Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School? — Page 2

#26

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Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:29pm

Best: Going After Cacciato and The Great Gatsby.

Worst: The Scarlett Letter or Great Expectations.

Updated On: 10/19/05 at 10:29 PM

#27

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

Best: The Great Gatsby

Worst: The Good Earth
closely followed by Things Fall Apart

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#28

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Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:37pm

so far...
Best: Of Mice and Men and Where the Red Fern Grows
Worst: Fahrenheit 451 and Red Badge of Courage

#29

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Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:42pm

Worst: Heart of Darkness, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man.

Best: Canterbury Tales, lots of Greek Mythology.

#30

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Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:42pm

I agree with Fah 451 - better in concept than it was on paper.

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#31

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Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:44pm

i love fahrenheit 451 ... both the book and the movie. (love the giver too!)

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#32

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Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:46pm

forgot about Where the Red Fern Grows and The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe for best.

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#33

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Posted: 10/19/05 at 10:56pm

You guys dislike Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye? Sad!

... I like too many books to list. However...

Worst: The Scarlet Letter; Things Fall Apart

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#34

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Posted: 10/19/05 at 11:03pm

Best:
Lord of the Flies
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Worst:
Return of the Native. (GOD, what a waste of paper.)

I can't believe that people don't like Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451 and The Giver.

#35

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Posted: 10/19/05 at 11:22pm

Best:
Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
The Crucible

Worst:
Old Man and the Sea
The Giver

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#36

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Posted: 10/19/05 at 11:24pm

Best:
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Giver
The Diary of Charlotte Doyle (not sure if i got the title right)

Worst:
Hasn't really been one yet that I haven't liked.

#37

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Posted: 10/19/05 at 11:39pm

It's The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle... Lol. I liked it so much, I never returned it to school.

The Scarlett Letter isn't so bad on audiobooks, I have to say.

I can't really remember most of the books I read in school.

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Updated On: 10/19/05 at 11:39 PM

#38

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Posted: 10/19/05 at 11:41pm

BEST: The Crucible, The Great Gatsby

WORST: Slave Dancer

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#39

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Posted: 10/20/05 at 6:37am

BEST: Catch-22, Wuthering Heights, Catcher in the Rye

WORST: Song of Solomon, Portrait of the Artist as a young man

#40

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Posted: 10/20/05 at 7:40am

Best: I would say Barrington Moore's Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy : Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World or Robert Gilpin' Global Political Economy

Worst: Game Theory for Applied Economists. I've never likeed Game Theory and this book bored me to death.

#41

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Posted: 10/20/05 at 8:52am

Best: To Kill a Mockingbird

Worst: A Light in the Forest

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#42

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Posted: 10/20/05 at 9:31am

Well this is kinda hard b/c even books that were not my favorite I certainly appreciated as being well done but as far as one the I was engrossed in, I would have to say the best wat The Bean Tress and the worst was The Metamorphosis.

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#43

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 9:41am

Not a book, but a play... I just read The Crucible in English and loved it. =) I hadn't been familiar with it before so I'm very glad its in the 11th grade reading curriculum.

The worst... Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I know it's James Joyce and everything....but for me it was just long, tedious, confusing...plus we ripped through it really fast so that didn't help things.

#44

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Posted: 10/20/05 at 10:06am

BEST: The Inferno, Grendel, Cannery Row


WORTS: Grapes of Wrath, The Last Unicorn, To kill a FREAKIN MOCKINGBIRD

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#45

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 10:10am

Best: I know I'm going to leave many things out, but here are some
As I Lay Dying
The Grapes of Wrath
After the First Death
The Odd Women
Far From the Madding Crowd
So much Shakespeare I can't list it all
Farewell to Arms
Anthem
The Great Gatsby

Worst:
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Heart of Darkness
Intruder in the Dust

Special Category for books most people read for school, but I somehow made it through High School and College (with a BA in English) without ever being assigned:
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984

#46

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Posted: 10/20/05 at 12:12pm

I'm with you, Type...

Worst: Wuthering Heights or Madame Bovary
Best: To Kill A Mockingbird and Othello (read it in one sitting!)

I LOVED Farenheit 451 (film too) and Cathcher...I identified with Holden...

I had never heard of The Giver till I got cast in a play version of it--we toured to all these schools and the kids seemed to like it...what do I know?

#47

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Posted: 10/20/05 at 1:35pm

Oh, are we including plays in this? Because The Crucible would definitely be on my favorites list then, along with Glass Menagerie and Hamlet.

#48

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Posted: 10/20/05 at 2:32pm

Best:
Aside from many of the classics already named, Ellison's "Invisible Man."

Worst:
"A Separate Peace." Ugh.

#49

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Posted: 10/20/05 at 3:16pm

BEST: Orphan of Ellis Island

WORST: Indian in the Cupboard

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#50

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Posted: 10/20/05 at 3:18pm

Wow! None of you had to read the absolutely worst book of all?

The Red Badge of Courage

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