| Author |
Message |
Mr. Grimes
Joined: Jan 30 2008
Location: Hastings World, NE
Posts: 113
|
Great Gatsby, hands down.
Hey, I'm an English/Ed. major. That's why I started this thread.
|
|
|
  |
|
|
Bouya
Title: Delinquent
Joined: Aug 15 2007
Location: Suzuran
Posts: 1443
|
The 1994 Pro Wrestling Illustrated Wrestling Almanac.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Valdronius
Moderator
Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: The Great White North
Posts: 4459
|
I, Strahd: Memoirs of a Vampire
|
| Klimbatize wrote: |
| A Hispanic dude living in Arizona knows a lot of Latinas? That's fucking odd. |
|
|
 |
|
|
Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24869
|
Clarification needed: do you want to know the best book I was forced to read as part of my high school curriculum or the best book that I happened to read during the four years I was in high school?
|
|
|
  |
|
|
Bouya
Title: Delinquent
Joined: Aug 15 2007
Location: Suzuran
Posts: 1443
|
For the record, I used the PWI almanac as the chief reference for my AP English final, so it counts as an educational piece of literature.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mr. Grimes
Joined: Jan 30 2008
Location: Hastings World, NE
Posts: 113
|
I was going for forced, but whatever.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24869
|
Hmmm... probably either The Chocolate War or I Am The Cheese, but Of Mice And Men was rather good too. And 1984. And Childhood's End. Dammit, I can't pick one thing.
Pretty much anything that wasn't written by Hawthorne, a Bronte sister, or Charles Dickens was pretty good.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Valdronius
Moderator
Title: SydLexia COO
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: The Great White North
Posts: 4459
|
Well, if we're going with curriculum, I'd have to say it was either Julius Caesar or MacBeth.
|
| Klimbatize wrote: |
| A Hispanic dude living in Arizona knows a lot of Latinas? That's fucking odd. |
|
|
|
|
|
Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
Location: Robot Boombox HQ
Posts: 7542
|
Catcher in the Rye. I should read that again.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mr. Grimes
Joined: Jan 30 2008
Location: Hastings World, NE
Posts: 113
|
Caesar fucking rocked, and MacBeth was pretty cool too.
I've never read Of Mice and Men, but I always think of Sawyer and Ben ripping on each other when I heard of that book.
|
|
|
|
|
|
username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
Posts: 16123
|
I have to say Catcher in the Rye as well.
and for the record: FUCK THE GREAT GATSBY!
the Jungle by Upton Sinclair as well.
|
| Klimbatize wrote: |
| I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load |
|
|
  |
|
|
Mr. Grimes
Joined: Jan 30 2008
Location: Hastings World, NE
Posts: 113
|
| username wrote: |
and for the record: FUCK THE GREAT GATSBY!
|
NOOOO!!!!!!!
Username, you're still pretty cool, but Gatsby owns, as does anything that Fitzgerald did.
|
|
|
|
|
|
username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
Posts: 16123
|
I like Fitzgerald, but since I hated my junior year english teacher, I ended up hating that book as well.
The book was decent, but since she forced it down our throats and had it on such a high pedestal as the 'great american novel,' i was basically forced to rebel and not agree w/her.
I dont hate the book, but i dont think its amazing.
In fact I should've just said FUCK MS DUFFY! lol
|
| Klimbatize wrote: |
| I'll eat a turkey sandwich while blowing my load |
|
|
|
|
|
Mr. Bomberman
2009 Forum Champion
Title: (still) token black.
Joined: Jan 27 2006
Location: Home of the lost towers
Posts: 4543
|
| Mr. Grimes wrote: |
| username wrote: |
and for the record: FUCK THE GREAT GATSBY!
|
NOOOO!!!!!!!
Username, you're still pretty cool, but Gatsby owns, as does anything that Fitzgerald did. |
I concur. I read that last year (my junior year).
|
Xbox Live: HazNobody, pronounced "HAz". | Haven't went to IRC yet? Go! #sydlexia @ DALnet. | Y'all should play some Super Robot Wars J (hey that rhymes!) | yeah I'm back who gives a shit |
|
|
|
|
Tebor
Moderator
Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Gotham City
Posts: 6088
|
I hated Gatsby (plus I had to read it twice on account of getting traded among English classes).
