Hopefully, people will gain some appreciation for literature.
Please, please be creative.
Nabakov’s Lolita: Eurosavage pedophile falls in love with slutty nymphet, and makes pathetic rationalizaiton. Merchant of Venice: Jewish merchant will hand your ass back to you if are not careful. Wuthering Heights: Brown gypsy man man falls in love with white woman and tastes bitter reality, turns anti-hero. To the Lighthouse: Virginia Woolf is a semi-demented hag. Romeo and Juliet: Stupid starry-eyed teenagers fall in love, go against family and wind up dead.
The World According to Garp: Wuss romanticises a tough childhood with his mom in the center.
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Catcher in the Rye:** A neurotic growing up to be a nobody with deep thoughts.
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1984:** A prophetically written piece in which a regular shmoe gets caught up in a storm of monotonous propaganda and pays the price for thinking differently.
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A Brave New World:** A prophetic version of the future which is our present today which in yesteryears would have been nauseous to think of.
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Dante's Inferno: *An account of the afterlife in purgatory and layers of hell written by a son of a bitch who thinks he knew everything and is now there for sure.
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Merchant of Venice: **A indepth and true description of the nature of Jews which correctly depicts them as unforgiving and merciless when it comes to their own interests.
Hamlet… crap i forgot. (HS, cant remember that far bak )
Macbeth… forgot it too (HS again :halo: )
Beuwulf… forgot that too (and that was this summer )
The great gatsby… somethin bout a daisy and a weird narrator whos not even in the story butis fascinated with gatsby.. i dunno i forgot that
Frankenstein: Crazy doctor using parts from dead people creates a crazy monster which he brings to life.
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Roots:** Semi true story of a black man who searches for his roots and uncovers an atrocious chronology of events hidden in American history books.
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Shogun:** Breathtaking novel about Japanese society and culture in the 17th and 18th centuries and a captain who lands there pushed by a hurricane..
Confessions of a shopaholic: materialistic, insecure narcissistic airhead who’s in debt ends up with a great job that pays a lotta money and lands herself a rich bf
The lovely bones (alice sebold): wat can happen when you talk to old creepy men on ur way home from school :halo:
Lucia, Lucia (adriana trigiani): getting caught between two opposite cultures, the old school traditional, somehwat stifling way and the more modern, flashier and glamarous yet empty lifestyles.. sound familiar?
^ Oh that reminds me ! There’s htis movie coming out “Casanova” with heath ledger and sienna miller (i think).. she’s a super femminist and she tries to resist the casanova.. well in the comericals, there’s a scene.. he coems to her house and he has a pet pig on a leash wiht him.. her maid answers the door and says “Madam says the pig must not be let in.. but the animal can come in” and she takes the leash from his hand adn takes the lil piggy inside
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