School Reading List

Tell me something about these books, or others by the same authors. Have you read them? do you like them? which ones suck?
Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe
Anaya: Bless Me Ultima
Atwood: Surfacing
Baldwin: Go Tell It On the Mountain
Capote: In Cold Blood
Cather: My Antonia
Chopin: The Awakening
Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
Dreiser: An American Tragedy, Sister Carrie
Ellison: Invisible Man
Faulkner: Light in August, The Sound and The Fury
Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises
Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
James: The American, Portrait of a Lady
Johnson: Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
Kerouac: On the Road
Kingston: The Woman Warrior
Kosinski: The Painted Bird
Lewis: Babbit
Mailer: The Executioner's Song
McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Miller: Death of a Salesman
Morrison: Song of Solomon, Sula
Naylor: Bailey's Cafe
O'Brian: The Things They Carried
Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
Stowe: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five
Walker: The Color Purple
Warren: All the King's Men
West: The Day of the Locusts
Wharton: Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence
Wolfe: Look Homeword, Angel
Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
Wilson: Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Wright: Native Son

+ Moby Dick
+ Maus

Atwood:
All the books I've read of hers seems to have not so subtle themes of feminism and dominance by/rebellion to men.  No comment o the others.

Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms - I liked it
Kerouac: On the Road - Made me want to go travelling.
Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse Five - Pretty good, although i prefer sirens of titan.

what to you guys think of 'A Seperate Peace' by John Knowles while we're on the subject?

>>5
Boring. Kind of homosexual, too (I mean seriously, not jokingly: the two main characters seem to me to have the hots for each other).

A Seperate Peace is a very boring book; I can't think of any reason why they even read it in school.

>>7

my mythology teacher told us that it was because it had to do with "archetypes" and I can't find ANY archetypes in that book

Isn't Finny the archetype of the perfect guy
and Gene the envious guy?

>>10
The guy who dies is supposed to be a Christ figure.

Slaughterhouse Five is great.

The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner is interesting.  The first part is the POV of a retard.  The second part is the POV of a madman.  The third part is a POV of... well, he's a mean guy, but I kinda like him.  The fourth part is more 3rd person and is the least interesting, but oh well.

i've not read Surfacing but i've enjoyed other Atwood books i've read. that might just be because i'm a pretty diehard feminist, though...
Red Badge of Courage is insanely boring. couldn't get past the third chapter.
Slaughterhouse Five is a WONDERFUL anti-war book. one of my favorite books of all time.
again, i've not read Mrs Dalloway, but Woolf is excellent, IMO. she's kinda hard to get though until you get used to her style, but it's worth it.

Beowulf kicks multitudes of ass

>>15
Kinda depends on the translation, tho.
Some of them are pretty hard to read imo.