Books.
So I'm in the midst of a pre-college breakdown. I move in on the 22nd. Classes start on the 28th.
I am panicking because I haven't touched my summer/pre-college reading list. At ALL. Nor have I touched my Spanish review and that is my FIRST class and it's a 200 level course and I'm going to CRASH AND BURN, my friends, CRASH AND BURN.
So, my list for what I will read before 9:05am on Monday the 28th (in a perfect world):
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Crime and Punishment* by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell (I know, wtf, I haven't read this?? I think because I hated Fahrenheit 451 so intensely I avoided this because I was always told they were quite similar...)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Dubliners by James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man by James Joyce (need to finish)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (yeah, right)
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (need to finish)
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
I feel like Crime and Punishment should be a priority since I'm a Russian minor and 2 of my 4 classes are Russian and Russian history. Also feel like Don Quixote should be priority since I'm also a Spanish minor.
Am not taking any English classes this year and am still FREAKING THE FUCK OUT. For all the upper-level English courses I took, I was never ONCE made to read a classic, other than The Scarlet Letter, which is little more than a soap opera any way. Not that Austen doesn't read like that too, more often than not, but still.
Basically I feel like an uncultured heathen because I was being force-fed Scandinavian plays and bad, bad, horrible, French-Egyptian trash. To the person who says that The Doll's House is a crucial piece: I dare you to READ it at 9am. No. Just...no.
I am poor and cannot find Lolita anywhere cheap. I've been to three Half Price Books stores in Indy and done about a trillion Google searches for free eBooks, but to no avail. Gobs of stuff ABOUT it, but the actual book is being hidden from the broke-ass masses. And I am angry.
And I lost my copy of Paradise Lost. Ironic, right? *kills things*
So, dear friends, I know that most of you are bookish/grad students/bookish grad students, so tell me: What should I read before school or by the end of freshman year? How should I prioritize what I've already got on my list? Help, please.
I am panicking because I haven't touched my summer/pre-college reading list. At ALL. Nor have I touched my Spanish review and that is my FIRST class and it's a 200 level course and I'm going to CRASH AND BURN, my friends, CRASH AND BURN.
So, my list for what I will read before 9:05am on Monday the 28th (in a perfect world):
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Crime and Punishment* by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell (I know, wtf, I haven't read this?? I think because I hated Fahrenheit 451 so intensely I avoided this because I was always told they were quite similar...)
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Dubliners by James Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man by James Joyce (need to finish)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (yeah, right)
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (need to finish)
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
I feel like Crime and Punishment should be a priority since I'm a Russian minor and 2 of my 4 classes are Russian and Russian history. Also feel like Don Quixote should be priority since I'm also a Spanish minor.
Am not taking any English classes this year and am still FREAKING THE FUCK OUT. For all the upper-level English courses I took, I was never ONCE made to read a classic, other than The Scarlet Letter, which is little more than a soap opera any way. Not that Austen doesn't read like that too, more often than not, but still.
Basically I feel like an uncultured heathen because I was being force-fed Scandinavian plays and bad, bad, horrible, French-Egyptian trash. To the person who says that The Doll's House is a crucial piece: I dare you to READ it at 9am. No. Just...no.
I am poor and cannot find Lolita anywhere cheap. I've been to three Half Price Books stores in Indy and done about a trillion Google searches for free eBooks, but to no avail. Gobs of stuff ABOUT it, but the actual book is being hidden from the broke-ass masses. And I am angry.
And I lost my copy of Paradise Lost. Ironic, right? *kills things*
So, dear friends, I know that most of you are bookish/grad students/bookish grad students, so tell me: What should I read before school or by the end of freshman year? How should I prioritize what I've already got on my list? Help, please.