Best/Worst Book You Had To Read For School? — Page 4

BEST: To kill a Mockingbird, Equus, Lysistrata, of Mice and Men, The Secret Life of Bees

WORST: Shane, House on Mango street, The Joy Luck Club, Baby With the Bathwater, Bless Me Ultima!!!

Ok some were plays but Theater and English required A lot of them!

~~EM~~

Updated On: 10/21/05 at 11:24 PM

Best: "Of Mice and Men", "Playing Beattie Bow", "Letters from the Inside".

Worst: "Bless the Beasts and the Children". Urgh.

I loved most of the Lit. I read in high school - too much to remember. I was fortunate enough to be challenged to read some really compelling stuff in elementary school as well - Pilgrim's Progress, The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom (if you've never read it, put it on your life's to-do list).

I, like so many others, hated Lord of the Flies and The Scarlet Letter. Then, I get to college and have to live through a terrible production of the Scarlet Letter, where the director decided that every scene with the minister and the doctor needed to be laced with homoerotic undertones, and where a conceptual set designer represented the forest with GIANT BLACK HANGING POOL NOODLES. Now I *really* hate the book.

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Best: Siddhartha, A Tale of Two Cities, 1984, Animal Farm (I know there are more...)

Worst: Great Expectations. I respect the book as the classic that it is, but I simply wasn't very intrigued by it, at least not as intrigued as I was by A Tale of Two Cities. Ahh, Dickens.

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Best:
Of Mice and Men
The Giver
Brave New World
Taming of the Shrew

Worst:
BEOWULF...I hate this book, it is horrible, tedious, stupid....I could rant all day about this book.