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ayascytheIt's probably telling about my current learning situation that posting something for the book-meme is the highlight of my day. I guess I've said this a thousand times already, but GOD, I can't wait till it's Thursday.
Tag 20 – Das beste Buch, das du während der Schulzeit als Lektüre gelesen hast / The best book you had to read in school
Kabale und Liebe / Intrigue and Love by Friedrich Schiller
The play deals with one of the most controversial issues of Schiller's day - class discrimination . . . Ferdinand von Walter is the son of President von Walter, the unscrupulous chief administrator of a duchy. Ferdinand loves Luise Miller, the daughter of a lowborn musician. To break up the affair, which he regards as a threat to his political ambitions, the president employs the services of a slick opportunist, Wurm. Together they launch a cabal to convince Ferdinand that Luise is promiscuous. [Ending spoiler, highlight to read] Believing the lies, Ferdinand poisons Luise and himself, only to realize the truth just before he dies.[/spoiler]
I've always been a bit of a Schiller fangirl. My school was probably mostly responsible for that: we had to read Wilhelm Tell, Maria Stuart and this one and I ended up liking or loving all of them. (Then again, we also had to read Gottfried Keller a lot and I hated his works.) Kabale, however, was the one that turned out to be my favourite. It's like a German Romeo and Juliet, except that it's much more ironical and contains lots of political subtext. The analysis in class was a lot of fun for me and I love the over-the-top characters like Ferdinand, the hot-headed fanatic that turns out to be more obsessive than romantic, or Wurm, who is so fabulously gay I want to believe Schiller intended him to be like that.
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bit nerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and both can start to act their age.
Yes! We read that in school! I don't know how or why we deserved to read something that cool, but our English teacher apparently thought it would be a good idea. And it was. It was entertaining, charming, witty and not at all the usual stuff you have to read in school. I've been a Hornby fan ever since.
Tag 20 – Das beste Buch, das du während der Schulzeit als Lektüre gelesen hast / The best book you had to read in school
Kabale und Liebe / Intrigue and Love by Friedrich Schiller
The play deals with one of the most controversial issues of Schiller's day - class discrimination . . . Ferdinand von Walter is the son of President von Walter, the unscrupulous chief administrator of a duchy. Ferdinand loves Luise Miller, the daughter of a lowborn musician. To break up the affair, which he regards as a threat to his political ambitions, the president employs the services of a slick opportunist, Wurm. Together they launch a cabal to convince Ferdinand that Luise is promiscuous. [Ending spoiler, highlight to read] Believing the lies, Ferdinand poisons Luise and himself, only to realize the truth just before he dies.[/spoiler]
I've always been a bit of a Schiller fangirl. My school was probably mostly responsible for that: we had to read Wilhelm Tell, Maria Stuart and this one and I ended up liking or loving all of them. (Then again, we also had to read Gottfried Keller a lot and I hated his works.) Kabale, however, was the one that turned out to be my favourite. It's like a German Romeo and Juliet, except that it's much more ironical and contains lots of political subtext. The analysis in class was a lot of fun for me and I love the over-the-top characters like Ferdinand, the hot-headed fanatic that turns out to be more obsessive than romantic, or Wurm, who is so fabulously gay I want to believe Schiller intended him to be like that.
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bit nerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and both can start to act their age.
Yes! We read that in school! I don't know how or why we deserved to read something that cool, but our English teacher apparently thought it would be a good idea. And it was. It was entertaining, charming, witty and not at all the usual stuff you have to read in school. I've been a Hornby fan ever since.
