Big Book Haul - My First Year Literature Degree

[dreamymooncandy]

i really love your hair here! you look lovely :) xx

[Wilzo]

Yay, Jane Austen! I wrote a paper on Northanger Abbey last spring, and it's one of my favourite Austens. And the Importance of Being Earnest - can't get enough. Oscar Wilde is my hero!

North and South is on my to-read list, and I'm fully prepared to enjoy it. :P

[skaiste12]

@Wilzo i have to do northanger abbey this year :(

[smooshie3]

jeanette winterson yaaaay! i preferred sexing the cherry though. did that and the passion for my degree! (in ireland)

[MegaSexytimes]

Part of me wants really nice girls like you when I go to do English Lit at uni, part of me hopes I'm not one in about three guys haha.. ):

[thethirdq]

Your Youtube fans are waiting patiently...

[simplicity2012]

I can't see the title of the books and when you don't name them... :(

[tonyholt7133]

1:04 pahahahah.

[631alam]

the reluctant fundamentalist was great and i like when you say moshin amed thats funny lol nice :))

[VivaLaMakeupTV]

I have watched this video quite a few times, and have taken some of recommendations. One. The Reluctant Fundamentalist was awesome! Two. Because it was so awesome that I concluded that you too are awesome so I purchased The Good Man Jesus and that Scoundrel Christ today. Going to start it tonight!

[jsutkissmyfrog]

@VivaLaMakeupTV lol let me know what you think! :D I wasn't sure, but the epilouge makes it all worth it. I'll be doing a review of it soon :Dx

[j4manasseh]

i want to marry you

[VivaLaMakeupTV]

I agree with you on White Teeth. So long, so many characters. Funny in some bits but ugh.

[irrelephantnonsense]

I liked White Teeth a lot. Agree that there were just masses of characters and keeping everything straight was crazy, but oddly enough, it was the instances I put the book down for a while and just mused on the characters that I realized how brilliant their interconnected histories were. So maybe give it another go. I'll try to check out some of the books you mentioned! Trumpet sounds fascinating.

[jsutkissmyfrog]

@irrelephantnonsense yeah maybe one day I'll pick it up again and give it another swing.seriusly, Trumpet. DOit. :)

[Sonythebooklover]

Omg I want to read Trumpet, cool haul new books I haven't heard of. Thanks.

[jsutkissmyfrog]

@Sonythebooklover :) go read it seriously. :) x

[souljhaus]

I love Jane Austen!

[jsutkissmyfrog]

@souljhaus have you read Persuasion? its next on my list, and I'm liking it alot better:)

[souljhaus]

@jsutkissmyfrog I haven't but I have this book with most of her stories =). You should do a review about it.

[JOESGONNAKILLY0U]

id poke this whores hontas

[AndrewMauriceSmith]

haha I liked this :) I'm going to be studying English Lit. in Sep and was looking up videos to get an idea of what it would be like.... this was my favourite one!

I'm also going to need to read "the Beach" as soon as I get a chance lol

[davey90r]

Awww :D I loveeeee you!!

[jsutkissmyfrog]

@davey90r i love you also :) x

[watchhowtobegod]

I read most of these two years ago. I remember getting through Sugar and Slate. It was long, it was boring, but I managed to read it all. It served no purpose in the end, I wrote the essay on a different book. After that I was a bit more...selective.

[jsutkissmyfrog]

@watchhowtobegod well kudos for getting to the end! ... i meen, i got to the end, but not via the middle, so I don't think it counts :) what was your fave in first year then?

[watchhowtobegod]

@jsutkissmyfrog I'd say The Beach was my favourite. That one's actually gone on a shelf with 'proper books' that I like. The rest are mostly in some box somewhere.

[jsutkissmyfrog]

@watchhowtobegod cool:) yeah as I said, i LOVE that book too :) although, i was reluctant to say it was my favorite, cus EVERYONE says that, besides the magic was taken out of it for me when i discovered what a bumhole Alex Garland seems to be.

hmmm does this meen youv done the whole degree course? and maybe would like to flog books to a gullable second year like......... I dont know...... me?lol

[Rida9651]

I have read that booookkk!!! Reluctant Fundamentalist.

But I didn't like it that much. I dunno Being a Pakistani and being from Lahore the city this story takes place in I couldn't resonate with the narrator. I think he didn't do us justice. But overall the Idea that when you migrate to another country and you feel like an outsider and stuff was portrayed well. I'd need a larger word limit to fully word my thought =P So i'll just leave it at that.

His name is actually pronounced "Moh-sin" =P

[jsutkissmyfrog]

@Rida9651 thats cool! yeah, i guess im abit naive, the first I'd heard of Lahore till this book, so MOH-SIN ( :) ) could pretty much tell me what he liked about it. I just loved the clever imagery and the heartbreaking and unusual love story, I thought it was tres clever :)