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chickenfeet ([personal profile] chickenfeet) wrote2007-07-01 10:22 am
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Humiliation: The Vote

Nominations are in. Let the games begin!

[Poll #1013448]
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[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Just wanted to say that I only read Lord of the Flies because we did it at school

You and everybody else I suspect

[identity profile] dyddgu.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Me, miss, me! I read it because we didn't do it at school, and I wanted to find out why everyone else did.

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
It's funny. It's one of those books that almost everybody has to read at school, on both sides of the Atlantic, which is quite rare. Usually, if I ask, I find that it's the only Golding that a person has read which is rather a shame as it's atypical and, IMO, by no means his best work. The main result of forcing kids to read it seems to be to put them off Golding for life.

[identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't read it. Nor was I asked to. But we did have to watch the film.

[identity profile] melted-snowball.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't he mostly a playwright?

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
No. Pincher Martin, Freefall, The Spire, Rites of passage, Close Quarters, Fire Down Below etc

[identity profile] melted-snowball.livejournal.com 2007-07-01 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. *blush* Perhaps I'll win this round. :-)

[identity profile] jen-c-w.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
rites of passage and fire down below are both lovely. :)

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I like The Spire and Free Fall too
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[personal profile] ironed_orchid 2007-07-02 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
The Inheritors.

[identity profile] unblinkered.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 11:59 am (UTC)(link)
Wasn't on our list - or anyone's list, I don't think - in Ireland. But if memory serves, we were stuck with Shakespeare, Dickens and Emily Bronte for non-Irish non-poetry works. Actually, other than King Lear, The Plough and The Stars and some bits and bobs by Donne and Yeats, I have managed to completely forget what I did for the Leaving Cert!

no, I LIKE lord of the flies

[identity profile] jen-c-w.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
Lord of the Rings on the other hand is pointless tosh.
I couldn't be more pleased animal farm beats it out.

Re: no, I LIKE lord of the flies

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 01:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm glad somebody else thinks so. IMO, the world would be a better place if at least 99% of the books with elves in had never been written.
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