We just had to read Huckleberry Finn in English. It was fairly good, can't say much more for it, though.
Books that do and don't suck
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Odd, we read "Animal Farm" our freshmen year as part of required reading. Probably too early for that book though, it seemed dumb at the time but now I can look back and appreciate it. Along with "To Kill a Mockingbird", also freshmen level. I think those two should have been placed at the junior level... but I digress.
My senior High School reading list (this year) would include "Frankenstein" and a couple others, I believe Maya Angelou is in there with "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", I don't know for sure as I don't start Lit & Comp until next semester.
My senior High School reading list (this year) would include "Frankenstein" and a couple others, I believe Maya Angelou is in there with "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", I don't know for sure as I don't start Lit & Comp until next semester.
GOOD-
Artemis fowl: all of it, especially the eternity code. wit, dark plots, and faeries with jet-packs...no really.
the edge chronicles: these are what got me into reading in the first place. its a brilliantly written and illustrated cracker of a book. fantasy gone epic.
The kite runner: you've probably heard of this by now. incredibly deep and moving.
Piers Morgan- don't you know who i am?: really funny, especially if you hate celebrities (including Piers Morgan!)
BAD- erm...um.. the sun newspaper?
i cant recall any truly crap books Ive read.
... i sound like an advertising man XD
Artemis fowl: all of it, especially the eternity code. wit, dark plots, and faeries with jet-packs...no really.
the edge chronicles: these are what got me into reading in the first place. its a brilliantly written and illustrated cracker of a book. fantasy gone epic.
The kite runner: you've probably heard of this by now. incredibly deep and moving.
Piers Morgan- don't you know who i am?: really funny, especially if you hate celebrities (including Piers Morgan!)
BAD- erm...um.. the sun newspaper?
i cant recall any truly crap books Ive read.... i sound like an advertising man XD
*gets behind fan proof shield* Lord the rings!
*Excerpt*
We walked...but we where on a road so we left the road there was an interesting rock, I dont like those tree's over there ah more road quick turn!. We passed another interesting rock...etc, etc, etc until someone gets stabby.
*Excerpt*
We walked...but we where on a road so we left the road there was an interesting rock, I dont like those tree's over there ah more road quick turn!. We passed another interesting rock...etc, etc, etc until someone gets stabby.
Good - War of the Worlds. A classic alien invasion story that still holds up. I read it in 9th grade.
Bad - The Scarlet Letter. Period.
Bad - The Scarlet Letter. Period.
Good, hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, really funny book. Dying to live, zombie novel thats focus not only on brain splatting.
Bad, the gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Perhaps not a bad book if you like that sort of books but I found it slow and boring. Only read it because I had to in school.
Bad, the gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Perhaps not a bad book if you like that sort of books but I found it slow and boring. Only read it because I had to in school.
Books I like: Discworld series (And anything else by Terry Pratchett), Anything by Neil Gaimen, Anything by Douglas Adams, A song of Ice and Fire series... tons of others. I'm a bibliophile.
Books I didn't mind that are actually appropriate for High School English: The Lovely Bones, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm.
Books I didn't mind that are actually appropriate for High School English: The Lovely Bones, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm.
This reminds me of my high school teacher for my junior year. She was extremely conservative and disliked about half of the books we read (there were 9 total english teachers for the High School and they all chose what books each grade read). She assigned a 5 page essay on a book that we picked that had to do with society's affect on humans.
I picked A Clockwork Orange. When she handed the paper back, there was a big 'SEE ME' on the front page. After school she lectured me for a good 10 minutes on how this entire book is wrong, how Anthony Burgess is burning in hell, etc. She gave me 1 week of detention and wanted me to see a psychologist. I talked with my principle and he took my side, they argued, I got off detention but I would have to make up the work. She had me write a paper on a poem and had me read the poem in front of the class (she mistook my apathy for shyness).
I chose The God Who Loves You.
She was pissed.
I picked A Clockwork Orange. When she handed the paper back, there was a big 'SEE ME' on the front page. After school she lectured me for a good 10 minutes on how this entire book is wrong, how Anthony Burgess is burning in hell, etc. She gave me 1 week of detention and wanted me to see a psychologist. I talked with my principle and he took my side, they argued, I got off detention but I would have to make up the work. She had me write a paper on a poem and had me read the poem in front of the class (she mistook my apathy for shyness).
I chose The God Who Loves You.
She was pissed.
Really? i read Animal Farm in 9th grade honors. Well, that book and Of Mice and Men were probably the best school assigned books. Ive also been re-reading A Clockwork Orange. The worst book i was assigned would have to be Grapes of Wrath. (P.S i have no assigned books at the moment, so these are just the best and the worst.)
Flowers for Algernon remains one of the best books I've ever read, we read that in 11th grade, along with Animal Farm and To Kill a Mockingbird. Naturally, the cretins in my class thought every single one of them was garbage. I also submit that the only Shakespeare work (that I have read, admittedly my knowledge is rather limited, the only others I've read are Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth) is Othello, which seems to be criminally underrated. It's the only Shakespeare play that I feel has any kind of suspense, because I actually grew to like the characters, which is far more than I could say for any of the characters in Macbeth.
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Hell I don't know, I really only read a few regular books I mainly read manga and comics. The ratio is about 85-15 percent.
That being said, I've read 178 books since August so that's...about 116 comics/manga with the rest normal books.
That being said, I've read 178 books since August so that's...about 116 comics/manga with the rest normal books.
The books that come too my mind are as follow;
Good: To Kill A Mocking Bird, Bless Me Ultima, Catcher in the Rye, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Those are what come to my mind right now.
Bad: Twilight(joining the bandwagon), Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Grapes of Wrath, and Lord of The Flies.
The ones that I dislike are either because 1) I didn't get into them, or 2) They where very boring.
Good: To Kill A Mocking Bird, Bless Me Ultima, Catcher in the Rye, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Those are what come to my mind right now.
Bad: Twilight(joining the bandwagon), Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Grapes of Wrath, and Lord of The Flies.
The ones that I dislike are either because 1) I didn't get into them, or 2) They where very boring.