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

[matsugawa]

Maniac Magee by Spinelli and Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.

 

[mokes310]

To Kill A Mockingbird, I loved that book. Also, Of Mice and Men and Catcher In The Rye, I still read those two every year or so.

 

[Ravenholm27]

Farenheit 451 I always loved that book

 

[sokka14]

Spies was pretty good.
Couple shakespeare plays as well.
Conversely chaucer was like wading through treacle. But the treacle had fucking SPIKES in it.

 

[c0ld3r]

The Outsiders

 

[Ansem-The-Wise]

Of Mice and Men.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

1984
Catcher in the Rye
The Things They Carried
Fahrenheit 451

I genuinely liked these books, except for 1984, which I outright loved.

 

[The Bandit]

Books that I had to actually read that I enjoyed (in order that I read them; wheee):
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Animal Farm
As I Lay Dying
The Grapes of Wrath
Grendel
1984

Frankenstein was OK. It was certainly tolerable, enjoyable at times. I really, very, very desperately wanted to like Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov's superman views were so compelling, and the way he expressed them were interesting, but overall the book was a giant pile of shit.

School-like books that I wasn't forced to read, that I read on my own accord:
The Fountainhead (my all time favorite book, bar none)
Atlas Shrugged
Anthem
The Catcher in the Rye
The Giver

 

[FinalGamer]

All Quiet On The Western Front, as well as Jane Eyre.
It was surprisingly....interesting D:

 

[PersianLlama]

All Quiet On The Western Front, as well as Jane Eyre.
It was surprisingly....interesting D:

Jane Eyre? Your joking...That's by far the worst book I've ever read. Worse than Twilight.

 

[FinalGamer]

All Quiet On The Western Front, as well as Jane Eyre.
It was surprisingly....interesting D:

Jane Eyre? Your joking...That's by far the worst book I've ever read. Better than Twilight.

I wish I was, but I honestly liked it, I really felt for that poor woman and the ***** of a family she had. I even bought it.
Yes I do like men, but also women as well, to answer your next question.

 

[PersianLlama]

All Quiet On The Western Front, as well as Jane Eyre.
It was surprisingly....interesting D:

Jane Eyre? Your joking...That's by far the worst book I've ever read. Better than Twilight.

I wish I was, but I honestly liked it, I really felt for that poor woman and the ***** of a family she had. I even bought it.
Yes I do like men, but also women as well, to answer your next question.

Spoiler: Spoilers on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I do not see why anyone would care though, because it's a terrible book.

...I had a giant paragraph typed up, but I lost it, oh well, time to sum it up. My actual question is (Not what you had in mind, but that was a pretty good guess): how do you feel sympathetic towards Jane? All she does is whine, without realizing how lucky she is. She doesn't die of consumption/tuberculosis, which is highly contagious and she would've gotten it with all the time she spent with Helen, nor did she die from typhus while half of her school did! She wonders through the woods later on, and lives because of St. John! She never dies, even though there were so many times that she should have. Then, Mr. Rochester survives and gets his eyesight back, and in the last chapter, everything is awesome and Jane is a happy *****, after all her whining. All in all, she's an ungrateful ***** who just whines the whole book!

/summarized rant

Edit: Deus Ex Machina can go fuck itself.

 

[NeedAUserName]

Spoiler: Spoilers on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I do not see why anyone would care though, because it's a terrible book.

...I had a giant paragraph typed up, but I lost it, oh well, time to sum it up. My actual question is (Not what you had in mind, but that was a pretty good guess): how do you feel sympathetic towards Jane? All she does is whine, without realizing how lucky she is. She doesn't die of consumption/tuberculosis, which is highly contagious and she would've gotten it with all the time she spent with Helen, nor did she die from typhus while half of her school did! She wonders through the woods later on, and lives because of St. John! She never dies, even though there were so many times that she should have. Then, Mr. Rochester survives and gets his eyesight back, and in the last chapter, everything is awesome and Jane is a happy *****, after all her whining. All in all, she's an ungrateful ***** who just whine the whole book!

/summarized rant

Edit: Deus Ex Machina can go fuck itself.

It is isn't it, its just awful. I had to read it when I was 12, we got about three months to read it, and yet I still read almost all of it in one day... That was a long ass day. All I read of the last chapter was "Dear reader, I married him".

 

[PersianLlama]

Spoiler: Spoilers on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I do not see why anyone would care though, because it's a terrible book.

...I had a giant paragraph typed up, but I lost it, oh well, time to sum it up. My actual question is (Not what you had in mind, but that was a pretty good guess): how do you feel sympathetic towards Jane? All she does is whine, without realizing how lucky she is. She doesn't die of consumption/tuberculosis, which is highly contagious and she would've gotten it with all the time she spent with Helen, nor did she die from typhus while half of her school did! She wonders through the woods later on, and lives because of St. John! She never dies, even though there were so many times that she should have. Then, Mr. Rochester survives and gets his eyesight back, and in the last chapter, everything is awesome and Jane is a happy *****, after all her whining. All in all, she's an ungrateful ***** who just whine the whole book!

