Kyloe on 5/9/2006 at 17:00
Quote Posted by Schattentänzer
..you can't get through school in germany without having read Goethe, and I figure it'll be the same for Shakespear in english speaking countries.
Oh yes, you can. I've read twice as much Shakespeare in school as Goethe. Schiller, OTOH...
Aerothorn on 5/9/2006 at 17:56
Do they make you read Herman Hesse in German school?
Siddhartha is directly responsible for the one 'C' on my high school transcript. Grrr.
ignatios on 5/9/2006 at 19:30
Really? I read Siddhartha on my own in high school and absolutely loved it.
Kyloe on 5/9/2006 at 20:20
I've had to read Unterm Rad (Under the Wheel) by Hesse, which is about the hardships of a pupil. There is no federal curriculum in Germany - each of the 16 lands has its own.
Schattentänzer on 5/9/2006 at 21:16
Yeah, Hesse is pretty common. And just about everybody I know had to struggle through Theodor Storm's Schimmelreiter, for whatever reason.
Anyways, I'm narrowing my nominees down to Dante, because Stitch has a point there.
Ignatios, as far as the book length goes - I've got a job as well and can only read on the train/on weekends/whilst taking a dump or whatever, but a month is a pretty long time. For Life of Pi and Big Sleep I needed little more than a weekend each. But I realize there are people around who haven't even that much time, so how about this:
I'll nominate not the full Divine Comedy, but only Inferno. The three parts are usually available in seperate volumes with around 300 pages each - so people with a larger book appetite may read into Purgatory and Paradise if they like, but 'officially' we'll talk about Inferno.
ercles on 5/9/2006 at 22:32
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
Do they make you read Herman Hesse in German school?
Siddhartha is directly responsible for the one 'C' on my high school transcript. Grrr.
I reckon that was one of the best books I have ever read. I just wish I could read it in the origional Deutsch
tungsten on 6/9/2006 at 00:34
I'd like to suggest Ender's Game by OS Card.
Great SciFi with the reason why you shouldn't play those "educational" games. ;)
A book about playing games and surviving on space-stations by hacking, bending the rules...
I want to re-read that book soon.
Aerothorn on 6/9/2006 at 02:19
I'd kind of suspect that most of the people on TTLG have already read Ender's Game - but maybe it's only taught on school around here?
ercles on 6/9/2006 at 02:28
Quote Posted by Aerothorn
I'd kind of suspect that most of the people on TTLG have already read Ender's Game - but maybe it's only taught on school around here?
nah I did it for school in Sydney. Great book, but apart from that and xenocide, I found most of his others quite dissapointing
Stitch on 6/9/2006 at 05:05
Just a small reminder that there are less than 24 hours before I end the submission process (lol) and the next poll is opened. If you want to make a suggestion, get that shit in now.
