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sirin

sirin

Santa Fe, NM
November 2007

JUL 21, 2008 08:23 PM

Tiwaz said:

sirin said:
^^ apparently, someone's kind of a dick. kiss

You have no idea. bok



oh, i think i do.

emotedcreations

emotedcreations

Germany
July 2006

JUL 21, 2008 08:50 PM

sirin said:

Tiwaz said:

sirin said:
^^ apparently, someone's kind of a dick. kiss

You have no idea. bok



oh, i think i do.

Damn you... ARRR!!!

RizzoFord

RizzoFord

HOPEFUL

Wakefield, RI

JUL 26, 2008 10:36 AM

1984 and The Godfather. Still two of my favorite books.

EDIT: forgot to mention Farenheit 451

Coyotemike

Coyotemike

Kearney, NE
May 2006

JUL 26, 2008 10:47 AM

RizzoFord said:
1984 and The Godfather. Still two of my favorite books.

EDIT: forgot to mention Farenheit 451



What school taught The Godfather? Not that I object. It should be taught. It is actually on my list of books that should be taught in colleges, but in high school?

dkmfc

dkmfc

Germany
January 2003

JUL 26, 2008 11:01 AM

I hated it at the time, but I liked how the heart of darkness was used for apocalypse now, and everytime I see that movie I think about being forced to read that book in high school.

MisterEnrolled

MisterEnrolled

Birmingham, AL
October 2005

JUL 26, 2008 11:09 AM

coyotemike said:

RizzoFord said:
1984 and The Godfather. Still two of my favorite books.

EDIT: forgot to mention Farenheit 451



What school taught The Godfather? Not that I object. It should be taught. It is actually on my list of books that should be taught in colleges, but in high school?



Godfather was at my school. The entire english dept was the only liberal bastion of the school, and the principal was in the green party so he had no objections to anything by Puzo, Clavell, Heller, Beckett, Pirandello etc.

MrStitches

MrStitches

Sag Harbor, NY
November 2003

JUL 26, 2008 01:03 PM

Cassiel said:

FancyD said:
The Giver - Lois Lowery (still on my top 5 list of greatest book ever written.)
Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
1984 - Orwell



I remember reading "The Giver" when I was in my early teens (I think) and it making me bawl my eyes out.



I read that as a kid, but not for school. Hell of a book. The sequels aren't terrible.

RizzoFord

RizzoFord

HOPEFUL

Wakefield, RI

JUL 26, 2008 02:50 PM

coyotemike said:

RizzoFord said:
1984 and The Godfather. Still two of my favorite books.

EDIT: forgot to mention Farenheit 451



What school taught The Godfather? Not that I object. It should be taught. It is actually on my list of books that should be taught in colleges, but in high school?



It wasn't a part of the curriculum. Our class didn't like any of the books we had already read so far that year, so our teacher picked out a book he knew we would all like. Not a single kid in the class complained and it was the only book everyone read all of.

bendingunit23

bendingunit23

Victoria, BC
April 2005

JUL 27, 2008 08:06 PM

Tiwaz said:
BEST means one. Apparently nobody here actually passed English.



The girl I liked in my class got exactly double my mark on the christmas exam.

With that taken care of:
I liked Shakespeare's plays mostly Hamlet and Macbeth. I think the history of macbeth is interesting, how Shakespeare changed the history to suit the noblity of his time. And how the play is cursed.

I don't remember if I had to read it or it was read to me in school but a day no pigs would die

TheJuanupsman

TheJuanupsman

I'm lost
April 2004

JUL 27, 2008 08:21 PM

Other than textbooks for non lit classes I had no assigned reading in high school. The reading I did was always negotiated between me and the aging hippies who taught all the classes in the open school program I was in. What kind of fascist regime are you youngin's subjected to? tongue

Books that I read during high school that I really remember enjoying included Clavell's Shogun & King Rat, Tolkein's Hobbit & Lord of the Rings, The Grapes of Wrath, most of Shakespeare's plays & Capote's In Cold Blood.

