book you had to read for school and actually enjoyed/found interesting.

[Crystal Cuckoo]

Brave New World
A Clockwork Orange
1984
I found it funny that all of these books came from the same topic...

I also liked:
Heart of Darkness
The Catcher in the Rye
King Lear

I want to read Lord of the Flies, btu I haven't gotten around to it yet...

 

[Nostalgia]

Catcher in the Rye.
For the most part, I disliked the books choices. It was extremely hard to get myself to read them.

Lord of the Flies was alright too.

 

[SquirrelPants]

1984 because I really like how George thought the world would be if communism spread through the world.

...
What?
...
Seriously, WHAT?
That book was NOT about Communism. -.- It was about Totalitarianism. Getcho words right! =P

The Giver was rather interesting...

Also, on the same subject: To Kill a Mockingbird made me want to puke. Why did that book ever win anything EVER?

 

[EgoDeusEst]

The first two parts of Dante's Devine Comedy were quite amusing and interesting. Hell and Purgatory both posed some interesting temporary characters to illustrate the different sins and lots of good imagery to go with that. Paradise on the other hand, was just a collection of goody two-shoes characters, who all sucked up to God to get into heaven, and a crapload of outdated physics that makes your head hurt.

Also, some book I don't remember the name of, about a guy meeting a girl who turns out to have cancer.

 

[Mollecht]

I admit to liking Dead Poet Society, Animal Farm and - strangely enough - Utopia (by Thomas More).

I also read this book by a danish philosopher/psychologist (the details are hazy) called "Se dagens lys" (="See the light of the day"). Analyzing it afterwards nearly killed me -- the philosophical points are rather spelled out -- but it has interesting points nonetheless.
For all you who do not know it: it's a book from the 70s about how the society *may* evolve -- after a 'suicide epidemic', caused by everyone regretting their choices and wishing to be something else (lawyer wants to be a doctor etc.) all control of the country goes to a centralized computer, which then assigns people new lives every day: new wife, new job, new kids. The protaganist one day falls in love with an assigned wife, and spends the rest of the book attempting to find her again, and the two try to break free of the assigned life with various philosophical reflections.

Possibly sounds like shitty scifi, but i recall it as being pretty rad.

 

[Yokomitsu]

I dont think anyone likes reading books for school, they are always boring they are never enjoyable , i had to read a book about peoplr pretty much just killing themselves and doing nothing more nothing less

 

[Beefcakes]

I dont think anyone likes reading books for school

Isn't that what this whole thread is about?
Just a heads up

 

[DalekJaas]

To Kill A Mockingbird was great.

 

[Christemo]

none. ever. in my 7 years of school (still on 7th grade) i have enjoyed a book FROM school i had to read. for the school is entirely different. i had some great fun in some of my own books i reviewed.

these are my owns i´ve read for school.
The Demons curse. a tale of Malus Darkblade (reviewed)
Bloodstorm. a tale of Malus darkblade (reviewed)
Reaper of Souls. a tale of Malus Darkblade (not reviewed yet)
Warpsword. A tale of Malus Darkblade (not reviewed yet)
Lord of Ruin. A tale of Malus Darkblade (not reviewed yet).

could write a poem of others, but ill stop here.

 

[Galletea]

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Wait, you got to read Persepolis for school? That's awesome! You might want to check out Embroideries and Chicken With Plums too, though the latter isn't so cheerful. Oh and the film, which has both parts of the book in it and is very well done.

I like a lot of classical literature so there aren't many books I had to read for my classes which I really dislike, except the Mayor of Casterbridge, that was dire. Great Expectations, 1984 and the Handmaid's Tale were all pretty good.

 

[Flishiz]

Hamlet, Great Gatsby, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Beowulf.

That's the most of them...

 

[darktheif28]

1984 because I really like how George thought the world would be if communism spread through the world.

...
What?
...
Seriously, WHAT?
That book was NOT about Communism. -.- It was about Totalitarianism. Getcho words right! =P

The Giver was rather interesting...

Also, on the same subject: To Kill a Mockingbird made me want to puke. Why did that book ever win anything EVER?

well then im sorry

 

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (now my favourite book)

Spies by Michael Frayn

 

[hotacidbath]

NOT The Scarlet Letter, Jesus Christ that book was uneventful.

This man speaks the truth!

In high school I read Ender's Game, Brave New World, and Player Piano all of which I enjoyed thoroughly.

 

[thatstheguy]

Spirit Bear.

 

[PersianLlama]

I've enjoyed most books that I've read for school.

This isn't the entire list, but most of them:
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
Hamlet by Shakespeare
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Faust by Von Goethe
Memoirs From the House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Antigone by Sophocles
The few Edgar Allen Poe short stories we've read. I loved them so much I have a giant book of all of his poems/stories.

I did read, however, Animal Farm, 1984, Brave New World, Slaughterhouse Five, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, and Candide by the recommendation of various teachers.

 

[Naeo]

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
Anthem by Ayn Rand.
The Odyssey (can't recall the exact translation).
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

Farenheit 451. We actually never read 1984, so 451 was the only future dystopian society kind of book we read. And it was awesome.
Also Lord of the Flies.

 

[matsugawa]

The Chrysalids and The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
The Merchant of Venice; The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Hamlet (all by old Bill Waggledagger)
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

I was lucky, I had a lot of interesting books assigned for my English classes. Only please, kill me before I have to read another bloody word written by Jane Austen.

Day of the Triffids is awesome. I didn't have to read it for school, but I discovered it a few years ago and it's by and large one of my all-time favorite books.