Board 8 > Your First Thought 127: "Best required reading in High School."

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105) Smash character that shouldn't be in Smash: Cloud (Corrin, Piranha Plant, Byleth, Joker, Bayonetta, Dark Pit)
106) Playstation Mascot: Crash Bandicoot (Sackboy, Kratos, Nathan Drake, Toro/Doro/Taro/Todo/The fucking cat, what is his name?)
107) JRPG: Final Fantasy (A variety of specific Final Fantasies [usually VII or X], Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, a Persona, a Trails, a Tales)
108) bad game: Big Rigs/Sonic 06 (Superman 64, ET, a variety of Final Fantasies [XII, XIII, XV, even VII!], Kingdom Hearts??)
109) Best place to buy video games: GameStop (people wanted to point out GameStop is NOT the best place to buy video games, Best Buy, Amazon, "The Internet"/Online, EB Games)
110) Nintendo's greatest rival: SEGA (like everyone said SEGA, more people said "Sonic" than "Sony.")
111) A game that would make a great musical: Kingdom Hearts (Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, Undertale, Celeste, Metal Gear Solid, Mega Man, Chrono Trigger, Devil May Cry, Mass Effect, Ace Attorney, God of War, Mario RPG, FFVIII, Trails, lots of good answers and I want them all to be musicals)
112) Game that made you say 'what the fuck:' Killer7/Drakengard (MGS/2, various Danganronpas, Celeste, Doki Doki Literature Club!, Undertale, BioShock/Infinite, Katamari Damacy, INSIDE, Spec Ops: The Line)
113) Coolest video game subtitle: Sons of Liberty (Revengeance, Up Your Arsenal, Snake Eater, Trigger Happy Havoc, Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean, Sanity's Requiem, all those german Xenosaga ones)
114) Coolest looking console: GameCube (PS5, Xbox, Wii, PS4, Genesis, PS2, N64, SNES)
115) Most photorealistic game of all time: Last of Us/II (Crysis, various Uncharteds, various games about photography, Myst, MGSV, that one Unreal Engine tech demo)
116) Worst mainline Mario game: Sunshine (NSMB/2, 3D Land, Lost Levels, Mario Bros.)
117) Worst JRPG protagonist: Vaan (Tidus, Marche, Emil, Cloud, Edge Maverick, Lloyd Irving, Squall, Crono)
118) Blue hair: Sonic (Anime Strong Bad/Stinkoman/"You gotta have blue hair!", Steiner, Bulma, Ramona Flowers, KOS-MOS, Chloe Price, Marth or another Fire Emblem)
119) VG character you would not take home to mom: Bayonetta (Tifa, Morrigan, Dante)
120) Character being revealed for Smash tomorrow: Dante (Impa, Crash, Travis Touchdown, Tracer, Cinderace, Geno, Captain Toad, Mike Jones, Waluigi, Master Chief, Ryu Hayabusa, various characters already in Smash Bros., NOT A SINGLE MINECRAFT STEVE)
121) Minecraft Steve in Smash Bros. Ultimate: General indifference (general anger, happiness, confusion)
122) Fodder you don't mind seeing in contests: Vyse/Guybrush/CATS (Laharl, Gordon Freeman, Edgeworth)
123) Waifu: Everyone has their own Waifu (except the people that answered that anime sux, it's actually Tifa, then Zelda, Rin, Makoto, Rikku, anime)
124) Best Pokemon Gym Leader: Brock (Sabrina, Misty, Lt. Surge, Giovanni, Blue, Erika)
125) Light gun game: Duck Hunt (Time Crisis, House of the Dead, one of those Resident Evils, Virtua Cop, Yoshi's Safari)
126) Toxic fanbase: Smash (League of Legends, Sonic, Rick & Morty, Pokemon, Trump/MAGA. It was really only the first three, everything after Sonic only got a few.)

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Catch-22

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The Hobbit
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Lord of the Flies

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Odyssey

Odyssey

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Invisible Man

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I don't remember
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A Midsummer Night's Dream

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1984

Ehh not a bad choice.

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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Great Gatsby

Eh probably not but most of the others I remember ranged from okay to dreadful.

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the yellow wallpaper

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to kill a mockingbird

macbeth would probably be my pick if i thought about it, but TKAM is relevant and great.
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Brave New World

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The Great Gatsby

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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Odyssey

firefdr posted...

Odyssey

Catch-22

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To Kill a Mockingbird.

It would be Catch-22, but I was able to choose that out of like 10 books so wasn't sure if it'd count or not.

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Of Mice and Men

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Also pretty sure of all the stuff listed so far my school only had us read Odyssey and Of Mice & Men.

The Great Gatsby

it's definitely not that

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Lord of the Flies

Catch-22 would have been the best answer if I had been required to read it.

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Brave New World

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Catcher in the Rye

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First thought was literally "Catcher in the Flies"

So I guess it was Catcher in the Rye? Even though that wasn't required for me, but Lord of the Flies was

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The Bible. I cant think of any book we had to read.

oh and obviously we didnt have to read the whole bible, but some chapters.

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this was purely "name any book you read in high school" for me

"uhh there was that book on a journalist covering Tank Man I don't remember the title"

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plasmabeam posted...

Catcher in the Rye

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Frankenstein

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Lord of the Flies
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The Great Gatsby

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Of Mice and Men

Beowulf

Interesting first thought. I did like it but not the beat one.

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Arsenic and Old Lace

Though its a play and I think was one of several choices instead of required for everyone in my class

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To Kill A Mockingbird

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To kill a mockingbird

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Huckleberry Finn

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Of Mice and Men.

Which I haven't read, nor has it been recommended in my school as I'm not in the US

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Watchmen

It was required for me!

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Fahrenheit 451

It's what got me into reading.

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1984

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plasmabeam posted...

Catcher in the Rye

The Giver

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Catcher in the Rye

ewww no

actual answer is probably Lord of the Flies
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Catcher in the Rye

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Lord of the Flies

Which isn't my actual answer because I hate that book.

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