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TheBlueBalla
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Nice dude, youre in IB????$teauA said:Haven't killed myself reading too much this summer...
I read Harry Potter and the HB Prince then I followed that with my school reading assignment Life of Pi then followed that with Angels and Demons by Shifty Brown () and currently I'm reading a Stalin biography called Stalin Breaker Of Nations by Robert Conquest for my International History IB class (I'm gonna have to write a 1500 word paper supporting one of the authors these's as well sigh...).
I noticed in the earlier pages of this thread ya'll we're talking about War and Peace, I read that in 7th grade, took me like half a year and I f*ckin hated it but you gotta respect it as a great piece of literature just isn't my style but I kept reading till I finished it cas I can't just not finish a book once I started.
Some of the books I read earlier this year
- The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
- Cold Sassy Tree - Burns
- Their Eyes Were Watching God - Hurtson
- Like Water for Chocolate - Esquivel
- Ghosts - Ibsen
- The Plague - Camus
- The Visit - can't remember the name of the author
Those are basically the books we read in English last year give or take a few but I can remember reading those and also Hamlet at the end of the year.
geeks of the world unite!The reading is always quality in all programs (I was in two during my time, and I covered Fitz, Camus a couple of times, Hurston, Ibsen, etc, but the writing, though terrible made the first 2 years of college seem pedestrian as hell. No question it was worth it in the end.
If I may ask, are you doing the full diploma? and if so, whats your Extended Essay gonna be on?
Anyway, on topic, I only got around to finishing "The Price of Glory" by Alistair Horne this summer, but it wasnt very fulfilling: a dry work of historical nonfiction is about as un-exciting as one gets
TheBlueBalla said:Nice dude, youre in IB????
The reading is always quality in all programs (I was in two during my time, and I covered Fitz, Camus a couple of times, Hurston, Ibsen, etc, but the writing, though terrible made the first 2 years of college seem pedestrian as hell. No question it was worth it in the end.
If I may ask, are you doing the full diploma? and if so, whats your Extended Essay gonna be on?
Anyway, on topic, I only got around to finishing "The Price of Glory" by Alistair Horne this summer, but it wasnt very fulfilling: a dry work of historical nonfiction is about as un-exciting as one gets
Yeah I love the program
, stressful but very solid. Very nice to hear that it made the first two years of college seem pedestrian because all or most of my teachers say that and I have a hard time believing it but to actually hear it from someone who's been there done that, that makes all the difference.I did Diploma my first three years (freshman, sophmore, junior) and at the end of my junior year I decided that I was gonna do it senior year but over the summer I thought about things and realized that all the work from all the science (chemistry III, physics III), history (international history), social (TOK, Psychology II) and also math (Calculus) would just add up and basically stress me out to the point of insanity not to mention that on the side I had the extended essay and the senior exit project to think about and also all the extra curricular activities (sports, clubs and girlfriend) would basically destroy me (I'm not the type that can handle so much at once although I know many who can and I bow to them). I decided that it would be in my best interest to just drop Diploma and do Certificate and I did so no extended essay for me
.PS: an IB Diploma doesn't mean much anyway, as a friend of mine puts it "An IB Diploma: a usefull substitute for toilet paper" and he's IB himself.
$teauA said:
Err, that's what makes it original to some extent... (:/)
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So I read this amazing book by Luis Sepúlveda (does anyone else know this great writer from Chile?): 'The story of a seagull and the cat who taught her to fly'
It's quite short, actually, but it's smart and will touch your heart, if you allow yourself to have one in this post-modern age.
Chacarita Juniors
The artist formerly known as ronnifan9
Civilizacion y Cultura de Espana by Vicente Canatarino (5th Edition)
Spanish 340 textbook. ...very interesting.
Spanish 340 textbook.
...very interesting. Meh, shoot me.
Anyway, i've just finished Harlan Coben - Tell no one, i noticed yash read it earlier in the thread but has anyone else read it? What did you think of it? I thought it was pretty decent, full of different little twists. To show how much i enjoyed it i read it in three days, couldn't put it down.
Anyway, i've just finished Harlan Coben - Tell no one, i noticed yash read it earlier in the thread but has anyone else read it? What did you think of it? I thought it was pretty decent, full of different little twists. To show how much i enjoyed it i read it in three days, couldn't put it down.
JFG_Lancer
Senior Squad
nird said:
Maybe its Angels and Demons?
Well i just finished Platos Republic and have just started The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
C
Callum
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the crucible
::shinji::
Min
Callum said:
great read, the movie was ok but didn't do the book justice
C
Callum
Guest
::shinji:: said:
I suppose, we watching the movie right now in class, not really paying attention to it.