High school reading

[M]

Originally posted by Sqoon

• What did you read during high school?
• What did you like and what did you hate?
• And now (assuming you're out of HS), since I'm sure you're all becoming more balanced individuals, how do you think your opinion would change if you returned to them now?

we mainly read short stories and poems. oh and shakespere.

Typically, things that were forced down my throat I didnt like.

the things i read on my own I did. for instance, in sixth grade i read Hamlet and the Oddessy. but then freshman year I was forced to read romeo and juliet. needless to say I fucking hate that story. Macbeth also.

I really like death of the salesmen though.

[frostwolf ex]

its funny, in my educational caeer, i have been assigned death of a salesman 3 times, adn have never read it. Generally i enjoy reading, so most reading experiences were pelasent. I have to respectfully disagree with stone's love of the great gatsby, i could never find any character even partially likeable or interesting, adn i recall it was a painful slog through that book.

one of my favorites that i still chug through was Brothers karamozov, which really got me started on Dostoyevsky, who is easily one of my 3 favorite writers ever. animal farm and brave new world were also interesting, but in retrospect i think i enjoyed them a lot more back then.

[Mzo]

Yeah, Agatha Christie (sp?) ain't bad. Farenheit 451 was OK, and I can take (and even appreciate) most of Shakespeare. But there's a book... a book so horrible that I refused to read it, and therefore failed the test on it. I told the teacher I couldn't do it. Straight A's in English up until that point. Needless to say, I hate the book (and it's author).

Ladies and gentlemen, the most horrid, insipid, and inane book ever penned by Satan himself: Great Expectations. Dickens is shit.

[Chux]

Liked: Lord of The Flies, Catcher in The Rye, Native Son, Crucible, Great Gatsby
Hated: Wuthering Heights, Grapes of Wrath.

I still don't think I'd like WH or GOW... But to this day, my favorite novel is Catcher in The Rye, and Gatsby is a close 2nd.

[Tyler_Durden]

My favorites are Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I liked parts of Moby Dick, and I recognize that Melville is an amazing writer, but I was forced to read through the book so quickly in my AP class that it ruined it for me- instead of reading through it slowly and enjoying the language, I had to burn through it while taking notes on names and places so I could pass the quiz the next day. I'd like to read through it again though, at a more leisurely pace.