I need some plot summary. I NEED!

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Help me! I've my last University examination: English leterature. Icannot read all the books they want! I need somebody gives me plot summaries of HAWKSMOOR by P. Ackroyd and PATCHWORK GIRL by Shelly Jackson. Don't you know a site where I can find a plot summary? Or nobody wants write it down for me? PLEASE HELP ME!!! Thanks!
Luca

Bed, Monday, 31 May 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh dear. You should have thought of your exam at the beginning of the semester, when you decided to go out with your friends instead of reading what you were supposed to read. I hope you get the grade your effort warrants.

SRH (Skrik), Monday, 31 May 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

HAWKSMOOR: Boy meets girl. Hilarity ensues. The hawk in the title refers to a hawk.

PATCHWORK GIRL: This book has no plot. It is an unconventional meditation on the nature of identity that consists of fragments of the Manchester Guardian, as randomly selected by a chimpanzee, with the aid of a fairly bright goat.

BTW, this information might be incorrect. My memory isn't what it used to be.

Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 31 May 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Be VERY careful, Bed. Look down the list to THE WASTE LANDS thread and see what these people did to poor Liz A.

pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Monday, 31 May 2004 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

i love English leterature

jed_ (jed), Monday, 31 May 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

No help as I haven't read any of those, but I'll never understand the need for some people to be self-righteous pricks about this sort of thing.

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I find it adorable when other people's children come up to me in public and demand candy.

Aimless (Aimless), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't referring to you - faux advice is one thing, wishing ill of someone quite another.

But if this person started e-mailing or IMing you incessantly, you'd have good cause to be a dick. Your analogy doesn't work. A better analogy is being in the same room as someone else's child asking for candy. Which rarely warrants berating the child.

Way I figure it, if Bed manages to pass his/her exam with outside help, it doesn't hurt me. It doesn't hurt you. It doesn't hurt SRH. Is anyone going to claim they went through school and university without cutting corners?

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 06:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It hurts me if people start getting through university without doing the necessary work. It devalues my own education. I didn't cut any corners, and my grades reflect that.

Perhaps the OP has done the work required, which is why I wished that the grades reflect the work done, rather than flat-out consigning the person to McJob Hell for all eternity.

I sincerely wish the person the success their efforts deserve.

SRH (Skrik), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Right, self-righteous asshattery. Yawn. It's a bad scene from a teen movie where the nerdy kid gets all uptight and angry and tells the teacher.

It hurts me if people start getting through university without doing the necessary work. It devalues my own education. I didn't cut any corners, and my grades reflect that.
Haha, Bed is the first person to consider not reading the assigned material in the history of higher education. Christ - it's not even that he/she is looking to plagiarize a term paper.

It doesn't devalue your education. How many lit majors graduate every year? A half-million? Quarter-million? It doesn't hurt you, it doesn't hurt me, it doesn't hurt anyone.

miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I will retire from this thread no more gracelessly than I can. I am determined not to get into flame wars on ILx, no matter how much I'm (or others are) asking for it.

SRH (Skrik), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

How about we leave the fight-picking for ILE/M?

bnw (bnw), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

why doesn't Bed just read the goddamn book and save us all some trouble, can't be that difficult can it?

juniorbonner (juniorbonner), Saturday, 5 June 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)


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