10th grade English we had to read a whole bunch of David Sedaris, I still give props to my teacher for that.
Best thing you've had to read for a class?
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Richard the Third. I read it about 50 times. Great story about how this hunchback dude killed a bunch of people and stared a huge war for the lulz.
My sociology professor back in high school made me read The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl (me personally, he gave everyone in the class a different book to read, was a rather ok type) and I'm ever glad he did. Now while I was googling the book so I would find out the title in English I found out it's considered to be a classic and one of the best sci-fi novels ever written, now that's nice.
I had to play Silent Hill 2 and Left 4 Dead for a class. I had already played both of them but shan't complain.
I loved that book.Double A said:
anyway, I forget the name, but it was about a teenager in WWII who was British born, living in France, joined the resistance, had more sex then you ever will, and even kicked some Nazi ass. did I mention this was a biography?
In high school? Siddartha by Hesse, and Masque of the Red Death by Poe. Both made me read more from each author, and thus I discovered Steppenwolf and Magister Ludi.
In college? Garden of the Forking Paths by Borges. It is quite possibly the best short story ever written. Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, amusing to say the least.
Of course the assigned readings pale in comparison to my personal favourites; everybody ought to have read Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Steppenwolf, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Notes from Underground, The Plague, and Faust at some point in their life.
In college? Garden of the Forking Paths by Borges. It is quite possibly the best short story ever written. Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, amusing to say the least.
Of course the assigned readings pale in comparison to my personal favourites; everybody ought to have read Slaughterhouse Five, Cat's Cradle, Steppenwolf, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Notes from Underground, The Plague, and Faust at some point in their life.
Shakespeare was the only "forced" reading in school that I loved.
But then again, by the time I've hit high school, I've read every Shakespearean play, some in 2 languages, and I still love them...
Now the rest of required books kind of sucked. Stuff like "Of Mice and Men" wasn't too bad, although I prefer other books by the guy. I didn't personally like "Lord of Flies", while the themes weren't too bad, I didn't like the actual book too much.
Now when it came to projects for which you can actually choose books, I've picked the best things I wanted to read or have already read... and that kind of still fits the definition.
I've done Brave New World, I've done Left Hand of Darkness, I've done quite a few other old time deep sci-fi books for projects that allowed some freedom over the course of high school.
Meh.
But then again, by the time I've hit high school, I've read every Shakespearean play, some in 2 languages, and I still love them...
Now the rest of required books kind of sucked. Stuff like "Of Mice and Men" wasn't too bad, although I prefer other books by the guy. I didn't personally like "Lord of Flies", while the themes weren't too bad, I didn't like the actual book too much.
Now when it came to projects for which you can actually choose books, I've picked the best things I wanted to read or have already read... and that kind of still fits the definition.
I've done Brave New World, I've done Left Hand of Darkness, I've done quite a few other old time deep sci-fi books for projects that allowed some freedom over the course of high school.
Meh.
Got to copy the Vogon poem from Hitchhiker in mid-century gothic font...BY HAND. Words cannot describe the awesome.
Most of the books I've had to read for school have been over-acclaimed "classics", which bored me to tears. The Great Gatsby was one such piece, I couldn't stand it. So not really, although Black Like Me did provoke some nice conversation and philosophizing.