Waiting For Godot - THIS is a classic?!

[red_uni387]

so....I have to read 2 classics for English, and this is one of the books on the list we can choose from. these are the last few lines...which our entire family started laughing so hard at XD

"Estragon: Well? Shall we go?
Vladimir: Pull on your trousers.
Estragon: What?
Vladimir: Pull on your trousers.
Estragon: You want me to pull off my trousers?
Vladimir: Pull ON your trousers.
Estragon: (realizes his trousers are down) True. He pulls up his trousers.
Vladimir: Well? Shall we go?
Estragon: Yes, let's go.
They do not move."
directly quoted from Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett

[Ember]

This makes me glad I chose to do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead rather than Waiting for Godot o.o

[red_uni387]

I'm still laughing it's so stupid XD

have fun reading that, sounds better than this book at least lol

[Wolfs Fang]

There are maaany different types of classics. xD So they don't all have to be serious. It looks like you got a weird one. o_O

~Fang

[red_uni387]

this is on english reading list, Fangy

[Wolfs Fang]

this is on english reading list, Fangy

Oh. o_O

~Fang

[red_uni387]

go to english class on Bb, it's under spring book report materials under documents

and no~

[Kadana Sorano]

hmm  I wouldn't mind seeing a copy of that list.  I'd love to see what all may be on it.

[red_uni387]

Albee Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Allende House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune
Aristophanes Lysistrata
Austen Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma,   
             Sense and Sensibility
Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain
Bradbury Dandelion Wine, Something Wicked This
                 Way Comes,
Becket Waiting for Godot
Brecht Mother Courage and her Children
Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily Wuthering Heights
Bronte, Anne The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Buck The Good Earth
Cather My Antonia, O Pioneers , Death Comes the
             Archbishop
Cervantes Don Quixote
Conrad Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness
Cooper Last of the Mohicans, Deerslayer
Defoe Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe
Dickens Hard Times, Bleak House, David
               Copperfield, Tale of Two Cities
Dinesen The Winter's Tale

Kesey One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lee To Kill A Mockingbird
Lewis Babbit, Main Street
Marlowe Doctor Faustus
Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the
                 Time of Cholera***********
Miller Death of a Salesman
Milton Paradise Lost*****
Mitchell Gone With the Wind
Melville Redburn, Moby Dick, Benito Cereno, Billy
               Budd
Moliere Tartuffe
Morrison Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye
Norris, The Octopus
O'Connor Wise Blood
O'Neill The Hairy Ape
Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four,
Paton Cry, the Beloved Country
Pinter The Caretaker
Remarque All Quiet on the Western Front
Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea
Richardson Pamela
Salinger Catcher in the Rye
Sartre No Exit
Shakespeare King Lear, The Merchant of Venice,
                       Othello, Twelfth Night,, As You Like It,   
                       Julius Caesar
Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession
Shelley Frankenstein
Sinclair The Jungle
   Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment, Notes from the
          Underground
Dreiser Sister Carrie, American Tragedy, Jennie
              Gerhardt
Dumarier Rebecca, Jamaica Inn, The Scapegoat
Eliot Silas Marner, Mill on the Floss , Murder in the
          Cathedral
Ellison Invisible Man
Faulkner As I Lay Dying, Light in August
Fitzgerald Tender is the Night, This Side of Paradise,
Flaubert Madame Bovary
Golding Lord of the Flies
Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure
Hawthorne The House of the Seven Gables, The
                   Marble Faun
Hellman The Little Foxes
Heller Catch 22
Hemingway The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell
                      Tolls, A Farewell to Arms,
Howells The Rise of Silas Lapham
Hugo Les Miserables
Ibsen A Doll's House, An Enemy of the People
James The Portrait of a Lady, The American
Kafka The Trial, The Metamorphosis

