Books you had to read for school that you loved/hated

[Rissa]

I get to read Eats, Shoots and Leaves as one of my summer reading books this year and I'm very excited. Last year I had to read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, as well as the Epic of Gilgamesh. Two of the least interesting books I've ever read. Ugh. The year before that I had to read To Kill a Mockingbird and Ender's Game, and both were amazing.

[Montecito]

I had to read To Kill a Mockingbird and The House on Mango Street, neither of which I was really interested in. I also had to read All Quiet on the Western Front. It's not a favorite, but I liked it more than the other two. Maybe because my mind was taking random game and anime characters and having them re-enact it as I was reading. The fact that a female character "played" one of them was rather funny... but I digress ^_^. I seem like the only person I know that never had to read The Giver, I read it on my own a few years ago, and liked it quite a bit. Though I'm not sure how I would have felt if I had to read it. That always takes a bit of the fun out of it.

[Hil]

Loved: To Kill a Mockingbird (Took me a while to get into it), Romeo and Juliet, A Seperate Piece (I don't know actually...it was boring at first but I eventually liked it) Rebecca, Night, The Catcher In The Rye

Hated: The Giver, Johnny Tremain, All Quiet On The Western Front

[Igg]

HATED: Crime and Punishment, Metamorphesis, Heart of Darkness, Tess d'Urbervilles

Oh yeah, I had to read Heart of Darkness too...twice (once in high school, once in college). Let's just say I liked the movie Apocalypse Now much better.

Man, Heart of Darkness is rubbish.

Crime and Punishment isn't rubbish but it is very, very tedious. Hell, the crime's committed so near the start and then he just agonises about it FOREVER.

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[Byakuya San]

I get to read Eats, Shoots and Leaves as one of my summer reading books this year and I'm very excited.

I love thee, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. (It's the dry British humour.)

[drummer.a.h]

Loved:
- Animal Farm (yaaaaay governments!)
- Mythology - Edith Hamilton
- A Dolls House (a play, but still very good)
- The Great Gatsby
- Fahrenheit 411
- To Kill a Mockingbird (yeah, it rocked my freshmen year)
- Macbeth! ( to Lady Macbeth and the crazy)
- Romeo and Juliet
- Hamlet (can you tell our English teacher was a bit Shakespeare crazy? Luckily all the honors kids loved it.)

HATED!!:
- The Scarlet Letter (I thought it was okay after I read it, but after analyzing it to death...I wish it would just go away.)
- Pride and Prejudice (I know that so many people love this book, but it was SO DULL. And then I had to write an 8 pg paper on it. Woe to my AP English teacher.)

[Light]

I read:

Hatchet
Brian's Winter
The River - all by Gary Paulsen

I also read :

Night - Elie Wiesel
Palestinan and Isreali kids speak - Barbara Ellis

I liked most of them, Night (being a memoir of the Holocaust) however was good; though I didn't like it as much as did the others.

[Lee]

Loved:
- Animal Farm (yaaaaay governments!)
- Mythology - Edith Hamilton
- A Dolls House (a play, but still very good)
- The Great Gatsby
- Fahrenheit 411
- To Kill a Mockingbird (yeah, it rocked my freshmen year)
- Macbeth! ( to Lady Macbeth and the crazy)
- Romeo and Juliet
- Hamlet (can you tell our English teacher was a bit Shakespeare crazy? Luckily all the honors kids loved it.)

HATED!!:
- The Scarlet Letter (I thought it was okay after I read it, but after analyzing it to death...I wish it would just go away.)
- Pride and Prejudice (I know that so many people love this book, but it was SO DULL. And then I had to write an 8 pg paper on it. Woe to my AP English teacher.)

I will admit Pride and Predudice was dull, but very good. I personaly love the Scarlet Letter.

[halfbakedbliss]

Crime and Punishment isn't rubbish but it is very, very tedious. Hell, the crime's committed so near the start and then he just agonises about it FOREVER.

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Yeah, most every Dostoevsky could be summed up in the first ten pages. But if you stopped there you would miss out on the fabulous ~*Prince Myshkin*~.

[Penguin]

Books I've read in the last year and cirrently for School

Liked:
The Power of One
Othello
Tale of Two Cities
Animal Farm
Their Eyes were Watching God
Tom Sawyer
Huck Finn
Mayflower
Cold Mountain


Disliked:
Romeo and Juliet
Siddartha

[3lla]

For school, in year 8 I had to read Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. I hated it.
I was then made to read it again in year 9. I still hated it.
It is just personally not my type of book and i found it super boring....

[Callie]

Ok, so it's beeen quite a while since the last post on this topic but i'll add anyway

Romeo and Juliet hated It probably didnt help that i passed notes/talked/made random drawings while we read this
Fareinheit 451 Hated It was sooo confusing to me. and boring.
A Seperate Piece okNot my favorite but not horrible either
Night Pretty good..from what I remember
Huck Finn ABSOLUTELY HATED!!! Ugh. To me it was totally utterly pointless. especially the long drawn out ending. I know it's a big piece of american literature or whatever but i found it a waste of time and paper
Of Mice and Men LikedThis one I actually liked. The movie was really good too.

[Regan]

Liked:
The Kite Runner - I don't ever want to watch the movie; this book is too good.
Fahrenheit 451
Night
Of Mice and Men
Julius Caesar
The Outsider - Mersault, you so crazy.
Hamlet
The Fall
Life of Pi

Disliked:
Sarah, Plain and Tall - I read this in elementary school, but I remember a distinct distaste for it
King Lear
Macbeth
The Outsiders
The Bean Trees - Soooo boring.
The Great Gatsby
Frankenstein

Hated:
Lord of the Flies - I was also fortunate enough to watch both movie versions of this book. Never. Again.

[usucirocyay]

I loved Ender's Game (I read all the sequels/companions!) and Catcher in The Rye, as well as Catch-22 and Life of Pi. My absolute favorite book is The Count of Monte Cristo, which I read in eighth grade.

I did not like To Kill a Mockingbird or King Lear.

[Phlameseeker]

I hated all the books I read at school, not cos they were bad, but cos the way we read them completely spoiled the whole point of reading the book >.<