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I read the merchant of Venice.
Got an A and hated the book, but I understood it which is why you have to read through those books. They give you something that'seasy to mark...I mean...Fucking easy to mark, they don't want to have to read through all the books submitted so go through the same few again and again which they either already know, can read a textbook on or show off as much of the course material as possible.
Don't worry about it, school is there to be enjoyed by the people who are either already rich or plan on being janitors, keep working and you can spend the rest of your life reading what you want while you pretend to work.
Got an A and hated the book, but I understood it which is why you have to read through those books. They give you something that's
Don't worry about it, school is there to be enjoyed by the people who are either already rich or plan on being janitors, keep working and you can spend the rest of your life reading what you want while you pretend to work.
[small]...I liked them...[/small] but then again I read what I have read of his work while in hospital. Reading anything in hospital is preferable to just sitting there doing nothing (I got through so many books the staff in the hospital thought I was an English major...).galletea said:
Ok, prove me wrong why don't you...Lukeje said:
But honestly, while I can appreciate the writing and the characters, the plot is always so very bleak. I think I'll stick with Dickens, at least something good will happen to someone in those books.
There are plenty, though not so much the English ones. I'm enjoying Arthur Conan Doyle's stories at the moment. Sherlock Holmes is awesome.Lukeje said:
Classic literature does cover pretty much everything that's in the public domain though,so Shakespeare comes into it, and he wrote a few cheerful plays.
Don't. It's so much simpler to use SparkNotes.hxcfreak said:
I did that for most of the books that I honestly couldn't get into, and still got an A+.
Seconded.Captain_Maku said:
I fucking loved that book, I even cried at the end.
Wasn't really a fan of Steinbeck's writing style though...
I guess I could relate to the characters because I had a friend who had Asperger's, and didn't understand social etiquette and how certain types of body language could mean different things.
I'll put my neck on the line here and say that I read Lord of the Flies in English and thought it was awesome. In fact I've read it since then.Gormourn said:
I had to read Catcher in the Rye last year and it was great, in a morbid sick way. Also I had to read Winesburg Ohio. That was one of the best books I had ever read. So my history with books in High school is pretty good, but I also had a kick ass English teacher! I hated the great Gatsby with a passion and I read it on my own time. Mice and men I have only seen the play and I hated that too. So its hit and miss.
I had to read "A Gathering Of Old Men" if you have never read it then you may not get what I am talking about. It is written in older black language. It was hard to understand and I couldent get into it. I read it and I wanted to shoot myself the whole time. But when we took the test I got 103% (EXTRA CREDIT!!!!). I was the only one that passed the test and I am now going to honors English.
Just read it. Or look it up on sparknotes.com
Just read it. Or look it up on sparknotes.com
I love the Great Gatsby. It's one of the only books I actually read in high school. Why do you have to read it? Because it's a classic piece of literature and you have to read SOMEthing.
Just remember, the green light across the bay symbolizes envy, or at least that's how I took it.
Just remember, the green light across the bay symbolizes envy, or at least that's how I took it.
Come on now! High school reading isn't that bad. I thought I was going to hate every page of Jane Eyre, but it ended up being one of my favorite books I read that year.
On a different note, if any of your teachers even mentions The Awakening, be prepared. It's a short, unassuming book on the outside, but it's probably one of the most irritating books I've ever read.
On a different note, if any of your teachers even mentions The Awakening, be prepared. It's a short, unassuming book on the outside, but it's probably one of the most irritating books I've ever read.
I got Lord of the Flies, just finished it and now we have to write a million billion essays on it.
