What's a book you read in school that you actually enjoyed quite a lot?
What's a book you read in school that you actually enjoyed quite a lot?
I really liked To Kill a Mockingbird even though I barely remember it.
The Giver. I mean goddam.
17I had to look that one up. Looks like I barely missed that one, I had just aged out of the target demographic when it was published. Huh, it won a Newbery, so it must be good! Wait, what the heck, this book sounds like it was huge, how did I now hear of this before? Ok, well, I guess I gotta pick up a copy now.
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Brave New World. That teacher got me into some sci-fi & dystopian greats!
11Both Lord of the Flies and 1984 were great.
111984 is an amazing book that is increasingly relevant
8All quiet on the Western Front
7Still one of my favorites all these years later.
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Quite a few:
I am David.
The Grapes of Wrath.
.1984.
A Fortunate Life.
7I liked Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I felt To Kill a Mocking Bird was only ok, although I got pretty confused in some of the court scenes.
7In High School
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Both are easy reads, but I found a lot of depth in them in my formative years. Things don't always go as planned, but we carry on.In Uni
Catch-22, I genuinely laughed out loud at so much, it still helps me laugh at infuriating bureaucracy.
Fear and Loathing in LV.
Both for an Americal Lit elective, read everything I could find by HST afterwards.5Siddhartha
5Metamorphosis.
And from my youngest days, "The Murder of The Math Teacher"
4The Faraway Lurs. It started my love affair with fantasy.
4HHGTTG - we had a pretty cool teacher
4Hatchet
4Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama
4It's a good book, deeply unfortunate about it being inaccurate and harmful though.
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Neuromancer The Things They Carried The Catcher in the Rye
3Island of the blue dolphins was an immense gateway for me.
3Probably To Kill a Mockingbird and Fahrenheit 451 were my two favorites from my high school years.
3The Crysalids
Still one of my favorites
3I enjoyed that one too, I never forgot Sophie was it and her extra toes.
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Not to be That Guy, but I LOVED the catcher in the rye as a teenager. It spoke to my angsty teen heart.
3That's the beauty of it, aint it? It perfectly captures teen angst, so much so that you see it very differently when you're a teen vs an adult.
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Slaughterhouse-Five.
3I enjoyed To Sir, With Love and The Crysalids.
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2I specifically remember really liking bud not buddy, but also remember very little about it
2Oh my God, I've never seen any reference of this book anywhere. I read it when I was super young and couldn't understand anything except some of the racial stuff (I'm mixed), read it again as a teenager and was so glad I did. I don't want to touch it now and ruin the nostalgia but I really loved it as a kid.
2I don't really ever hear anyone else talk about it either. I'm guessing it was picked by my teacher and wasn't a common book to read in school. Ms. Hoke was wonderful. I'm white but went to magnet schools so I was surrounded by folks of all different races and financial backgrounds as a kid, and that book was probably my first introduction to the idea that some folks treat others differently for the color of their skin
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Out of Mind by J. Bernlef really stuck with me. A story about a man suffering from Alzheimer's, his life seamlessly flowing over into memories. At times he suddenly awakens from them, realizes his current state, and a terrible emptiness engulfs him.
2Connected to another post here: Brothers Karamazov. It was a mandatory read for philosophy class when I was 17. It’s one off my favorite books.
We had many other mandatory reads, but most were from my home country and are not that internationally famous.
2The owl who called my name, catch-22, invisible man, Lord of the flies and so many more.
2The Odyssey.
2The Calcutta Chromosome for postcolonial studies at university. I wrote one of the best exam papers I've ever written about it.
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