Best book you read in school

[ProfessorLayton]

I quite liked "To Kill a Mockingbird".

I thought The Odyssey was pretty good.

Romeo and Juliet i liked

However i loved "Romeo + Juliet" that we had to watch and "Run Lola Run"

I absolutely despised all of those, and Romeo + Juliet was probably the worst movie I've ever seen, even the worst of the plague that I call "90's movies." Apologies, but all of those were absolute trash and I hated every minute of reading those...

The best book I read in school was Youth in Revolt, the better part was writing a book review and trying to dance around the fact that the entire book was filled with sex. The best book I was specifically designated to read for school was... I can't really think of any. I hated all the books I mentioned above, I hated Lord of the Flies, I hated So B. It, I hated Ransom, I hated the Contender... I hated all of it. The only two books I didn't hate from beginning to end were the Outsiders and the Giver, and even the Outsiders got really boring and the only real reason I liked the Giver was because of the concept and they even ruined that and gave it a terrible ending... Oh wait, the best book I've read for school that I didn't choose myself was "... And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie. I liked the play Mousetrap as well, so maybe I just like her work, but ... And Then There Were None was excellent as both a mystery story and a thriller and it had me completely sucked in.

I enjoy reading, I really do, it's just that I have very high standards... and I like nonfiction and comic books and we never get to read those for school even though the Walking Dead alone is better than any book I've had to read for school.

 

[Dyme]

I really liked Romeo and Juliet.
I am German, therefore Shakespeare was just so much easier to understand and read than German literature. Shakespeare's "older" English often has German sentence structure and many words sound and look more like German (hast du/hast thou/have you).

Seriously, here is the first sentence from the classic German "I-describe-the-Prussian-society-in-the-19th-century-novel" called "Effi Briest" by Theodor Fontane:

"In Front des schon seit Kurfürst Georg Wilhelm von der Familie
von Briest bewohnten Herrenhauses zu Hohen-Cremmen fiel heller
Sonnenschein auf die mittagsstille Dorfstraße, während nach der
Park- und Gartenseite hin ein rechtwinklig angebauter Seitenflügel
einen breiten Schatten erst auf einen weiß und grün quadrierten
Fliesengang und dann über diesen hinaus auf ein großes, in seiner
Mitte mit einer Sonnenuhr und an seinem Rande mit Canna indica
und Rhabarberstauden besetzten Rondell warf."

Yea. That's one sentence. No fun reading the whole damn book.

 

[Gamegirl22]

I enjoyed Animal Farm and Pride and Prejudice a lot.

Have you read "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"?

Yep, but I've read the original first and still like it even without the zombies... but don't get me wrong. Zombies are awesome.

 

[voetballeeuw]

I'm gonna go with of Mice and Men. Short sweet and to the point.

 

[Dags90]

Peyton Place. It's pretty much a 90's TV drama in book form with less sexy doctors.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

wait do you mean the best book you had to read for school or the best you decided to read while you were still in school?...i'm gonna assume you meant the first one in which case it would likely be watchmen...Yes the comic. I went to an art school and so they best way to learn how to draw comics is to read one of the best out there.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

"The Giver" is a true classic. Though I think my favourite is "We" by Yevgeni Zamyatin.

Of Mice and Men and Fahrenheit 451 were both okay.

I also enjoyed The Giver when it was read to us in elementary school, but for whatever reason the teacher stopped reading it about halfway through so I never got to find out how it ended.

You guys liked The Giver? Whatever floats your boat I guess. I'd never been given any good books to read back at school. All books that I've enjoyed have most definitely NOT come from school. I think that's why most kids don't like reading.

 

[unoleian]

Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes.

Well, college is still school, right? I haven't had as much reading and critically analyzing a book quite like I did this one. That, or Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal (a little short for most definitions of "book," I suppose), for the same reasons. Seriously, critical discussion ensued. Also, the text is hilarious!

But, if you want to talk back in the day, I suppose Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Seriously, the discussions this book engaged in class were rather in-depth and intense, even for a high-school literature curriculum. Not to mention, it's simply a very good read.

 

[CobraX]

My Social Studies/History text book. I like history and Warfare. It's all very intersting. That text book had History and Warfare in it, so I was cool with reading it. As for novels "Animal Farm" was alright, Everything else was just boring.

 

[FundamentalistNail]

I have two that stick out in my mind:
In year 9 we studied the Hobbit.
And in year 12 we studied Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, an absolutely fantastic Australian novel which was essentially a chronicle of post WW2 Australia - wonderful stuff!

 

[steve-iii]

"Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress"

 

[Miumaru]

Well, that I was made to read by the school, hands down Cats Cradle. Then I voluntarily read a bunch of other books by Kurt Vonnegut who is now my favorite author. Shame I did not learn of him sooner. He lived a short drive away from me (not that I would have visited him though probably)

 

[Rakun Man]

Romeo and Juliet was good... until Mercutio died, then it sucked.
Animal Farm and 1984 were great.
But, (drumroll) A Tale of Two Cities was the best.

 

[Chamale]

Macbeth, To Kill a Mockingbird, and 1984 were great.

But then, I'm a guy that read Beowulf and Candide without being required by school, so I'm hardly a typical sample.

 

[fluffybunny937]

Of Mice and Men was good.