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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Strange, I havent read most of what is listed. Except of course Cathcer in the Rye and Separate Peace. I remember being thankful that Icould duck a couple of books (the one by the guy who wasnt Melville but was a contemporary, the Pearl Buck book and any Shakepeare - I only had to read one). I was in some advanced independent course of some sort (depsite the Catcher in the Rye debacle) where I got to pick my own books. I was looking for antying that might have some sex in it. I picked Bell Jar, Franny and Zooey, the Awakening (did anyone read this?) and a couple of other repressed. miserable young lady books I cannot recall.
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I read the Awakening in high school and used it as the subject of my long essay on the AP exam (I got a 5, b/c I'm fancy). I tried to read Wide Sargasso Sea but it was too painful, even though I love Jane Eyre. I did watch the movie of WSS, but it sucked too. I had to read Franny & Zooey in my college class for people who liked to do drugs. I honestly didn't know that a class called "Altered States" would be filled with people who had done acid a minium of 5 times. I was that sheltered.
Oh, and I read Bell Jar on my own when I was in middle school. Was there sex in that book?
