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All the books you mentioned are great. I actually have read animal farm and a few others in school, but a lot of what we read is historical fiction, biographies, and lots of Shakespeare (although I guess he could count as some of all of those genres). Thanks a lot, it's great to hear from...

Was there something specific that was confusing? Just curious since I just had that book reccomended to me by a friend.

I hope that I can take similar courses in college, they sound great :)

Same here. I think having a book reccommended to me is the biggest attraction, since my friends are into similar types of novels.

Right now I am in 11th grade, and one of the things that bugs me most about school reading lists is their almost religious adherence to "the classics". I don't know if some of you have had different experiences, but I was wondering what anyone else thinks about incorporating different sci-fi or...

Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes. We had to read it in school and though I can see relevance to society and there seems like there are deeper meanings in there somewhere, that was the only book I can ever remember really having to force myself to read.

Has anyone read any of Dan Brown's other books? I don't know if I was just familiar with his style by the time I read deception point and digital fortress, but I thought they were a very far cry from angels and demons and the davinci code.

thanks a lot, I'll check up on that :)

I am a big fan of Ursula Leguin, and recently a friend told me that she has written a short story about a driver crashing a car into a tree, which is written from the perspective of the tree. This story was reccommended to me with vague references that it was by Leguin, but I haven't been able...