Required Reading You Actually ENJOYED!!

[Nooj]

The Diary of Anne Frank. I didn't enjoy it. It made me sad, miserable and hurt that I was reading the words of a murdered girl.

 

[Lessien]

My English class is reading The Grapes of Wrath and so far, I'm enjoying it.

 

[BoxBunny]

Hehe, as an english major there have been a lot of wonderful books thrown at us . Here are my highlights though.

Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Ygvan, the Knight of the Lion by Cretien De'Troyes
Billy Budd by Herman Melville
Lancelot by Walker Percy
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (this one is my favorite book of all time)

 

[Arielles]

One of my favorite required reading books was the Great Gatsby

 

[inzone]

somoerset maugahm

 

[Live4HimAndLoveOthers]

(Wow, these posts are really old, so I think I'm replying to some old and forgotten threads. Oh, well, I just became a member yesterday, so I can use the excuse that I'm a newbie! LOL)

The Faerie Queene, an English epic poem by Edmund Spenser, published first in 1590. Yes, it is written in Old English and is hard to understand, but nevertheless, I very much enjoyed it. I like the fact that it was about a Christian knight fighting a dragon, using the spiritual armor as found in Ephesians 6.

I also enjoyed Beowulf. To me, he was the first superhero!

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

Pssssht, Live4Him:
Spenser's "Faerie Queene" is written in Middle English rather than Old English.
(Just thought I had to point it out before somebody memorizes the error and has to pay for it in some multiple choice test at school/uni or something.)

 

[Live4HimAndLoveOthers]

Pssssht, Live4Him:
Spenser's "Faerie Queene" is written in Middle English rather than Old English.

It's ALL Old English to ME! LOL! j/k

Seriously, though, thank you for the correction, and for that bit of education.

But at least Beowulf was written in Old English.

Now that you mention that, it makes me think...I guess the KJV (1611) was not written in Old English (c450–c1150), as I used to think, or even in Middle English (c1150–c1475). I guess that would be called King James English???

 

[Jane_the_Bane]

The term you're looking for here would be "Early Modern English" (late 1400 - ca. 1650).

 

[stormydawn]

The Giver- Lois Lowry
No Promises in the Wind
The Good Earth- Pearl Buck
The Great Gatsby- Fitzgerald
Arms and the Man- George Bernard Shaw
Candide- Voltaire

 

[Live4HimAndLoveOthers]

The term you're looking for here would be "Early Modern English" (late 1400 - ca. 1650).

OK, Thank you.

 

[Mling]

Cry, The Beloved Country. We actually finished the class before we finished the book, and I asked the teacher if I could keep it to finish. She got that really excited look that teachers get when they find a student who actually likes what they're teaching.

When I was in seventh grade or so, I was in Advanced English and a lot of my friends were in Honors (one rank above me), and they got to read Edgar Allen Poe. I actually went to the teacher I didn't know and asked him if he had an extra I could borrow.

 

[gemini_swede]

Educating Esme by Esmé Raji Codell. I had to read it for my principles of education class my freshman year of college and I absolutely loved it. I liked most of the other books we read too though...I just can't recall their names.

 

[Writings]

I took a British Literature class last year (half-year course) and I enjoyed pretty much everything I read in that class. Most of it was in portions, though, not the entire books themselves. I read The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, Pride & Prejudice, and Pilgrim's Progress. There were others, of course, but I just can't remember them right now. Overall, however, I loved British Literature!

 

[wiggbuggie]

im reading othello now by shakespeare and im enjoying maybe ill get more of the his plays for my own reading i also remember macbeth was good.

 

[frenzy]

When I first read The Great Gatsby in high school, I really liked it! Also, in one of my high school English classes, the teacher had a selection of books we could choose from, and I ended up picking a book called Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie. It's so good!

 

[Blackmarch]

Of mice and men.

Can't remember the title but a short novel about a guide who takes a hunter hunting in the desert and ends up being the one being hunted.

Count the Stars

THe Great Gatsby.