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[Realmfighter]

Just finished reading Jane Eyre for English.

Read The Eyre Affair.

[ungulateman]

Reading "Punch and Judy".

It's about Australia's recent election, in case you were wondering.

[Heron TSG]

I'd recommend the Epic of Gilgamesh if we're going to do a group read. It's relatively short (Only 13 tablets) and it's awesome how similar ancient people are to us.

[ein]

Just finished reading Jane Eyre for English.

Read The Eyre Affair.

I'm currently in the planning stages of a retelling of Jane Eyre done with create.swf.
That means Jane Eyre with Touhou characters.
It all started when the image of Rochester being Marisa somehow entered my mind.

[sonerohi]

Found a copy of the Kama Sutra in my grandparents house.

[ChairmanPoo]

Found a copy of the Kama Sutra in my grandparents house.

What has been seen imagined cannot be unimagined.

Now everytime you read about the postures, you'll be thinking about them

[Retro]

Now everytime you read about the postures, you'll be thinking about them

Well, now he will.

[Realmfighter]

I'm currently in the planning stages of a retelling of Jane Eyre done with create.swf.
That means Jane Eyre with Touhou characters.
It all started when the image of Rochester being Marisa somehow entered my mind.

You must give me this when you are done.

[MaximumZero]

Found a copy of the Kama Sutra in my grandparents house.

What has been seen imagined cannot be unimagined.

Now everytime you read about the postures, you'll be thinking about them

Some of that stuff is hard enough to do for normal humans, let alone the elderly, with their poor flexibility.

"Augh, my hip!"
"I'm pretty sure it's supposed to feel like that."

[Realmfighter]

"Augh, my hip!"
"I'm pretty sure it's supposed to feel like that."

And so MZ created a brand spanking new porn genre.

[Solifuge]

In all honesty, I probably disliked the class itself more than I disliked Gatsby, but the story never really stuck with me. I did like the Scarlet Letter though. Also, Gilgamesh is awesome. If we go with an Ancient Texts theme, I might propose reading a few Runos from the Kalevala or the Bagavad Gita.

The coolest thing I found on an old person's bookshelf was a copy of The Book of Five Rings, which I found on one of my Grandparent's friends bookshelves when we were visiting them abroad. That was a pretty cool weekend.

[ChairmanPoo]

"Augh, my hip!"
"I'm pretty sure it's supposed to feel like that."

And so MZ created a brand spanking new porn genre.

To be fair it likely existed already

The coolest thing I found on an old person's bookshelf was a copy of The Book of Five Rings, which I found on one of my Grandparent's friends bookshelves when we were visiting them abroad. That was a pretty cool weekend.

I found one in my late grandmother's bookshelf. Interesting coincidence.

[Solifuge]

Odd... was she perhaps a Jehovas Witness living in Hawaii?

[Renault]

In all honesty, I probably disliked the class itself more than I disliked Gatsby, but the story never really stuck with me. I did like the Scarlet Letter though.

This this this. Same thing happened to me. Read it in 10th grade in a class full of kids who couldn't possibly relate to Gatsby's doomed idealism, and therefore hated it. Picked it up this summer and realized, holy hell, I love this book.
I think its an issue of readiness. What seems to happen is people are forced to read the book before it matters to them, and it sort of inoculates them from its meaning or message--like an immunization, you get the general form of the thing but not the spirit, and after that its really hard to ever get it again. I think its a damn shame.
Then again, I could be wrong. So it goes.

[Rose]

...or the Bagavad Gita.

if you're gonna read that, you may as well read the mahabharat, of which the gita is but a single chapter.

It has the record of being the longest poem in history.