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Until the Harry Potter movies came out... Now, those early Gen Z kids are absorbing Rowling's story through the DVD and the cinema and not through the books - thus their reading capabilities remain insufficient and their imagination unstimulated. While my parents and I have read the entire...

"Pensive poets painful vigils keep / Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep" - Alexander Pope, "The Dunciad" Other Pope quotes exist that I like - but this is all I can remember. "To err is human, to forgive divine" ["Essay on Criticism"] is another one of Pope's but everyone...

It's not that bad, really. Wuthering Heights - Exciting and engaging; fascinating characters (Heathcliff); impressionable scenes (beginning of Vol. 2); it's just one of those books that they tell you to read before you die. Northanger Abbey - Shorter and easier to read than Emma (if you can...

Yeah, the language is a bit alienating. Personally, I went from Alexander Pope to Milton and I found Milton to be a bit disappointing ("where's the rhyme, wtf?"). But, yeah, I aspire to read Paradise Lost. When I get the time I'm going to devote myself to read the entirety of it. I look...

Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ALMOST finished (30 pages left). I'm absolutely loving it. After that, I'll have Wuthering Heights, Northanger Abbey and Frankenstein to read for school.

I've read the whole series. I'm always a big fan of those 'what if...?' situations that arises in books, and I have a feeling that this series is possibly an over-the-top, enjoyable parody of the story technique. And the ending was just the ultimate 'what if...?' as it combined all the...

Drawing? o.O Drawing what, exactly?

Um... Blackwattle Bay Campus

Yeah, I'm doing Romanticism. Reading Coleridge at the moment, which is a blast. To be honest, as a heterosexual male, I'm quite looking forward to Wuthering Heights and Northanger Abbey... :S Compared to doing Emma (which I could never finish) in year 11, reading these two texts, I reckon...

Sup all. I'll be doing critical response... First idea I've had is something with a biblical focus. I'm not sure if that's the path I'll take since I haven't had a proper informative class yet for EEX2.