TheJuanupsman

TheJuanupsman

I'm lost
April 2004

JUL 27, 2008 08:26 PM

Tiwaz said:
BEST means one. Apparently nobody here actually passed English.



Another thing they encouraged in the program I was in was too ignore arbitrary rules. tongue

Volkov

Volkov

Austin, TX
OLD SKOOL

JUL 27, 2008 08:27 PM

I hate you for making me try to even remember that far back.

looking at my bookshelf, the books that I still own from high school reading assignments.

Notes from Underground
Slaughterhouse-Five
Beowulf
'The Canterbury Tales
Hamlet
The Tempest
Picture of Dorian Grey
Great Expectations
Leaves of Grass
and Dune. (and I don't know if I can count that one. it was for a project where we could choose any book adapted into a movie to compare how certain elements were handled in the two)

of those...probably Slaughterhouse-Five or Notes from Underground

Suri

Suri

SUICIDEGIRL

Pennsylvania, USA

JUL 27, 2008 08:43 PM

Maus.

loved it so much i stole 2 school copies

AceT

AceT

Portland, OR
April 2004

JUL 27, 2008 08:58 PM

Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird

MessyJesse

MessyJesse

Roanoke, VA
February 2008

JUL 27, 2008 08:59 PM

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Ayin

Ayin

Chicago, IL
January 2003

JUL 27, 2008 09:21 PM

Suri said:
Maus.

loved it so much i stole 2 school copies



The graphic novel?

Ayin

Ayin

Chicago, IL
January 2003

JUL 27, 2008 09:26 PM

Volkov said:
I hate you for making me try to even remember that far back.



Well, I love you for trying... wink tongue

CheshireCat

CheshireCat

Los Angeles, CA
January 2004

JUL 28, 2008 07:32 AM

"Masque of The Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe, I really related to Prince Prospero and the different themed rooms thing.

Coyotemike

Coyotemike

Kearney, NE
May 2006

JUL 28, 2008 08:53 AM

CheshireCat said:
"Masque of The Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe, I really related to Prince Prospero and the different themed rooms thing.



I'm not surprised.

NoahMack

NoahMack

Fort Riley, KS
May 2008

JUL 28, 2008 09:03 AM

I enjoyed Grendel a lot. I liked seeing the story of Beowulf from the perspective of the "monster" Grendel. I also enjoyed The Crucible. I guess those would be my two favorites from high school. I still think The Outsiders and The Hobbit were the coolest books I was ever assigned to read, but those were both from elementary school.

Mythos_

Mythos_

Germany
March 2008

JUL 28, 2008 09:22 AM

Wow, you seam to get to read nice books in school.

I remember, I liked:
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

Great Title, isn't it. wink

Short: Marat/Sade

The Marquis de Sade was one cool guy. wink

adam_vincent

adam_vincent

San Francisco, CA
November 2002

JUL 28, 2008 12:46 PM

The little world of Don Camillo.

ChocolateJesus

ChocolateJesus

USA
January 2005

JUL 28, 2008 07:17 PM

To Kill a Mockingbird and A Seperate Peace.

I also really liked this book by Thomas Hardy and I can't ever remember the name of the fucking thing.

Thistle

Thistle

SUICIDEGIRL

California, USA

JUL 28, 2008 09:25 PM

ChocolateJesus said:
To Kill a Mockingbird and A Seperate Peace.

I also really liked this book by Thomas Hardy and I can't ever remember the name of the fucking thing.



Probably Return of the Native or Tess of the D'Urbervilles. I read both in high school. I liked the first and was too bratty to get through the second, which I read in 8th grade English for some reason.

Bill_the_Cat

Bill_the_Cat

West Vancouver, BC
May 2005

JUL 28, 2008 09:34 PM

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