book you had to read for school and actually enjoyed/found interesting.
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I actually enjoyed "Of Mice and Men", but I think I was the only one in my class who did.
Also, the two books that the "Choose your own" book reports brought to my attention that I adored were "Jack Faust" by Michael Swanwick, and "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski.
Also, the two books that the "Choose your own" book reports brought to my attention that I adored were "Jack Faust" by Michael Swanwick, and "House of Leaves" by Mark Z. Danielewski.
Well I did buy it << I'll reread it sometime when I feel like it.PersianLlama said:
Though if it makes you feel better most of my books are horror, especially Koontz and Lovecraft.
I really enjoyed Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, Night, Lord of the Flies, A Raisin in the Sun, and Othello. I read a couple of Shakespeare plays in school, but Othello was the only one that I genuinely liked.
Most of the novels I read in school were actually of my own choosing, since most of the assessments we had to do were aimed at trying to get us to try and read out of school. So, while that led me to some really great texts, school prescribed texts were only really poetry and the like.
However, I'm going to have to say that analysing To Kill a Mockingbird and The Outsiders in class did introduce me to some really great novels. Especially To Kill a Mockingbird, since I hated the novel before, but after reading it, I, while not really into the story, did find myself respecting Atticus a whole lot more.
However, I'm going to have to say that analysing To Kill a Mockingbird and The Outsiders in class did introduce me to some really great novels. Especially To Kill a Mockingbird, since I hated the novel before, but after reading it, I, while not really into the story, did find myself respecting Atticus a whole lot more.
I don't read horror books, but I don't hold any grudge against them or anything. It does make me feel better though, that they're not similar to Jane Eyre or other Victorian literature.FinalGamer said:
The Scarlet Letter was very good, even if everyone else absolutely abhors it.
While it wasn't required for english, I had a really awesome teacher that year and he lent me his personal copy of A Clockwork Orange to read because he thought I would like it, boy was he right. I am amazed that he gave a 10th grader a book that has two 10 year olds being raped by the protaganist, he must have really trusted me.
While it wasn't required for english, I had a really awesome teacher that year and he lent me his personal copy of A Clockwork Orange to read because he thought I would like it, boy was he right. I am amazed that he gave a 10th grader a book that has two 10 year olds being raped by the protaganist, he must have really trusted me.
Don't worry, the only other Victorian literature I have is Sherlock Holmes and Jules Verne.PersianLlama said:
Oh, well those are fine. Good thing it's not Charles Dickens or Jane Austen, ugh.FinalGamer said:
Of mice and men by John steinbeck, not even school could tarnish that gem, I finnished it on the first day we got it.
About a fortnight I had to read that for school, then but I never finished it since I didn't have the time.lithiumjelly said:
You get all the luck, since you don't have to analize that book as much.fer-sure said:
Although it was reletively less analizing than the other books we were forced to read here is a brief ruin down on the assesment.
Finding hidden meanings in the text
Writing a fan fiction. (It really annoyed me that I had to have the protaganist in the novel mentioned in the fan fiction, also I have to rewrite a scene from the book to include my charecter.)
Our school produced nothing memorable at all in terms of reading material - best they could come up with was rubbish like 'Song of the Innocent Bystander' (shudders) what a waste of time that book was.
I don't know if this counts but....
I got put in ISS alot, so I had a lot free time. I had this English textbook with a bunch of short stories and stuff in it. One of them was called "The Phantom Tollbooth." I swear I read that story like 20 times over.
I got put in ISS alot, so I had a lot free time. I had this English textbook with a bunch of short stories and stuff in it. One of them was called "The Phantom Tollbooth." I swear I read that story like 20 times over.
