Books - Required School Reading #1 - Page 3

rio · 11-25-2004, 06:14 PM

Oedipus the King
The Myth of Sisyphus
All Things Fall Apart
The Iliad
The Inferno
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

germ881 · 11-25-2004, 07:48 PM

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Originally posted by rio

All Things Fall Apart

Ahh, I forgot I read that book last year. I had to write an essay on it.

Crossbow · 11-26-2004, 07:19 PM

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Originally posted by In Fair Verona
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - This book should die.

My dad loves that book. He has all her books. They look deadly boring to me. Then again, my dad wrote his doctoral theses on Lawrence Durrell, and I can't even make it through page 1 of any of that guy's bools.

oywllalrdy · 12-10-2004, 11:53 PM

9th Grade: I am the Cheese, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Jane Eyre

10th Grade: Of Mice and Men, The Joy Luck Club, Night, The Alchemist, and soon we're gonna read Julieus Caesar, To Kill a Mockingbird (again! yay!)

That's all I have right now. I don't know what I'm going to read later on. And I can't remember what else I read my freshman year....

Angela12 · 12-15-2004, 07:25 PM

There's very few books I've read for school that I really just hated -- I tend to think that the classics have good reason to be taught in school.

Deee · 12-18-2004, 10:26 PM

-Grendal, Things Fall apart, Julius Ceasar, Nectar in a siv. -I didn't really take a liking to any of them.
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Gullivers Travels, Macbeth, A tale of Two Cities -All pretty good.
Scarlet Letter, Ethan Frome, Huck Finn, Grapes of Wrath, the Assistant-All pretty good.
-The invisible Man, Crime and Punishment-Not bad at all.

alli balli · 12-19-2004, 03:23 PM

8th/9th grade
The Old Man and the Sea (HATED it)
The Merchant of Venice (indifferent)
The Killer Angels (indifferent)
Les Miserables (I liked the story but had a hard time understanding some of it)
Romeo & Juliet (eh)
Great Expectations (hated it)
Animal Farm (liked it)

10th grade
Cyrano de Bergerac (liked the parts that I actually read)
The Tempest (didn't actually read it, just listened to class discussion)
Catcher in the Rye (liked it)
Oedipus (didn't actually read it)
A Tale of Two Cities (liked the story, hated the style)
The Inferno (again...didn't read it)
A Doll's House (disliked)

11th grade
All the King's Men (liked it)
Catch 22 (liked it a lot)
The Scarlet Letter (disliked)
Night (liked it)
To Kill a Mockingbird (liked it)
The Great Gatsby (liked it a lot)
The Crucible (liked it)

12th grade
Beowulf (hated it)
Pride & Prejudice (liked it)
The Importance of Being Earnest (liked it)
Hamlet (we're currently reading it, and I like it a lot)
and we've read a ton of short stories, and I know we're going to be reading Crime & Punishment and Heart of Darkness.

Wow, I really didn't read anything in 10th grade.

I hated my English teacher that year, and her discussions were so mind-numbingly boring that I didn't even bother to read most of the stories.

soulstarshine · 12-31-2004, 07:19 AM

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Originally posted by Angela12
There's very few books I've read for school that I really just hated -- I tend to think that the classics have good reason to be taught in school.

Same here.

A.Film.By.Tiff · 01-27-2005, 09:36 PM

9th Grade
The Lord of the Flies (extremely painful, I used sparknotes for 30% of it and never really read all of it)
Romeo and Juliet (the only work my shakespeare I somewhat enjoy)
The Odessy (I didn't care for it)
assorted short stories and selections

10th Grade
Of Mice and Men (I love this one)
12 Angry Men (eh)
Julius Caesar (yuck)
To Kill a Mockingbird (yuck)

11th Grade
The Great Gatsby (i love it)
The Crucible (This too)
Huck Finn (yuck. yuck. yuck.)
A Raisin in the Sun (it was okay)

12th Grade
(The only class I took with required reading was a Sci-fi/Fantasy/Mystery class which I LOVED, so this year was a lot of fun for me)
Fahrenheit 451
The Hobbit
The Murder of Roger Akroyd
The Maltese Falcon (this was the only one I did not enjoy)

No one else has mentioned anything they've had to read in college, but since I'm a Fiction Writing major we read a lot. This fall was my first semester and this is what I had to read:
The Bluest Eye
To The Lighthouse
Gorilla, My Love
and tons of short stories, many by obscure authors from my college lol

This next semester I will be reading:
The Virgin Suicidies
Metamorphasis
Billy Budd and Other Stories
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories

Soz · 01-28-2005, 12:24 PM

Let's see if I can remember what I read in school- it's been a long time.

