What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[EndOfTheEarth]

XP

I think I'll stick to Milton's Paradise Lost.

[Fate]

So, I won't have WiFi anymore after today. Which means that I won't be on here very much at all. *sigh* My apologies.

[Lamp Post]

You will be missed.

[Jessie~the~Singer]

Won't be on until Monday, more than likely. Taking my sister to Space Camp. 12 hour drive there, and we get to do it all over again on Sunday coming back. Yaaay. At least I'm going to see the last Harry Potter movie on Monday...

 

See y'all then!

[EndOfTheEarth]

Which one? I did the one-week experience at Wallops Flight Center in VA.

Though, with the space shuttles done with, who knows what they're teaching the kids about now. All the commercial spacecraft are still in development, even SpaceX's Dragon, and NASA's MPCV is over half a decade from having a rocket to fly on.

[Jessie~the~Singer]

The one in Alabama. I went there for a week when I was her age. Now she gets to go. It's kind of a family tradition, sending the grandkids to Space Camp.

 

As far as I know, they're still doing the Mars Missions. The one in Alabama is built around a huge museum, and that's where they do all the classes. So, just learning about past programs, I suppose. Then they do the Mission to Mars in a different area. It's actually inside part of an old rocket. Very neat. 

[Omega]

I'm doing a foodie weekend - Made chicken and vege soup last night, making bread, chicken and corn pie, and brownie today, and I'll likely make scones or muffins tomorrow.

[Omega]

Nyancat dubstep. o.O

[Contradiction]

In New York, though finally out of the Adirondacks. I was rather sick of showering in pond water...

 

Anyway, which, if any, of these books do you like/recommend? I need a summer reading book to annotate for AP Lang and I dunno which to choose.

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Emma - Jane Austen

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift

The Once and Future King - T.H. White

The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene

Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

[EndOfTheEarth]

I highly reccomend Dracula and Gulliver's Travels. Dracula is a fun read overall, reads more like one of Doyle's S. Holmes novels than any of the odd vampire stuff you see today.

 

However, if it's analysis they want, then you want Gulliver's Travels; it's Swift criticizing government, philosophy, science, just about everything by preventing outrageously off-the-wall examples in the places he visits. (My favorite is the science institute he goes to, they're trying to solicit donations from him for a device supposed to extract sunlight from cucumbers).

 

Stay away from Dickens. Also, you may want to stay away from Austen; I found Emma to be dull.

Frankenstein is also a debateable one. It's not about reanimating the dead; it's about the relationship between god and people.

[o0_flying high_0o]

Seconding the last paragraph, in regard to Dickens and Austen. Emma is particularly bad, and for what feels like forever you're just reading about a self indulgent rich girl whining about the fact someone has gone off to be happy and working as hard as she can to keep other people miserable. 

[Contradiction]

Thanks much. I'll read Gulliver's Travels.