Books We Read In School And Actually Liked!

Animal Farm was the only book I remember actually getting handed a copy of. I liked it and I would like to add more, but other then this we were usually read to.
 
SeoJi said:
Animal Farm was the only book I remember actually getting handed a copy of. I liked it and I would like to add more, but other then this we were usually read to.
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...How exactly does essay-writing work if you don't have a text on-hand? Or even simply deriving meaning from the text? I fail to see the usefulness in being read to, unless it's a drama or something out of oral tradition. But maybe there's more to it that I'm missing?
 
eisprinz said:
...How exactly does essay-writing work if you don't have a text on-hand? Or even simply deriving meaning from the text? I fail to see the usefulness in being read to, unless it's a drama or something out of oral tradition. But maybe there's more to it that I'm missing?
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I forgot to add that I got my GED pretty early in high school, so I never really experienced that sort of essay. Most of what of typed were from how my english classes were in middle school.
 
SeoJi said:

I forgot to add that I got my GED pretty early in high school, so I never really experienced that sort of essay. Most of what of typed were from how my english classes were in middle school.
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Now that makes a lot of sense. I just wrote a research paper with about 50 bajillion books and articles and was boggled at the idea of what it would be like to write something like that without textual sources.
 
'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand.

What made it extremely interesting was the fact that the themes and ideas expressed in this book were the building blocks of an actually thought-provoking first person shooter game, Bioshock.
 
Not sure if this counts since I actually read the book twice before school and own the movie: The Outsiders. It reminds me of my parents' life and I actually like the story and characters.

"Let's do it for Johnny"
 
I forgot to mention Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. It was a play I read my senior year in high school. It featured the characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern from Hamlet; only they were complete morons. It was quite funny.
 
i didnt like any book read in school maybe because they always choose pathetic books or maybe because its the way they teach the books. this has never hapened to me yet and i dont think it will either.
 
Of Mice and Men. That was about it. Those books in your first year when you were learning to read were good...you know those ones about some guy named bill who went to a shop to buy milk and met a dog and went home again.
 
I don't like anything I've been assigned in the past few years, but back in middle school I read the Giver. Loved it. It was so sad, I went back later and read all the sequels--even thought that was years ago, I still love it!
 
Hah, you guys get to read some pretty good books in school. I enjoyed the Fountainhead, Lord of the Flies, and Siddhartha, but never ever was given the chance to read them for school.

As for book I read in school, I very much enjoyed the Crucible and bits and pieces of the Great Gatsby. Recently I got the chance to read Tristan and Isuelt as well as Dante's Inferno. Both of which I loved.

To Kill a Mocking Bird and Catcher in the Rye, were...alright, but I didn't really like them as much as the others.
 
Amerowolf said:
Hah, you guys get to read some pretty good books in school. I enjoyed the Fountainhead, Lord of the Flies, and Siddhartha, but never ever was given the chance to read them for school.

As for book I read in school, I very much enjoyed the Crucible and bits and pieces of the Great Gatsby. Recently I got the chance to read Tristan and Isuelt as well as Dante's Inferno. Both of which I loved.

To Kill a Mocking Bird and Catcher in the Rye, were...alright, but I didn't really like them as much as the others.
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Ahhh. I'm really interested in reading The Foutainhead. I've heard so many wonderful things about it; I'm thinking of picking it up next time I'm at the library. ...But oh good lord, I *hated* the Inferno. Basically, it seemed like it was just Dante making a little list of all the people who pissed him off and having a literary wank fest with torturing them in interesting ways. "And then I went into the third circle of Hell...and this one guy who was TOTALLY MEAN TO ME ONCE was there. He was being ripped apart by wild dogs and was in such pain. That'll teach him to be an asshole to me!!" It was like, dude, get over it.
 
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