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Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal
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Wow, now that is what I call a title for a book list. I don't think it gets any more descriptive, or precise, than that. In some cases, for some of these books, I would have preferred MULTIPLE root canals.
Most of these I liked altho I was required to read some of them too but Heart of Darkness was the pits to me. Several here I still hope to read someday.
Well, I tried the Mill on the Floss and it may get better but I cannot go on any longer with her boring childhood.
90% of these books are AWESOMEYou guys are lame
Like... who was reading Ulysses in school?!
Sounds like a cool school to me
Jim Trelease makes the point in The Read Aloud Handbook that many classics are not appropriate teen reading. Forcing them down the throats of teens can turn them off classics permanently. Though i love to read, I'm still struggling to wrap my head around the notion that some or even many of these books that I hated as a teen might have something to offer me now.
I am stumped as to why many of these titles are on this list, ie. Red Fern, Island of Blue Dolphins, Number the Stars ?? The only thing I can think is that the reader was given the book when he/she was not mature enough to appreciate it. I hated The Grapes of Wrath in high school, but appreciated it later as an adult.
I read the Island of the Blue Dolphins in fourth grade (but by my choice) and thought it was amazing. I can't believe it is on this list. I read a lot of classics even though I'm only 13 and I love them. Maybe if teachers just let us pick up the books in our own time we'll learn to appreciate them.
My teacher is forcing my class to read the narnia series and it's driving me nuts. Like group one gets book one and so on. I tried reading those books a few years ago but they were just too confusing and now I have to read book five without any clue what is going on.
With me is not the book itself... is that they make me analyze them and try to find meaning and essays and homeworks and horrible class discussion...My teacher force The Rape of the Lock down my throat! It was horrible... and he kept laughing ... and then he made us analyze it and write in the style of it. Oh goody!
Then he move on with the poems and so we got Andrew Marvell and thus my hatred for him began. I just didn't understand them and then writing in his style and analyze them was just a pain. His poems are so long and have so much to do with his time period that it just ....
As for the English Teacher and Great Expectations... I just didn't like them for selfish, none school related reasons: since the analyzing was fairly simple what annoy me was the characters in them!
I am sure that I will soon have a book for my fifth, but for now I would have preferred root canalS during the MONTHS we spend working on those books.
I actually sort of enjoyed The Scarlet Letter, though that might have been because it was the first time that I really understood the symbolism of a book instead of just thinking that the teacher was making it up (I swear some of my teachers did). I also just enjoyed the discussion we had. I also really enjoyed The Crucible. It had a lot of good points to it. I hated A Separate Peace though. I think that is my least favorite book ever.
Hilarious list title :D
Some of these books are just not meant for teen readers like some others have said. Have to wonder what the teachers were thinking when they decided to add these to their course. There are so many others that teens could relate too, but then again if it's taught well they just may like it :)
I guess I was lucky. The Grapes of Wrath was the only one I had to read that I didn't like. Too depressing for me. Plus the class time was running short so we were told to skim read and I guess a lot of it didn't make sense that way. We really didn't read many of these in my high school or maybe I just didn't take those classes -- we got to choose from several literature classes. I remember reading several Vonnegut books in one class that I didn't really understand but I didn't hate them either.
I would add the sound the fury to this list. I loved Great Gatsby, and To kill a Mockingbird, but not one ounce of The Sound and the Fury.
I 100% second what Max @ 02/25/2009 10:03PM had to say. You'd prefer root canal over something like Crime and Punishment?? Maybe it's not the books, it's you.
This list disappoints me.
I'll admit that there are a few clunkers listed here, but there are also some amazing books on here as well.
hmmm.. some I agree with such as Great Expectations and Heart of Darkness.. but I really liked some of the other books on here like Catch-22, Wuthering Heights, To Kill a Mockingbird, Brave New World... The Scarlet Letter wasn't TOO bad.. it had it's moments...
This is a horrifying list. Tess of the D'Urbervilles is the only one that I've read which I'll admit I wasn't moved by. Many of these I read in school, but I loved them!
I didn't see Albert Camus' The Plague (I don't know how to turn on or off the italics). Actually we didn't read it. We read maybe a quarter of it and the girls voted that we didn't want to read a book with a bunch of rats in it!
I hated The Scarlet Letter. And I was, oh, so glad that they changed their mind about our having to read Silas Marner - after having made everyone buy it.
I enjoyed The Grapes of Wrath and Animal Farm.
But, oooooooooh, The Rape of the Lock. Ruined Pope for me forever.
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