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Delirium
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13 Jan 2008, 6:55 pm

Right now in English, we're reading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Ugh, I hate it with a passion. The way it's written (in a Southern, backwater dialect) makes me stabby. I especially hate Tom Sawyer, that racist little twit.



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13 Jan 2008, 7:16 pm

Howard Zinns A People's History of the United States


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13 Jan 2008, 8:16 pm

"ABYC american boat and yacht council building standards."
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"How boat things work"


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13 Jan 2008, 9:18 pm

THE GOLD COAST by Nelson DeMille (...anything by DeMille is GREAT... LION'S GAME; NIGHTFALL; CHARM SCHOOL)
THE FOURT K by Mario Puzo
STATE OF FEAR by Michael Crichton
THE HOT ZONE by Richard Preston
THE PERFECT STROM by Sebastian Junger

I put THE GOLD COAST first. I checked Amazon & it said 'customers that bought Huck Finn have also bought...THE GREAT GATSBY'.

THE GOLD COAST is a modern day GATSBY, but it's sort of a "GATSBY meets THE GODFATHER".

p.s. i know what you mean about the accents in HUCK FINN. It makes for tough reading.



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14 Jan 2008, 5:57 pm

Delirium wrote:
Right now in English, we're reading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Ugh, I hate it with a passion. The way it's written (in a Southern, backwater dialect) makes me stabby. I especially hate Tom Sawyer, that racist little twit.

I'm not even going to start debating with you on how much I LOVE that book! To each his own...

I'm reading Tom Jones by Henry Fielding. It's the first book this year I actually love reading for class...even though it's about the longest book on earth, haha.



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14 Jan 2008, 6:08 pm

The Grapes of Wrath.



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15 Jan 2008, 6:07 pm

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

I HATE IT. It's about love. I hate books about love.


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16 Jan 2008, 11:55 am

Delirium wrote:
Right now in English, we're reading the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Ugh, I hate it with a passion. The way it's written (in a Southern, backwater dialect) makes me stabby. I especially hate Tom Sawyer, that racist little twit.


We discussed "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" two weeks ago. Now we are expected to read Kate Chopin's Awakening. :D I was given the book "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" when I was 11 and I like this novel a lot, as well as "Tom Sawyer's adventures". In the novel about Huck, Tom is far more distanced from his friend, there seems to be an obvious gap between those two boys even if they're still friends; in "Tom Sawyer's adventures" Sawyer was a child of nature in only a smaller degree than Huck. Here he's more civilized by the society.


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