First Test
By:Tamora Pierce
Published on 2004-12-10 by
The first in the epic Protector of the Small series from award-winning US author, Tamora Pierce. Kel is the first girl to enlist as a page at the palace of Tortall - the first who has dared. She dreams of training to be a warrior knight, like the glorious Alanna, but there's a long way to go...
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This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to learn is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to begin with, if it was designed to be read, then it would have been a novel, not a play. On top of that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for every character for a few pages). None of us had browse the play before. None people wanted to learn it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. All of this compounded to make me more or less hate reading classics for something such as 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. Plus it really can fuck up your GPA. 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