I have to read...
 

... As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner) -- the WHOLE thing -- in order to be up to date for my English exam tomorrow, because I didn't read it when I was supposed to. That's 250 pages in three hours. Wish me luck! :damn: :damn: :damn:

Reminds of me of grade 10 when I went in cold to give a presentation on Kershaw's Hitler Myth ("Hitler, um, was a dictator in Germany..."), or when I was assigned The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi in one night in my first year of uni.

Sparknotes are your friend.

Good luck mate - that's a lot of Pro-Plus!

Er, Pro-Plus? You mean this: http://www.pluspills.com/cgi-bin/pluspill ?! Not sure I'll be needing that for an English exam...

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

No this
http://www.mypharmacy.co.uk/alternat...s/pro_plus.htm

Ow!
Not the easiest book to read. I'm afraid I gave up last time I tried a few years back. I should give it another go some time now I have some more years behind me.

I remember writing eight essays in one night that all needed to be handed in the next day for an English exam once... just managed it, and even got a grade A!
I ended up working for a big daily newspaper as a writer for years, where the deadlines are counted in minutes rather than hours, so it just goes to show that stuff like that is good practise :rotfl:

You can do a lot when the pressure is on, and it usually inspires you to come up with some good ideas out of pure desperation!

:D Chock

He reminds me of Joyce -- SO confusing!

"In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied for sleep, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep, you are not. And when you are filled with sleep, you never were. I dont know what i am. I dont know if i am or not. Jewel knows he is, because he does not know that he does not know whether he is ot not. He cannot empty himself for sleep because he is not what he is and he is what he is not...And since sleep is is-not and rain and wind was, it is not. Yet the wagon is, because when the wagon is was, Addie bundren will not be. And Jewel is, so Addie Bundren must be. And then I must be, or I could not empty myself for sleep in a strange room." (P. 80-81)

What. The. Hell. :doh:

It's on my to-read list

which I'll get onto when my to-write list is finished :)

I'm confused just reading that:o :doh:

You'd be better off reading the Wall Street Journal for a while.

That way you could actually support your family.

What? Are you talking to me? Or is this going to turn into another Tchocky/Wastegate battle?

No battle, a word of advice. Ask your instructor if it is better to read As I Lay Dying or WSJ if you are going to make it in the world.

Reading the WSJ will put me on my way to earning riches and material wealth. I don't really need that. It would also put me behind a desk. I don't want that either. I just want to do something that makes me happy. But I also don't want to be poor. Ugh, I dunno, maybe you're right. But it doesn't matter now, seeing as my exam is in 12 hours!

Rose - GO AND READ!!!