Our AP English teacher wanted to assign us The Frogs in our ancient Greeks unit, but the only way it was published in a way that the school could buy a bunch of copies was in the same volume that that play that I forgot the name of, the one where the women refuse the sleep with the men until they end a war. The compromised reached was that we could read The Frogs as long as, when he handed out the books, he told us we were NOT supposed to read that other play. The teacher smirked throughout telling us this story, and explained just why the school board didn't approve of the other play. Of course, just about all of us went and read it.
Doesn't winter seem more like archiving season?
Willow ,'Lessons'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Hil R. - May 21, 2008 9:25:48 am PDT #5854 of 28359
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Pix - May 21, 2008 9:26:58 am PDT #5855 of 28359
The status is NOT quo.
Bwah! That's Lysistrata.
Frankenbuddha - May 21, 2008 9:28:14 am PDT #5856 of 28359
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
the one where the women refuse the sleep with the men until they end a war.
Lysistrata by Aritosphones (Google is my friend - I knew the name but not the author).
X-post, natch. With a teacher, natch.
erikaj - May 21, 2008 9:28:41 am PDT #5857 of 28359
Always Anti-fascist!
I was disappointed in "Men and Cartoons" at least compared to "motherless Brooklyn" and "Fortress of Solitude"
amych - May 21, 2008 9:29:05 am PDT #5858 of 28359
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Yep, Pix beat me to Lysistrata.
I can't overstate just how much of my literary education came from seeking out the dirty bits. Don't these people get how badly they're shooting themselves in the foot when they Think Of The Children?
Jesse - May 21, 2008 9:29:54 am PDT #5859 of 28359
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Dude, my high school performed Lysistrata the year before I started. All the guys stuffed their pants.
Hayden - May 21, 2008 10:07:08 am PDT #5860 of 28359
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I was disappointed in "Men and Cartoons"
I didn't love it, either, but I figured it was worth a buck.
erikaj - May 21, 2008 10:35:52 am PDT #5861 of 28359
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, totally. I didn't mean to say that. A lot of gimmicks, though, iirc.
Laga - May 21, 2008 11:25:13 am PDT #5862 of 28359
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Odd that I'm most familiar with the nonfiction reading list when I don't really think of myself as a non-fiction reader. I've read three books by Krakauer, two by Sedaris (Although I think neither of those listed) and I've read Running with Scissors.
I didn't like A Confederacy of Dunces but I'm willing to give it another try. I didn't see why it was considered such a great work, and I wondered whether it would have been published at all had the author not killed himself. Then it got a pulitzer, so what do I know? Neuromancer was so long ago I've forgotten most of it and I haven't read the others. If I have time today I'll stop by my library and see if they have a copy of Poisonwood Bible.
Gris - May 21, 2008 4:35:36 pm PDT #5863 of 28359
Hey. New board.
Hamlet, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Angels in America, and possibly Kindred and Death of a Salesman.
I like this list. Though I actually was not a huge fan of Their Eyes Were Watching God. The rest of the list, though - pretty great. And pretty close to my senior year English class, though we did Our Town for our play instead of Death of a Salesman, and skipped Angels in America. We added some Faulkner (The Bear, a novella I believe) and Gatsby.