[Mars]

So, I have senioritis like a disease. I'm making my way, getting okay grades... and then my English teacher hands me this book, and an assignment sheet up the wazoo.

Their Eyes Were Watching God is basically a 1930's chick flick written by an African-American woman. It's killing me... slowly.

I don't mind big assignments, but when the literature involved kills my brain cells faster than super glue.

So all you college students and graduates, is College literature better?

(Please say yes)

[Ghostavo]

College literature?

Here's my college's literature.

[blackhole]

Your college literature froze foxit reader 

[Mars]

And Kpdf

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And xpdf

[TrashMan]

So, I have senioritis like a disease. I'm making my way, getting okay grades... and then my English teacher hands me this book, and an assignment sheet up the wazoo.

Their Eyes Were Watching God is basically a 1930's chick flick written by an African-American woman. It's killing me... slowly.

I don't mind big assignments, but when the literature involved kills my brain cells faster than super glue.

So all you college students and graduates, is College literature better?

(Please say yes)

Hehe...you wish.

Well..maybe...depends on the subject.

[CP5670]

So all you college students and graduates, is College literature better?

No, it's not.

You may get lucky and have a situation where they regularly discuss the books in class though, in which case you can sometimes get by without reading anything. I did that in the one literature class I had to do and came out fine.

[Ghostavo]

Your college literature froze foxit reader 

I use foxit reader too so I have no idea how you froze it.

[Corsair]

Actually, I'm pretty sure a friend of mine is reading Their Eyes Were Watching God for a class here in college right now... I read it junior year of high school and hated it. But from what I've heard, they read some pretty cool books too. I don't take literature classes.

[Hippo]

i ****ing hated that book. we ended up not finishing it before we graduated because of the horrible dialect

[Rictor]

We had to read House of the Spirits in Grade 12, which is actually an OK book. The basic message is: "Fascism is bad, m'kay" but I re-interpreted it as a sort of guide-book to living a life of aristocratic opulence, raping beautiful peasant girls and putting down the occasional socialist uprising.

[spartan_0214]

It'd be pretty hard to top some of my reading for high-school. (And I sympathize with the senior-itis; I'll be coming back from two weeks of Spring Break come the end of March ) I just finished "Peace Like a River" preceded by "1984." Junior year I read "Reading in the Dark," "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," and a few others that I enjoyed. Side note - Strunk and White does not make good Literature, had to learn that for Rhetoric and Composition. If college literature is better....

[Dark Hunter]

Song of Solomon was the absolute worst "classic" I've read to date. Not only was it boring with the story making no sense, it also managed to disgust me multiple times.

I think I lucked out in College Lit... I don't know if my college even requires a Literature course (they do require writing courses).

[BloodEagle]

80% (varies by 10% depending on your state) of everything that they make you learn* in college is useless.

*GenEd.

[Ford Prefect]

My high school English classes were really superb, and everything I study now is either a musical score, an essay, or an mp3 file, so it's hard to compare. Basically, it depends on what you want to study, but even if you end up being a lit. major, you're going have to read plenty of stuff you can't stand.

[spartan_0214]

Song of Solomon was the absolute worst "classic" I've read to date. Not only was it boring with the story making no sense, it also managed to disgust me multiple times.

I, too, have Goessl for Apocalyptic Scene. We haven't started Song of Solomon ... yet. I think "Life of Pi" is next...

[Dark Hunter]

Life of Pi was good, don't worry about that. 

[spartan_0214]

I'm already about 4 chapters into it, and it looks pretty good. I've been bored after I finished Peace Like a River a week before it was due. Alex and I had a competition, you see...

[Polpolion]

Life of Pi was good, don't worry about that. 

My school is trying to get every single person at our school to read that book by giving out free copies in our library. Needless to say, I took like four and then sold them on a street corner downtown.

[Rictor]

You can sell books on street-corners? Where do you live, dude?

I've always wondered why schools don't force kids to read something they'll actually like. Y'know, so they don't develop a life-long aversion to reading. Vonnegut or Palahniuk or Camus. But maybe these only seem interesting to me because I'm a book nerd and don't wear a backwards baseball cap.

[Nuclear1]

My reading list was actually fairly good in high school.
 
1984
Animal Farm
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
Othello
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alas, Babylon
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
Grapes of Wrath

Since I love Shakespeare (no homo ) and F451/1984/BNW/Alas, that reading list was pretty kickass.