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Hooray!!!
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 6:35 am
by Reisheiruhime
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 1:20 pm
by Fist and Faith
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!
Posted: Sat Feb 08, 2003 6:40 pm
by Reisheiruhime
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.
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Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 8:12 pm
by fightingmyinstincts
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!
Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 11:09 pm
by [Syl]
hey, Beowulf was good.
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 2:15 am
by Reisheiruhime
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.
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 2:36 am
by Damelon
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.
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2003 3:37 am
by Fist and Faith
Aaaahhhh...
<I>Grendel</I> is another <B>fantastic</B> comic book!! But unrelated to this conversation.
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Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2003 3:23 pm
by FMI
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.
