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Book advice: if you were a college instructor...
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:07 pm
by Brett Eugene Ralph_Archive
Andrew L. wrote:I'm going with Frankenstein and Lolita.
Good call. I think these are excellent choices.
Book advice: if you were a college instructor...
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:28 pm
by gio_Archive
how bout 19th, 20th and 21st...
Conrad: The Secret Agent (ok, ok, 1907, whatev)
Burgess: A Clockwork Orange
Wallace: Infinite Jest (once again, not quite in the correct century... but close... 1996)
Book advice: if you were a college instructor...
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:35 pm
by Ty Webb_Archive
gio wrote:Wallace: Infinite Jest (once again, not quite in the correct century... but close... 1996)
He wants to teach them, not incite them to burn him in effigy.
Book advice: if you were a college instructor...
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:06 pm
by Angus Jung
Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:Andrew L. wrote:I'm going with Frankenstein and Lolita.
Good call. I think these are excellent choices.
I do, too.
Frankenstein is an inspired choice that nobody on the thread suggested (that I saw, anyway).
Good luck!
Book advice: if you were a college instructor...
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 8:38 pm
by rayj_Archive
Love the Frankenstein. Wish they taught me that one instead of Arthur Miller, for chrissakes....