So. A Clockwork Orange. I have this odd fascination with violence, gore, and psychological stuff so this book, when I heard about it, sounded right up my alley. It took a while for me to get my hands on though and when I finally did finals came around and reading it was a bit out of the question. Ironically when I made my last LJ post about the ( Read more... )

Okay, so I know I said I was going to review Death of a Salesman and Huckleberry Finn, but for Winter Break homework I was actually told to read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and I like this book quite a bit (or I have more to say on it) so I thought I'd review this first, and the other two.... later.

*spoiler for the end*
( So much more than )

Finally got around to typing this up (procrastinating on studying for a math test I'm going to fail - yes, it's like I've given up on grade 12 completely, I know).

( Brave New World by Alduous Huxley )

Finally finished 1984. Actually I finished the book about two weeks ago but due to a massive (and pretty brutal) eye infection I've been avoiding the computer for awhile. Still haven't finished Brave New World but I'll be done that by next week, probably, and then I'll "review" that too. I've also started Death of a Salesman so I may/may not review ( Read more... )

So. I've finally got around to finishing part 2 of 1984 by George Orwell. The reason it took me so long was mostly because we were not reading the book in class, we were not assigned to read it as homework, and I wasn't about to force myself to continue the novel myself (what with everything else happening in my life). At the beginning of this week ( Read more... )

I'm taking AP English Literature 12 this year and in prep. for the exam we're going to be reading lots of famous works of literature and while reading 1984 I started thinking - why not review some of the books that we read? I'm not going to do formal reviews and critiques of the novels, and as in the current case I might even review the book before ( Read more... )