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

[Noamuth]

Animal Farm was a great read. I'm surprised I can still enjoy reading it after analyzing it to death, but it's just that interesting.

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime was very intriguing. A completely different style to what I'm used to reading, but it was both simplistic and very moving.
It is written through the eyes of a young boy with a condition on the Autism Spectrum (the author didn't specify, though it is described as close to Aspergers Syndrome or High Functioning Autism) who witnesses a murder.
Just the way he describes how the boy processes everything and how he feels is really compelling and nothing like what I've read before. I highly recommend it.

I'm Not Scared is, again, written through the eyes of a child. It is set in the outskirts of a drought-ridden Italy and is about young teenagers exploration, understanding the adult world around them and trying to unravel what could have caused their families to partake in hideous crimes, including torture and murder.

.. I am terrible at describing books. But Curious Incident and I'm Not Scared are the sort of books I wish I could had read when I was younger. They're a great twist on stories written through young people's eyes.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

1984, short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Macbeth (I know it's a play), but most of the time they tend to put me off...

 

[jboking]

The Crucible, The Alchemist, A Brave New World, Dante's Inferno, Things Fall Apart, 1984, and American Psycho

Three of those were books the school let me choose. Ten respect points to you if you can figure out which ones they are.

 

[Dirty Apple]

The Odyssey
I just read All Quiet on the Western Front... I hated it.

While I didn't read "All Quiet on the Western Front" in high school, I found it quite compelling. In college, I read Stephen Jay Gould's "Wonderful Life." While I have since been told that there are some inaccuracies, it was mind expanding.

 

[pha kin su pah]

How to Kill a Mocking Bird, everything else i read was because i had to, or i just wiki'd it all up, i couldn't stand English class, always depressing.

 

[lacktheknack]

Perseopolis was awesome!

But as for me, I found "Life of Pi" to be a refreshing, bloody change.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

How to Kill a Mocking Bird, everything else i read was because i had to, or i just wiki'd it all up, i couldn't stand English class, always depressing.

It is "To Kill a Mockingbird"

XD

 

[MooseRyder]

The Outsiders, October Sky, Endurance.
Everyone we read I enjoy.

 

[frank220]

I'm reading "The Wave" and I like it so far

 

[Noamuth]

Damnit, this thread is reminding me of all these novels I have to buy. >.< To Kill A Mockingbird, Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, The Crucible.. BLoody hell, I need money.

 

[Dread_Reaper]

Homer's "Illiad", Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game", Emile Zola's "Germinal".

-Dread_Reaper

 

[ellimist337]

I enjoyed Alas Babylon; an interesting look at post-nuclear war America. More recently, I was introduced to the Project Censored books, about the top 25 biggest news stories that weren't reported from the previous year.

 

[TUNNEL_SNAKES_RULE]

Well,I guess that would have to be...the dictionary.Mississippi has almost NO good books for my grade to read...

 

[puppydogvaan]

I read Animal Farm and To Kill a Mockingbird years before the school required me to...so I guess all the Shakespeare.

And, of course, A Seperate Piece. Very romantic, in a never actually stated in the text kind of way.

 

[snake_charm]

The Giver. Lois Lowry's book Gathering Blue was really good, too.
I kind of liked The Crucible and Animal Farm, eh

I read Animal Farm and To Kill a Mockingbird years before the school required me to...so I guess all the Shakespeare.

And, of course, A Seperate Piece. Very romantic, in a never actually stated in the text kind of way.

Oh yes, A Separate Peace was pretty good. I just got aggravated at the somewhat slowness of the beginning.

 

[LilGherkin]

We had to read a biography on any person that was an American. So I was watching Jimmy Kimmel and they had this sketch called the Colonel with Mel Gibson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPYChyfxWNs

So I picked Colonel Harland Sanders. He was actually a very hilarious person. I liked him better than I thought I would.

 

[Samoftherocks]

Lord of the flies.

Greatest book I ever read for school.

I second that.

Also, "Inherit the Wind" was very good. WOuld you believe "Dune" and "The Hobbit" were a part of my curriculum?

 

[Sh0tgUntHen00b]

Beowulf and shakespeare plays

 

[tmo99]

Their was this book that my English class recently read called That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton. It was a very interesting book. We read a book last semester called The Outsiders by the same author but I found the Outsiders a lot more enjoyable because their was fighting!

 

[GoliathOnline]

I really enjoyed "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" (Stephen Chbosky). It really touched on alot of things teenagers go through like sexuallity and drug use.

One book I could not stand was "A Catcher in the Rye" (J.D. Salinger). It was the worst book I ever read. It was nothing. No concrete plot, no relation to characters, no charaecter development, nothing. Most books have rising action, then a climax, then falling action. "Catcher" had rising action...and thats it, but even that didnt rise to anything higher than a fucking bunny slope. Dont read it...ever.