Err....Higher English anyone?

[Seph]

thanks for all the great ideas people, ill be sure and check them out in borders on saturday

[TheCastrator]

Originally Posted by GreggusXMachina

Dracula is a good choice cos of the narrative.

Dracula's excellent for exploring the duality of the characters.
Renfield who obeys the whims of the moon, and Dr Seward(Is it Seward? It's been so long since I last read it) with his insomnia; unable to be swayed by what the night brings.
Mina the chaste, married to Harker, and Lucy who invited Dracula into her house, causing her to become a creature of the night.
Harker with his down-to-Earth Victorian science and Van Helsing with his Catholic ways.
Dracula, a symbol of night, and the sun, the day.
Drcula with his selfishness and desire only for self preservation, and Quincey who dies to kill Dracula.

It's good for that.

Also, you can go into a bit about how Dracula is also the antithesis of good victorian society; a being of sheer greed, magic, anti-christian ways, and so on.


I liked it.

[JennyPiccolo]

goff.

[TheCastrator]

Originally Posted by Semprini

But wasn't Mina a vampire herself? One with a reflection, no less? Or was The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie inaccurate?

Semprini, when I see you on Friday I'm going to have to tut at you.

The closest Mina Harker got to vampiric blood was when Dracula cut open his chest and forced her to drink what came out*. This caused a psychic link between the two, as well as leaving Mina vulnerable to things such as sacred objects that ended up burning her and whatnot.

After that, though, once Dracula was destroyed, the burn on her forehead** vanished and she was free of the curse.



*Which wasn't specifically stated in the book.
**Caused by a piece of sacred wafer being placed upon her forehead by Van Helsing attempting to cleanse her after Dracula did the whole force-her-to-drink-from-him thing.

[flying_rat]

I did Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcattera. Tis a really good book....and....theres a film!! YAY!!

[linz]

Originally Posted by System_Star

Hes a good writer, you totally forget he is actually male.

Roddy Doyle is a really good writer. I did my Higher on Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha which was doyle's take on life in ireland just before the war, through the eyes of a little boy called Paddy Some parts were really funny, some a bit sad and others just a bit bizzarre (She could open a bottle of Fanta with her minge)


A Star called Henry also by roddy doyle was good too, though a lot more harsh, harder to read and very very sad.

[Pantgirl]

Originally Posted by Excoriate

I did Hannibal by Thomas somebody. The book was rank and I stopped reading after 100 pages but still got an A due to some "eyes closed stop a random page and look for a quote that fits the essay jargon"

I even think I got the ending wrong.

Trying to get my wee brother to do Fight Club for a Standard Grade thing.

nooooo Hannibal byt THomas Harris??? the FInal instalment of the "Silenc of the Lambs" Trilogy??? wrong wrong and denied!!! WHat did u say the ending was??? *cries*

Yeah I did "Brave New World" but Aldous Huxley which is fab and pish easy to do - specially if you know tons o SHakspeare - I got an A *smug*..yeha the "Great Gatsby" is pish easy to to as well - had that as our random class book thingy for higher..just waffel bout the corrupted American Dream and how the green light at the end of the pier signals Gatsby;s loe for Daisy or some shit - also " A Day in the Life of Ivan Desonivich" or some crap....v.depressing and poo i thought..bout life in a Russian campy thing in a war....meh

Brave New WOrld is ace though....so much to write about and is quite cool as well ....tru

[madvoice]

i did mine on Crow road, i found there was so much in the book that you could chose to talk about, i think its a great book

[cyanide_christ]

farenheit 451 - ray bradbury


fuel your anti-censorship tinted mind

[Semprini]

Originally Posted by TheCastrator

Semprini, when I see you on Friday I'm going to have to tut at you.

*hasn't actually read Dracula yet*
It was more of a dig at the utterly risible nature of LXG than anything else.

I feel a tut is harsh for trying to educate people that avoiding said movie is good for their health,

[TheCastrator]

Originally Posted by Semprini

*hasn't actually read Dracula yet*
It was more of a dig at the utterly risible nature of LXG than anything else.

I feel a tut is harsh for trying to educate people that avoiding said movie is good for their health,

Hm. Still, you'll notice that I didn't tut at you last night, so I suppose you're safe.


Also, you should read Dracula, it's really a very good book.

[Semprini]

It's on my 'stuff I have to read at some point' list.

[x__gill__x]

Not sure if this is a bit late but for my personal study I did the catcher in the rye by j.d salinger and there is so much too write about for it. I ended up writing something about how various encounters in the novel showed an evolution in the main character. Anyway apart from there being loads to write about its short and a really enjoyable book unlike some of the classics some people pick. (you'd never tell its my favourite book)

Oh and I'd recommed Iain Banks as well.

[Seph]

well i bought Bram Stoker's Dracula and Ernest Hemmingway's old man and the sea....


help?

[punkin_drunk]

shite i forgot all about this, ummm whats the easiest one outta everything people have suggested and il just do that. shortest too!