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04-16-2012, 11:33 AM | #46 |
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I was in a Summer reading program at the local library my 6th grade year and read The Godfather and gave an oral report on it.At first the librarian didn't believe I'd read it and then she was like
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04-16-2012, 11:36 AM | #47 |
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04-16-2012, 11:36 AM | #48 |
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I'll add the Great Gatsby. That was a great book to read.
We didn't read Moby Dick in high school, like some of you. I'm surprised teachers would even make kids read it, just because you have to get like 300 pages into it before it really gets going. I love the book but I would think most high schoolers would be bored by it. I remember we were assigned a boom called, "Bless the Beasts and Children" and "Ordinary People". Both were depressing. I didn't even finish "Ordinary People". |
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04-16-2012, 11:44 AM | #50 |
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Alexandre Dumas' 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'
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04-16-2012, 11:47 AM | #51 |
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Almost forgot Fahrenheit 451...
Edit: Man, my memory is going to hell...it's getting hard to remember some of the stuff I read way back then, but it's slowly trickling back... Siddhartha Oops, another one just bubbled up: Death Be Not Proud not the John Donne poem, but a book written by a father about his teenage son's battle against a brain tumor, which he ultimately loses. It will absolutely rip your heart out. Last edited by mikey23545; 04-16-2012 at 12:04 PM.. |
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04-16-2012, 11:49 AM | #52 |
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A Lesson Before Dying was one of the few that I actually read cover to cover in HS. Enjoyed a few others as well. I remember like the Good Earth for some reason.
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04-16-2012, 11:50 AM | #53 |
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I want to discount Shakespeare, just because they were plays and never meant to be "read."
In terms of novels, my favorite was Where the Red Fern Grows (*SNIFF*) or To Kill A Mockingbird. These are the books I feel like just about everyone read. However, in college, reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man blew my freaking mind. |
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That is one of my favorites, but read it a couple of years after HS.
Tom Sawyer was a great book, we read it as a class in middle school. Of Mice and Men is another fantastic one, but I think To Kill a Mockingbird was the best. I also remember Rabit Hill, it started terribly slow, but the second half was great. Les Miserables, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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I think I first read it on my own in like 6th grade, but we read it in high school as well: Watership Down. I love that damned book.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
The Trial Huckleberry Finn To Kill A Mockingbird Julius Caesar The Lottery Little Toy Dog Catch-22 Stranger In A Strange Land Lord Of The Rings The Shining Animal Farm Childhood's End The Sirens Of Titan The Birds/Lysistrata Antigone No Exit Waiting For Godet The Bald Soprano Our Town Spoon River Anthology Cat's Cradle Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas/Fear & Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 Beyond The Fringe That's all I can recall off the top...high school years been a few minutes ago for me. With some research, I'm sure I could add more...
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