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Post by **Reisheiruhime** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 6:35 am

I annoyed my school librarian into ordering TCTC!!!

*Conducts a parade, twirls flaming baton, sets off really big fireworks*

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 1:20 pm

It wasn't there already???? I thought TCTC was required reading for all schools. hmm, gotta write the president.

But I'm glad to see you're fighting the good fight!

Post by **Reisheiruhime** » Sat Feb 08, 2003 6:40 pm

All schools? Yikes! We have the accellerated reading program at my school, and there's nothing interesting on that, so I got the librarian to order any books by SRD. Nagging works.

Post by **fightingmyinstincts** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 8:12 pm

Yeah we have that too. Can't believe high school students actually participate in that....reading books for POINTS?!?!?!? It just seems so...elementary....Anyway, I couldn't take time out from what I'm reading to read a bunch of "approved for adolescents" books, they always pick such tipical things, like the scarlet letter or Huck Finn....OK, but not my genre...why is sci-fi/fan so underappreciated? That's why I want to teach a class in it as a college professor....Maybe someone can then take an interesting literature class!Beowulf, Chaucer, ick! We celebrate a bunch of old people who yeah could write well but no better than the perfectly good writers who get ignored by english teachers everywhere just because they happened to have published something in the last 2 centuries.

...*steps down from soapbox* Sorry! Ignore this!

Post by **[Syl]** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 11:09 pm

hey, Beowulf was good.

Post by **Reisheiruhime** » Wed Feb 12, 2003 2:15 am

FMI- High school students???

They participate in it???

I didn't know that. The school library has some pretty good stuff-His Dark Materials, stuff by Lois Duncan(horror/mystery), and other stuff.

Of course, I can read more than one book at a time. I'm currently reading 4 books.

Post by **Damelon** » Wed Feb 12, 2003 2:36 am

Sylvanus wrote:hey, Beowulf was good.

I picked up Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf a couple of years ago. I would recommend it.

A friend of mine recently recommended Grendel a retelling of the story from the monster's point of view. I'm casually on the lookout for that.

Post by **Fist and Faith** » Wed Feb 12, 2003 3:37 am

Aaaahhhh...
<I>Grendel</I> is another <B>fantastic</B> comic book!! But unrelated to this conversation.

FMI · Post by **FMI** » Thu Feb 13, 2003 3:23 pm

I would like to read Grendel....but I didn't like Beowulf that much....Grendel sounds cool though, there's a review of it in my english book...And yes HS students participate in it.....I'm read the chrons and the Abhorsen series right now, now that I paid off the public library and can check out books like the new conclusion to Garth Nix's series "Abhorsen". Very cool books.

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