Catcher in the Rye I read every year of high school (forced to read it only twice), but I thought High Fidelity (read on my own on account of the film) was slightly better. I did a book report on Microserfs, but I got to choose to read that book. Same for Breakfast of Champions, which would compel an argument that the best books I read I got to choose to read.
The Matrix script would be my smart ass answer, because I did read that for sci-fi lit, but that's not exactly a book. It was better than Childhood's End, Handmaid's Tale, or Cat's Craddle IMO.
In Cold Blood, I'll say that. Except I had to read that in conjunction with The Color Purple which was fucking terrible, so there's always a bitter memory when I think of the other.
Damn, I read a lot in high school. What happened?
|
"If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!!!" -Nuclear Man
"Do you hear? The alpha and the omega. Death and rebirth. And as you die, so will I be reborn!" - Skeletor
8341 unread forum updates since I left (2/7/14)... Uh-oh. |
|
|
|
|
Bouya
Title: Delinquent
Joined: Aug 15 2007
Location: Suzuran
Posts: 1443
|
Okay... I didn't read any of the curriculum books in high school, I must admit. I usually made up the credit with creative writing assignments.
|
|
|
|
|
|
erock
Title: likes to party
Joined: Dec 21 2007
Location: Phoenix. its hot outside
Posts: 1219
|
| Valdronius wrote: |
| I, Strahd: Memoirs of a Vampire |
I have that book! Its one of the 3 i own.
I never understood catcher or gatsby. The ywere way to boring and didnt have anything to keep me motivated. But id say Martian Chronicles by far.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
Location: Lake Michigan
Posts: 3332
|
Catcher in the Rye, no contest. Great Gatsby was a bunch of symbolic B.S. - or at least that's what a 16 yr. old Cattivo thought of it. Haven't read it since.
|
|
|
|
|
|
DarknessDeku
Title: Deku Scrub
Joined: Dec 08 2007
Location: The Forest
Posts: 3280
|
Mine would have to be Of Mice and Men, because it's the only one I actually liked.
|
| i'll_bite_your_ear wrote: |
DarknessDeku is already assimilated by the bots.
He knows your algorithm. |
|
|
|
|
|
Crazy_Bastard
Title: CeeBee
Joined: Feb 25 2007
Location: Tulsa
Posts: 481
|
I always loved the Giver and Fahrenheit 451
I found it so ironic about how Fahrenheit 451, a book about a world where books were outlawed, was banned once (dunno if it still is anywhere).
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tebor
Moderator
Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Gotham City
Posts: 6088
|
| dummies_ch2 wrote: |
| I found it so ironic about how Fahrenheit 451, a book about a world where books were outlawed, was banned once (dunno if it still is anywhere). |
Except for some rare cases in private schools... and maybe the south... I do believe banned books no longer exist in high schools.
And what about cheesy romance novels, high school? The reason you don't carry them is because of the implied sex?
|
"If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!!!" -Nuclear Man
"Do you hear? The alpha and the omega. Death and rebirth. And as you die, so will I be reborn!" - Skeletor
8341 unread forum updates since I left (2/7/14)... Uh-oh. |
|
|
|
|
Char Aznable
Title: Char Classic™
Joined: Jul 24 2006
Location: Robot Boombox HQ
Posts: 7542
|
There are books that the library can't have, but you can still bring anything into school.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Tebor
Moderator
Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Gotham City
Posts: 6088
|
| Char Aznable wrote: |
| There are books that the library can't have, but you can still bring anything into school. |
Though try reading "Playboy" during Chem class...
|
"If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!!!" -Nuclear Man
"Do you hear? The alpha and the omega. Death and rebirth. And as you die, so will I be reborn!" - Skeletor
8341 unread forum updates since I left (2/7/14)... Uh-oh. |
|
|
|
|
S. McCracken
Moderator
Title: Enforcer
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 2171
|
Catcher in the Rye was great, but I'm still going to go with The Day Lincoln Was Shot for AP US History. Great book.
|
|
|
|
|
|
TheRoboSleuth
Title: Sleuth Mark IV
Joined: Aug 08 2006
Location: The Gritty Future
Posts: 2739
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
