liked Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Crucible. Lady Chatterly's Lover for English and Madame Bovary for French were definitely my least favourites. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jchh44 Posted July 6, 2011 Report Share Posted July 6, 2011 I loved "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende! It was really unfortunate that we couldn't study Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" though- as Allende respected his work- that would have been spectacular!What a delightful work! I also enjoyed HoS My class did get the chance to read 100 Years, and that was also pretty good. It was definitely a bit whacked, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffreychann Posted July 9, 2011 Report Share Posted July 9, 2011 How come I've done none of the books above.. I've only read books for WL, ie. two versions of Antigone and A Doll's House nada mas!! Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chadychad Posted July 12, 2011 Report Share Posted July 12, 2011 So far we have read:Macbeth, The Stranger, A Doll's House, and The Wars. I haven't overly disliked any of them, but I definitely enjoyed A Doll's House and The Wars. I'm reeeaaallly looking forward to reading Wuthering Heights, at least I hope we read it instead of The Tin Flute Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaryamB Posted July 18, 2011 Report Share Posted July 18, 2011 The Outsider by Albert Camus Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arrowhead Posted July 18, 2011 Report Share Posted July 18, 2011 (edited) Initially I hated Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert which we covered for WLs, but it sort of grew on me, especially when I went back to it to do research and find quotes and such. I think must've spent three weeks of English class bitching and abusing Madame Bovary's character to the seventh Hell of Hades and back and loved every moment of it. However when I read the same book in French a year later, I was completely blown away, needless to say the English translation left much, much to be desired in comparison.Fredrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit made for an interesting read as well, and so was Dancing at Lughnasa when considered in parts and not as a whole. Edited July 18, 2011 by Arrowhead Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChikkyD Posted July 18, 2011 Report Share Posted July 18, 2011 Currently in the process of reading The Colour Purple for my part 3 texts. Oh my, I'm in love with it! It's absolutely amazing Definitely one of the.. ahem.. better IB books Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3athlig3r Posted August 19, 2011 Report Share Posted August 19, 2011 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - Tom Stoppard&A Man for All Seasons - Robert BoltBRILLIANT! I so recommend you guys read them if you haven't already, especially the former one, so funny and witty on the surface yet deep when you contemplate it. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kijly Posted August 19, 2011 Report Share Posted August 19, 2011 Some I've studeied, which I find not bad, "Selected Poems" by Sylvia Plath, "Awakening" by Kate Chopin, "I Will Marry When I want" by Ngugi, "Ghosts" by Henrik Ibsen, "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov, "Death of A Salesman" by Arthur Miller.....and Anita Desai's and Murakami's short stories as well.. Reply Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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