/summarized rant

Edit: Deus Ex Machina can go fuck itself.

It is isn't it, its just awful. I had to read it when I was 12, we got about three months to read it, and yet I still read almost all of it in one day... That was a long ass day. All I read of the last chapter was "Dear reader, I married him".

Ouch, I had to read it when I was 15 (Which is now, but a few months ago!), but I only had a month. I actually read everything because my teacher gave reading quizzes which involved which character said what etc...

 

[FinalGamer]

All Quiet On The Western Front, as well as Jane Eyre.
It was surprisingly....interesting D:

Jane Eyre? Your joking...That's by far the worst book I've ever read. Better than Twilight.

I wish I was, but I honestly liked it, I really felt for that poor woman and the ***** of a family she had. I even bought it.
Yes I do like men, but also women as well, to answer your next question.

Spoiler: Spoilers on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I do not see why anyone would care though, because it's a terrible book.

...I had a giant paragraph typed up, but I lost it, oh well, time to sum it up. My actual question is (Not what you had in mind, but that was a pretty good guess): how do you feel sympathetic towards Jane? All she does is whine, without realizing how lucky she is. She doesn't die of consumption/tuberculosis, which is highly contagious and she would've gotten it with all the time she spent with Helen, nor did she die from typhus while half of her school did! She wonders through the woods later on, and lives because of St. John! She never dies, even though there were so many times that she should have. Then, Mr. Rochester survives and gets his eyesight back, and in the last chapter, everything is awesome and Jane is a happy *****, after all her whining. All in all, she's an ungrateful ***** who just whines the whole book!

/summarized rant

Edit: Deus Ex Machina can go fuck itself.

Well

Spoiler

she had an abusive family and her only friend in the entire story died of TB. To be honest, there's been FAR worse Deus Ex Machina endings published.

Luckier than most, yes, but not that lucky.
Maybe I was just quite impressionable, I did have to read it when I was 15.

 

[atv_chic_18]

"To Kill A Mockingbird"
"The Outsiders"

Just to name a couple of the handful.

 

[GyroCaptain]

Meine Freie Deutsche Jugend by Claudia Rusch. OR Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges.
Of course these were both in college courses; the first is an account of a girl growing up in East Germany and putting her mother in jeopardy with "kids say the darndest things" moments and the second is a book of trippy short stories by Borges I had for an English class focused on layers of reality, narrative and otherwise. Tlon Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and The Circular Ruins both rock my face off.

 

[deletemeplease107]

I had to read Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
i loved that book, so i kept up with the series and now ive read all 3 books

i also read The Book Theif
i really liked that book!!

 

[PersianLlama]

All Quiet On The Western Front, as well as Jane Eyre.
It was surprisingly....interesting D:

Jane Eyre? Your joking...That's by far the worst book I've ever read. Better than Twilight.

I wish I was, but I honestly liked it, I really felt for that poor woman and the ***** of a family she had. I even bought it.
Yes I do like men, but also women as well, to answer your next question.

Spoiler: Spoilers on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I do not see why anyone would care though, because it's a terrible book.

...I had a giant paragraph typed up, but I lost it, oh well, time to sum it up. My actual question is (Not what you had in mind, but that was a pretty good guess): how do you feel sympathetic towards Jane? All she does is whine, without realizing how lucky she is. She doesn't die of consumption/tuberculosis, which is highly contagious and she would've gotten it with all the time she spent with Helen, nor did she die from typhus while half of her school did! She wonders through the woods later on, and lives because of St. John! She never dies, even though there were so many times that she should have. Then, Mr. Rochester survives and gets his eyesight back, and in the last chapter, everything is awesome and Jane is a happy *****, after all her whining. All in all, she's an ungrateful ***** who just whines the whole book!

/summarized rant

Edit: Deus Ex Machina can go fuck itself.

Well she had an abusive family and those who did die in the book of TB were her only friends.
Luckier than most, yes, but not that lucky, then her luck does turn up at the end.
Maybe I was just quite impressionable, I did have to read it when I was 15.

Spoiler

At least her family didn't rape her or seriously injure her. Jane's brother physically abused her and gave her a concussion, and to some extent Mrs. Reed did too. However, that was for the first 5 to 6 chapters? The rest of the book she was pretty well off. She even bitched about Mr. Rochester being rich and how she didn't want to be!

Edit: Edited for spoiler tags!

Maybe you were impressionable, pick it up and try reading it again in order to see if you still have sympathy for Jane.