strangely enough Sense and Sensibility is a bit like Pride and Prejudice It's set in the same era so it goes into love and marriage and economics... which all sounds terribly dry, but I think SnS has a better sense of humor than PnP and Emma Thompson did a great job of adapting that Austenian humor to the screen. I hate romantic movies usually but this one was quite good. Emma is a great actress as well and this has Hugh Grant (debonaire, dashing, charming blah blah blah), Kate Winslet (who surprisingly didn't annoy the hell out of me in this movie) and most important Alan Rickman (though hardly enough of him). It recieved awards but wasn't to popular in the US I guess.

I'm reading A Midsummer Night's Dream.

(Don't any of you dare call it cliché.)

It's nice once you get into it. Not as hard to understand as some people say.

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Kafka's Metamorphosis.

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That was my favorite book for quite a while...I'll have to re-read it sometime soon.

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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald): so what if some of the content is a little cliche...i loved it!

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The content is not cliché, really. It isn't about love, as many have thought. The book itself is comparing the different societies within the book, quite contemporary for its time.. I enjoyed the book.
Another story I really enjoyed was Kafka's Metamorphosis. Funny, and yet horribly tragic.

Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" is a good read as well.

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so...i think we're pretty much all in consensus that To Kill A Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, 1984, and Brave New World are great books, so here are some other ones, and some with descriptions too! (some of them have already been mentioned, but im mentioning them again.)


Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow (Orson Scott Card): if you like science fiction mixed in with some social commentary and philosophy, you'll love these books. they are actually going to be compiled into a movie, but its still in preproduction right now. let's hope it doesnt get ruined!
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver): i LOVED this book. its about a baptist family that goes to africa to spread chrisianity, only things dont go as the father had planned. its told from the perspective of 5 women in the family, each with their own personality, and it spans the 1960's to the 1990's? not sure about the dates really. if youre religious, it has a lot of biblical references you might like, and if youre not religious at all (like me), it also has criticism about religion.
Beloved (Toni Morrison): one of the most unique and intersting books ive ever read! SO good! i literally HATED it the first time i read it though. you really have to read it through more than once to really comprehend everything just because the structure can be a little bit offsetting, but its also extremely effective. to give you the jist, its basically about slavery and racial memory. (warning: it can be a little bit graphic though...just so you know)
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams): geniusly sarcastic and hysterical. nuff said!
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald): so what if some of the content is a little cliche...i loved it!
Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood): great book to analyze.
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien): book about vietnam. each chapter has a separate story. its very postmodernistic...awesome book!
The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman): ok, its actually a short story, but its really interesting! kinda trippy. very feministic.

...here are some plays i just couldnt leave out...
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Antigone (Sophocles)
Arcadia (Tom Stoppard): Stoppard also won an oscar for writing the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love. Arcadia is a great play though...extremely witty and clever. can be a bit confusing for the non-science oriented person because it actually references some ideas of physics. it also talks about determinism and the butterfly effect...NOT the movie with ashton kutcher! dear god no.

ok...well im just going to shut up now. i think i went a little overboard with my list... enjoy!

yeah i read eragon - cool book
You read In the Forests of the Night?
a 14 year wrote that she's like 18 now and on her 6'th book.

And does any thread on this site not turn into a political and/ or religious arguement?

Crime And Punishment.

Have any of you peeps seen a book called Eragonon the shelves? It was written by a 15 yaer old guy, and his story was sooooo good it will soon be a movie! I read it and it TOTALLY deserves it!

Christians are cited as why most people are atheist. They present themselves as overbearing and holier-than-thou. JF89, I know your heart is in the right place and all, but I think there's a better way to work for the glory of God.

JF89- As much as I know you're trying to help (and I know you're heart is in the right place), I'll have to ask you to stop turning these people away from the Lord.

The bible? yeah i should try that sometime maybe.
Has anyone ever read I Know Why the Caged bird Sings?

Roots is a very good book; and so is the Bible.

has anyone here read roots ??

one of my other all times fav books is a tree grows in brooklyn..

What's so idiotic about it?

"""It's a love letter from the Lord"""
___Do my ears deceive me... or is it actually echoing idiocy in here?

The best book ever written is the Bible! It's a love letter from the Lord telling us how much He loves us.

It's the movie of the Jane Austen classic. It's one of those artsy movies which aren't very popular. It has Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant and some other famous people that I can't remember. It's a sweet movie. It makes you feel happy.


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I loved the movie of Sense and Sensibility, it was so lovely. Hugh Grant is lovely, the classic English guy (they're not really like him, although I really wish they were. He is so sweet!)well, his characters usually are anyway.

yea the jungle always makes a few veggitarians out of the junior class at my school.

if you liked PnP you should read sense and sensibility... or at least see the movie *sheepish grin

if it was a little to happy-wappy lovey-dovey for you but you still basically liked it then The Return of the Native might be a good choice.

i LOVED A Child Called It and Chinese Cinderella - both are true story's about mentally and physically abused children. People need to know these things.