Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

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Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:22pm

What's yours?

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:22pm

Best: Of Mice and Men

Worst: The Shipping News

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:25pm

Best: 1984 and King Lear

Worst: Hmm...

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re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:31pm

Worst would easily be I Heard the Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven.

My personal favorite required book, both to teach and to read (although it wasn't required reading until after I graduated) is John Gardner's Grendel.

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:40pm

worst: Lord of the Flies
best: To Kill a Mockingbird

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:40pm

I LOVED The Grapes of Wrath. Couldn't get into Old Man and the Sea or The Prince or The Stranger---Camus depressed me. I might like those 3 better now.

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re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:43pm

Oh I LOVED The Stranger! Generally not a big Camus fan either, but that one struck a cord.

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:45pm

I think I was a bit too religious at the time. I couldn't imagine living life as an atheist.

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re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:48pm

The Stranger is not an easy read by any means (I had to read it several times to truly appreciate it, but it can be very rewarding.

#10

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 9:58pm

Best...
The Natural
The Shipping News
A Christmas Carol
Sounder
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Having Our Say
Tuck Everlasting
The Day of the Locust
The Haunting of Hill House
Tuesday with Morrie

and many, many others

Worst...
The Scarlet Letter
The Giver

#11

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:04pm

We're reading Slaughterhouse Five right now...pure brilliance.

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#12

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:05pm

I loved the Giver but we didn;t have to read it for school.

Best: Othello and the Scottish play
Worst: Scarlet Letter, Lord of the Flies, Catcher in the Rye

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#13

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:06pm

worst (and many people will prolly disagree):
The Catcher in the Rye
The Giver
Great Expectations

best:
Tuck Everlasting
The Westing Game

Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree" ~Related~

#14

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:08pm

Aww, what was wrong with The Giver? I remember reading that in school around the same time the movie "North" came out and Elijah Wood said he would've loved to do a film adaptation of it. I fell in love with him that day.

#15

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:09pm

I LOVE both The Catcher in the Rye and Great Expectations.

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

#16

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:09pm

Eww Catcher in the Rye. One of the most overrated books ever.

I've never been so annoyed by a fictional character in my life.

#17

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:09pm

Best: Pride and Prejudice

Worst: The Giver

I didn't like The Giver because of the hopelessness at the end. I don't need a fairytale happy ending, but I do like to be hope for a better future for these characters.

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

Updated On: 10/19/05 at 10:09 PM

#18

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:09pm

yeah, i didn;t like catcher either. And the westing game was awesome, but that is another that I read out of school.

#19

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:11pm

Oh, yes--Scarlet Letter was TEDIOUS.

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#20

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:12pm

Worst- The Old Man and The Sea
Best - The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Phantom Tollbooth.
Both of these for a Fantasy in Literature course

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#21

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:13pm

Oh, yes--Scarlet Letter was TEDIOUS.

Indeed, it was. Great story, though.

I loved Catcher in the Rye. I strongly disliked the character of Holden, but I was also fascinated by him.

#22

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:15pm

Did anyone else dislike Wuthering Heights??

#23

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:16pm

best: huckleberry finn

worst: (tie) ethan frome & foundation

RIP glebby <3

#24

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:18pm

i didnt like the giver b/c i thought it was, well, boring. we got to read the westing game in 5th grade. we had little groups where we would try to figure out the mystery and we had paper where we wrote down stuff about characters. we did all these games to finally solve it. it didnt even feel like school, it was really fun!

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#25

re: Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School?

Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:24pm

Love the giver...

Best...
The Awakening
The Princess Bride
Angela's Ashes
The Stranger
Great Expectations
A tale of two cities
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Bluest Eye
The Secret Lives of Bees

Worst...
Heart of Darkness
Pamela
Anti-Pamela
The Book of the City of the Ladies
Song of Myself

I've blanked i can't remember half of what I've read....

So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space

Updated On: 10/19/05 at 10:24 PM

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