My friend told me to read that! She said it was really good! I want to read it this summer...if i can ever get to the library....The ones i like were the giver ( i need to read the rest of that series) and Animal Farm my mom made me read it, the first chapter is so weird that i thought it would be awful, but i ended up loving it.
To Kill a Mockingbird. Everybody had to read that friggin' book back in school, but it was actually quite good.
I actually like the ones i was made to read. But these stick out to me: Walking the Boundaries-Jackie French. A lot of my classmate didn't like this one, and thought I was a freak when I told them I had read it twice, whilst most of them were only up to where they had to be. The Color Purple-Alice Walker. This one was so sad, but inspiring too. I LOVE it!
Private PEaceful like I stated in another thread in Book Discussion. I really did not want to read it, but once I got into it. I couldn't stop. Reccomend to anyone who enjoys growing up and war stories.
Samurai's Garden & Ender's Game I was so surprised that I enjoyed it. When I heard about it, I thought "...not another washed up sci-fi novel...", but I seriously liked it.
Catcher in the Rye. It was just my kind of book, I can't believe I didn't read it before I was forced to.
Oh wow, I had forgotten that book as well. I agree wholeheartedly though. Amazing book, but incredibly sad that it is all true.
My LA teacher made us read To Kill A Mockingbird in 7th grade. I didn't understand some of it and didn't realize some important things. So, I didn't appreciate it until around this year.
I love that, "Hamlet, the Original Emo." He's the OE. Sorry, I'm half sleep. It's always fun to watch different actors play Hamlet. I saw one who basically yelled his way through every monologue and silloquoy. It got to the point where I was asking myself, "How do the other characters not hear this silloquoy?" But Hamlet is a very interesting play.
I'm not the only one that reads those?! Yay! I get teachers mad because I'll read the text book like a novel, and refuse to read at her driveling pace too.
I know! I read them all and way ahead of time. Then I would reread them when we were supposed to. Haha, even during a lecture. I am such a bad girl.
I agree, some of the drivvle kids read these days is unbelievable (even Harry Potter, in my honest opinion, is garbage). The best book I was forced to read, was Animal Farm by George Orwell. Great book.
I've enjoyed many of the books I was forced to read for school, many of which were mentioned already. I have to say The Great Gatsby (though I had read it before), The Bluest Eye and The Things They Carried are three of the best books I have ever read and were all for school.
Everyone has probably wonderful books that I've never heard of but I've got to say that one of my favorite books that I was forced to read was Lord Of the Flies by William Golding. So cliche but I adored that book. I also enjoyed Beowolf by Unknown and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. All thanks to my English teachers.
I have two, actually. I had to read Stargirl for a book club I was in as a younger version of myself. I didn't think I'd like it because it seemed girly, but I actually thought it was really really good. The second is Great Expectations. It's a bit different because I absolutely HATE THE BOOK. Charles Dickens is a terrible, flowery writer who should've tried writing with fewer words (I know he got paid per word to write, but I think that he should've gone back at some point and cut out the extra words). The plot and characters, on the other hand, were amazing and I loved that aspect. But the writing sucked.
