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Schools always make us read the typical books such as The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye...did you actually like any of them?
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I liked quite a few
Night was one of my faves
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I liked Their Eyes Are Watching God.

...that was the only one that I read all of the way through.
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Ender's Game was by far my favorite school assigned reading book.

Scarlet Letter is the absolute worst book I've ever read, school assigned or not.
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Animal Farm was fun to read, but I didn't like the majority of them that much. The Scarlett Letter was so terrible I couldn't even bare to read it, and I found the Great Gatsby boring.
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No, I hated them. I wish we could CHOOSE which books to read.

Of course, high school was the last time I read a book xD
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Loved Catcher
Hated Gatsby

My teacher who taught us Macbeth did a great job and I loved it. My (different) teacher who taught Hamlet did a garbage job and I hated it.

When I got to college and had teachers properly teach Shakespeare did I realize the brilliance of Hamlet and fell in love with Shakespearean text as a whole

I liked To Kill a Mockingbird and Much Ado About Nothing. Those're the only ones I remember. >_>
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I only liked Lord of the Flies.
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the great gatsby was so good
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i liked of mice and men. to kill a mocking bird was also good. didnt care for anything else.
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Night is still one of my favorite books.

also fuck great gatsby

yes
i loved the outsiders and a time to kill
i wasnt found of to kill a mockingbird
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Kinda, was never really enthusiastic about them though. Romeo and Juliet's the only one that I remember not liking, though it was annoying.

Fahrenheit 451 was fucking awesome in school and still good when I read it years later.
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1984
Catcher in the Rye
Brave New World
Animal Farm
Things Fall Apart
Fahrenheit 451
Holes (If elementary school books count)
Lord of the Flies
Night
Of Mice and Men

Those are the ones I remember actively liking. And now I'm gonna spend the next hour trying to remember other books I had to read but enjoyed.

Don't remember much about Scarlet Letter but I don't recall disliking it as some here do.
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1984
The Lord of the Flies
Hamlet
All Quiet on the Western Front
Brave New World
Of Mice and Men

East of Eden was complete shit.
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The Great Gatsby
Fahrenheit 451
The Giver
Ender's Game
Shakespeare

Were all enjoyable.

I like Shakespeare's works on their own, but depending on which teacher you got reading could be entertaining or terrible.
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1984 fucked me up for life.

Holes
Hatchet
The giver
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Of Mice and Men was my favourite
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We read a story about a girl lost in a swamp or something....and it followed her love of a baseball player? I don't remember it now but it was enjoyable at the time.
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I was in normal English so I never "had to" read any of those fancier books like 1984, Lord of the Flies, etc. (I did read 1984 in my free time though).

The two books I do remember really enjoying that were mandatory were the Grapes of Wrath and I Am the Cheese (that was a real trip though reflecting back on it, I don't really remember what the main message of it was).
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I liked the first Harry Potter book.
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WizardPowers posted...

Holes
Hatchet
The giver

I liked all of these, especially Hatchet.

I could not stand All Quiet on the Western Front.
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Lie of Pi and Lord of the Flies were great.

Also Animal Farm, didn't read it in school but I know a lot of people did.
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Animal Farm yes but not much else.
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I liked To Kill a Mockingbird and In the Heat of the Night. Lord of the Flies was dull, if a bit interesting at times, and Death of a Salesman was the most tedious fucking thing I've ever read. I'm pretty sure I stopped halfway through and just took the fail for assignments regarding it. I don't remember enough about Waiting for the Rain to say, but I'm pretty sure I liked it.

Forgot about the Giver. That was pretty good, too.
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Catcher in the Rye is the only one I remember enjoying.
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Catcher in the Rye was funny. I liked reading in elementary school and middle school because we could just pick any book we wanted. In 7th grade I was finishing a new book every day lol. But the stuff they made us read in high school was boring and they made it even more uninteresting by making us over analyze and dissect every little thing about them
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Macbeth
The Crucible
Of Mice and Men
Hamlet
The Canterbury Tales

Those are the ones I remember doing and liking. Screw the Scarlet Letter. Hated that.
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Night
Hatchet
Boy in stripped pajamas
outsiders

some others I forgot
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Ones I loved:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Slaughterhouse Five
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ones I loathed:
A Separate Peace
Catcher in the Rye
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Wow I forgot Holes is technically a school book I read, probably because it was middle school instead of high school for me. I feel like that was definitely a book of only a certain time though, like they don't still read it usually, unlike Gatsby or Shakespeare.
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Hated Gatsby. Loved Into the Wild
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bump
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I liked city of ember
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I liked Frankenstein, but the rest we had to read sucked.
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I liked most of them, actually. The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite novels ever.
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Of mice and men
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The Count of Monte Cristo was badass.
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Frankenstein was the bomb, Old Man And The Sea had some great descriptions. Can't really remember a bad one, actually.

Some of them.

Where the Red Fern Grows
Timothy of the Cay
Animal Farm was well written, but chilling.
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Treasure Island
Little Women
Summer of My German Soldier
There was this one book that was a semi-fictional, semi-historical story about when the black plague first struck europe, but damned if I remember what it was called. It was frightening, but I couldn't put it down.

I didn't like
Of Mice and Men
Catcher in the Rye
The Scarlet Letter
Oliver Twist
Not even my teacher could stand reading more then a few chapters of Moby Dick.
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Emerald_Wyvern posted...

Macbeth
The Crucible
Of Mice and Men
Hamlet
The Canterbury Tales

Those are the ones I remember doing and liking. Screw the Scarlet Letter. Hated that.

I completely forgot about Canterbury Tales. I cant remember much of it.
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Nope. Most novels and short stories you read in high school/college are boring, pretentious dribble.

I did enjoy Ragtime by EL Doctorow though.

It introduced me to Edgar Allen Poe. I think his books are boring.
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I read SparkNotes for most of the books. I think I read only 2 books from front to back, only because I was failing and didn't want to go to summer school.
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