The best book you had to read in high school..?

[Caite-chan]

Romeo and Juliet.

I hated everything else we had to read and honestly don't remember many of them. I also hated with a passion that our teacher made us highlight and write in our books that we had to buy with our own money. Because let's face it we were never gonna read them ever again and couldn't really take them to Barnes & Noble to sell.

[Suicune's Fire]

The best book I had to read was probably Killer's Tears, which was about this murderer who killed this boy's parents and then sort of kidnapped him, but they had this really cute father/son-like relationship. The boy had, like, no emotion, so he didn't care that his parents were killed. In the end, the killer was either put in jail or put to death, but he ended up really caring about the boy, and the boy him. It's tragic, but nice.

I hated The Great Gatsby and ohmygod, Passage to India. Shoot me in the leg, but don't make me read that again. Oh my gosh.

Of Mice and Men was another we had to read, and it was okay, but not that great. I disliked all Shakespeare (especially Romeo and Juliet) except Hamlet, since The Lion King is totally Hamlet with animals.

[Neo Emolga]

I hated The Great Gatsby and ohmygod, Passage to India. Shoot me in the leg, but don't make me read that again. Oh my gosh.

Of Mice and Men was another we had to read, and it was okay, but not that great. I disliked all Shakespeare (especially Romeo and Juliet) except Hamlet, since The Lion King is totally Hamlet with animals.

Somehow, I actually managed to get through all my years of high school without having to read The Great Gatsby, which is quite a feat considering that's usually a "Required Reading" staple when it comes to school. My sister and brother both had to read it, and unfortunately, from what they told me also, that's several hours of their lives they'll never get back.

I really couldn't stand Shakespeare stuff either. The guy definitely gets WAY too much credit for recycling the same themes and not even being very imaginative. I had to Cliff Notes Romeo and Juliet because the old English fluff practically made it unreadable for me and I was getting sick of it and just wanted it to be explained in real people terms.

Steinbeck stuff, I was ok with. Grapes of Wrath and of Mice and Men had their qualities. Wouldn't read them again, but I didn't feel like throwing them against the wall.

Anything by Hemingway was a chore. Farewell to Arms is probably hands down, the worst required reading I've had to endure and the style he wrote the book in has me convinced that anyone who thinks this book is a "classic" will be the first ones to be part of the infected, brain-devouring horde in the inevitable zombie apocalypse.

[Suicune's Fire]

Somehow, I actually managed to get through all my years of high school without having to read The Great Gatsby, which is quite a feat considering that's usually a "Required Reading" staple when it comes to school. My sister and brother both had to read it, and unfortunately, from what they told me also, that's several hours of their lives they'll never get back.

I really couldn't stand Shakespeare stuff either. The guy definitely gets WAY too much credit for recycling the same themes and not even being very imaginative. I had to Cliff Notes Romeo and Juliet because the old English fluff practically made it unreadable for me and I was getting sick of it and just wanted it to be explained in real people terms.

Steinbeck stuff, I was ok with. Grapes of Wrath and of Mice and Men had their qualities. Wouldn't read them again, but I didn't feel like throwing them against the wall.

Anything by Hemingway was a chore. Farewell to Arms is probably hands down, the worst required reading I've had to endure and the style he wrote the book in has me convinced that anyone who thinks this book is a "classic" will be the first ones to be part of the infected, brain-devouring horde in the inevitable zombie apocalypse.

Good for you. It was so boring. It basically centred around this boring-as-all-heck narrator who did nothing and contributed in no way to the story while he observed these odd affairs happening all over the place. I dunno. Wasn't for me. xD Passage to India was the worst freaking book I've ever had to read. Omg. It was so entirely pointless and boring.

I KNOW, RIGHT?! I guess everyone else was writing lousy plays at the time so he got the good word spread about him. Oh haha, that's a good idea. It's so dramatic. And, like, romance between a thirteen year old and a seventeen year old? Um, creepy. No.

Yeah, that's how I felt about Of Mice and Men. Bahaha, can't say I've read any of Hemingway's stuff, but it definitely sounds like a chore. xD