Books - Required School Reading #1 - Page 5

**Quarterley** · 06-16-2005, 10:08 PM

Cather in the Rye is another one that I never read.

And MacBeth.

Kimberly · 06-16-2005, 10:32 PM

ooh both good

But I didn't think Catcher in the Rye was as great as most people make it out to be.

**Quarterley** · 06-16-2005, 10:43 PM

I had to read this. I don't remember which year. Probably junior high. Something about a guy surviving in the wild. Not my kind of thing at all. I kept wanting to either sleep or rip the book.

**n e r b l e** · 06-17-2005, 05:37 AM

I always loved the books that were "requrired" in school. For literature classes I mean. The textbooks were horrid.

Kimberly · 06-17-2005, 08:44 PM

ooh we read Hatchet too!

that is the one where he is living in a tree right? My step mom teaches that book in middle school.

Nerble I agree I always loved the books we had for lit. classes!

and yeah most of the text books sucked

the only one I liked is when I got the teacher edition with all of the answers for a spelling book in 5th grade

that was great! I guess I always liked my History Text books too

**Quarterley** · 06-17-2005, 09:05 PM

When textbooks were written in a boring way, it's really hellish.

germ881 · 06-18-2005, 06:29 PM

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Cather in the Rye is another one that I never read.

Really? I read it my freshmen year and fell in love with it. It's become one of my favorites.

I'm taking AP Lit when I return to school and we've been assigned to read/analyze 1984 over the summer. My freshmen English class did it and I enjoyed that book so it should be easy. I can't wait to see the reading list for that class.

Textbooks can be a drag. Especially History ones. Luckily, the one I had this past year wasn't too bad.

Deee · 06-19-2005, 07:52 AM

For the summer, I'm taking an AP Seminar class, and I have to read Frankenstein and
Love in the Time of Cholera for the summer. I've read Frankenstein before, and it goes under my list of books, along with two kill a mocking bird, of the books I should like, but don't. I'll try reading it over, see what happens. I've never read Love in the Time of Cholera before, but Gabriel Garcia Márquez is amazing. One Hundred Years of Salitude was just remarkable.

My highschool also requires a summer reading list, and I've read just about everything on the entire list, so this should be easy as cheese.

**TheAngel** · 06-20-2005, 05:25 PM

I'm reading Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks for my college world cultures class. I haven't started it yet and probably won't for a while but it looks interesting.

Cold-Blooded Piece of Toast · 06-20-2005, 05:51 PM

I really enjoyed my creative writing (poetry) class. It introduced me to new poets and some of them were excellent. Here are two I enjoyed (though some of the larger collections had some lovely poems).

The Other Side (El Otro Lado) - Julia Alvarez
Shelter - Lisa Glatt

Ambato · 06-26-2005, 09:11 PM

i loved required reading in school, cause i want to read classics, but i can never be bothered cause they are harder work. i read
'To Kill a Mockingbird', which was ok, but i'm glad i read it
'War of the Worlds',
'Journey to the centre of the earth'
'Macbeth' and 'A midsummer's night's dream' which i loved, more so since we had to perform it, it completely makes you feel so much smarter when you can quote shakespeare. i'm reading hamlet at the moment, for fun.
'Grapes of wrath', truth be told i never finished it, i skipped to see how it ended and read a really good summary on the net. i didn't like it, it was pretty boring.
'travelling north', a boring play about retirees, while the other classes got to read 'the crucible'

power of one is a book i've been meaning to read for a long time but have never gotten around to it, i wished i would have read it in school.

my brother, who still hasn't finished the fifth harry potter book, has to read 'tomorrow, when the war began' for school. i own the whole series so he borrowed it off me, read it and kept reading, he's up to the fifth one now, i've never seen him read so much, so i think it's good for him, cause i read over his english assignment, he needs to read more, much more

i love that they introduced me to poetry too, Percy Shelley, Rupert Brooke, my fave Edward Thomas, Dylan Thomas, William Blake

aquarian_gurl_87 · 06-30-2005, 08:24 AM

The required books that I read that i like are Catcher in the Rye (one of favorties books now), Macbeth, Hamlet, Grendel, 1984, Lord of the Flies, and Raisin in the Sun

Animal Farm, The Crucible, Dracula, Pride and Prejudice and Cry,the Beloved Country were okay. But, I hated Romeo and Juliet, Daisy Miller, and The Importance of Being Earnest

22 Umbrellas · 07-16-2005, 03:03 PM

I just went to my college orientation and got my reading list for the fall semester -- 11 books! Normally that wouldn't really be an issue, but as I've said before, required reading is not my thing. And the class is called Human Situation: Antiquity, so it's all writers like Homer, Plato, Euripides, Aristophanes, Ovid, etc. I realize some people like to read that kind of stuff, but quite frankly, it bores me. I really hope I'm able to get through them.

**Ruby_Slippers** · 07-21-2005, 04:43 PM

6th Grade- Roll and Thunder, Hear My Cry & The Key
7th Grade- To Kill A Mocking Bird
8th Grade- A Seperate Peace
9th Grade- The Chocolate War & Into The Wild
10th Grade- All Quiet on the Western Front & The Joy Luck Club
11th- Invisible Man & Blue Highways
12th - Bleak House , Moby Dick, Possession

Ok, that's all I remember about my summer reading lists. I fuzzed out around 7th and 8th.

I enjoyed most these books by the way.

Kathryn Marie · 07-22-2005, 07:18 PM

6th - Frankenstein, The Island of the Blue Dolphins
9th - Romeo and Juliet, The Odyssey, War of the Worlds
10th - The Good Earth, Our Town, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Oedipus Rex, Wuthering Heights, Ivanhoe, Great Expectations, Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, Daisy Miller, The Diary of Moll Flanders, Othello
11th - The Awakening, The Scarlett Letter, Anthem
12th - Ethan Frome, Walden, Notes from the Underground

There are more...I just can't think of them. Tenth grade was the year of the novels. After that, my teachers focused a lot on short stories and poetry.