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

[katherinethegreat]

i loved lord of the flies and the outsiders..whenever i am in a bad mood i reread it and cry when they all die..it mkes me cry and somehow make me feel better

 

[lullalullaby]

oh yes definitely. esp in Lit. class! Absolutely..
I think rotting around in my memory is only one book ever to have disappointed me in a school assignment and that was like umm grade 7 or something. some rubbish book my english teacher pulled off the shelf when I finished the class reading list and he wanted to give me something to do cause I was a bit ahead. He didn't even look at what he gave me. Was just running around like a fluffed up hen. well I wrote back how dreadful I found the book and almost crippled all future student-to-teacher-to-student recommendations in EVER giving out this book again. MWAHAHAHA hehe ok. duude.. a lil bit of my 11yr old bratty self re-surfacing there. eeek! ROFL and the fact it's 5:30am in the morning (in OZ) and I still haven't Zzz yet.

so yeah. Lit. class was good.

 

[One Girl Revolution]

I was homeschooled so freshman year I got assigned Frank Peretti's Piercing the Darkness. I was really bummed about that until I opened it up and got hooked. I had it done in 2 days when it was supposed to take me like a month. I'm hooked on Peretti's books now!

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

Lord of the Flies, The Catcher in the Rye, Othello, Death of a Salesman, Brave New World, The Name of the Rose, Jane Eyre, To the Lighthouse, Faust, Nothing New on the Western Front, Paradise Lost, The Great Gatsby...

You name it, I love it.
Still, there were some books I didn't like as well. The Age of Innocence was a complete waste of time, for example. I kinda liked the opening and the first part, but found it kinda frustrating to read through another 200 pages with nothing happening at all.

 

[heathen chemistry]

great gatsby. everything else ... not so much.

 

[Pope Gonzo]

A lot of people in my classes really liked Catcher in the Rye and the Great Gatsby... but I didn't like either one so much. Eh. *shrug*

And I despised Slaughterhouse Five. It had a lot of good stuff in it, but as a whole I hated it.

 

[tateziwin]

To Kill a Mockingbird is a book I read at school and it really made an impact on me.
I could simply picture all of it in my mind as I was reading and to top it off, the movie they made was an excellent rendition of the book.

 

[Danielle]

We read all of The Lord of the Rings series which was awesome...Then the whole junior high and high school got to see the first movie. Some Shakespeare was fun. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetry was fun. Wuthering Heights and The Great Gatsby were interesting too. We didn't read much that I didn't like; although, I didn't like The Scarlet Letter

 

[towodi]

I've been out of high school for quite some time, but I can't remember a single book I read there that I didn't like. As for college, I can't say all of the reading was excellent, some of it was boring and/or difficult, but now looking back I can say that I enjoyed gleaning information from the books in the end.

 

[Ellesar]

I read The Hobbit my freshman year of high school, and I liked it. I enjoyed reading Fahrenheit 451 in my senior year also. I don't remember what other books I had to read for class. I remember ones that I didn't like...

 

[Reader Nilus]

When I was a Jr in high school we read Giants in the Earth by Ole Edvart Rolvaag, it was what turned me on to litrature. It was a class novel that started my conversion to Orthodoxy with Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoevsky when I was a Freshman in college.
Jeff the Finn

 

[jidujiao]

1984
Watership Down
Crime and Punishment
The Grapes of Wrath
anything by Billy Shakespeare
Silas Marner
Night
Canterbury Tales
Animal Farm
The Crucible
Antigone
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Pudd'nhead Wilson
The Count of Monte Cristo

 

[Fools Hope]

I loved Midsummer Night Dream! We acted it out and I got to be Puck! He was so much fun to play!

 

[immersedingrace]

I chose the "evey once in a while" option although I'm not a big fan of Shakespeare.


I enjoyed The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (actually most of the things I read by him); Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurey (spelling?); I like Edgar Allen Poe (Anabelle Lee, the Raven - although a little spooky); I liked The Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens; As a matter of fact MOST of what I read in my Lit classes I enjoyed very much. The boy who sat behind me would shake his head and ask "Why do you like this so much?"

I hated the short story The Lottery by Shirley Jackson; and The Jungle by Sinclair Lewis, had to read that for Civics class.

 

[Ave Maria]

Every once in a while but I can't agree with what you said in parentheses. Shakespeare bored me to death! I did like Charlotte's Web and some others that I have in school though. Most books that were assigned to us to read in school I have enjoyed but I could have done without Shakespeare.

 

[puppy]

we did several books for gcse that i really enjoyed (and understood) it was like they were set for me by my tutor as he knew id be interested in them and he knew i was a difficult pupil to teach and he was an excellent tutor, i so wish id thanked him for getting me through my gcse english literature before he passed away

an inspector calls
of mice and men
brave new world
animal farm

 

[Zoomer]

I enjoyed Fahrenheit 451, Wuthering Heights, Handmaid's Tale, To Kill a Mockingbird, and all Shakespeare (Much Ado About Nothing is my favorite and of course Hamlet).
The only book I remember not liking was In the Skin of a Lion, it's by the author who wrote the English Patient (which I do not like the book or movie, either).

 

[xpunkskaterx]

nope, never

 

[Kerosene]

This was thee only book I liked in school that I was forced to read. Honestly, I hated to read in school. It seems the junk we are told to check out isnt that fun. Now I love to read. I have seemed to have found my area of interest. Verne, Dekker and the like.

 

[Constantine]

There are alot of books that I've had to read from school, a few I remember are our World History text-book, Great Expectations, The Pearl, and what Kerosene said. Oh! I just remembered! Animal Farm! I enjoyed that book so much.