| It's pretty obvious that in school, many of the books that we are made to read are not really ones we care about that much or like. But sometimes, there are ones that you will enjoy. Personally, I loved To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451 and Genesis (by Bernard Beckett). What novels or stories did you end up liking? |
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| Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies. But I especially loved "When the Elephants Dance" which happens to be my aunt's book, and happens to have my name in the acknowledgements c: |
| I read "The Outsiders" in middle school and I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. |
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| you had to read books in school? wtf. and you actually did it? i didnt even read most of my textbooks.. |
| M.P.D.S./F.O.A.D. |
| Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It's still one of my favourite books. |
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| The answer for this would always be Kite Runner for me. Went to become one of my all-time favorite reads in fact. |
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| encyclopedia when i was kid, I am interested with monster, dinosaurus, and animal picture in there. lol |
| Hmm, only counting required reading? Stretching the meaning of "book" a bit, Persepolis and Maus Actual books in middle/high school: Night, A Tale of Two Cities, The Metamorphosis (Sorta counts?). Elementary school: The Phantom Toolbooth, Where the Red Fern Grows |
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| I like Kafka. Not necessarily Metamorphosis, which we read in school (an excerpt atleast), but The Castle and The Trial are both great, but neither of them was required back in the day. |
| Hmm, there are four books we are obliged to read in span of four years (one book per year) and I enjoyed them all. They reflect the culture of our history in different scopes. Jose Rizal's Noli me Tangere is my favorite novel among his two novels, both of them are obliged to be read. It's so good because it is a societal novel, which I terribly adore. |
| I enjoyed Animal Farm and Romeo and Juliet. I think I would like Lord of the Flies and Anthem but I Sparknotes'd them in favor of anime because I am a terrible excuse for a human being. We're about to start reading Julius Caesar (sophomore honors English) and I think we also read Fahrenheit 451 this year. |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
| Beowulf was really fun to read Recent books I read have been pretty meh |
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| Man Child In The Promise Land was certainly a book I'll remember Hamlet was a good play |
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| The Book Thief and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Both brought tears to my eyes. |
| Though I loved reading, I hated almost everything I was forced to read for school. The only things I came close to enjoying were The Great Gatsby and Farenheit 451. I read The Hobbit once when we were allowed to choose something to read for some report or paper, and I did enjoy that. |
| The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. The antagonist was amazing <3 We were also forced to read Out of the Dust and it was boring as crap, wouldn't recommend. We read a lot of Edgar Allan Poe and I ended up liking him. |
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| 1984, A Tale of Two Cities, The Importance of Being Ernest, Fahrenheit 451, and The Veldt (though this was a short story) were my 5 favorite required reading books from school. I've read all of them a few times. Out of those 5 though The Veldt is probably my favorite as it really applies more and more to modern life. Definitely recommend it. Plus its just a short story so its not very long. |
| The first which come to my mind are Zeno's Conscience and I promessi sposi (aka The Betrothed) |
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| I read Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus during my first year of high school for required outside reading and it remains one of my favourite books. The first book I had to read in school that I didn't completely loath was Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. As for books that I had to read in school that I thoroughly enjoyed... There is Red Sky at Morning by Richard Bradford, and a number of short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald-- I didn't care much for The Great Gatsby however. |
zetaAenimus said: Though I loved reading, I hated almost everything I was forced to read for school. The only things I came close to enjoying were The Great Gatsby and Farenheit 451. Indeed. These two, plus Huck Finn I enjoyed. The rest were an absolute bore.. The Old Man and the Sea, especially (couldn't finish despite its length). I would read other books instead, which contributed to some poor grades, heh. |
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| Under the Hawthorn tree trilogy. I really enjoyed that. And I'm reading The Outsiders now and I'm really liking it. |
Rainbow is amazing for the sole fact that all the chapters are in alphabetical order. |
| There was the Tale of Two Cities I really liked, and David Copperfield I got this year and I already finished it before the semester barely started. I also liked Romeo and Juliet. I also got Great Expectations that I didn't like very much, and I loathe The Merchant of Venice for some reason. |