English class:
5th grade:
Big Tree by Mary and Conrad Buff: I loved this book and would love to re-read it now. We had to read some suprisingly mature stuff in that class.
a book about a wild horse: This was a bit too dark for me then, but I admired the horse for overcoming her difficult life.

middle school:
The Light in the Forest by Conrad Richter: I hated this book
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls: One of my favorite YA novels. I bawled at the end.
The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings: This book was sheer torture.
a play about Anne Frank: So good that I read Anne Frank's diary a few years later.

9th grade:
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck: We read way too many depressing books in 9th grade. This one just frustrated me.
A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare: I love this play! We went to see a production of it at a local college after reading it in class.
Animal Farm by George Orwell: I liked 1984 better.
The Iliad by Homer: I got so bored reading about all the ships that came from all the different lands and I got so annoyed with Achilles and some of the gods.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway: I found it boring. I ended up hating it once my teacher told the class how to interpret it. It doesn't help that I've had to read it three times between high school and college.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: It was okay, but then I had to read it two years later and it was tedious to read again.

10th grade:
The Odyssey by Homer: I liked this much better than The Iliad.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens: I didn't understand it then, but I've re-read it as an adult and I love it now. I think we were too young to be reading it because no one in the class knew what was going on. We all bought the Cliff Notes- which had an interesting typo about a man marrying a window.

Julius Caesar by Shakespeare. This was when I finally started to get Shakespeare. We got these info sheets to go along with the book and they explained things so well.
I was supposed to read a bunch more, but I got really sick and missed a lot of school.

11th grade:
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: I really liked it- and I think I'm one of the only people in my class who did.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman- Ernest J. Gaines: I don't remember this too well because 11th grade was a disaster.
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton : Not the best thing to read when my life was falling apart, but I survived.
There may have been more, but I can't remember and I missed even more school that year.

12th grade:
MacBeth by Shakespeare: I love Shakespeare.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller: The Salem Witch Trials just frustrate me.
a bunch of short stories, poems, myths, and legends
I also had to read a lot of the same stuff from 11th grade because I had to repeat several classes.

For Social Studies class (I can't remember what years):
Fail Safe by Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler: I grew up with enough fear of nuclear war that this book had the desired impact.
Alas Babylon by Pat Frank: Another nuclear war book. I think this sparked my interest in post-apocalyptic stories. I don't think I'd like it if I re-read it now though.
7 Days in May by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II: I'm not usually a non-fiction reader, but this was riveting.
The Defense Never Rests by F. Lee Bailey: I loved reading about Bailey's cases.
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair: This was one of the most depressing books I've ever read, but I liked the message.

I also had to read "outside reading" books in 9th and 10th grade. I chose mostly fantasy and SF books like The Martian Chronicles, The Hobbit, and The Once and Future King, and I even got to re-read Flowers in the Attic

I'll post about college another time

barbeegurl00 · 01-28-2005, 04:10 PM

Everytime I get assigned to read a book I hate it, because we have to read it in sync with the class while I'd normally read it in a day or so. Also, the analyzing makes it so much worse. I love reading but I hate having to do it with a class full of people.

Lady_Primrose · 01-28-2005, 04:39 PM

In school I've read:
Johnny Tremain (which didn't particularly interest me)
The Outsiders (good book)
The Witch of Blackbird Pond (loved it)
Romeo and Juliet (had a hard time understanding, but was ok)
Beowulf (good)
The Giver (good)
Probably a bunch more, I just can't think of all of them right now.

And we are supposed to start reading MacBeth sometime this year. I've already got some booknotes ready.

barbeegurl00 · 01-29-2005, 09:06 PM

The Pigman
Romeo and Juliet
Night
Macbeth
To Kill and Mockingbird
The House on Mango Street
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tom Sawyer

more, I can't remember some titles

soulstarshine · 01-30-2005, 01:12 AM

The only books I have to read for school nowadays are textbooks. I haven't had to read a novel for school since high school. I've read so many of them, I don't remember them all.

*Shell Bee* · 03-07-2005, 05:15 PM

I've had to read many books for my high school. Between summer reading and what we do throughout the year, we usually read around 10 books each year.
So far this year I've read:

Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
The Ox-Bow Incident - Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Long Day's Journey Into Night - Eugene O'Neill
King Lear - Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Medea - Euripides