Forum: The Classroom
Topic: Books?
started by: smartsnake

Posted by smartsnake on Nov. 01 2001,21:14
Ok I gotta read a book and that has had some kinda of literary award given to it for english. Unfortunetly I cant think of any. Anyone got any ideas? Its just a dumb free reading project and yea I'm already reading a book but no it wont work because its not recived and awards stupid bitch.
Posted by Observer on Nov. 01 2001,21:19
search The Classroom for Books. Quite a few threads with recommended reading.

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Posted by Vigilante on Nov. 01 2001,21:26
I recommend Hugo winners. Hooray for sci fi.
Posted by CatKnight on Nov. 01 2001,23:15
catcher in the rye
Posted by LiNeY on Nov. 02 2001,08:07
Just a few off the top of my head:

- "To kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. Received the Pulitzer Prize in the 1960's.

- "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje. Booker Prize in 1992.

A list of English-writing Nobel prize winners:

1907 Rudyard Kipling ("The Jungle Book", "Kim")
1913 Robindranath Tagore
1923 William Butler Yeats
1925 George Bernard Shaw
1930 Sinclair Lewis
1932 John Galsworthy
1936 Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
1938 Pearl S. Buck
1948 Thomas Stearns Eliot
1949 William Faulkner
1950 Earl (Bernard Arthur William) Russell
1953 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
1954 Ernest Miller Hemingway
1962 John Steinbeck
1969 Samuel Beckett
1973 Patrick White
1974 Harry Martinson
1976 Saul Bellow
1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer
1983 William Golding
1991 Nadine Gordimer
1992 Derek Walcott
1993 Toni Morrison
1995 Seamus Heany

"The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding is a good book, highly appreciated by English teachers.

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Posted by masher on Nov. 02 2001,08:14
Dune
Lord of the Rings
2001

Just 3 off the top of my head

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spdfgh


Posted by Rhydant on Nov. 02 2001,16:35
quote:
Originally posted by LiNeY:
"The Lord of the Flies" by William Golding is a good book, highly appreciated by English teachers.


kill the pig, slit its throat, spill its blood!!!

thats how it goes, right?


Posted by LiNeY on Nov. 02 2001,18:13
Yeah that's how it goes...

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Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Nov. 02 2001,23:27
"my glasses you broke my glasses!"

i only seen the film dunno if that popped up in the book

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Posted by afropik on Nov. 03 2001,00:46
Kill the dorks
Bash their butts
Kick their shins
Posted by 1LT on Nov. 04 2001,08:15
I don't recall if it won any awards.

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