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to kill a mockingbird, great gatsby, of mice and men and night all stuck with me like 15 years later

Just lord of the flies

Some of them, not all.

I liked Catcher in the Rye

Absolutely.

Dracula and Frankenstein were great

I liked Gulliver's Travels.

Brave New World is a classic

The Great Gatsby is the most boring book I have ever had to sit through

I love reading and actually did enjoy most of the assigned books, however having to read them at public school style pace of like 2 chapters per week was horrible. Especially when class time was wasted with people reading aloud at an absolute crawl.

I always liked to read, so i never considered it being forced to read. As for the books that were assigned

ImTheLoneWolf posted...

Some of them, not all.

No, I don't think I cared for a single one. I wouldn't call any of them bad, but they were an absolute waste of time for someone with no interest. Now, Shakespeare was fucking terrible. I have no idea where anyone got the idea that reading a fucking play in what's for all intents another fucking language was supposed to teach anyone.

I liked and then there were none and the crysalids

can't say I was particularly fond of any other the others. I straight up fell asleep with the book on my face multiple times reading pride and prejudice

The only one I really enjoyed was One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

Books like The Outsiders and Of Mice and Men were just too dull compared to the Fantasy or Sci-Fi I would have been reading in my spare time.

MC_BatCommander posted...

I love reading and actually did enjoy most of the assigned books, however having to read them at public school style pace of like 2 chapters per week was horrible. Especially when class time was wasted with people reading aloud at an absolute crawl.

you can read outside of class?

The crucible was a good one that we had to read. Hell, you could argue it's still very relevant today! The qitch hunts still happen, just on different topics

To Kill A Mockingbird is peak.

Scarlet Letter is not as fun a read cuz its older but its an interesting story. However you better be ready to teach it well because it will be easy for it to fly over the heads of high schoolers.

The Scarlet Letter, The Stranger and The Metamorphosis are the unholy trinity of anal sauce novels.

Oh not really a book per se but I really liked Robert Frost and Edgar Allen Poe

Doe posted...

To Kill A Mockingbird is peak.

Scarlet Letter is not as fun a read cuz its older but its an interesting story. However you better be ready to teach it well because it will be easy for it to fly over the heads of high schoolers.

scarlet is like hundreds of years older than mockingbird book?

Ratchetrockon posted...

Just lord of the flies

I actually loved this book. it was the first time I experienced the thrill of a story and enjoyed reading.

Before all the other books we were forced to read made me think reading sucked. Especially othello and taming of the shrew. Bleh.

GranTurismo posted...

scarlet is like hundreds of years older than mockingbird book?

Scarlet Letter was written in the 19th century and set in the 17th. It takes real talent to make something like adultery in Puritan New England bloated and boring but Hawthorne pulled it off.

Only one I really hated was The Crucible, which is weird since I love playing Town of Salem. I really loved Animal Farm, Hatchet and Holes, probably others too.

news flash: top 100 books of all time are good reads

To Kill a Mockingbird was solid, and I barely remember anything else about any other books we read. Though in elementary school, I really liked when we read The Cay.

sword of shannara > all those nerd books

ThePieReborn posted...

I liked Gulliver's playback.

This. I had to read it in Brit Lit, and really enjoyed it.

No I barely finished most of them. They were incredibly boring

I liked The Giver from middle school >_>

I also read some book in freshman year of high school where there was like a whole page of the MC describing his girlfriend and he went over the hot striped top she was in and her breast size and her hair. It was pretty hot to read >_> I forget the name of the book tho. The rest of the book has nothing to do with that and was kinda serious from what I remember

I absolutely loved Maniac McGee. But I don't think there was any books we were forced to read that I didn't like. I'm not really much of a reader, but I do enjoy books. It just takes too much energy, having to use my imagination and all. I prefer my entertainment to be visual. Less thinking lol

My school made me read the lord of the rings books as a freshman. When the films started coming out the next year I wasnt interested because I was previously forced to study those things. I didnt even mind the books, but its hard to enjoy things you associate with stress, like tests & essays and stuff.

My personal hell is Issac Dinesons Out of Africa reading that book turned me off of reading completely. In the 20+ years afterwards Ive never read another book (comics not withstanding) again.

This book taught me how to bullshit an essay just by reading the back of the bookor spark notes if they existed at the time.

Prior to my freshman year I would read my moms books once she was done. Lots of Stephen King, Peter Benchley, and Michael Crichton. Even some HG Wells.

I also read at least 20 Goosebumps from start to completion. But being forced to read Out of Africa killed my love for reading.

When I die, I somehow end up in hell, Im just going to be forced to read this shit for all eternity.

Great Gatsby is a dry ass boring ass read.

Not a fan of Grapes of Wrath. I liked all the others I can recall.

Night was my absolute favorite to read.
Lord of the Flies, Great Gatsby, and Dracula were really good, too.

Tyranthraxus posted...

I liked Catcher in the Rye

This is the only book I remember reading. It was a good book.

I read A Clockwork Orange afterwards, somewhat similar kind of lol

Catcher in the Rye is a book with 5 star writing and a 1 star plot.

Joelypoely posted...

Books like The Outsiders and Of Mice and Men were just too dull compared to the Fantasy or Sci-Fi I would have been reading in my spare time.

I reread The Outsiders a year ago and honestly I thought it was amazing. I think a lot of it is sort of lost on kids of that age where I mostly remembered it as "wow look at all those punk kids beating each other up isn't that wild"

it's pretty short too, I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who read it years and years ago for class to read it again, it feels totally different

I hated The Outsiders when reading it in 8th grade. Watching the Coppola movie didn't change my mind.

I can't remember any that I didn't like.

Mockingbird and Letter were not so bad. If I had to reread a certain number of school books, those would make the list.

It was Great Gatsby, Great Expectations, Of Human Bondage, Death of a Salesman, Ivan Ilyich, Metamorphosis...

There was tons of garbage school reading that put your picks to shame.

ForsakenHermit posted...

Catcher in the Rye is a book with 5 star writing and a 1 star plot.

Accurate AF lol

Tyranthraxus posted...

I liked Catcher in the Rye

Became my favourite book immediately upon reading it in high school

Still get annoyed when the main criticism I see of it is "Holden is an annoying whiny dick"

Since when did a main character have to be a good guy?

haloiscoolisbak posted...

Became my favourite book immediately upon reading it in high school

Still get annoyed when the main criticism I see of it is "Holden is an annoying whiny dick"

Since when did a main character have to be a good guy?

The more I think about it the book was kind of visionary. Holden is basically the prototype incel.

Tyranthraxus posted...

The more I think about it the book was kind of visionary. Holden is basically the prototype incel.

He's more just the prototypical teenager I think - but it's still amazingly ahead of its time

The scenes in the beginning with his friends(not that he really likes them much) in the school dormitory, it's so crazy to me those chapters were written in the 1940s. I've been there, I've had those conversations

To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984.

Yeah, a lot of them are classics for a reason.

I still stand by the fact that Scarlet Letter is one of the worst books Ive ever read though. A great messageed, wrapped up in some of the most fluffed p-up, flowery, long-toothed tripe Ive ever had the misfortune of reading. Its painfully boring, as dull as the time period, and really thinks it is better than it is.

Some I liked, some I hated.

Catch-22 remains one of my favorite books.

I liked To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice & Men, and The Scarlet Letter. Some of the others were okay too. We didn't read Catcher in the Rye at my school.

ForsakenHermit posted...

Catcher in the Rye is a book with 5 star writing and a 1 star plot.

plotcel