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| Diary of a wimpy kid Goosebumps |
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| Oliver twist by Charles Dickens |
| Beowulf, Animal Farm, and Macbeth |
| 1984 was the only book I enjoyed that I was forced to read, but that was because it was my favourite novel before I even started my English Literature A-level, so I didn't mind being forced to read it. We forced to read some right shit though. The Great Gatsby is tediously boring. The Kite Runner is absolutely dreadful. The Bloody Chamber was nothing but feminist prose, which gets a little boring towards the end. The Color Purple was just terribly boring. And of course we had to do Shakespeare's Macbeth, but I absolutely despise Shakespeare's works tbf. |
| "Hey, would you say... I became a hero?" ~ Zack Fair Not smart enough to have a clever signature and too lazy to make a decent image. |
| Well, I'm currently reading Never Let Me Go for school, which I'm really liking so far. Haven't gotten all the way through it yet though. We also did Slaughterhouse 5, which I also ended up liking even though I didn't think I would when I started it. Even ended up reading more of Vonnegut's work. |
| I liked Tom Sawyer. |
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| Basically anything written by Voltaire. |
| The Giver by Lois Lowry The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold |
| The animal farm by George Orwell The pearl by John Steinbeck Dr jekyll and Mr hyde by robert stevenson |
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| A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, a novella about life in a Soviet gulag. Colors of the Mountain, about growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. |
| The football field isn't the only place where you could use a good line. |
| I'm in the US so my required reading may differ even from someone in another state in the US. For example the Shakespeare work I listed here is only one I was required to read while most other places read at least Macbeth as well. The Giver by Lois Lowry Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee I find it odd so many listed Lord of thee Flies. I hated it. The whole time I'm just like "stupid cunt kids. I was never that dumb". I think I forgot most of the other books I hated. Of Mice and Men I had mixed feelings on. Everything else listened by others so far I didnt read or forgot reading. |
| I live in a european country where unfortunately we were mostly required to read books in the same original language so we didn't have to read very popular and important books worldwide. But from the few ones we did read, I remember I enjoyed To Kill a Mockingbird, even though the beginning was a bit slow, and Orwell's 1984. Like it's been said above, I utterly disliked Lord of the Flies. And if I remember correctly, I also disliked Hermann Hesse's Demian. |
| to kill a mockingbird |
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| I've enjoyed this book the most, |
| Hashbrown no signature. |
| I personally loved reading The Great Gatsby in 8th grade, and I would've liked I Am Malala in 9th grade, but I sparknoted the whole book... |
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| Really cliche, but The Catcher In The Rye. Saw alot of parallels at the time. That book spoke to me, my classmates just thought the whole book was stupid. They may be right. |
| Talk shit to me and so help me fucking god, I'll come over there and do absolutely nothing. |
| I enjoyed "A Night to Remember" by Walter Lord, and "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. I can't remember all the novel studies we read in school, because it's just too long ago since I graduated for me to remember them all. I see some people in this thread mentioning "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Catcher in the Rye." I remember seeing other students back in high school carrying those books around, but I never got the chance to read them, because only "Academic Students" got those books as novel studies. |
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| 1984 by George Orwell and Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, definitely. It wasn't a required read, but I did do a report on Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles for club in high school and it's been my favorite ever since. |
You are afraid to die, and you're afraid to live. What a way to exist. Neale Donald Walsch |
| Here are the ones I actually enjoyed. The Giver, Beowulf, Frankenstein, Fahrenheit 451 and Animal Farm. |
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| Lord of Flies, The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men, Les Misérables |
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| Definantly Fahrenheit 451 |
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| Hey, a lot of Animal Farm in this thread. Nice... Some of you saw and enjoyed Kill la Kill already, I'd suggest watching it to the others. :3 Animal Farm, Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, La promesse de l'Aube and Jacques le Fataliste. |
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| If you're talking about setwork I really enjoyed Spud (one of my fav coming of age stories), The Great Gatsby, Macbeth and The Island of the Blue Dolphins. |
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