Animal Farm, by George Orwell.chocollama wrote:Hey, I've got a book report due soon. What is a short book that is difficult reading, has a complex storyline, great throughout, and clean enough for my Mormon English teacher to read if I recommend it? (If that's even possible....)
Recommend me a book
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Truer words were never spoken.Common Sense wrote:Animal Farm is really really really bad.
JK. This is what I think:
I had to read this my freshmen year. The teacher was a really boring, really lonely old man. That made everything in the class extremely bland, including any books we read. I'm sure Animal Farm would've been good if circumstances had been on my side, but alas, they were not. ;_;
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I've recently been reminded of my favorite work of fiction. I've been inspired to re-read The Picture of Dorian Gray, and encourage you to (re-)read it as well.
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A strange twist in the personality of Tsukatu. I quite liked that novel as well.
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy.chocollama wrote:Hey, I've got a book report due soon. What is a short book that is difficult reading, has a complex storyline, great throughout, and clean enough for my Mormon English teacher to read if I recommend it? (If that's even possible....)
No, but seriously, Heart of Darkness
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Narcissism is out of character for me?SlappyMcGee wrote:A strange twist in the personality of Tsukatu. I quite liked that novel as well.
I feel like I must have misled you about my personality for the last several years.
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Bingo.scythe wrote:The Illuminatus! Trilogy.chocollama wrote:Hey, I've got a book report due soon. What is a short book that is difficult reading, has a complex storyline, great throughout, and clean enough for my Mormon English teacher to read if I recommend it? (If that's even possible....)
No, but seriously, Heart of Darkness
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it can't have been a movie. :(
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Heart of Darkness was not a movie. Apocalypse Now was heavily based on HoD, but it was still very different.chocollama wrote:it can't have been a movie. :(
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I was thinking of The Ghost and the Darkness when he said it was a movie.
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You've apparantly (and unforgiveably) not seen the Tim Roth/John Malkovich adaptation from the early Nineties. Fool.scythe wrote:Heart of Darkness was not a movie. Apocalypse Now was heavily based on HoD, but it was still very different.chocollama wrote:it can't have been a movie. :(
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That's ridiculous. Heart of Darkness is one of the greatest books ever written in any language. I'm sure your teacher will not mind you doing a report on it. (It might help if you claim not to have seen the movie.)chocollama wrote:it can't have been a movie. :(
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I haven't seen it, but my teacher's a bitch like that. She'll check dude, she's fucking thorough.
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Perhaps one of the parts of Joyce's Ulysses? Individually they are quite brief.
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Ulysses once resulted in a prosecution for obscenity and was made into a film, so probably not appropriate.squibbles wrote:Perhaps one of the parts of Joyce's Ulysses? Individually they are quite brief.
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Eurgh, a movie? That'd either be the most annoying film, or the most boring one, depending on the naration.oughts wrote:Ulysses once resulted in a prosecution for obscenity and was made into a film, so probably not appropriate.squibbles wrote:Perhaps one of the parts of Joyce's Ulysses? Individually they are quite brief.
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Aka. Ten Little Indians - Agatha Christie. My favorite book ever.
Aka. Ten Little Indians - Agatha Christie. My favorite book ever.
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I just started reading everything by Jasper Fforde (that IS how it's spelled). That guy is f r e a k i n g awesome.
And he added me on Facebook. XD
And he added me on Facebook. XD
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The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is very entertaining to read, I do not care much about the philosophical message it tries to convey though. The plot is easy to understand and the characters are unique and all likable to some extent.
Also, the author has a great grasp of the English language for a Russian Jew.
Also, the author has a great grasp of the English language for a Russian Jew.
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The Atrocity Archives and The Fuller Memorandum by Charles Stross. I have only read half of the latter, and I haven't read the former, but I got the feeling this would be right up Metanet's alley. Right up there.
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Oh god oh god ... Ms. Rand is turning in her grave.Artistolipto wrote:The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is very entertaining to read, I do not care much about the philosophical message it tries to convey though.
I'm reading The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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What? Why?Nostromo wrote:Oh god oh god ... Ms. Rand is turning in her grave.Artistolipto wrote:The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is very entertaining to read, I do not care much about the philosophical message it tries to convey though.
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I've never heard of that book.....
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