What's the best school related book you have read

[Dags90]

That's read at school?! Either I'm getting old or fantasy's suddenly permitted for high school English all of a sudden... '

Why wouldn't it be? It's also too young for high school, we read it in fifth grade. It also routinely makes the list of most opposed schoolbooks, so I imagine it's pretty popular. We also had the first Harry Potter read to us in the fourth grade as it was just gaining ground in the U.S. I think we also read The Hobbit at one point, but I forget what grade that was.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Had to translate some of Herodotus's Histories for my final year Ancient Greek. Was very fun to do and a good read. Taught me a lot about the Persian Wars.

 

[MortisLegio]

V for Vendetta. Sophomore year was awesome.

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

The Magic Key!

Biff, Chip and Floppy were what defined reading in schools! They were the first books you read, they were the books that taught you to read and they were awesome.

You started on green, then went to yellow, red, blue... I think haha. It has been a long time.

They got more difficult with each colour.

 

[Ashhearth]

Um... my entire senior year reading list was ballin' in my book. Shakespeare all over the place plus Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Invisible Man. My junior year also had 3 books that really stuck with me those being All the Kings Men, Huckleberry Finn and Puddin'head Wilson.

Yeah I'm one of those people

Captcha: high five: Yeah! Captcha knows where its at!

 

[Greg Waller]

The Chrysalids.

 

[iseko]

I would have to say: perfume.
It's about this guy who has no body scent. Because of that he has an extremely developed sense of smell. If that make sense at all but whatever. Also he brings good luck to people at first but afterwards brings them misfortune. Some vague reference to the devil or something. Anyways.... He learns to make perfumes. After a while he notices that beautiful vrigin girls have a great scent which makes people like them. So naturally he starts killing these girls in order to make a perfume based on them. It ends up being a tad to powerful, even for him. If you havn't read it then i storngly advise you to.
Also a good book is the count of monte cristo. Movie scked tho.

Ps: srr about typos. Still getting used to the new phone.

 

[Proverbial Jon]

I would say Of Mice & Men but I studded it for so long that I cant bare the sight of it. I can acknowledge its brilliance while still hating it right?

This. I have a love hate relationship with John Steinbeck because of this book. Read it so many times... analysed that shit to death.

The Magic Key!

Biff, Chip and Floppy were what defined reading in schools! They were the first books you read, they were the books that taught you to read and they were awesome.

You started on green, then went to yellow, red, blue... I think haha. It has been a long time.

They got more difficult with each colour.

Holy shit! My entire childhood just flashed before my eyes. Also, could you get a more politically correct group of people than that? They've even got the gingers covered!

 

[BreakfastMan]

I am not entirely sure. I read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and thought that was pretty good, but I also quite liked The Medium Is the Massage. I think I am going to go with the later, because I liked it a little bit more.

EDIT: Waitaminute, screw those books, Persepolis was where it was at. That book kicked ass!

 

[Hawk of Battle]

None of them. All the books we had to read were terrible. I could maybe kind of get behind Othello, but only because of that magnificent backstabbing bastard Iago, I do love a magnificent backstabbing villain in my stories.

 

[Shdwrnr]

I enjoyed reading The Giver when I was in school. Like, baby's first dystopia or something.

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

Holy shit! My entire childhood just flashed before my eyes. Also, could you get a more politically correct group of people than that? They've even got the gingers covered!

I remember Mrs. Fritch (WITCH) marked me down because I could not pronounce one of the character's names. I was only 7 Mrs. Fritch!

I'll always remember the book where they went through the little doll house and they got captured by the Sheriff of Nottingham. I think Kipper saved the day.

 

[Vykrel]

i actually havent had to read all that many books throughout school. there were, of course, the ones teachers asked us to pick out ourselves and read in our free time that most of us didnt bother with, but ive probably only had to read like 10 or so books in class.

probably the only school-related book ive been forced to read that i actually enjoyed was Bud, Not Buddy.

 

[Evil Smurf]

There were only three books in school that I had to read that I thought were just awesome.

1984

Macbeth

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The other books I had to read were either not that great or interesting enough for me to read and not want to kill myself.

A brave new world would have been nice to read, it is so depressing!

 

[Bazaalmon]

The Hobbit. It's the only book that has ever been assigned in class that I cared to re-read outside of class.

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

The Magic Key!

Biff, Chip and Floppy were what defined reading in schools! They were the first books you read, they were the books that taught you to read and they were awesome.

You started on green, then went to yellow, red, blue... I think haha. It has been a long time.

They got more difficult with each colour.

:O

NOSTALGIA OVERLOAD. I was going to be all cliché and say 1984, but this. Frakking THIS.

I have to ask... do you remember this?


The video does not seem to be working so... : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-Gq17O-HRc

 

[Username Redacted]

Wow, outside of the Shakespeare of which I have also read most of what was mentioned I'm very jealous of whatever school systems those posting in this thread attended. I think the best book I was required to read in school (this goes through college by the way) was Ender's Game. Not that it's a bad book but rather because the distance between it and the next best book is as wide as the Grand Canyon.

Slightly (though hopefully not very) controversial thought but how much sense do you guys think it makes to have a high school English curriculum that is almost entirely centered around 20th century black literature in a school of ~1800 hundred students, fewer than 50 of which are black and among those black students there are most African immigrants than African Americans? I ask because that was my high school experience and in case you can't guess I am not black.

 

[mayney93]

think i had to read the silver sword for a book report or something, best kids book ever, only just got into reading again lately, didn't bother with any btween the ages of 12 to 16 maybe, i missed out on so much, i like films and games, but damm a good book is a better story than a good film or a good game.

Spoiler

The Game

 

[Lord Garnaat]

To Kill a Mockingbird. Easily the best book I've ever read, and the reason I'm studying to be a lawyer (thanks Atticus!).

 

[Karfroogle]

I really enjoyed The Divine Comedy and The Giver.

Actually, being an avid reader, I enjoyed a lot of them.