Required Reading from High School/College

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The Outsiders, To Kill A Mockingbird and Moby Dick in High School.
They were all good I guess, but I enjoyed The Outsiders the most from them.
 
I may be powerleveling as well as dredging up bad memories, but here's what I can remember. This is not a complete list. Entries marked in red means that I particularly hated it, green means that I almost enjoyed it.


9th Grade:
- Romeo and Juliet
- Animal Farm (maybe?
- Seabiscuit
- Huckleberry Finn (maybe?)
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Lord of the Flies

10th Grade:
- Jonathan Seagull
- Twelve Angry Men
- A Separate Peace


11th Grade:
- Fahrenheit 411 (whatever that was the book burning, I can't be bothered to remember the full title)
- Of Mice & Men
- Hamlet
- The Great Gatsby
We actually ended up watching the film adaptation of Moby Dick

12th Grade:
- Canterbury Tales (maybe?)
- Heart of Darkness
- A Tale of Two Cities
- The Scarlet Letter (universally disliked, the test had to be curved because everyone did terribly on it)
 
^Legit trying to ignore the handwave at Bradbury senpai above. :mad: #soangrytriggurhowdare

Romeo and Juliet
Animal Farm :heart-full:
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Fahrenheit 451 :heart-full:
The Great Gatsby :heart-full:
Macbeth :heart-full:
Othello
Hamlet
Raisin in The Sun
The Scarlet Letter
The Shining
A Confederacy of Dunces
Riddley Walker :heart-full:
The Outsiders
Alas Babylon :heart-full:

-The rec's for my public school experience are pretty much the standard fare that Tumblr and SJWs want burned because they're either offensive or supposedly stolen from the author's wife. On top of that there were a lot of short stories we read from text books like The Most Dangerous Game, A Sound of Thunder, The Landlady, and Lamb to The Slaughter.
Of all the stuff we read, I think the Puritan Journal entries irritated me to no end far more than the overrated Romeo and Juliet did. They were just so dumb.
 
DatBepisTho said:
-The rec's for my public school experience are pretty much the standard fare that Tumblr and SJWs want burned because they're either offensive or supposedly stolen from the author's wife. On top of that there were a lot of short stories we read from text books like The Most Dangerous Game, A Sound of Thunder, The Landlady, and Lamb to The Slaughter.
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It's great you brought up little stories as well. I remember reading this one that was set during the Revolutionary War where this British loyalist chooses to torment this American allied barber by bragging about the soldiers he killed and his plans while getting a shave. He wants to see how far he can push the barber even at the risk of him getting cut out of anger. I forgot the name of it, though.
 
Yaoi Huntress Earth said:
It's great you brought up little stories as well. I remember reading this one that was set during the Revolutionary War where this British loyalist chooses to torment this American allied barber by bragging about the soldiers he killed and his plans while getting a shave. He wants to see how far he can push the barber even at the risk of him getting cut out of anger. I forgot the name of it, though.
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Some of those little ones were better than whole novels, right? The Dahl and Bradbury ones are the reason I'm an English Major. :geek:

I wish you could remember the title! That's on of the few I didn't read- at least I don't remember it. :sad:
 
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