summer reading

[nathalia]

 read so far:
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
- Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird
- Robert Lewis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five



to read:
- Margret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale
- Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
- Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
- Truman Capote: In Cold Blood
- Charles Dickens: David Copperfield
- F. Scott FItzgerald: The Great Gatsby
- William Golding: Lord of the Flies

- Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- James Joyce: The Dubliners
- James Joyce: Ulysses

- D. H. Lawrence: Lady Chatterlay's Lover
- D. H. Lawrence: Women In Love
- George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion

- John Steinbeck: Grapes of Wrath

- John Steinbeck:  Of Mice And Men

- William Thackeray: Vanity Fair
- Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
- Virginia Woolf: Orlando

- Virginia Woolf: To The Lighthouse
 

Comments

Just casually poking your journal ;)

[lady-macbeth-19.livejournal.com]

That's an impressive list! What did you think of Heart of Darkness? Of those, I would definitely recommend Lord of the Flies, which is just AWESOME; characters are so realistic and the landscape is described with so much gruesome realism... Anyway, Jane Eyre is also amazing. My favorite book of all times, tbh. Though Wuthering Heights was good too though. Took some time to get into though. Have fun! X
XxLil

Re: Just casually poking your journal ;)

[nathskywalker.livejournal.com]

The reading list is part of my long reading list for British and American Studies :D

Heart of Darkness was hard to get through at times. I was curious about it mostly because it's the basis of Apocalypse Now which I love. I see the parallels and the story is cool once it gets into it but at times, Conrad is somewhat of a drag.

Re: Just casually poking your journal ;)

[lady-macbeth-19.livejournal.com]

Definitely wasn't light bedtime reading, I agree with that. I think that Lord of the Flies is an almost easier version, told from the 'Kurtz's side. It may sound weird, but definitely a good follow on.
British and American Studies? Sounds awesome! What do you do? Literature, I assume; do you also do history? And other things?
XxLil

Re: Just casually poking your journal ;)

[nathskywalker.livejournal.com]

I've been dying to read Lord of the Flies forever. After Slaughterhouse-5 maybe. I love that thematic of corruption and losing oneself.

British and American Studies is a fancy term for English, basically. We do literature, culture, history, structure and history of the English language itself, etc.

For some reason, Constance (the university I go to) has an obsession with fancy English terms everything.