best book from high school?

[JMWahrer]

what is the best book you had to read for high school?
here is my list:
speak
in to the wild
tears of a tiger(series)
to kill a mocking bird
My Antona
yea that from best to worst what is your list?

 

[Lord Beautiful]

The best I read was George Orwell's classic 1984, and the worst was definitely Great Expectations. I would list all the books I read for class from best to worst, but that would take just a bit too much time.

 

[NeoDeath90]

I was a big fan of The Glass Menagerie and Lord of the Flies. Both of the books seemed to have such great dialogues, and even greater one liners! And the movie adaptations of both were great too.

 

[51gunner]

I liked Animal Farm. I also flipped away from the boring-ass Robert Frost stuff we were reading in our texts, and read "The Most Dangerous Game". It wasn't part of the class per se, but it is a very good story. Instead, I got bitched out for not hearing about the road less travelled.

 

[chunkydude84]

My best would be Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I can't think of a worst at the moment. I tend to block out trauma.

 

[Neesa]

A Separate Peace. I had read it before in middle school. I still thought it was a great book to re-read an analyze. Metaphors are so much fun to pick apart as well as trying to come up with a in-depth character analysis.

Mmm. Brings back memories.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

I liked Animal Farm. I also flipped away from the boring-ass Robert Frost stuff we were reading in our texts, and read "The Most Dangerous Game". It wasn't part of the class per se, but it is a very good story. Instead, I got bitched out for not hearing about the road less travelled.

I don't understand why some work is considered to be so fantastic. I've yet to read a single Robert Frost poem I could tolerate. It's all so damn dull.

I also agree that "The Most Dangerous Game" was a very good story. The funny thing is that all through the story, I envisioned the main character as a Solid Snake-ish kind of guy.

 

[historybuff]

Best book I read was "Lord of the Flies".

 

[Nova Tendril]

I enjoyed "Lord of the Flies" but I read that in Middle school.

So I guess I would choose "Animal Farm".


Worst I read was Les Miserables (Spelling is probably wrong). Everyone in that book acts like an idiot.

 

[sheic99]

My favorite that I had to read was The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. The final project form 12 grade English allowed us to choose our book, so for that it was either The Martian Chronicles or Frankenstein.

I liked Animal Farm. I also flipped away from the boring-ass Robert Frost stuff we were reading in our texts, and read "The Most Dangerous Game". It wasn't part of the class per se, but it is a very good story. Instead, I got bitched out for not hearing about the road less travelled.

I don't understand why some work is considered to be so fantastic. I've yet to read a single Robert Frost poem I could tolerate. It's all so damn dull.

I also agree that "The Most Dangerous Game" was a very good story. The funny thing is that all through the story, I envisioned the main character as a Solid Snake-ish kind of guy.

The Gift of the Magi was one of those stories for me. I even had a College English professor say that story sucks.

 

[newguy77]

I liked Animal Farm. I also flipped away from the boring-ass Robert Frost stuff we were reading in our texts, and read "The Most Dangerous Game". It wasn't part of the class per se, but it is a very good story. Instead, I got bitched out for not hearing about the road less travelled.

I thought Animal Farm and Most Dangerous Game were great, as well. I also flip away from what we're supposed to be reading to find something I actually like, instead of all this poetry crap we're going through now.

 

[Minimike3636]

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom.

It was an optional choice for a summer reading list. I picked it. I was pleased. Least favorite = Johnny Tremain. Ugh.

 

[Iron Mal]

The best book I ever saw during the entirety of my time at Secondary school was titled 'Let's talk about Sex'.

Think about that for a moment.

We didn't even read the book but we still agreed that due to the sheer hilarity of the title.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Ender's Game, I read it before, but it's still a great book. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is definitly over-rated though.

No. Way. You got to read Ender's Game for school?! Lucky

I loved TKaM, by the way. To each his own, I guess.

A Separate Peace. I had read it before in middle school. I still thought it was a great book to re-read an analyze. Metaphors are so much fun to pick apart as well as trying to come up with a in-depth character analysis.

Mmm. Brings back memories.

Oh god, I hated A Separate Peace so much, worst book (to me) that I read in High School, the worst being The Great Gatsby. Nothing happens...

Anyway, as stated above, I loved To Kill A Mockingbird. I also liked The Old Man And The Sea and The Crucible. Also, We're only about 15 pages into Fahrenheit 451, but I like it so far.

 

[ctf1990]

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

 

[quack35]

The Last Days of Summer

Man.. such a good book.

I also enjoyed Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.

 

[ae86gamer]

The only actual book that I read in high school was Lord Of The Flies. I liked it

 

[51gunner]

Ender's Game, I read it before, but it's still a great book. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is definitly over-rated though.

You got to read Ender's Game for school? I read it in one of the choose your own book times, but it was never assigned reading. What kind of school did you go to?

Oh, and @ the people agreeing with me about Robert Frost: I think his poetry is like plain potatoes. It's not exciting, but there's nothing wrong with it. You can stomach it, but it's nobody's favorite food. Nobody objects to the sight or mention of it, but nobody's ever all "FUCK YEAH I LOVE ME SOME PLAIN POTATOES/ROBERT FROST."