Solzhenitsyn One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Stein Watch on the Rhine
Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath, Winter of Our
                 Discontent, East of Eden, Cannery Row, and
                 selected others *The Red Pony and The 
                 Pearl are not acceptable*     
Sterne Tristram Shandy
Stoker Dracula
Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tan  The Joy Luck Club, The Bonesetter's Daughter,
     Hundred Secret Senses, Kitchen God's Wife
Thackery Vanity Fair
Theroux The Mosquito Coast
Tolstoy Anna Karenina, War and Peace
Trumbo Johnny Got His Gun
Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Life on
            the Mississippi, Connecticut Yankee in King   
            Arthur's Court and selected others ** Prince   
            and the Pauper is not acceptable**
Voltaire Candide
Vonnegut Slaughter-House Five, The Breakfast of
                  Champions
Waugh The Loved One
Wells The Time Machine
Wharton Ethan Frome, The Age of Innocence
Wilde Picture of Dorian Gray
Wilder The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Wolfe Look Homeward, Angel
Wright Black Boy, Native Son
Zola Therese Raquin


the list

[Kadana Sorano]

thanks Red! *hugs*  I'll have to see if the local library has some of these.  The only one I recognize right now is Stoker Dracula.  That's what I get for not going to HS heh

[red_uni387]

they're pretty much all classics so the library should have at least one worn copy of each lol

awww you missed out on 4 years of messing around and fun n stuff? D:

[Wolfs Fang]

they're pretty much all classics so the library should have at least one worn copy of each lol

awww you missed out on 4 years of messing around and fun n stuff? D:

She also missed out on four years of stress and homework and projects and peer pressure and ebil teachers.

*cough* Hehheh. >_> But high school wais also fun too. In a way.

~Fang

[red_uni387]

oh yes true. we has test tomorrow too >>

*pokes* we haven't even been through a year yet, and you're already saying 'was' lol

[Dunkel.Prinzessin204]

Wow that list reminds how much my English teachers made me despise certain good books. Although I love As You Like it (Shakespeare), To kill a Mockingbird (Lee), The Good Earth(Buck), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(Kesey). Another really good Shakespeare play is Much Ado about Nothing.

[quyllur]

Wow, I've actually read quite a few of those.  I'm in the midst of reading Paradise Lost, but it's for a college course and, honestly, we're taking almost an entire semester to get through it.

Of course I've read all the Austen ones, multiple times for each.  Huge Austen fan here.

I've heard about Waiting for Godot and I've read Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead.  There were some funny bits.  I liked what I've read of Henrik Ibsen (Ghost and Hedda Gabler) but haven't read A Doll's House.

Nineteen Eighty-four is an excellent read!

I'm an English major and I'm about to graduate! Yay!

[Echowing]

We're on Merchant of Venice right now ^^ It's a comedy so I like it better than Julius Caesar so far. We read so slowly that I really want to read ahead >.>

[springacres]

I've read a few of those myself actually.  Shakespeare, I've read most of his plays at least once.  Native Son I read as a book on tape, started it in paperback but haven't finished it yet.  Catcher in the Rye was confusing, but I muddled through it.

1984 - read it, you might be surprised how much of it you recognize in today's world.

Of Mice and Men is a good Steinbeck novel to read, though The Red Pony and The Pearl are also good (wonder why they are specifically mentioned as not counting?)

Oh, and I read Paradise Lost, myself - for fun, and because it was considered a classic.  It definitely reflects 17th-century English views of spirituality, but I found it an interesting read anyway.

[indigowulf]

OMG I love R&G are Dead!!

In high school, my teacher made us read Hamlet 3 times.First time, we read it silently ourselves. Second time, we read it line by line, and discussed what it meant. Third time, we read it as if doing the play, with parts. By then we knew it pretty well, and could do the parts well.

We had no problems with this, it wasnt boring, because our teacher was very very funny and kept it interesting the whole time. After we had read it 3 times and understood it back and forward, we got to watch R&G are Dead. When you know Hamlet, R&G is very funny!

[quyllur]

Of course, there are also huge elements of Waiting for Godot in R&G are Dead.  I think that is part of the problem I had with it as I've never read WfG.

[red_uni387]

The Red Pony and The Pearl are shorter books, and this is for a book report so she wants us to pick really long books XD

oooo shall have to see what I can get R&G are dead, then, judging how popular it seems to be lol

[Willow]

I got Death Of A Salesman and Lord Of The Flies, LOTF is alright after a while, but DOAS is just plain depressing ;3;
~Willow