- King Lear can be related to anything. It's my favorite of Shakespeare's works. So complex.
- Jane Austen was an amazing author, and it never ceases to shock me that in her heyday of writing, she was significantly younger than I am. Pride and Prejudice shaped the template for the novel. (That's a professor -- not me -- but I agree.)
- Because I love working with people with special needs, I love reading books that understand their thought processes. So many people don't bother to try. The Memory-Keeper's Daughter and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime are two favorites.
- In Confessions of a Wallflower, I love that the narrator describes the girl he loves as "unconventionally beautiful."
- Books that changed the way I looked at the world: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, The Kite Runner (not even trying to spell that author's name correctly), Blue Like Jazz by Donald Somebody (I'm better at this not sleep-deprived), and The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
- I'm not a fan of Romeo and Juliet partially because it's overexposed. And I think it's safe to say that it has one of the most depressing endings in all of literature. I don't care that the Montagues and the Capulets make up; it's really a bummer. I'll concede that the balcony scene is pretty awesome and pretty much every teenage girl's dream, but you can get that in Cyrano DeBergerac.
- I don't know what all the hype was about Love in the Time of Cholera was about. Maybe I didn't read it well, or maybe I missed some analysis, but I wasn't a fan.
- I think Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is as popular as it is because of when it was written. Descriptions are good, character development is fabulous, but I didn't like the plot structure.
My sister says My Sister's Keeper is a prime example of movies ruining books. I'm kind of nervous about seeing The Lovely Bones for that reason.
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