/lit/ - Literature

>>9500633
And what I mean is that The Gulag Archipelago is a primary source, but it isn't the only source that historians use, so read it with a grain of salt. It's like reading The Histories as your only source on the Persian invasion of Greece.

>>8184128
I fucking hate Atlas Shrugged. Your thoughts?

>>8183979
1. Stalin: Volume 1
2. Mythology - Edith Hamilton
3. The Iliad - Homer and Fagles
3.5 reread the Odyssey, doesn't really count
4. Histories - Herodotus
5. The Name of the Rose

>>7801370
>In high school
>have stupid english teacher named Mrs. Wallace
>she makes us listen to her reading her dumb "funny" short stories that have us and our classmates as characters
>we have to make a "class pet", basically draw a fictional animal and her other classes did it too
>she fucking writes short stories about our animals interacting with one another, and makes us listen to her reading them in class
>10th grade honors english, wtf

Anyways I made it my goal to make her life Hell.
>we have to read Animal Farm
>during classroom discussion i talk about how it relates to 1984, the rise of bolshevism, etc
>Mrs. Wallace says she never read 1984
>i ask "How can you be an English teacher if you've never read 1984?"
>she gets sad
>during classroom discussion i interrupt her to correct her pronunciation of "Tsar"
>i can see her confidence disappearing, day by day

skip forward to the end of the year
>she hates me now, and me and all my friends argue with her on every thing she says to show our contempt
>class party to celebrate end of year
Earlier she said she was keeping the drawings so she could remember us forever.
>adrenaline pumping
>bell rings
>i grab the drawings off the wall and run like crazy
>during the summer we made copies of them, and filmed ourselves wearing ski masks "torturing" the drawings. we waterboarded the copies, burned them, ripped them up, etc
>sent her the video

It was on YouTube for a while but our friend who filmed it removed it when he went on his mission (he's a Mormon).

My little sister had Mrs. Wallace's class five years after me. Mrs. Wallace still remembers me with a kind of repressed mix between fear and hatred.

>>6928167
Yes same for me. It was definetely a huge step down.