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So I registered for classes for Spring. I don't think it will be too dreadful, as you can see:
Poli Sci (H) - International Relations or something like that
Bio - Molecular Genetics (the only thing that sounded relatively interesting and it's not going to bore me)
English - Introduction to Shakespeare (I heard the teacher's hot. Oh yeah, and it's soo totally required for my major)
English - Survey of British Literature (apparently, Victorian-present day, as you can see from the part-awesome part-sucky reading list below)
So my reading list for the Brit Lit is:
Dickens' Hard Times (yes! it's his shortest!)
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (good thing I didn't read that earlier)
Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (moderately awesome, I've never gotten around to it)
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (wonderful book, but I think I'll be bored the 2nd time around)
Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (SWEEEEEEET)
and...
*dramatic music*
Joyce's The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Damn! Damn him and his fancy stream-of-consciousness! Pynchon and/or Proust are sooo much better at it than he is, and you can actually understand them (even if they do have Oedipus complexes, as in Proust's case...).
Oh well. Coasting through the other five makes up for it well enough. :)
Now I'll just pray that the Intro to Shakespeare will have some of his better plays. My most ambitious option is Othello, the only one of the Big Five I haven't read yet, but I think we'll hit Hamlet (...not again, so soon!) and Midsummer (by far my least favorite so far).
That was exciting.
Poli Sci (H) - International Relations or something like that
Bio - Molecular Genetics (the only thing that sounded relatively interesting and it's not going to bore me)
English - Introduction to Shakespeare (I heard the teacher's hot. Oh yeah, and it's soo totally required for my major)
English - Survey of British Literature (apparently, Victorian-present day, as you can see from the part-awesome part-sucky reading list below)
So my reading list for the Brit Lit is:
Dickens' Hard Times (yes! it's his shortest!)
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (good thing I didn't read that earlier)
Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (moderately awesome, I've never gotten around to it)
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (wonderful book, but I think I'll be bored the 2nd time around)
Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (SWEEEEEEET)
and...
*dramatic music*
Joyce's The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Damn! Damn him and his fancy stream-of-consciousness! Pynchon and/or Proust are sooo much better at it than he is, and you can actually understand them (even if they do have Oedipus complexes, as in Proust's case...).
Oh well. Coasting through the other five makes up for it well enough. :)
Now I'll just pray that the Intro to Shakespeare will have some of his better plays. My most ambitious option is Othello, the only one of the Big Five I haven't read yet, but I think we'll hit Hamlet (...not again, so soon!) and Midsummer (by far my least favorite so far).
That was exciting.