Listopia > Nick's votes on the list The Five Books I Would Require If I Taught an English Literature Class (5 Books)
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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"I delight in the misery of children, and this is the best book ever written about anything, period. "
Nick
rated it 5 stars
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As I Lay Dying
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"I delight in the misery of children, and Faulkner plays with all sorts of literary techniques while still telling a story that's honest-to-god funny."
Nick
rated it 4 stars
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The Illustrated Man
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"Bradbury is the most infectiously likable author out there. This book has all the fun of "Fahrenheit" without the dead horse abuse, and since it's a short story collection, those with short attention spans (me) won't get brainhurt."
Nick
rated it 3 stars
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A Room of One’s Own
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"It's important."
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Finnegans Wake
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"I delight in the misery of children. (JK. Replace with James Baldwin or Flannery O'Connor. Or a Tolstoy novella.) "
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