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My HSC text/similar recommendations 1. Emma by Jane Austen (I'm reading it right now and loving it, whilst there's romance there's no smut; it's more about self-discovery and features social commentary, great irony and wit) 2. Atonement by Ian McEwan (it's not a HSC text but it's a modern...

One way you can tell is if you guys fall out of touch for a bit, then reconnect later down the line (maybe six months or so later) and the friendship/situationship/whatever you wanna call it gets better than it was before.

That's awesome, I've lost my copy of it somewhere but I'm hoping I can find it soon! Yeah, I know the scene you're talking about, that had me balling my eyes out. 😭😭 But that was definitely an excellent scene, I think it's the best acting I've ever seen from Andrew Garfield. I actually think...

Was so lucky to study this in Extension 1 English, really one of the greatest and most influential sci-fi stories ever.

What do you think of Never Let Me Go? I haven't read the book but I adored the movie and want to give the book a go at some stage this year.

I don't think that's necessarily a good thing though.

The Prestige, I reckon it's Nolan's best film ngl. It's a clever concept and the acting is amazing.

Silo's also good.

Same, honestly feel so sorry for everyone in 2027 onwards. Some of my cousins who are sitting their HSCs next year are pissed about the changes too, but they feel lucky they'll be the last cohorts with the decent syllabus.

Which one?

I apologise for my targeted retaliation.

Some Shakespeare texts are more sophisticated than others, and you misquoted me. I said too basic for Year 12, it is more appropriate as a Year 11 or 10 text. Also, Orwell wrote specifically about communism, which is a leftist ideology (you can look it up yourself), which leads to...

100%. I didn't wanna say it but you're right, they have dumbed down the prescribed texts slightly. I get the rationale too, but ironically, the rejigging of the syllabus just proves Orwell's points on dumbing down language and hence dumbing down the quality of people's thoughts in my opinion.

Agree with this too. They're making Advanced more like Standard in that regard 😢

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