dystopiaINC said:
1. Twilight.
2. The Invisible man
3. the Great Gatsby
4. Lord of the Rings.
5. I can't remember the name it was so bad. same young black girl marries a much older rich black man because her grand mother arranged it or some such then he dies and she marries some slightly older, charismatic dude who starts an all black town then he either dies or she leaves him for some other dude who's a free spirit and then they run away or something and they get stuck in a hurricane and he gets rabbies from a raccoon and goes crazy and tries to kill her so she shoots him. yeah WTF.
The last one is "Their Eyes Were Watching God", not a great book but not horrible either imo.
Ironically, this whole thread is just making me want to read more
The first time I read Catch-22 was in 5th or 6th grade, simply because it was the biggest book we had on the shelf. I didn't understand it at
all. When I read it again for class in 9th grade, it made pretty good sense.
There's exactly two things you have to remember/know:
1. The chapters aren't in chronological order/it's not linear. The easiest way to sort out where the story is is the current number of missions needed to leave the island and who is dead, both of which are referred to on a fairly regular basis. You almost have to read it like a time travel story, paying close attention to small details to sort out the "time travel" the narrator has taken between chapters.
2. The whole idea of the book is that war is nonsensical/absurd, and so many of the situations and characters are similarly warped. Milo Milobender is probably the best example, but just about everyone is pressured or forced into making insane decisions. It's supposed to be satire, it's not totally realistic.