Susan Sontag staged a production of "Waiting for Godot" during the Bosnia Serbian war in 1993.

me personally i'd go w/ the Satre play.

WTF is this AP English or some shit LOL.

davis, what year did you take the GCSE? i've been told by other people on other forums that year 12 (?) GCSEs are equivalent to north american AP exams. i'll take the AP literature and composition exam in the spring..

here, here's a list of all the books i can do. bolded ones mean i can't read them, for one reason or another.

i am a HUGE Saul Bellow fan so i would recommend The Adventures of Augie March even though i have not read it yet. I loved Brideshead Revisited when i read it. one of those few books for me where things become "intemporal" and "inspatial."

i am currently reading Libra now, and while am a big Don Delillo fan, i seem to be stuck on page 150 but i blame the INTERNET for that really... Things Falls Apart is good from a post-colonial standpoint & i would recommend that over the Morrison and Richard Wright stuff.

i do not recommend ANYTHING by Cormac McCarthy. especially w/ all the other great novels on that list.

(oh i have not read the the Metamorphosis but i mean you cannot go wrong w/ KAFKA !!!)

I am a fan of Joseph Conrad and The Sound and the Fury.

Why is that? Haven't read anything of his, but I've heard much.

no real reason. i just don't. empty calories IMO. just watch the movies...

yes. what can i say? i'm white bread.

but tentatively i'll go with no exit, though i'll likely pick up a lot of these for personal enjoyment later on.

I'll take that as an excuse to rant about education in the UK...

Took my GCSEs in 2006 (gosh I feel old) in year 11 when I was aged 15/16. Everyone in England, Scotland and Wales takes them (Scotland, per usual, are awkward about it ), so I think they're different to American AP exams as they seem - although this is taken from just a quick wiki - more aimed at academically minded students whilst with GCSEs you don't really have that much a choice. For example, I got ten in total over 8 subjects, but only picked 4 of them.

In the UK, if you choose to go to University you usually have to go through two more years and do A Levels (except, again, Scotland) or one of several other Furthur Education qualifications. What A Levels you do depends on what GCSEs you got and what university course you get on depends on what A Levels you get, in theory at least. From the impression I get, the application process in the US seems a lot more complicated.

But, yeah, go with No Exit. My two favourite plays evah have to be Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo and The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, in case anyone cares.

Free University in Scotland equals ownage.

Free university? Oh my god. I would be all up in that shit. As long as perfect grades aren't a requirement.

Yeah, fuck you.

One of my lecturers the other day was wondering why he doesn't seen any Scottish students in English Universities anymore. I politely pointed out no-one is going to willingly put themselves into £18,000 of debt...

Nah man apart from one really posh uni it's pretty relaxed. Socialism FTW.

Fuck. I have a Scottish aunt.

The Great Gatsby is just awful...

as much i wanted to like it, it just wasn't for me. a lot of the lost generation writers weren't for me, either.. the only iconoclasts i identified with were the beats.

still on the fall. it's in line with the plague, which i found detached and uninteresting.