Poll: Best book you were forced to read

[PersianLlama]

I've read all of those up there, but I wasn't forced to read any of them but Things Fall Apart and To Kill a Mockingbird, I hated both of them.

I loved 1984, Frankenstein, my Physics Textbook, but I wasn't forced to read any of them.

I had to read Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, and Fahrenheit 451, and I loved all of them.

It's a tough call, but I think I'd go with:
1) Fahrenheit 451
2) Lord of the Flies
3) Catcher in the Rye

The Silmarillion

You all FAIL at life.

Being forced to read the Silmarillion must have been the best thing ever.

 

[I Max95]

I was forced to read, The hatchet. I'm not sure by whom. But still, The book was amazing.

that is what i was going to say so i agree with this guy

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

Of Mice and Men.

Well, actually we only read little bits of it in class and I was annoyed that we were reading it so slowly and read it at home. An excellent book with a pretty damn good movie adaptation too.

I really need a proper copy of it...

 

[KSarty]

Mine was Ender's Game. One of my senior year electives was science fiction media. Any sci-fi books or movies we could find would be class material. The teacher managed to bring in several copies of Ender's Game because it was one of his favorite sci-fi novels, but I wasn't that interested. I read the book because it was technically homework, and I ended up loving it. I bought my own copy just a week afterward.

 

[high_castle]

Before I reached my senior year in high school, I didn't have much appreciation for the classics. I'd had an American lit class the year before in which we skipped reading anything by authors I actually liked (Poe, Dickinson, Hemingway) and instead focused quite a bit on Steinbeck (who I still can't stand) and obscure authors. I figured my senior year class would be just the same, but instead I read Catch 22, Frankenstein, Turn of the Screw, and many others I thoroughly enjoyed.

I also developed a friendship with the teacher. After our exam (which came in March, despite the class going on until June), we started reading contemporary fiction. I recommended to the teacher that we read something by Dick. He took up my suggestion and the class read Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep. Aside from the 3 other SF fans, no one had heard of it or really was inspired to read it. Until they actually did, and then I had the majority of the class coming up to me to talk about how much they enjoyed the book and quite a few of them actually wanted recommendations for other titles.

 

[CrustyMedic]

Grade 6. The Hobbit 1974. Opened up a whole new world for me. I read the Lord of the Rings trilogy a few years back back for the second time and I devoured the set in less that a week. I don't read much now but when I do it's fantasy. I get too much reality on a daily basis.

 

[Crono Maniac]

1984. Good God I loved that book. Never, in anything, have I seen something so immensely hopeless and depressing. Beautiful.