High School books

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by YOhio

I don't know why, but that line cracked me up. The sequence you referred to happened in the first chapter. Could it be that young Il Pad stopped reading after he figured out the rest of the book didn't include anymore baseball?

I couldn't understand how a guy doesn't catch a ball hit right at him.

I read the entire book and remember that the two forged a friendship after the visit to the hospital, but yes, my hopes of a baseball book changed quickly.

I just may read it again now. It's been 25+ years since I read it in high school.

[Mormon Red Death]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

When I was a kid (jr. high age?) I read a book called When the Legends Die by Hal Borland. It is about an Indian boy on the reservation who becomes an orphan and ends up on the rodeo circuit with an alcoholic man. It was a tragic, yet beautiful story. I liked it so much I read it 2-3 times. I wonder if it would have the same appeal to me now.

When the legends die the dreams end. When the dreams end there is no life

I loved this book as well

Tale of two cities was another I loved

[FarrahWaters]

Invisible Man, Catch-22, The Age of Innocence, For Whom the Bell Tolls and lots of Hemingway short stories, Anna Karenina, Crime and Punishment. I got into Vonnegut too for awhile.

[BarbaraGordon]

Originally Posted by surfah33

my thesis was centered around Edna, a supposed champion of feminists, really was just a shallow and selfish woman whose actions culminate in the most selfish of acts, suicide.

The Yellow Wallpaper is very interesting as it was really groundbreaking in it's subject and treatment of mental illness. I like this choice very much.

I totally agree on Edna. I was moved by the misery and prison that she envisioned herself in. But my prof was always insisting that the end was a victory. But I still wonder, a victory for whom??

I don't think I've ever met anyone else who's read the Yellow Wallpaper.

Were you an English major? What era did you emphasize?

[Surfah]

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

I totally agree on Edna. I was moved by the misery and prison that she envisioned herself in. But my prof was always insisting that the end was a victory. But I still wonder, a victory for whom??

I don't think I've ever met anyone else who's read the Yellow Wallpaper.

Were you an English major? What era did you emphasize?

I did get my BA in English. 19th Century American Women's Literature was my emphasis. But American women's literature in general is what I read most, aside from the requisite classes. Wharton, Cather, Chopin, Jewett, Woolf, Jackson, Dickinson, etc. Two of my favorite novels are The Coquette by Hannah Webster Foster and Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick.

I ended up taking a 200 level class from a professor I really enjoyed. And this was his specialty so I ended up taking 4 classes from him I think including my senior course of study.

Not 19th century, but Flannery O'Connor is one of my favorite authors of all time. Her short stories are amazing and her novel Wise Blood is a work of art. If you haven't read her I highly recommend her. I'd start with her short stories:

A Good Man is Hard to Find
Good Country People
Everything that Rises Must Converge

[Mormon Red Death]

[QUOTE=surfah33;67172]I did get my BA in English. 19th Century American Women's Literature was my emphasis. But American women's literature in general is what I read most, aside from the requisite classes. /QUOTE]

Boy you were/are trying to get a lot of smart chicks..

Learn to play the guitar or piano....that would probably work better

[il Padrino Ute]

[QUOTE=Mormon Red Death;67175]

Originally Posted by surfah33

I did get my BA in English. 19th Century American Women's Literature was my emphasis. But American women's literature in general is what I read most, aside from the requisite classes. /QUOTE]

Boy you were/are trying to get a lot of smart chicks..

Learn to play the guitar or piano....that would probably work better

Chicks dig the long ball.

[Surfah]

[QUOTE=il Padrino Ute;67178]

Originally Posted by Mormon Red Death

Chicks dig the long ball.

I do play guitar. And with a Miken Freak the long ball has never been a problem. In fact I would start swinging a dead bat or my Freak 98 once our softball team exceeded 3 HRs which was the cap in our American Legion ASA league.

In my senior course class at the Y I was one of three guys. The only single one to boot. And also the only one not going to law school. One was accepted to Univ. of Chicago and the other George Washington.

And for those that argue that feminism doens't exist at BYU or in Mormon culture then I suggest that course of study. I never procured any dates in that class. My problem was I'd open my mouth but it was a fun class. I learned a ton through participation, mainly because there was really only three people the professor could turn to offer counterpoints and a male perspective.

[ute4ever]

I know this is so cliche', but when I was in 7th grade and read To Kill A Mockingbird, I was so shocked - shocked - at the outcome of the trial, that I realized then and there that I wanted to become an attorney.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by ute4ever

I know this is so cliche', but when I was in 7th grade and read To Kill A Mockingbird, I was so shocked - shocked - at the outcome of the trial, that I realized then and there that I wanted to become an attorney.

So, you had the same reaction as Jeb?