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Humiliation: The Vote

Jul 01, 2007 10:22

Nominations are in. Let the games begin!

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heleninwales July 1 2007, 17:07:48 UTC

Just wanted to say that I only read Lord of the Flies because we did it at school. I hated it. I read Lord Jim after seeing the film at the age of about 12, but decided that it was one of those rare instances where the film is better than the book. *g*

chickenfeet2003 July 1 2007, 17:09:29 UTC

Just wanted to say that I only read Lord of the Flies because we did it at school

You and everybody else I suspect

dyddgu July 1 2007, 17:37:26 UTC

Me, miss, me! I read it because we didn't do it at school, and I wanted to find out why everyone else did.

chickenfeet2003 July 1 2007, 17:41:21 UTC

It's funny. It's one of those books that almost everybody has to read at school, on both sides of the Atlantic, which is quite rare. Usually, if I ask, I find that it's the only Golding that a person has read which is rather a shame as it's atypical and, IMO, by no means his best work. The main result of forcing kids to read it seems to be to put them off Golding for life.

a_d_medievalist July 1 2007, 21:09:50 UTC

I haven't read it. Nor was I asked to. But we did have to watch the film.

melted_snowball July 1 2007, 23:31:13 UTC

Isn't he mostly a playwright?

chickenfeet2003 July 1 2007, 23:48:03 UTC

No. Pincher Martin, Freefall, The Spire, Rites of passage, Close Quarters, Fire Down Below etc

melted_snowball July 1 2007, 23:52:18 UTC

Oh. *blush* Perhaps I'll win this round. :-)

jen_c_w July 2 2007, 10:03:42 UTC

rites of passage and fire down below are both lovely. :)

chickenfeet2003 July 2 2007, 13:18:51 UTC

Yes, I like The Spire and Free Fall too

ironed_orchid July 2 2007, 13:19:10 UTC

The Inheritors.

unblinkered July 2 2007, 11:59:56 UTC

Wasn't on our list - or anyone's list, I don't think - in Ireland. But if memory serves, we were stuck with Shakespeare, Dickens and Emily Bronte for non-Irish non-poetry works. Actually, other than King Lear, The Plough and The Stars and some bits and bobs by Donne and Yeats, I have managed to completely forget what I did for the Leaving Cert!

no, I LIKE lord of the flies jen_c_w July 2 2007, 10:02:57 UTC

Lord of the Rings on the other hand is pointless tosh.
I couldn't be more pleased animal farm beats it out.

Re: no, I LIKE lord of the flies chickenfeet2003 July 2 2007, 13:18:08 UTC

I'm glad somebody else thinks so. IMO, the world would be a better place if at least 99% of the books with elves in had never been written.

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