Have you ever read a school assignment book that you enjoyed?

[orange_dragonfire4]

I really have to say that honestly once and a while, I get a school assigment book that I enjoy.

 

[twosteppin]

sophmore year, I had to read a book called "Cold sassy tree" it was such a good book, I read it last summer again for fun!

 

[nadroj1985]

Sometimes we read good ones in high school. In college, the quality of books is a lot better, IMHO.

Favorite high school readings: "Lord of the Flies" by Golding, "1984" by Orwell, "The Catcher in the Rye" by Salinger.

HS stinkers- "Cold Sassy Tree" (sorry DMB ), "Ethan Frome" (the author escapes me).

Great college readings: "Utopia" by More, "The Aeneid" by Virgil, "Inferno" by Dante, "Jesus Through the Centuries" by Pelikan.

 

[Cright]

1984 by orwell.

C

 

[twosteppin]

hehe.... other good ones i had to read, "a seperate peace" and "winesburg, Ohio" I should be reading catcher in the rye right now....but cannot bring myself to sit down and read.

 

[pieman3141]

I read 1984 a year before it was assigned, as well as the Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. Both are really good dystopian books.

I also liked a bunch of books in grade 8, and I liked The Taming of the Shrew in grade 12. Awesome play. Shakespeare's works should be watched, not read. All we're reading are scripts. Scripts are boring to read (exeunt!)

 

[AngelAmidala]

I know I'm kinda...older....but I've taken lots of literature type classes in college (when I was full-time and now taking classes for fun). I love reading...but sometimes the literature I have to read for class is boring.

Recently the thing I enjoyed reading most was selections from Augustine's, "Confessions" which inspired me to buy the whole book for myself to read (at some point) and I even bought a copy for a friend who was looking to get it for Christmas.

 

[Blessed-one]

once a while. I don't like Shakespear much though.

awesome books like "My Place", "Empire of the Sun" and "Brave New World". Opened my eyes to new perspectives..

 

[VigilanteHamster]

Hmmmm... Fahrenheit 451 was interesting, The Pearl (Steinbeck) made me cry, and so did Of Mice and Men... And don't forget To Kill a Mockingbird.

 

[Cordelia]

I always loved Shakespeare, even back when I didn't know what most of the words meant - just speaking them out loud in class was heavenly. I remember Wuthering Heights, too, in Sixth Form - it irritated me to study it at first, but when I got it home and actually read it, it hit me how amazing it was. And so I've loved it ever since.

 

[Mr.Cheese]

lol. I guess it depends. I hated every book in high school.
But after that I've enjoyed everything. Well, ok. Some british lit was lame, but the book was an anthology so that doesn't count.
Oh. Shakespeare made me want to puke. I couldn't sell that book back fast enough.

But I've liked everything else.

 

[cowgirls_kick_butt22]

frosh-Night
shoph-To kill a mocking bird
jr- none and going to keep it that way!!

 

[G-Sk8a]

sup people, I just recently read 2 dave pelzer books. "A child alled IT" & "The Lost Boy"
awesome srories. It was amazing what that guy went through
other books I have read and liked are "one shot, one kill"(about vietnam snipers), and J.R. Tolkien's The hobbit and Lord of the rings trilogy

 

[G-Sk8a]

oops thats " A Child CALLED It"

 

[twosteppin]

frosh-Night
shoph-To kill a mocking bird
jr- none and going to keep it that way!!

night is such a good book. tear jerking.

 

[HunterJon]

In high school I really enjoyed the Odyessey by Homer, I liked it so much that I went out and got the Illiad and read that.

In college Catch 22 by Heller was a great read.

 

[lozzie]

I liked doing shakespeare at school. So thats A Mid Summer Nights Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and King Lear.

I also didn't mind Lord of The Flies in year9.

When I was in yr 11 English changed from studying books to texts... So I did Clueless (I love that movie), Frontline, and The Handmaids Tale (the movie version), Die Hard With a Vengence

Things I didn't like:
Scatterlings by Isobel Carmody... id already read it once it disliked it the first time
Heart of Darkness
The French Leuitenants Women by John Fowles. (I respect how and why it was written, by thats why i disliked it so much)

 

[Koryu]

I'm not a fan of classics, really, so I don't like most of the book I've had to read in class. Example: Lord of the Flies

I do like the Shakespear that I've read though. Romeo and Juliet,last year, and Julius Ceasar this year. I've also read Hamlet on my own. But I do agree, pieman3141, the Shakespear is better SEEN then READ.

 

[Bartimaeus]

Okay, first let me say I'm a real Shakespeare geek. Okay, that admission out of the way, in high school, I remember reading "Native Son" by Richard Wright. It is an intense book, but worth reading.

 

[nadroj1985]

Best Shakespeare play ever is "Much Ado About Nothing." "Hamlet" is really cool too. Both are much better than R&J, at least.