Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
I read Animal Farm directly before reading 1984, so it struck me how the former seemed almost like preparation for or a precursor to the latter.
They were both spring break reading material. Along with Catcher in the Rye and...maybe A Streetcar Named Desire ? Possibly Glass Menagerie. There was at least one play, and I think it was Tennessee Williams.
Oh God, somebody's pulled Corwood's chain. We'll be here all night. (sighs, puts out peaches)
Did you read them on Spring Break as part of school, or on your own?
Back in the dark ages when I was in school, we never, ever, ever had to read anything when we were on vacation, although we read one book a year as "outside reading" which meant that we chose 1 of 3 or 4 books, and then took a test when we were done reading. I think vacation reading is weird, even though I read like a maniac on vacation. I feel like perhaps it would have made me want to read LESS.
I didn't actually ask for the long story, erika! Maybe we'll be safe.
Did you read them on Spring Break as part of school, or on your own?
On my own. Kind of a "Why the hell haven't I read these books for school?" binge. Oh, I also read Brave New World after 1984.
I ended up writing my senior thesis on dehumanization in dystopian societies in the two books, so I got more bang for my intellectual buck.
Sometimes you don't have to ask. But I'm not putting the cinnamon out, just in case.
No one authorized the cinnamon, that's for sure.
I see the whole sick crew is here, then.
cinnamon
hee!
Wikipedia told me something I'd never gotten out of Oedipa Maas's name: It's a mispronunciation of "Sam Spade" backwards.
Some people think it's good. But not, apparently,if it shreds your mouth. (Sorry. Tangent. But that happens to be some of the first symbolism I ever really liked. And you do have a way of fucking declaiming sometimes. You know it's true. But maybe if I had an expertise deeper than looking at at bloody crime photos, I could do it, too.)