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#51

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

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

"My dreams, watching me said, one to the other...this life has let us down."
#52

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 5:30pm

BEST: 'A Single Shard'

WORST: I forget the name. But I remember the worst book I had to read for school.
I'm not a gay stereotype. I'm a coincidence.
#53

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 5:36pm

I loved The Giver! And the sequels are happier...in a way.

Worst:Things Fall Apart. I was 10 when I had to read it. Traumatizing like I don't know what.
#54

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 5:39pm

BEST: Esperanza Rising (GO READ IT), Catcher in the Rye

WORST: Hatchet... had to read it twice, including to my 6th graders, and i still don't like it.


and if plays can count, i honestly did NOT like Antigone. read it last thing in English freshman year, first thing in English sophomore year, and then sophomore year of college. needless to say, i did NOT read it the 3rd time i was too disgusted by it and still knew it every well.
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#55

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 5:44pm

Worst book I ever had to read was GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, my favorite that I had to read was LORD OF THE FLIES.
ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!
#56

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 5:52pm

BEST: There were lots - but To Kill A Mockingbird was my favorite. I also liked Lord of The Flies.

WORST: Red Badge of Courage was pure torture. No question.

MIDDLE OF THE ROAD: The Scarlet Letter - a somewhat tedious read but a great story. Also Crime and Punishment - another tedious read, but I liked the concept of the story.


Updated On: 10/20/05 at 05:52 PM

#57

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 6:28pm

Best: 1984, A Tale of Two Cities, The Once and Future King, Agony and the Ecstacy, CLan of the Cave Bear, Johnny Get Your Gun (or was it Johnny Got His Gun? -- I always forget).

Worst: Hands down tie between Pride and Prejudice and My Antonia.

I seem to be the only one here who likes Scarlet Letter. I think Lord of the Flies, which my curriculum says we have to teach, is a GREAT story, but a HORRIBLY written book, and I don't lie to my kids in telling them my opinion either.

I also love teaching The Giver -- I can't imagine how anyone disliked that book -- my kids LOVE it.
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
#58

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 7:06pm

Best: 1984, The Stranger

Worst: Moby Dick, She's Come Undone (That was the single most depressing book of my life. They need to hand out free Paxil with purchase.)
"Nothing's lost forever. In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead." -Tony Kushner's Angels in America
#59

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 7:44pm

Whoa, ConvinceMe2, how could you hate Gulliver's Travels? It's the grandfather of all literary satire and its comments on human nature are positively unparalled (One page of the Voyage to the Houyininimhs (sp?) contains more frightening truth and wit and insight than the entirety of the tedious and self-serving Lord of the Flies). Everything about it is endlessly fascinating, even its travel-book-satire structure.
#60

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 8:08pm

I hated every single boring, disgusting word of it. I despised it so much that when I was done, I burned it! I don't care what it's the grandfather of. If I want satire, I'll read MAD.
ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!

Updated On: 10/20/05 at 08:08 PM

#62

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 8:11pm

Best- Hero Of Our Time, North And South

Worst- I hated Lord Of The Flies with a passion!
Jesus Loves You... Everybody else thinks you're an idiot!
#63

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 8:27pm

Best: Either Hamlet or To Kill a Mockingbird.

Worst: Ulysess, Finnian's Wake, and Great Expectations. Dull.
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#67

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 8:36pm

WORST: Prey (michael crichton)

BEST: To Kill a Mockingbird
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#68

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 10:45pm

just out of curiosity...

why do some of you dislike Wuthering Heights?

my best friend hates it, and i absolutely love it, but she won't tell me why....
#69

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 11:00pm

Best: To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo & Juliet, The Odyssey, Summer of My German Soldier

Worst: The Yearling, wasn't a big fan of Huck Finn either

#70

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 11:16pm

Worst- LORD OF THE FLIES

BEST-erm...I don't like any of the books we read...
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#71

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 11:50pm

Oh, BabyJohn, I'm very sad for you. Literature is so swell! Of course, I'm an English major, so I might be just a wee bit biased.

Worst:
Grapes of Wrath
Gulliver's Travels (Sorry, Sandwich. Intellectually, I recognize its brilliance, but at the same time I found it tedious and repetitive, and not at all humorous.)


Best:
The Awakening
The Rape of the Lock (dramatic poem, but still, I loved it)
The Glass Menagerie
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Persuasion
The Great Gatsby
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Unvanquished
I could go on for days.
"Wilkins, after all these years, are you trying to be funny?"
#72

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

Posted: 10/20/05 at 11:55pm

I hate Gulliver's Travels, because I found it tedious, beyond belief. Nothing enjoyable happens. Nothing funny; and I hated every single character in it. Everyone was gross!
ConvinceMe2 is dead. Long live BrendanStryker!
#74

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

Posted: 10/21/05 at 9:59pm

Best:
The Crucible
To Kill a Mockingbirg
Of Mice and Men
anything Shakespeare

Worst:
Scarlet Letter (that book needs to DIE)
Lord of the Flies
A Separate Peace
-If you don't like your fate, change it. You are your own master.- Aida
#75

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

Posted: 10/21/05 at 10:32pm

best: Johnny Tremain
and The Fighting Prince of Donegal

worst: Frankenstein
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story... AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956

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