tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post373075056883584730..comments2024-01-07T05:28:45.522-08:00Comments on Thmazing's Thutopia: First Five Books of 2008: THE MOVIE!!!!! with copious liner notesTh.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-36790120927780448102008-01-19T18:29:00.000-08:002008-01-19T18:29:00.000-08:00I've never read Lord of the Flies but all my child...I've never read Lord of the Flies but all my children are for their English classes. We have one book annotated by three different children. The fourth wanted one brand spanking new. I almost forced her to use the old one but eventually gave in. This babbling is my clever ruse to hide the embarrassing truth that I've never read it. I was relieved that you hadn't either until recently. Yea. That's why you're my friend.Karihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16071064325052924035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-16133687238625682022008-01-18T00:29:00.000-08:002008-01-18T00:29:00.000-08:00.I don't know about that, but I'm certain he would....<BR/><BR/>I don't know about <I>that</I>, but I'm certain he would have found it a suiting irony.Th.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-16914372526392515102008-01-17T13:56:00.000-08:002008-01-17T13:56:00.000-08:00I think the movie had to suck, comparatively . . ....I think the movie <I>had</I> to suck, comparatively . . . the material was mourning his loss. Oddly enough, if you read enough about him, he almost seemed to know he would come to an untimely end before the movie came out.Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232286196928844543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-46484138001667933962008-01-17T07:46:00.000-08:002008-01-17T07:46:00.000-08:00.And not just died, but died at the gym at 49.I th....<BR/><BR/>And not just died, but died at the gym at 49.<BR/><BR/>I think that's why the movie sucked.Th.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-77121094561104574722008-01-16T23:10:00.000-08:002008-01-16T23:10:00.000-08:00I had no idea Douglas Adams died. Now I am sad.I had no idea Douglas Adams died. Now I am sad.daltongirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16307904950109679631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-25119457406009483612008-01-16T12:15:00.000-08:002008-01-16T12:15:00.000-08:00Lord of the Flies was one of my favorite required ...Lord of the Flies was one of my favorite required books in HS.Celia Marie (W.) B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16484176433038759287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-51672753860319100532008-01-15T16:56:00.000-08:002008-01-15T16:56:00.000-08:00.It's a good book, but as someone familiar with li....<BR/><BR/>It's a good book, but as someone familiar with lit, be prepared to be blugeoned with symbolism. But I enjoyed reading it.Th.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-33574933810678081802008-01-15T15:49:00.000-08:002008-01-15T15:49:00.000-08:00Um. Let me try that again:Is this the sort of boo...Um. Let me try that again:<BR/><BR/>Is this the sort of book you would recommend to people in a general sense, or is it better as a stimulus for classroom discussions and academic writing?Schmetterlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10188647121762378788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-24201630312160357992008-01-15T15:46:00.000-08:002008-01-15T15:46:00.000-08:00When I read Lord of the Flies my freshman year of ...When I read Lord of the Flies my freshman year of high school, I hated every minute of it, and now I don't remember much about it at all. I've been contemplating rereading it because I didn't enjoy To Kill a Mockingbird when I read it that same year, either, and, having reread that fairly recently, I appreciated it quite a bit.<BR/><BR/>So, I guess my question is Is this the sort of book you recommend people read, or is it just the kind of book that seems like a good idea to have people read and respond to? There is, to me, a pretty important difference.Schmetterlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10188647121762378788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-39799665695820261992008-01-15T15:34:00.000-08:002008-01-15T15:34:00.000-08:00.Heh. Perfect. I'm taking a class now where it loo....<BR/><BR/>Heh. Perfect. I'm taking a class now where it looks like I'll have to go ahead and hate white people.Th.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-27874652534333725772008-01-15T14:19:00.000-08:002008-01-15T14:19:00.000-08:00I said 'ironically,' didn't I? It was a theoretic...I said 'ironically,' didn't I? It was a theoretical study of how a lack of women on the island may have impacted the savageness of the boys.<BR/><BR/>My professor was a man-hater. She ate it up and awarded me according to her own feelings about men. (Read: Katie got an A on that particular assignment :))Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232286196928844543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-560864100088445172008-01-15T13:23:00.000-08:002008-01-15T13:23:00.000-08:00.Yes. There certainly are a lot of women in it..<BR/><BR/>Yes. There certainly are a lot of women in it.Th.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-60628942597186573222008-01-15T11:40:00.000-08:002008-01-15T11:40:00.000-08:00I'd say I'm ashamed you'd never read LOTF, but I'm...I'd say I'm ashamed you'd never read LOTF, but I'm not. I wouldn't have read it till post-college if hadn't been required for AP English.<BR/><BR/>But in college--as an English major--it came in very handy more than once. (I recall using it for a Psychology in Literature class, a Critical Theory class, and-ironically-a Women's Lit class)Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07232286196928844543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-74285555278802130282008-01-14T21:15:00.000-08:002008-01-14T21:15:00.000-08:00.Overall, I liked it. The beginning seems like a h....<BR/><BR/>Overall, I liked it. The beginning seems like a hard sell, but the book is short and, once it finally gets going, pretty action packed. <BR/><BR/>Plus, if anything, it's overloaded with symbolism and other such Englishclassy things making it a fairly easy book to get kids to write on, I would imagine. I still haven't taught it, but I imagine that's an inevitability.Th.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-13813713961844356242008-01-14T20:57:00.000-08:002008-01-14T20:57:00.000-08:00If it helps, I'd been an English teacher two years...If it helps, I'd been an English teacher two years before I actually had to read <I>Lord of the Flies</I>. I'd love to know what you thought about it your first time through.Snow Whiteleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14774326492206197407noreply@blogger.com