Lord of The Flies by William Golding. I really enjoyed the concept, and the book is very well written IMO. (Enjoyed it way more than "The Plague" by Albert Camus. Euhh.....)
The best book your school made you read?
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We had two separate instances where we could choose a book from a selection, and first time I chose hitchiker's guide to the galaxy. 'twas alright. Next time I checked out Catcher in the Rye (it was either that, grapes of wrath, great gatsby - which I recently read and kind of liked, the Scarlet Letter and of Mice and Men). I really liked it, actually. Holden was an interesting unreliable narrator one could relate to, at least as a wannabe-cynical teenager, and I liked that he was just...a flawed person.
I had to read a good chunk of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales when I was in high school. Because of that, I now have to wonder how much better the world would be if he hadn't died before writing maybe only 1/5th of them.
Probably An inspector calls by J.B Priestley it is actually a play, but the full length novel they made us read was Wuthering heights and it isn't a book I would choose to read in my spare time to be honest. At university my personal tutor recommended that we read Copenhagen by Michael Frayn, which explored the reason why Werner Heisenberg visited his friend and mentor Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in 1941, and Hitler's Uranium club: The secret recordings at farm hall by Jeremy Bernstein, both of which I loved. I always find time to read Hitler's Uranium club as I find the relationship between the German physicists and how they went about trying to construct an atomic bomb interesting. My professor always hammered into us the importance of Heisenberg, Pauli and Bohr and how their research has influenced our understanding of modern chemistry.
okay, maybe not MOST, but alot still ban the book for overt sexual content and anti-establishment overtonescapper42 said:
Its honestly quite stupid to go crazy over this book (or any book for that matter), but hey 'MERICA! (It also dosent help that I live in Arizona)
Germinal [http://www.amazon.com/Germinal-Oxford-Worlds-Classics-%C3%89mile/dp/0199536899], by Émile Zola, for a High School literature class, as an example of the Naturalist movement.
The book felt so human, and being so human it felt so dirty and savage. Even the simplest things like eating bread felt savage and unsetling.
I just can't express my thankfulness to the teacher who introduced us this book. I love it!
(There's also a movie with Gérard Depardieu, but it's not as awesome or compelling as the book)
The book felt so human, and being so human it felt so dirty and savage. Even the simplest things like eating bread felt savage and unsetling.
I just can't express my thankfulness to the teacher who introduced us this book. I love it!
(There's also a movie with Gérard Depardieu, but it's not as awesome or compelling as the book)
in elementary school, it was the phantom tollbooth. middle school, its a tie between Of Mice and Men (like everyone else), Dulce and Decorum Est (by wilfred owen), and The boy in the striped pyjamas (wasn't assigned reading, but we made a deal as a class to all read it and then watch the movie as a class. no one left that afternoon without a tear in their eye). and since then, its a tie between a wonderful fool by shusaku endo and travels with charley.
The interesting thing about a wonderful fool is that a surprisingly large number of people read it, so there were some genuinely interesting discussions about it.
The interesting thing about a wonderful fool is that a surprisingly large number of people read it, so there were some genuinely interesting discussions about it.
It's funny you should say that. I literally just heard about Slaughterhouse 5 for the first time a month ago from a friend who was doing a report on Kurt Vonnegut. He made it sound really good, and I plan to read it when I get the chance.AngloDoom said:
I liked Fahrenheit 451.
There also were some German titles.
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (=Mother Courage and her children) by Berthold Brecht,
Dantons Tod(=Danton's Death) by Georg Büchner and Die Physiker (=The Physicists) by Friedrich Dürenmatt
There also were some German titles.
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (=Mother Courage and her children) by Berthold Brecht,
Dantons Tod(=Danton's Death) by Georg Büchner and Die Physiker (=The Physicists) by Friedrich Dürenmatt
I rather enjoyed Frankenstein, and Don Quixote, although I never finished it, other than that the books we actually had to read were pretty damn boring.
Anyone know where I can read Don Quixote? And don't say a library, this is the 21st century people.
Anyone know where I can read Don Quixote? And don't say a library, this is the 21st century people.
I really loved Brave New World, 1984, Ant Farm, and The Book Thief (this one's middle school, but screw that!). I also started to appreciate Shakespeare more due to high school. My English teacher in freshman year was such an awesome guy.
i was forced to choose from a bunch of books in grade 10 English; Silence of the Lambs. read it, now im hooked to Thomas Harris books. Red Dragon is the best book i've ever read. awesome movie too!
Huh, I had the exact opposite thing happen with that book.... Just could not bring myself to finish it, luckily the teacher seemed to forget to make us finish reading it anyway.Marter said:
I did actually enjoy reading The Outsiders in Jr High though.... But for the most part it seemed like anytime I was ASSIGNED a book it was just something I could not get into.
I had to read Merchant of Venice in 11th grade I had seen the play 5 times and the film once, and LOVED it.... But when I had to actually read the thing, it just didn't pull me in.
Grendel, The Stranger, Cat's Craddle, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (I chose it from a list of book we were supposed to read by graduation).
The Crucible was fun because we had to read it in class in groups. My group was made up of all my friends in that class, and we decided to do voices for the characters. One of my friends, who was on the football team and is huge, played the black maid in the highest pitch voice he could do. I played one of the reverants with a very convincing pirate voice.
We got absolutely nothing done.
EDIT:
When I came into class with Fear and Loathing, my English/Journalism teacher looked at me, looked at the book, looked back at me. He opened his mouth to say something, laughed, then said "Don't get any ideas."
The Crucible was fun because we had to read it in class in groups. My group was made up of all my friends in that class, and we decided to do voices for the characters. One of my friends, who was on the football team and is huge, played the black maid in the highest pitch voice he could do. I played one of the reverants with a very convincing pirate voice.
We got absolutely nothing done.
EDIT:
When I came into class with Fear and Loathing, my English/Journalism teacher looked at me, looked at the book, looked back at me. He opened his mouth to say something, laughed, then said "Don't get any ideas."