Books Read 2005
Submitted by shorelinels on Wed, 01/19/2005 - 06:56
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- The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky
- The Devils Code John Sanford
- Beowulf trans: Seamus Heaney
- Walden Henry David Thoreau
- A History of God Karen Armstrong
- The Conspiracy Club Jonathan Kellerman
- Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938 R.A. Scotti
- Nine Stories J.D. Salinger
- A Seperate Peace John Knowles
- A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams
- Siddhartha Hermann Hesse
- the curious incident of the dog in the night-time Mark Haddon
- The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
- on hold:Democracy In America Alexis De Toqueville
Author Comments:
a constantly updated list consiting of books i find or given to me read by other people.
Let me know what you think of 'The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane' -
I read it last year   (see my review).
so i started it, but found it very sluggish, much like the life of the young soldier waiting in camp to go to battle. i've put it down for a bit and going to try again soon. what were your thoughts on the read itself?
I read it last year -   See my review here   (near the bottom).
I'd like to know what you think about the interpretation of A Seperate Peace that I came up with when I was forced to read it. You can choose to read it now or wait until after you've finished the book... or never.
Actually, "never" might be my choice. I don't know if reading this might help or help to ruin it for you. Now that I think about it, don't read this until you've formed your own opinions.
My theory is that every (male) character is a facet of Gene's personality and that they are all, in fact, a product of shell-shock. Or "PTSD," to get all 90s on you. The story in A Seperate Peace is the (crippled) adult Gene's way of coming to terms with his own mental breakdown and wounds from the war.
As always, I can go into more detail but I'd like to hear what you think (thought?) of the novel. And by the way, could there possibly have been less women in that book? As I recall there were three women who were even mentioned, only one of them gets any lines and all of them are helpless.
It was in the same class that I was forced to watch the movie of the book which was a fate worse than reading the book. Aside from guessing that the professor was in his twenties when the movie came out and was so profoundly affected that he was continuing the cycle of abuse, the movie brought two thoughts to mind: 1. Everything that Parker Stevenson touches blows up in his face. (insert your own Kirstie Alley joke here) 2. In eighth grade, upon being asked why he hadn't done the assigned Geometry reading, Tim Pfeiffer told the math teacher, "I was waiting for the movie to come out."