Poll: Best book you were forced to read

[Aura Guardian]

Of Mice and Men

 

[messy]

Of Mice and Men, Or the curious incident of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, or An inspector calls (although that's technically a play) had to read them for my English GCSE and they are all pretty good with.

Of Mice and Men especially, one of the best endings of any book I've read (and the most tear-jerking)

 

[brainfreeze215]

A Prayer for Owen Meany, by... John Irving I think?

 

[Mezrev]

I haven't liked any book that I've been forced to read.

 

[InProgress]

1984, but I read that months before I was forced.

 

[sokka14]

by school - spies. probably the only book in the curriculum i could vaguely enjoy.
by people - hitchiker's guide. easily the funniest book i've ever read.

also like to mention my worst:
lord of the flies - a book i hated more and more as i understood it more and more.
chaucer - to use a heavy-handed metaphor, reading him was like slowly trying to hammer a rusty nail into my skull. ugh.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Beats 1984 any day.

 

[Bibliomancer]

My favorite is either The Great Gatsby, or Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger. I liked both of them.

 

[Husky.Gnoll]

Ten People You Meet in Heaven

 

[Oldmanwillow]

1)Atlas shrugged by ayn rand it has changed my life.

2) the scarlet letter. Most people hate this book but its was great.

3) even though slaughter house 5 was great my favorite book by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. is mother night

 

[Gruthar]

The Chrysalids in high school. Thought I'd hate it, loved it.

That's one of my favorites, although it wasn't required reading for me.

I don't know which was the best, but I enjoyed Fahrenheit 451, The Giver, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Catcher in the Rye, and The Lord of the Flies. I guess I enjoyed most of my assigned readings, with the exception of some of the later feminist readings I was forced to do (Jane Eyre, The Awakening. I seriously wanted to go back in fictional time and yell at both of the protagonists.)

 

[Mozared]

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

"The hatchet" or "Hatchet"? The latter's by Gary Paulsen. Don't ask me how I know that.

For me, probably 1984.

 

[Estelindis]

Middlemarch.

I was the same age as the main character Dorothea at the time, and at a very similar place in my mind. Seeing how things went for her helped me understand myself better.

Most of my favourite books I read voluntarily, though. ;-)

 

[sabotstarr]

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

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This. it was very good, but i never got around to reading the sequel, maybe i should one of these days...Pshh who am i kidding, reading is for losers.

 

[Abedeus]

None. Books I was forced to read were either Polish (and about war/communistic times/other outdated patriotic crap) or something like Hamlet or Robinson Crusoe. So I can honestly say I didn't like any of these books.

 

[KittywifaMohawk]

SO much better than Great Expectations. Now that was a horrible book.

Yes indeed it was. I hated that book with a passion.
Now I voted for other because you didn't but Lord of the Flies up there. Now that was a great book. But if I had to choose from the list, it would have to be To Kill A Mockingbird

 

[skcseth]

The Scarlet Pimpernel

He's like the original Sam Fisher. And the title has the word Pimp in it. You just can't go wrong there.

 

[Zombie_Fish]

Lord of the Flies by William Golding. I just thought of it as an amazing book.

 

[Instant K4rma]

Beowulf.

 

[McBurks]

Couldn't understand the Great Gatsby so I Wikipedia'd it and passed my class.The best book I was forced to read was The Giver.

That book was damn good. So was Hatchet.

Quite good.

I personally thought every last book that ive ever been forced to read in school was utter shit. Mocking bird and gatsby are definityly near the bottom, right above farewell to manzanar and the diary of anne frank. Definitely "The Giver." Though the only reason I would say "The Giver" is because when you looked at from a sane standpoint it was fucking funny.
WARNING: If you haven't read the giver you won't get this
Giver: Take your shirt off Jonas.
Jonas: uh... o...kay
Giver: Lay down over there, get comfortable
Jonas: Umm... It's going to be very hard to make this situation comf...why the hell are you stroking my back?
Giver: They call me "The Giver" for a reason
Later at home*
Dad: so jonas what did you do at work today?
Jonas: *in fetal position* N-Not supposed to talk about it.
Dad: Son, are you ok?
Jonas: *trying to fight back tears* Riding a sled down a mountain. Riding a sled down a mountain. Riding a sled down a mountain!

I tormented my teacher about that,I read between the lines so quick everyone turned around as I screamed RAPE!And throught out the book I kept saying "Oh,geez Mr.Herbert [Family Guy] is in this book.