Kreszentia
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...the school year winds down? I'm a high school senior, so I'll have a lot of free time in my final month of school. I'm in AP English, but now that the exam's over we're taking a break from Faulkner, Milton, Eliot, etc. and will spend the remainder of the year reading Wilde, O'Neill, Miller, etc. aloud in class. I want to use this opportunity to enjoy quality literature outside of school. Some of my favorite works are:
"The Bluest Eye" -- Morrison
"A Streetcar Named Desire" -- Williams
"Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Richard II" -- Shakespeare
"Memoirs of a Geisha" -- Golden
"We" -- Zamyatin
"Brave New World" -- Huxley
"1984" -- Orwell
"Black Elk Speaks" -- Black Elk/Neihardt
"The Inferno" -- Dante
"Frankenstein" -- Shelley
Essentially, I like dismally sad, suffering-filled books lol. Not sure why... they're just good lol. So what should I read that's not terribly difficult, but that's indisputably quality literature? I'm thinking of continuing with some more Toni Morrison. I own "Beloved." Is it any good? Perhaps I'll also try out some Wilde... it could be fun.
"The Bluest Eye" -- Morrison
"A Streetcar Named Desire" -- Williams
"Hamlet", "Macbeth", "Richard II" -- Shakespeare
"Memoirs of a Geisha" -- Golden
"We" -- Zamyatin
"Brave New World" -- Huxley
"1984" -- Orwell
"Black Elk Speaks" -- Black Elk/Neihardt
"The Inferno" -- Dante
"Frankenstein" -- Shelley
Essentially, I like dismally sad, suffering-filled books lol. Not sure why... they're just good lol. So what should I read that's not terribly difficult, but that's indisputably quality literature? I'm thinking of continuing with some more Toni Morrison. I own "Beloved." Is it any good? Perhaps I'll also try out some Wilde... it could be fun.