book you had to read for school and actually enjoyed/found interesting.
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Lord of the Flies. I didn't expect to like it but it was a lot better than anything else we had to read.
Pretty much everything I've had to read for school (with one or two notable exceptions *cough*houseonmangostreet*cough*) has been decent or enjoyable, so I guess I'm lucky in that respect, but they always have to kill the fun with analysis.
Brave New World
1984
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth
All in that order. Great stories, all of them. I probably would have like Julius Ceasar as well if my 10th grade teacher hadn't been an insufferable bubble-headed nitwit and had us jumping around from story to story and doing rhetorical analysis of all of the stories at the same time. I hated 10th grade English.
1984
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth
All in that order. Great stories, all of them. I probably would have like Julius Ceasar as well if my 10th grade teacher hadn't been an insufferable bubble-headed nitwit and had us jumping around from story to story and doing rhetorical analysis of all of the stories at the same time. I hated 10th grade English.
I got to read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest for class. It's probably one of my favorite books. When I was younger I had a lot of fun screwing with the teachers and doing a book report on a Discworld when I was young. Discworld books often have ensemble casts and lots of subplots so describing it was hard. I also used a Douglas Adams book as a example of a Hero's Journey. When the protagonist traveled into an alternate dimension I had that part literally move out three-dimensionally towards the audience.
I read The Outsiders for school, one of my personal favorites, i would've loved it a hell of a lot more if they hadn't made me analyze it so much.
and...this is pretty badass. My current L.A. teacher (who looks alot like Solid Snake before Snake got all old) Let me read FIGHT CLUB for school. Yeah.
and...this is pretty badass. My current L.A. teacher (who looks alot like Solid Snake before Snake got all old) Let me read FIGHT CLUB for school. Yeah.
House of the Spirits and 100 Years of Solitude got me interested in magical realism.
Blood Meridian did the same for Cormac McCarthy, though I didn't like All the Pretty Horses, another requirement.
I generally disliked required reading simply because of the fact that it was required. A lot of the books I had already read and enjoyed, or liked right up until the point that we talked about them in class. Fortunately, I haven't had to read a novel for a class in years.
Blood Meridian did the same for Cormac McCarthy, though I didn't like All the Pretty Horses, another requirement.
I generally disliked required reading simply because of the fact that it was required. A lot of the books I had already read and enjoyed, or liked right up until the point that we talked about them in class. Fortunately, I haven't had to read a novel for a class in years.
my litiature class generally stinks... but she has agreed to do some sherlock holmes (yay!) in the near future...
oh yeah, we had choose your own book in a book group thing once, and my group got World War Z !!!!!
oh yeah, we had choose your own book in a book group thing once, and my group got World War Z !!!!!
Brave New World and Catch-22 were both wonderful books I had to read for school, but I had already read them years before. I think the only one I didn't read til I had to in class was Ender's Game, which was pretty good, but not nearly as good as the Ender's Shadow trilogy.
I enjoy just about all the books I am forced to read. Some recent ones are:
The Red Badge of Courage
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Hobbit
The Red Badge of Courage
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Hobbit
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.
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.
Not sure if by this statement, you mean you don't read on your free time, which as that you are missing out. But, I will name the only ones I 'didn't' like because reading old books is sometimes better.
The Scarlet Letter - Despite it being so overly fucking explained to the fucking t if the t were a man it would name every bone, tissue, organ and fucking cell before it advanced the plot at all. But in the end all the over exaggeration and description did leave you drained but almost enlightened at the same time, you learned a fuck load new words and can now say I read the scarlet fucking letter leave me alone.
Simons Saga - Now remember, these are ones I hated, the rest I generally liked. Simons' saga if any of u are unfortunate enough to have read it, is trying to bring SAT words to a wider audience. They take a cool kid (He's a fucking star quarterback in college) with a friend who's practically stephen hawkings. Now what they try to do is they try to make his vocabulary teeming with SAT prep in every syllable and utterance from his stupid fucking maw. Here's an example, of which he is saying to a girl he's trying to date : "You tickle my aesthetic sensibility." That's right, from that moment on, and I do not lie to you, I put the book down and said "Teacher, I'm not going to read this." and thusly ranted about how the book is so fucking poorly written and throws SAT words around like they're the cure for all STD's in a brothel. It's fucking retarded.
The Scarlet Letter - Despite it being so overly fucking explained to the fucking t if the t were a man it would name every bone, tissue, organ and fucking cell before it advanced the plot at all. But in the end all the over exaggeration and description did leave you drained but almost enlightened at the same time, you learned a fuck load new words and can now say I read the scarlet fucking letter leave me alone.
Simons Saga - Now remember, these are ones I hated, the rest I generally liked. Simons' saga if any of u are unfortunate enough to have read it, is trying to bring SAT words to a wider audience. They take a cool kid (He's a fucking star quarterback in college) with a friend who's practically stephen hawkings. Now what they try to do is they try to make his vocabulary teeming with SAT prep in every syllable and utterance from his stupid fucking maw. Here's an example, of which he is saying to a girl he's trying to date : "You tickle my aesthetic sensibility." That's right, from that moment on, and I do not lie to you, I put the book down and said "Teacher, I'm not going to read this." and thusly ranted about how the book is so fucking poorly written and throws SAT words around like they're the cure for all STD's in a brothel. It's fucking retarded.
I read Macbeth, To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies at school and found them all very good reads... But I didn't like the To Kill a Mockingbird ending.
Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm of the top of my head (though I didn't have to read Animal Farm I just chose to for summer reading).
