School Books: Issue #1 UPDATED
by well, first week of skool and i already gotta read this book lol. i'm gonna try and make this forum like a series thing of all the skool books i read. anywho, my first book is Sophocles: Oedipus the King. anyone read it before? it's about a Greek king i think, that's all i know. i appreciate any input.
UPDATE: i just got my psychology book, i picked Suicide and Young People. don't get the wrong idea. i just didn't know wat else to pick.
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I played Antigone in a little production in middle school in a smart kid class. I thought the stories were really interesting. I can sum up my feelings about the whole Oedipus series in a line from "My So-Called Life". "That's great that's just perfect. How ironic can you get without, like, puking."
Its a fluid read. Plot driven. Easily engrossing. From Oedipus Rex: What has four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon and three in the evening?
Man! Crawling..walking..walking with a cane.
Exactly! A classic, but clever I think.
i would have never figured that out unless i read on and found the answer.
hmm. why did they translate the title? they should have left it as Oedipus Rex. And this one is much better then the sequels, Antigone was so boring.
i liked antigone. but i'm actually really shocked pete, i read this my freshman year and your reading it senior year?? thats weird.
I read it as a senior as well, in AP lit.
man, you guys take AP? CP for me lol. is AP like to get ready to take a college test? and then you get college credits or something?
Yeah, the class is actually supposed to be a college course and some of them are atually taught as if you were in college. Then in May you take the college exam (most colleges are taking them then too) and it's grade on a scale of 0-5 and if you get 3+ most colleges will except credit for the course. I took European and Lit Comp. so I got like 12 credits out of that because they are both 2 college courses.
good job, you deserve a pat on the back!
I didn't think I'd do that good, especially with the Euro cause I never studied, but now I can graduate county early hopefully and save my parents lots of money to make up for me not holding a job for longer then 3 months so far.
i read it in ap english too
yea i read oedipus in middle school. first two books i read or cliff'd were great expectations and the oddysey.. in 9th grade honors enlgish/world cultures. it was weird.. they experimented with kids who had honors english and world cultures by combining them together... dont knwo what it did.. but it wasn't all that fun. thats when i came to the realization that highschool is so much more fun when you dont have honors classes. Dddrrrroopppped.
Seriously? I hated being in non-honors cause you how to do actual work, not just read and discuss. First book I cliff'd would be Lord of the Flies..I couldn't cliff Great Expectations cause we read some weird version and the people who cliff'd it wrote essays on all this stuff we didn't read.
well i got dumber as the years went by.. because i was preoccuppied with good times.. but... it was so much easier.. with honors classes i had to read 500 pg books on non interesting stories... whereas.. the other classes with learned vocabulary and read cat in the hat. good times..
Understandable..I'm really bad at vocab. My teacher would give us like 500 words and then on the quiz 10 of them would appear and it made me mad..so I just wouldn't study...and I basically failed every single one.
yeah the regular classes do so much more work than all my honors calsses. you do all the work by yourself and then you take a test. that's it. and then even half the tests are bogus and they make up grades anyway.
is this the story where he was sent away as a baby.. came back.. tricked out the sphnyx... did his mother... gave birth to some retards.. mother/wife poked her eyes out.. or was it him?
Yeah that's the one, he pokes his eyes out and she hangs herself I think.
the book describes his children as the ugliest sucka's ever. i wish i could have seen what 'ugliest' was back then... and then i want to run over to troy and check out helen
and he killed his own dad too, not even knowing he did.
haha my first book for this year was Death Comes to the Archbiship... omg... it was horrible... i hope yours is better...
Oedipus rocks!! it's super short and really exciting, easy to understand, and just regular shak. trash. Really if all his plays were turned into modern day novels they would be sold for 50 cents at the drug store.
hey, you can read the whole thing here: http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/cgi-bin/sdb/t9.cgi?entry=31&full=yes&ftpsite=http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/
oh my goodness, that looks like the most boring thing ever. i pity you.