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The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:34 am

I never really learned much of the Presidents. Mainly because American politics (as a subset of political science) is boring and I avoided those classes like the plague.

Sera Numquam · Post by **Sera Numquam** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:34 am

How it feels to be writing a paper about Marx and capitalism at 1:30 am

The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:41 am

What is the top 5 works/writings you all read in undergrad, fiction or nonfiction?

Mine:

1. The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
2. The Dead - James Joyce
3. Also Sprach Zarathrustra - Nietzsche
4. A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke
5. A tie between the Federalist Papers/Democracy in America/The Republic

Sera Numquam · Post by **Sera Numquam** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:50 am

The Abyss wrote:What is the top 5 works/writings you all read in undergrad, fiction or nonfiction?

Mine:

1. The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
2. The Dead - James Joyce
3. Also Sprach Zarathrustra - Nietzsche
4. A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke
5. A tie between the Federalist Papers/Democracy in America/The Republic

I'm bad at ranking things in order...but off the top of my head in no particular order:

1. Everything Is Illuminated- Jonathan Safran Foer
2. The Inferno (also read it in AP English)- Dante Alighieri
3. On Liberty- John Stuart Mill
4. Nausea- Jean Paul Sartre
5. Anatomy of Violence- Adrian Raine

ffamran · Post by **ffamran** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 1:54 am

The Abyss wrote:What is the top 5 works/writings you all read in undergrad, fiction or nonfiction?

Mine:

1. The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
2. The Dead - James Joyce
3. Also Sprach Zarathrustra - Nietzsche
4. A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke
5. A tie between the Federalist Papers/Democracy in America/The Republic

I once read a paper called Macroeconomic Policy and the Optimal Destruction of Vampires.

ugg · Post by **ugg** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:11 am

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LurkSoHard · Post by **LurkSoHard** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:13 am

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The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:19 am

theugg wrote:
The Abyss wrote:What is the top 5 works/writings you all read in undergrad, fiction or nonfiction?

Mine:

1. The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
2. The Dead - James Joyce
3. Also Sprach Zarathrustra - Nietzsche
4. A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke
5. A tie between the Federalist Papers/Democracy in America/The Republic
Damn who remembers all this shit

Not exactly obscure shit here. Pretty fundamental stuff to both my major and minor.

ugg · Post by **ugg** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:21 am

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The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:25 am

theugg wrote:I just don't immediately have a list in my brain of my top 5 books from undergrad. The only reason I remember at all is because I just graduated

Neither do I. I thought about it, made a list, and then asked others what theirs was.

I remember these works, because they're pretty important to what I studied. My degree is shit, but I'd like to think I got something out of it.

ugg · Post by **ugg** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:25 am

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The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:32 am

I started Blood Meridian earlier. I have loved everything I've read by Cormac McCarthy so far, so I expect to enjoy this too.

ugg · Post by **ugg** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 2:59 am

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The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:02 am

theugg wrote:Unlike everyone else in high school or college, I never read The Road.

Skip The Road and read No Country for Old Men and the Border Trilogy. The Road is good, but his Western works are far, far better imo.

GauchoMarx · Post by **GauchoMarx** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:08 am

The Abyss wrote:I started Blood Meridian earlier. I have loved everything I've read by Cormac McCarthy so far, so I expect to enjoy this too.

Incredible book, definitely my favorite of McCarthy's. Crazy violence and his prose is super intense. The Judge is one of the most fascinating characters I've ever read.

ugg · Post by **ugg** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:13 am

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The Abyss · Post by **The Abyss** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:27 am

For nonfiction I really enjoyed The Elegant Universe by Brian Geene. I need to read The Fabric of the Universe soon.

oldercoldervoice · Post by **oldercoldervoice** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 5:19 am

The Abyss wrote:What is the top 5 works/writings you all read in undergrad, fiction or nonfiction?

In no order:

1. Mrs. Dalloway - Woolf
2. Cane - Toomer
3. Paradise Lost - Milton
4. Complete poetry of Yeats (does this count? I think it should count)
5. As I Lay Dying - Faulkner

I feel like I should have more/better to choose from as an English major but honestly a lot of the stuff I had to read I ended up slogging through. Case in point: Ulysses. Fuck Ulysses.

How about the weirdest thing you had to read in undergrad? For me it was Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker. It had lots of hand drawn vaginas in it.

204Wpg · Post by **204Wpg** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:48 am

I might be in the minority here, but my undergrad was in business and I had to read very few books during my degree (accounting and tax textbooks aside lol).

By far my favourite though was The Bonfire of the Vanities though, by Tom Wolfe. Nothing but good things to say about that one.

GreatBraffsby · Post by **GreatBraffsby** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:53 am

Sera Numquam wrote:
The Abyss wrote:What is the top 5 works/writings you all read in undergrad, fiction or nonfiction?

Mine:

1. The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
2. The Dead - James Joyce
3. Also Sprach Zarathrustra - Nietzsche
4. A Letter Concerning Toleration - John Locke
5. A tie between the Federalist Papers/Democracy in America/The Republic
I'm bad at ranking things in order...but off the top of my head in no particular order:

1. Everything Is Illuminated- Jonathan Safran Foer
2. The Inferno (also read it in AP English)- Dante Alighieri
3. On Liberty- John Stuart Mill
4. Nausea- Jean Paul Sartre
5. Anatomy of Violence- Adrian Raine

You both included some of my favorites, so I'll choose others. If you can't tell, the 19th century was my jam.

1. Madame Bovary by Flaubert
2. Rousseau's 1st Discourse
3. Danton's Death by Buchner
4. Demons by Dostoyevsky
5. Lyrical Ballads by Coleridge and Wordsworth

chicharon · Post by **chicharon** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:02 am

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alpha kenny body · Post by **alpha kenny body** » Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:08 am

3pianists wrote:
nlee10 wrote:How long are you guys planning to write the PS? assuming double spaced, 12 font
Mine's just over a page.

I have 12 pt font, Times New Roman, and it's 2 pages. I'm just trimming the fat and thinking of an ending paragraph to cause moisture.