I wondered why you were wearing it!
Was it paired with rhinestone cat's-eye glasses?
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 wondered why you were wearing it!
Was it paired with rhinestone cat's-eye glasses?
This list is way too skewed for books that I suspect will be forgotten in 50 years.
Any list that doesn't have Sexual Politics or The Awakening is suspect. Other omissions: Jane Eyre, Vanity Fair, Moll Flanders, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Emily Dickinson, Sarah Orne Jewett and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Jane Eyre was on there. But Emily Dickinson is a huge omission! I guess it was tending towards fiction, but Dorothy Parker was on there, who I think of mostly as a poet and a quipper.
24 books on the women's list
14 on the men's
Gone with the wind you have to read between age 13-and 15 to enjoy.
10 on the men's list. 6 of those were because they were assigned in high school (Rabbit, Run; For Whom the Bell Tolls; Heart of Darkness; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Moby Dick; and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold).
Well, it was a reader submitted list. It makes you wonder who the readers are who submitted book titles.
Gone with the wind you have to read between age 13-and 15 to enjoy.
Heh. I first read it in sixth grade and loved it. I still go back and reread it every few years -- I don't love the same things that I loved then, but it's still a great story. Plus, I've now got the vocabulary to express exactly why I think Ashley's an idiot, whereas then, I mostly just got irritated without being able to explain why.
Hil is me, here. Although I don't really think Ashley and Scarlett were ever suited.
I don't think we were supposed to think Ashley and Scarlett were suited.
I think that GWTW is somewhat important to read or see, because Rhett/Scarlett/Ashley seems to be the basis for a lot of love triangles in modern TV. But I am overinvested in the teen soap genre.