What's the best school related book you have read
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Best book I've read for school is a draw between Orwell's Animal Farm, Huxley's Brave New World and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. Those are the books that stand out to me the most right now. Noticing a bit of a trend?
Counting books that weren't required, but which I wrote papers or journals on... well, in middle school English class (8th grade, I think it was), we had to keep a journal on novels that we were reading. Each day for homework, we read about fifty pages and wrote about three paragraphs summarizing the story up to that point. While my classmates were reading age-appropriate literature, I quickly moved up to stuff like Stephen King's The Shining and The Dead Zone, because Goosebumps has nothing on redrum. Surprisingly, my choices in literature were never challenged by the administration or my teacher.
Mrs. Kopas was awesome.
Counting books that weren't required, but which I wrote papers or journals on... well, in middle school English class (8th grade, I think it was), we had to keep a journal on novels that we were reading. Each day for homework, we read about fifty pages and wrote about three paragraphs summarizing the story up to that point. While my classmates were reading age-appropriate literature, I quickly moved up to stuff like Stephen King's The Shining and The Dead Zone, because Goosebumps has nothing on redrum. Surprisingly, my choices in literature were never challenged by the administration or my teacher.
Mrs. Kopas was awesome.
The Giver and Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. I look back fondly on The Giver after reading some of Ayn Rand's works although I had some trouble understanding certain concepts when I first read it. My class read Hatchet and watched the movie on a school trip so I ended up reading the whole series. I think that book started my interest in fictional survival books.
I normally averaged one book a year. Junior year it was Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Craddle.
(Technically I listened to it as an audio book).
But that book was great.
John Gardener's Grendel (Senior year) was also really good and I actually read that one. I thought it was a little better than The Stranger.
Not sure if it counts, but for the last book Senior year we got to choose are own. I chose Fear and Loathing: in Las Vegas. It wasn't as complicated as I had hoped but it was a really interesting and fun read.
(Technically I listened to it as an audio book).
But that book was great.
John Gardener's Grendel (Senior year) was also really good and I actually read that one. I thought it was a little better than The Stranger.
Not sure if it counts, but for the last book Senior year we got to choose are own. I chose Fear and Loathing: in Las Vegas. It wasn't as complicated as I had hoped but it was a really interesting and fun read.
While it seems that everyone else has already said it, I have to go with 1984. I read that and Brave New World in the same class, and it was interesting discussing how different the two views are. Besides those, I would add The Odyssey and For Whom the Bell Tolls.
I read Lord of the Flies in high school, and everyone in the class agreed that I reminded them of Piggy. I didn't like the comparison, but I had to admit that they weren't wrong...
I read Lord of the Flies in high school, and everyone in the class agreed that I reminded them of Piggy. I didn't like the comparison, but I had to admit that they weren't wrong...
You guys got to read some brilliant books. We did not. Though we did get to read Tuck Everlasting, and every single one of us fell in love with Jesse.
Almost all the books mentioned in this thread I have read, but I had to read them of my own volition. If I had relied on what my school handed us to read, I wouldn't have gone on to do a BA in English Literature.
Almost all the books mentioned in this thread I have read, but I had to read them of my own volition. If I had relied on what my school handed us to read, I wouldn't have gone on to do a BA in English Literature.
Frankenstein. I studied it for GCSE, for A Level, and it looks like I'm going to study it again at university. And it's just such an incredible book, brief enough never to get boring, with enough going on on every single page to never drag, and I love the whole message behind it.
Really? My brother and I both hated that book. While it touches on some neat concepts, it's a slow read.Stasisesque said:
It seems they're either hit or miss, and pretty much everyone is going to have to sit through some painful books. Another one I'd add the "enjoyed" column, is Running Out of Time. Really neat premise for the grade level.
Surprised nobody mentioned Catcher in the Rye, that was the only book that really interested me all throughout highschool.
Assigned. I had to analyze it and deconstruct the themes of the story. I also wrote a satirical essay on why economically it is a good idea to eat old people. Loved that class.Dethenger said:
PS: I REALLY hated the movie but love the book.
That's a tough one considering I don't remember half the books I've had to read over the years for school. Some of my favorites (that haven't been mentioned half a dozen time already) include: Anthem, The Great Gatsby, The Good Earth, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and that's all I can think of right now. There were a couple of books, such as Lord of the Flies and Great Expectations, that I didn't like, but that was mostly due to the fact that we had to read them in a way that just took all of the fun out of it and I'm almost certain that if I were to try and read them on my own time I would be able to enjoy them.
Shakespeare and To Kill a Mockingbird.
I was pretty good at reading on my own though. I read most of the classics long before they came up in class.
I was pretty good at reading on my own though. I read most of the classics long before they came up in class.
Two that stand out are "Of Mice and Men" and "Lord of the Flies". Even though most of my classmates disliked them, I found them to be quite enjoyable.
One I was unable to read (wasn't in the class), but heard was good from a friend is "One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest".
One I was unable to read (wasn't in the class), but heard was good from a friend is "One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest".
