I don't think there were many books assigned to me in high school that actually read cover to cover. **GASP** I know. I love to read, I just love to read what I want , not what someone tells me to. I read them enough to know the answers to the quiz, or I looked up the story on the internet. Sometimes I did really well on the quizzes, sometimes not so much. The good thing was that the book quiz was never a big part of my grade and I could always make up for it with other assignments. (sorry mom and dad)
So now, I have decided that I am missing out on some classic books because high school Ang was too busy reading Cosmo, Seventeen Magazine and random other books.
I am currently reading Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol.
After that I plan to read Ender's Game.
The rest of my list is:
The Giver
1984
Animal Farm
The Lord of the Flies
Watership Down (I may not actually read this one - I hated what I did read, but I will give it another chance)
Jane Eyre
Animal Farm
Catch 22 (not assigned in HS but still one I should read)
Catcher in the Rye
The Crucible
The Great Gatsby
To Kill A Mockingbird ( I actually did read this, but I want to read it again)
Macbeth
Of Mice and Men
Native Son
Slaughter House Five
Romeo and Juliet
A Clockwork Orange
Emma ( this was assigned in college - I didn't write my paper on that book so I didn't read it)
Night
Are there others I should read? Please give suggestions. Did you read the books assigned in high school? What were your favorites?
I did read the ones assigned. I didn't have many assigned in high school, which is strange, but my 8th grade year I had a ton. I always loved reading them though because I have loved reading since before I can remember. It wasn't like an assignment to me.
ReplyDeleteWe read The Great Gatsby as a class in 8th grade, and it is one of my favorite books to this day. So is To Kill a Mockingbird. In high school we read A Lesson Before Dieing, and it is amazing. I definitely suggest reading it. I did read The Giver in high school, and I was one of the only ones who didn't like it. I dunno, it just didn't entertain me at all.
(Thanks for answering my camera question! I'll be sure to look at Canon's as well.)
YOU DIDN'T DO ALL YOUR ASSIGNED READING IN HIGH SCHOOL? GASP!
ReplyDeleteBack in the day, I read most of the assigned books...well, a lot of them anyway. Animal Farm, 1984, The Crucible. Some I just couldn't get into, so I faked my way through it.
Years later I had the same feeling that I had missed out on something, but it wasn't so much the stuff that was assigned that I didn't read but the stuff that wasn't assigned. For instance, I never had a class in which either Catcher in the Rye or Lord of the Flies was assigned. As an adult, remembering what controversies there were surrounding these books, I read them just to see what all the fuss was about. I even got the Cliff's Notes and used them as they were intended to be used--not as a substitute for reading the books but as a study guide for better understanding the books. They helped. You may want to do the same.
One I'll add to the list: The Adventures of uckleberry Finn. Twain was a genius, and this was his best work.
Excellent choices. You must read "Little Women" and Pride and Prejudice."
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