Flowers for Algernon

Bicentennial Man

The Great Gatsby

1/10/2010 12:29:46 AM

The count of monte cristo

1/10/2010 12:30:43 AM

crime and punishment

1/10/2010 12:34:20 AM

life of pi

1/10/2010 12:37:19 AM

The Catcher in the Rye

1/10/2010 12:37:53 AM

the puppy who lost his way

1/10/2010 12:39:34 AM

The Stranger, although I didn't read that FOR school, I read it because my history teacher told me it was "too advanced" for high school students.

1/10/2010 12:49:13 AM

I didn't read it for high school, but I read it while I was in high school. I still read it every once in a while... it might be the only thing MTV produced that I've ever liked.

1/10/2010 1:02:13 AM

o i thought we were talking books we had to read for high school, thats way more interesting than what pre-teen/teen novel did you enjoy reading

1/10/2010 1:04:43 AM

East of Eden

1/10/2010 1:06:49 AM

all quiet on the western front

1/10/2010 1:06:54 AM

hatchet.

inbeforemiddleschoolbooks

1/10/2010 1:13:54 AM

hatchet is probably the only book i ever read and actually liked

read it in 5th grade iirc

1/10/2010 1:14:38 AM

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"all quiet on the western front"

that book freaked me out a bit - and opened my eyes a bit

1/10/2010 1:15:40 AM

Catcher in the Rye
Nine Stories
The Chocolate War
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I Know This Much Is True

1/10/2010 1:16:36 AM

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"that book freaked me out a bit - and opened my eyes a bit"

it was that, then paths of glory, then the actual movie all quiet on the western front, then college, then -- fuck -- I realized I was a liberal

1/10/2010 1:19:57 AM

Invitation To The Game

Harrison Bergeron

1/10/2010 2:32:58 AM

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"The Stranger, although I didn't read that FOR school, I read it because my history teacher told me it was "too advanced" for high school students."

Lol, you fell for the ole "too advanced" scam.

1/10/2010 4:21:27 AM

cry, the beloved country

1/10/2010 4:40:30 AM

No Promises in the Wind

1/10/2010 7:06:38 AM

Grapes of Wrath
Hamlet

1/10/2010 7:18:08 AM

100 Years of Solitude
Farenheit 451

1/10/2010 7:20:43 AM

Night
Rebecca
The Outsiders (middle school)

1/10/2010 9:19:37 AM

Fahrenheit 451
1984
A Brave New World

1/10/2010 9:22:21 AM

Requiem For A Dream

Last Exit To Brooklyn

Living With The Dead (Grateful Dead)

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"Fahrenheit 451 1984 A Brave New World"

I'm going to watch the movie 1984 now just because you mentioned it, always looked at it on Netflix but never watched it.



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1/10/2010 10:55:11 AM

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"Night"

1/10/2010 10:56:05 AM

Cliff's Notes

1/10/2010 10:58:34 AM

I read them in middle school, but Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and The Giver.

I'm having a really hard time remembering what we read in high school. I know we read The Scarlet Letter and a lot of King Arthur's tales, but besides that nothing jumps out as memorable.

1/10/2010 11:12:46 AM

we read The Giver in 5th grade. either i was too young to understand it or it sucked.

1/10/2010 11:14:47 AM

in 1984 they are drinking Russian vodka the whole time right?

1/10/2010 11:15:54 AM

if I recall correctly it was "victory gin"

1/10/2010 11:36:12 AM

"moved" is a hard thing to describe. Some of my favorite books that I read in High School (not necessarily for school):

Catcher in the Rye
1984
Count of Monte Cristo
Fahrenheit 451
Beowulf
Perks of Being A Wallflower
Return of the King (I think I read this my freshman year...I know I read the first two books in middle school)
Cat's Cradle
The Invisible Man

Heck I dono, too many to name, I'll stop there.

1/10/2010 11:37:50 AM

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"if I recall correctly it was "victory gin""

yep, Victory Gin it is.






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1/10/2010 11:48:44 AM

Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankel (I think i might read that one again actually)

The Secret of Staying in Love

When Bad things Happen to Good People

(my senior year theology class fucking kicked ass)

1/10/2010 11:50:52 AM

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"The Catcher in the Rye"

The tipping point

A separate peace

1/10/2010 12:17:15 PM

jughead's double digest 76. Holy fuckballs was Mr Weatherbee hard on those kids.

1/10/2010 12:39:26 PM

Didn't anyone read The House of the Scorpion? I thought it was pretty good!

1/10/2010 12:51:19 PM

For some reason I have remembered Dostoevsky's full name (Fyordor Micailovich Dostoevsky)

I don't remember any books in high school being especially moving. I was too thickheaded to take anything for more than face value and they were all just either cool stories or boring stories. Writing papers to analyze them for "what was the author trying to say" was all complete bullshit and a waste of time. Nonetheless I always played along and did well in English class.

1/10/2010 12:53:36 PM

I think that's pretty much the unstated goal of english classes... teaching citizens how to play along. It's a life skill and we use it all the time as adults.

1/10/2010 12:55:58 PM

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"I don't remember any books in high school being especially moving. I was too thickheaded to take anything for more than face value and they were all just either cool stories or boring stories. Writing papers to analyze them for "what was the author trying to say" was all complete bullshit and a waste of time. Nonetheless I always played along and did well in English class."

same here

1/10/2010 12:57:56 PM

Flowers for Algernon scared the shit out of me. The prospect of getting dumber and dumber after having been intelligent still sends shivers down my spine.

[Edited on January 10, 2010 at 1:05 PM. Reason : and I still love "The Great Gatsby," I don't care what anybody says]

1/10/2010 1:03:39 PM

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" I don't remember any books in high school being especially moving. I was too thickheaded to take anything for more than face value and they were all just either cool stories or boring stories. Writing papers to analyze them for "what was the author trying to say" was all complete bullshit and a waste of time. Nonetheless I always played along and did well in English class."

SO TUFF

1/10/2010 1:12:41 PM

harry potter

but seriosuly.

night
1984
all quiet on the western front

book i hated the most: great expectations. wtf that book blew

1/10/2010 3:13:44 PM

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"and I still love "The Great Gatsby," I don't care what anybody says"

What could/would they say?

1/10/2010 3:17:18 PM

GREAT EXPECTATIONS IS THE WORST BOOK EVAR

1/10/2010 3:19:24 PM

Watership Down
On the Beach


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1/10/2010 3:21:46 PM

It was more short stories for me--the following are just a few that affected me:

"The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. (And a number of others by Poe.)

"The Minister's Black Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

"Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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"And when he had lived long, and was borne to his grave. . .they carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom."

"Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving.

1/10/2010 3:27:43 PM

I really enjoyed Brave New World, All The King's Men, and 1984.

However, All Quiet On The Western Front was by FAR my favorite.

1/10/2010 3:30:52 PM

Frankenstein was good

fucking hated the scarlet letter

1/10/2010 3:39:27 PM

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"There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain. I was in the car. And I was glad of it. Between one point on the map and another point on the map, there was the being alone in the car in the rain. They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people. That is a very comforting thought when you are in the car in the rain at night alone, for then you aren't you, and not being you or anything, you can really lie back and get some rest. It is a vacation from being you. There is only the flow of the motor under you foot spinning that frail thread of sound out of its metal guy like a spider, that filament, that nexus, which isn't really there, between the you which you have just left in one place and the you which you will be where you get to the other place."

1/10/2010 3:43:25 PM