Favorite Books you had to read for school
 

Everybody has to read books for school, and it's inevitable that, against your wishes, you'll end up liking some of them. Here's mine.


Novels:
~Animal Farm
~Fahrenheit 451
~One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
~Screwtape Letters
~The War of the Worlds
~Treasure Island

Short Stories:
~Flowers for Algernon
~The Cask of Amontillado
~The Gold-Bug
~The Most Dangerous Game
~The Tell-Tale Heart
~Anything by Edgar Allen Poe

Plays:
~As You Like It
~The Importance of Being Earnest
~The Mousetrap
~The Rivals

It would probably be a good book, if the story changed at all. Well, after Snowball was chased away but then after that it was just the pigs becoming more and more like humans and lots of death which made up most of the book.

I would say a shortened version of the Odyssey. I like Greek mythology for some reason...

Animal Farm is actually all about the pig degradation, as it's a metaphor for the Russian revolution. If you haven't noticed that Napoleon is the pig version of Stalin, you must be blind.

A Wrinkle In Time
A Wind In The Door

Grades 6 and 7, respectively. Dear God, don't make kids read books like that. I wasn't a kid, though, so I loved it, considering I'd read the, years before. :)

My favorite from school is The Little Prince.

Many people in my class hated it because they didn't get the underlying meaning.

Catcher in the Rye.

My favorite book ever. I read it 5 times before the rest of the class read it once.

novels:
-The Outsiders
-Holes
-Any book from the Mysteries of Belltown Series (5th grade had awesome novels)

Short Stories
-Any book by William Steig (5th grade also rocked with short stories)

I usually hate books read in class, but The Outsiders was actually for once a good book that we read in 8th Grade. It was pretty good except for the fact that we had to answer a 30 page packet on what the book was about..

In the Outsiders, the writer spent too much time talking about the guys' eyes. Made the narrator sound almost gay.

In Grade 8 we read one of the most boring books on the face of the planet, The Red Pony. Seriously, I sat beside the window in that class, you have no idea how many times I considered jumping while we read that thing. Right now we're reading bits of The Odyssey, and I love Greek mythology, so it's definitely the best book we've read in school. We're also going to read To Kill A Mockingbird. I've heard it's good, guess I'll find out when we do read it. We only ever read one play in school, Flight Into Danger. Not that great, but we were each assigned a character and had to read our parts. My friend started to read, and halfway through started to do it like Shatner, moving with each word and saying them slowly and dramatically. After that everybody did things with their voices and stuff...damn, that was a funny class.

I did both Catcher in the Rye and To Kill a Mockingbird for summer reading Grade 9 and loved Catcher, only to find that we would be doing all our work on Mockingbird.

I still don't see why people love that book so much. It has an important message, but this is contained within a simple plot and simple narration. I mean, wow, racism is bad. Now can you write a good book about it?