Yesterday, while on a 4 hour break from class, I read The Time Traveller by HG Wells. I've seen the film with Guy Pierce and the film wasn't all that good, and the book was better, though quite short (I guess it is a short story and not really a book), and quite interesting by the end. Still, it was quite superficial. It was only of the Time Traveller's point of view and I would have liked some conversation with the Morlocks, but that never happened. Oh well. Since it was on my personal to-read list, I felt all the better for having done it.
As for uni, here are the books I have to read:
(Australian literature)
My Brilliant Career - Miles Franklin
Australian Short Story Collection - Laurie Hergenhan
Perlude to Christopher - Eleanor Dark
Riders in the Chariot - Patrick White
Bliss - Peter Carey
(The other literature subject)
The Outsider - Albert Cumas
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
The Reader - Bernard Schlink
As for my own list (some of which I've read and forgotten about) I have:
Frankenstein
Faust
The Republic
Pluto or Plato
Jane Eyre
Notes from the Underground
Crime and Punishment
La Nausea
The portrait of Dorian Gray
Lolita
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
Farenheit 451
The Old Man and the Sea
Slaughterhouse 5
Of Human Bondage
Animal Farm
Heart of Darkness
The Lord of the Flies
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Mein Kampf
Mao’s Little Red Book
The Alchemist
Huckleberry Finn
Apt Pupil
Jules Verne
Beowulf
HG Wells
Norse legendary tales
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Excellent list! Good luck with Henry James. He terrifies me so I haven't tried any of his. But I'm really looking forward to Death in Venice. The Reader is supposed to be a complete piece of trash I've heard. Pretentious modern crap badly written. I hope it turns out better than what people say.
I love your personal list, too. You've got some really good ones on there.
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