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

[TheDerek]

I really liked "The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn." At the begining of the boiok, the grammer was so bad, it got on my nerves. But I got used to it, and it turned out to be a great book!

 

[nadroj1985]

Augstines Confessions

You read that as a high schooler?

 

[Caedmon]

You read that as a high schooler?

Why not? It's a classic.

 

[MissRowboat]

I like all the Shakespeare we read..Except for King Lear. So boring. But I loved A Midsummer Night's Dream especially.

And Christopher Marlowe's 'Faustus,' I believe it was called was great. I honestly believe that had Marlowe lived, he would have far surpassed Shakespeare. Dr. Faustus was amazing, IMO. It made me think about things that had never crossed my mind before!

 

[Tihana]

I like to read, but since I also like to choose for myself what I'm going to read, I hardly ever enjoy books I have to read for school assignments. This year I'm taking two different literature subjects in Uni (I have to take those subjects if I'm going to get my degree, but I would substitute them for language subjects if I could), so I had to read a lot of books I didn't enjoy at all. Like, the curriculum lists about 15 books or so.

However, there was one I enjoyed, and a few more that gave me the feeling that "I'm glad I read this, even though I didn't enjoy it that much". But most of the time, I don't like the stuff I read because I have to.

 

[TheDandyMan]

Every once in a while. The Outsiders was pretty cool.

 

[nadroj1985]

Why not? It's a classic.

Yes, but I was just saying that it is a bit advanced for a high schooler, probably.

 

[The Duke]

I said everytime because it's often enough that I figured that'd be the right answer. Anyway, a lot of times I'll hate getting the assigned reading, but once I start it I'll enjoy it. The thing that really bugs me is answering questions on stuff I read.

 

[pieman3141]

From High School onwards:

Gr. 8 - The Singing Stone - OR Melling
Gr. 9 - In The Heat of The Night - Forgot Author
Gr. 10 - Animal Farm - George Orwell, Julius Caesar
Gr. 11 - Macbeth (The only year Shakespeare beat everyone)
Gr. 12 - 1984 - Orwell, Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood (good book for anyone), Fountainhead - Ayn Rand, Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury, Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare. The only year when I loved every book my teacher threw at me.

1st Year - Trainspotting - Irving Welsh. Good book, good movie adaptation. Don't watch/read if you're sensitive to drugs.

Never took another novel-study course again.

 

[tqpix]

I chose Never. I'm not a big fan of books at all. The only books I like are COMIC books/graphic novels. Although, I did enjoy my financial accounting texts in college.

 

[Ashlynn]

I liked reading Antigone, Julius Ceasar, and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman in HS. I must agree that the choices both good and bad get more interesting in college. I once took a class where we had to read 1 book per week, of the 15 I think I read 11 or 12. Some were great some were not. To each his own

 

[Wroth]

The "Dream of Eagles" series opener: The Skystone by Jack Whyte. It was a spectacular book, filled with action and Roman myth mixed into British lore. I read the next 6 or 7 books in the series too

 

[selune]

Loved Shakespeare, my fav. HS read was Tale of Two Cities. Also: To Kill a Mockingbird, Brothers Karamazov, Moby Dick, and Twelve Angry Men.

 

[peaceblossom]

Books are a huge part of my life, aside from skectching, it's my most treasured hobbie. So when book reports came around, it was like Christmas for me. I spent my summers reading books only to find that most of the books that I read were on the list of books to read for the school year. Most of the book reports we did had to be on books we actually read (some people would buy cheat books and try to quote for them...silly geese). The funny thing is that I'm a college grad and I still do book reports on books that I read, it's like an addiction or something. But here are my favorites through my grade school years:

The Three Musketeers
A Midsummer Nights Dream
Canterbury Tales
Antigone
The Hobbit
A Moveable Feast
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Flowers in the Attic
Soylent Green

 

[draper]

To answer the question in the OP - of course! Its actually pretty hard for me not to enjoy a book!

 

[tweek821]

I really liked Lord of the Flies...

I like Tale of Two Cities' spark notes (exciting!) lol

 

[Alenci]

Lord of the Flies is good! I also liked Great Expectations, The Red Badge of Courage, and To Kill a Mockingbird. One of my favorite books that I read in high school was Cry, the Beloved Country, but I'd read it already! Some good plays were The Crucible, Antigone, and Our Town.

Worst play:
Romeo and Juliet

Books I Hated:
The Grapes of Wrath
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull (?)

 

[Wonky]

I rarely like books that I read in class (I think something about being forced to read it takes all the enjoyment out of it for me). But I did enjoy Jane Eyre (I adore the Brontes), and a play called "No Exit" by a French author that I can't remember. "No Exit" is kind of disturbing, but incredibly interesting, nonetheless.

 

[Pope Gonzo]

I really enjoyed All Quiet on the Western Front, and there were a few books I didn't mind. Then there were the masses of books I couldn't stand I think it's partly because I didn't enjoy them and partly because my teachers were always wrong about them

 

[Infernal Freak]

I really have! I really liked To Kill a Mockingbird, it was a very cool book. The Hobbit was another that I REALLY enjoyed...(of course...I am a J.R.R. Tolkien fan!) Speak....well, that was ok (it did have parts that I really wish could have been censored...if you know what I mean!) The Odyssey was really awesome too! (I love stuff like that...if you see...I am really a war/adventure fanatic...) Shakespeare was WAY TOO 'romantic,' I HATE THAT! (YUCK!) It is not that I think boys are gross or anything...it is just that, those type books and stories are really annoying...they just don't FIT me! (I hate traditional 'love,' ESPECIALLY love at first sight...I really do not believe in that...no offense to anyone else who does....I just don't really see how it works...I mean I do...but I don't! I mean, if you don't know the person...you can't be in love with them (In my opinion!)) Well, hope ya liked my response! Got to go!
Yo Sis In Christ,
Heather