That depressing thing, well hey to each his own. On a slightly ironic point, the best book I read was Brave New World. It's still one of my favourite books, as sad as it is.denseWorm said:
What's the best school related book you have read
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This, about a thousand times. Also, the Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I ate that novel up like Christmas.sethisjimmy said:
I thought I was the only one who read that in high school! I got to take sci-fi as my junior year English course, and the teacher and I realized that I had read all of the books on the syllabus already, so he lent me his personal copy of Childhood's End. Great stuff.sinsfire said:
Probably The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. Absolutely brilliant novel that I highly recommend to almost everyone I've ever met. The only thing I didn't like was the end, but I did sort of see some artistic value in it. I just wish it ended a different way.
I'm probably going to say either Holes or Kensuke's Kingdom, all i remember from the former was that some kid called Stanley Yelnats ended up with stolen trainers somehow and got sent into a children's detention center somewhere in the middle of a desert.
The latter was about a kid who somehow fell off a ship with his dog and ended up marooned on a deserted island, until he found a Japanese man who has been there since World War II, i cannot remember what happened in the middle, except the kid tried sending a message in a bottle but Kensuke caught him, though the kid and dog got rescued; Kensuke made the kid promise not to mention about his existence to anyone until something like 10-30 years. (despite the world changing, maybe the man just wanted to die on an island where he lived quite well, or something?)
I liked those books for some reason during primary school, possibly because the rate in which we read it felt engrossing and easily manageable, making you want to read even more next time on the next day.
The latter was about a kid who somehow fell off a ship with his dog and ended up marooned on a deserted island, until he found a Japanese man who has been there since World War II, i cannot remember what happened in the middle, except the kid tried sending a message in a bottle but Kensuke caught him, though the kid and dog got rescued; Kensuke made the kid promise not to mention about his existence to anyone until something like 10-30 years. (despite the world changing, maybe the man just wanted to die on an island where he lived quite well, or something?)
I liked those books for some reason during primary school, possibly because the rate in which we read it felt engrossing and easily manageable, making you want to read even more next time on the next day.
My school always picks the worst possible texts for English, There always about children losing their innocence, with titles that sound like they were made for self help books. We once worked on Animal Farm but our teachers made us work with the live action film.
To Kill A Mockingbird was good though.
To Kill A Mockingbird was good though.
Pfft Guliver's Travels were did you pick that up, the toilet store. In all honesty Gulliver's Travels was pretty good, had to read it for one of my electives, though it saddens me to say that Pride and Prejudice was probably my favourite that I read for the course.denseWorm said:Oh *smirk* dytopian future novels, why don't we all go complain about how the governments of today were predicted in 1984.mrhappy1489 said:
Not being serious, lah, you didn't ask for that dissso sorry, but that's what I always used to think about 1984 and BNW.
I actually really enjoyed Gulliver's Travels, the satire was awesome, I should have said that from the off.
A Fine Balance was really good, we did that for year 12 English. While technically not a book, Othello (Shakespeare) is amazing too.
I dont think Ive ever had to read a decent book for school
all the "school related" classics like animal farm, 1984 , to kill a mockingbird and farenheit I sought out and read in my own time
To Kill a Mocking Bird was a great vook...I thouroughly enjoyed it
all the "school related" classics like animal farm, 1984 , to kill a mockingbird and farenheit I sought out and read in my own time
To Kill a Mocking Bird was a great vook...I thouroughly enjoyed it
Biology - Brooker.
Yeah, that's the we use in 3 different subjects at my university and it's brilliant.
If it has to be something outside of text books (and I assume we're not supposed to mention things we got to pick for ourselves, but in that case 1984 which I wrote a paper on last year of high school) then it's a Norwegian crime novel about a bank robbery that turned ugly. It was written by Fredrik Skagen (published in 1995), but I don't know the English name for it.
Yeah, that's the we use in 3 different subjects at my university and it's brilliant.
If it has to be something outside of text books (and I assume we're not supposed to mention things we got to pick for ourselves, but in that case 1984 which I wrote a paper on last year of high school) then it's a Norwegian crime novel about a bank robbery that turned ugly. It was written by Fredrik Skagen (published in 1995), but I don't know the English name for it.
The Giver was pretty cool, but A Handmaid's Tale just blew me away. Dystopian sci-fi for the win!
Gotta be Wuthering Heights. I really expected to hate it after loathing Jane Eyre, but it wound up being so damn atmospheric I couldn't help but love it.