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GAME- What book can you remember reading for school?

August 28, 2007 11:49 PM EDT

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Having taught English for too many years, I wonder if anyone remembers what they had to endure in class....

I liked the Great Gatsby....

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Debby O. Aug 28, 2007, 11:55pm EDT

The Grapes of RAth I hated it, as we just kept hashing and rehashing it in little pieces!

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Debby O. Aug 28, 2007, 11:56pm EDT

I think Rath might have been spell wrath, not sure anymore

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Shaunee C. Aug 28, 2007, 11:58pm EDT

I liked Strawberry Girl. I thought that was a neat book one of my teachers read. I remember Romeo and Julet in English though when I went to high school. The Great Gatsby is a pretty good book. I liked it myself Ok. English was one of my favorite subjects and I still love to read.

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Margy O. Aug 28, 2007, 11:59pm EDT

Having been an English major, I liked bunches of things. Catcher in the Rye, Ethan From. In junior high which is now middle school, my favorite book was Johnny Tremaine.

Cat-House Sonnets

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Laura C. Aug 29, 2007, 12:03am EDT

Endure? We had to read Charles Dickens one memorable summer - it was horrid.

A number of other required reading was great though - I always liked Shakespeare, and I remember liking Julie of the wolves and Tuck everlasting.

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Sandra T. Aug 29, 2007, 12:04am EDT

There were so many that I loved. I guess to pick one it would have to be Summer of the Swans.

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De (It takes a pillage to raze a village.) M. Aug 29, 2007, 12:06am EDT

Aaargh, I hated Gatsby. Maybe its because I had to read it in four different classes. Bah.

The ones I remember are
Of Mice and Men
The Sun Also Rises
Wuthering Heights
Jamaica Inn
On the Road
Catch 22
Catcher in the Rye
Tobacco Road
Blue Hotel
Island of Dr. Moreau
The Scarlet Letter
The Time Machine
Tin Drum
Pickwick Papers
David Copperfield (EVERYONE had to read Copperfield, I think)
Count of Monte Cristo (yipee there's a movie? cool less reading)
The Good Earth
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Mill on the Floss
Animal Farm (again, I think everyone had to read this)
Frankenstein
The Cantebury Tales (luckily I got an unedited copy, wow, what an eye-opener for a high school sophmore)
House of the Seven Gables
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Little Prince
Charlotte's Web
and I'll probably remember more later

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Kelly M. Aug 29, 2007, 12:12am EDT

I loved so many! The Scarlett Letter, Grapes of Wrath, Lord of the Flies, To Kill a Mockingbird, Romeo and Juliet

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Gorgeous Gabby, a Gather Geeky Gal, and The Giz Aug 29, 2007, 12:15am EDT

Les Miserables. Loved it!

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Randy- Being true to myself Aug 29, 2007, 12:26am EDT

Too long ago....I think we had to read a stephen king book and of course th egreat gatsby...other than that-my brain would have to try to remember, and it is getting tired....hehehe

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Veronique AKA Zoe Aug 29, 2007, 12:28am EDT

I liked the Great Gatsby. I also remember reading The Scarlet Letter. Of course the John Steinbeck collection; The Pearl, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath. To Kill a Mockingbird. My Antonia. Fahrenheith 451. The Odyssey of Homer. Where the Red Fern Grows. The Mark Twain collection; Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I absolutely loved The Cantebury Tales, at first I thouhgt I would never get it, but I quickly began to love it. Of course Shakespeare. In my senior year of high school we were able to choose some of the books we read and I picked Brave New World, a very, very strange book...didn't exactly like it. That's all I can think of right now. I know there were so many more. I read so many books on my own accord though, sometimes it hard to remember what was required and what I was just interested in.

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Visionaerie B. Aug 29, 2007, 12:32am EDT

I remember memorizing a poem in high school, 'The Road Not Taken,' by Robert Frost. That and the transcendentalists (Thoreau and Emerson) definitely influenced my thinking. Later in college we covered some Shakespeare and Dickens' 'Great Expectations' was quite traumatic. But I really loved the movie with Gwyneth Paltrow! 'A Man For All Seasons' was also good -- we saw a bit of that film in high school once. But my brother Ross is the English Lit specialist. Thanks for posting this!

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J R B. Aug 29, 2007, 12:57am EDT

I remember reading ,"The Stranger" by Camus. Our final was on The Stranger. I wrote a new ending chapter.

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Marianne R. Aug 29, 2007, 6:41am EDT

The Scarlet Letter, In Cold Blood and Grapes of Wrath

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Arielle K. Aug 29, 2007, 8:07am EDT

Z for Zachariah, Mrs. Frisbee and the Rate of NIMH, The Phantom Tollboothe (these were all in 5th grade).

In high school we read Shakespeare and plays like 12 Angry Men and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I also read a book called Siddhartha in high school in an elective English class. It was an excellent book.

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Sarah (I want points) Aug 29, 2007, 11:49am EDT

I hated Lord of the Flies... We read Jane Eyre... I liked that one... We read Ethan Frome too... I think that one was okay but not one of my favorites.

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Nippy Katz (not his real name) Patriotic Troll of Gather Freedom Aug 29, 2007, 12:28pm EDT

It's funny. I didn't enjoy most of the books I had to read in high school. One I did enjoy was "The Mayor of Casterbridge." Another that made a big impression was Dos Passos' "USA" trilogy.

When I got older I discovered that "Vanity Fair" was really cool and Dickens was a lot better than I thought. I think I wasn't mature enough to appreciate most of the required reading. I re-read "Moby-Dick" a couple of years ago and thought it was worse than I remembered. The most heavy handed symbolism in any "great" book I've ever read. Leaden and didactic.

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Nan G. Aug 29, 2007, 4:57pm EDT

I thought "Lord of the Flies" was exciting and I don't remember much about "The Mayor of Casterbridge." My favorite was "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"

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golds g. Aug 29, 2007, 8:08pm EDT

The Great Gasby

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golds g. Aug 29, 2007, 8:09pm EDT

Pride and Predujice

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golds g. Aug 29, 2007, 8:09pm EDT

Romeo and Juloet

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golds g. Aug 29, 2007, 8:09pm EDT

The Good Earth

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golds g. Aug 29, 2007, 8:09pm EDT

The Pearl

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golds g. Aug 29, 2007, 8:10pm EDT

LOT OF POEMS

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Donna Hammett-Tooker Aug 29, 2007, 9:20pm EDT

Gone With the Wind

The book points out the true level of bitchiness one woman could attain - the movie was a whitewash.

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Donna Hammett-Tooker Aug 29, 2007, 9:23pm EDT

And, being a nerd before they were cool, I read my first Shakespeare at 7 andwas ready for the discussion years before my classmates - I loved Macbeth.

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Susan L. Aug 30, 2007, 12:57pm EDT

The 1st book I remember loving was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I saved my allowance for weeks to buy a copy. I don't know what happened to it, I wish I had it now. Charlotte's Web was the 1st book that inspired me to read multiple books by the same author - I loved Stuart Little too. So many others over the years; I found Hemmingway to have too much testoserone; didn't like Faulkner's stream of consciousness style. I fell in love with F. Scott Fitzgerald starting with Gatsby. I have read all of his books multiple times. Of course Catcher in the Rye was the quintessential book of adolescence. I still think of The Stranger when I watch a true crime show and someone is a suspect because they didn't act the way the authorities expect.

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