Ditto on the "everything by Shakespeare." Specifically Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet- those seem to be read the most often. Dracula. Poems by Robert Frost. The Old Man and the Sea(a short story and a source of shared pain for many, not REALLY a rec) ;)
T.S. Eliot, more becuase I think he's awesome than becuase most other people liked his stuff. (I guess you can skip him, but reading poem "the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" out loud was especially fun for me, as well as dissecting bits of "The Wasteland" in class. "the Wasteland" is more fun in a group, though.)
...and it's pretty obvious I only really concentrated on English in school, huh. I have no idea how to go about math for fun. History books..."The People's HIstory of the United States" was pretty good, although that was about a lot of the stuff they DON'T teach you in school.
If you really want to learn Physics, I used "Physics for Dummies" a lot in HIgh School, as our textbook almost gave me an aneuresym.
One of the coolest classes I ever took was an ethics class, oddly enough. The professor gave us excepts of"The Jungle" and more modern editorials and none of us could eat meat for a week. (In my case, three months.)
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Date: 2011-01-13 04:28 pm (UTC)Dracula.
Poems by Robert Frost.
The Old Man and the Sea(a short story and a source of shared pain for many, not REALLY a rec) ;)
T.S. Eliot, more becuase I think he's awesome than becuase most other people liked his stuff. (I guess you can skip him, but reading poem "the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" out loud was especially fun for me, as well as dissecting bits of "The Wasteland" in class. "the Wasteland" is more fun in a group, though.)
...and it's pretty obvious I only really concentrated on English in school, huh. I have no idea how to go about math for fun. History books..."The People's HIstory of the United States" was pretty good, although that was about a lot of the stuff they DON'T teach you in school.
If you really want to learn Physics, I used "Physics for Dummies" a lot in HIgh School, as our textbook almost gave me an aneuresym.
One of the coolest classes I ever took was an ethics class, oddly enough. The professor gave us excepts of"The Jungle" and more modern editorials and none of us could eat meat for a week. (In my case, three months.)