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04-16-2012, 09:47 AM | #31 |
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I remember having to read Animal Farm and being excited at first. I thought it was going to be a goofy comedy.
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04-16-2012, 09:47 AM | #32 |
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To Kill a Mockingbird, The Outsiders, and Of Mice and Men.
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04-16-2012, 09:48 AM | #33 |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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04-16-2012, 09:49 AM | #34 |
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I also remember a short story by Hemingway(I think) about 2 dudes eating hot peppers.
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04-16-2012, 10:01 AM | #35 |
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04-16-2012, 10:03 AM | #36 |
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The Outsiders, Of Mice and Men and Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry.
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04-16-2012, 10:06 AM | #37 |
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Of Mice and Men got to me more than most I would say.
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04-16-2012, 10:09 AM | #38 | |
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One weekend I sat down and read the 150+ pages I had so far got depressed as I thought it sucked and trashed it.When I told the teacher what I'd done he about shit(no computers then and I had no back-up) and told me something I've never forgotten,"A writer is their own worst critic,NEVER judge your own work." That was 30+ years ago and I've yet to attempt the novel again. I keep thinking one day I'll find the time and start it again.
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04-16-2012, 10:11 AM | #39 |
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Where The Red fern Grows and The Outsiders were my favorite "real" books, but I read Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light In The Attic repeatedly. I remember liking some book about a mouse that rode a motorcycle too.
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04-16-2012, 10:25 AM | #40 |
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I remember this from grade school.. "The Mouse and the Motorcycle".. They made a movie off this as well -- I believe his name was Ralph. Made engine noises and the bike would go... Haven't thought about that in probably 20 years.
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04-16-2012, 10:55 AM | #41 |
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Yeah, I think it was a Beverly Cleary book.
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04-16-2012, 10:57 AM | #42 |
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04-16-2012, 11:05 AM | #43 |
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04-16-2012, 11:05 AM | #44 |
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Anyone else do a multitude of grade school book reports on Goosebumps books? Teachers never liked it much though.
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04-16-2012, 11:17 AM | #45 |
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Reading this thread makes me realize that I really didn't have to read a lot of classics in either high school or college. I think the greatest portion of them that I did read happened in my 8th grade English class (The Old Man and the Sea, Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm, 1984, Moby Dick, Hamlet and a couple of others that I can't come up with atm).
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