Required reading of your youth...

[MC Moot]

I think I'm going to start collecting all the books I was required to read during elementary,junior and high school...I proably own about a third of them now...really,it was probably my fave part of pre-secondary ed...and in hindsight the curriculum was pretty awesome...with a definite leftist bend...did you read these?...especially for those of you outside of North America...what else?

“My side of the Mountain” Jean Craighead George

“Incident at Hawk’s Hill” Alan W Eckert

“The Iliad” Homer

“The Outsiders” S.E Hinton

“That was then, this is now” S.E Hinton

“And No Birds Sang” Farley Mowat

“A Whale for the Killing” Farley Mowat

“The Hobbit” Tolkien

“Watership Down” Richard Adams

“All Quiet on the Western Front” Erich Maria Remarque

“Animal Farm” George Orwell

“1984” George Orwell

“The Catcher in the Rye” J. D. Salinger

“Tom Sawyer” Mark Twain

“Lord of the Flies” William Golding

“Heart of Darkness” Joseph Conrad

“Slaughterhouse-Five” Kurt Vonnegot

“The Old Man and the Sea” Hemingway

“For Whom the Bell Tolls” Hemingway

“Of Mice and Men” Steinbeck

“Fahrenheit 451” Ray Bradbury

“The Chrysalids” John Wyndham

“To Kill a Mockingbird” Harper Lee

“The Stranger” Albert Camus

“The Plague” Albert Camus

[Waus]

Was "The Plague" good? I have that in paperback and never got around to reading it.

[MC Moot]

Was "The Plague" good? I have that in paperback and never got around to reading it.

oh yeah,it's excellent...(y)...I'm suprised no one has attempted a screenplay/film...it would lend it self very well,I think...(y):eek:

[Fern]

great expectations, outsiders, to kill a mockingbird, maniac mcgee come to mind...

[hpdrifter]

“The Iliad” Homer

“Animal Farm” George Orwell

“1984” George Orwell

“The Catcher in the Rye” J. D. Salinger

“Tom Sawyer” Mark Twain

“Lord of the Flies” William Golding

“The Old Man and the Sea” Hemingway

“For Whom the Bell Tolls” Hemingway

“Of Mice and Men” Steinbeck

“Fahrenheit 451” Ray Bradbury

“To Kill a Mockingbird” Harper Lee


I remember having to read all of these. Some great stuff in there.

[MC Moot]

I remember having to read all of these. Some great stuff in there.

I know,eh…something about making the list has me looking back a lot of those…and the profound impact they have had on me…I really appreciate it now…have you not read "Watership Down"?...that book was written for you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_Down

;)

[hpdrifter]

I started it but for whatever reason never finished. I got about a third of the way through. I'll add it to my list. My bunnies have all passed now, the last two the night before my wedding. :( I miss them and their cuteness.

[MC Moot]

Flowers for Algernon” Daniel Keyes… ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon)how could I have forgotten that one?...probably the saddest book I’ve ever read…well juvenile like…(y):(

[Fern]

I READ THAT ^^ ALONG WITH OF MICE OF MEN....

[Drederick Tatum]

I'd read most of those before they became required at school as they'd been enforced at home. have to say the school rereading of 1984 was pretty damaging to my enjoyment of the book, I used to think it was the Bible.

thankfully video games arrived late-teens.

[MC Moot]

^Yeah my dad just about shit himself with happiness the day I came home with Camus…and promptly tried dropping Jean Paul Sartre, Nietzsche ,Machiavelli and Karl Marx on my mind…some of it took some not…(y)

[MC Moot]

I just remembered...

"And Then There Where None or 10 Little Indians" Agatha Christie
"Oliver Twist" Charles Dickens
"The Razor's Edge" W. Somerset Maugham

(y)

[MC Moot]

I READ THAT ^^ ALONG WITH OF MICE OF MEN....

Well look at you pretending you can read!...thatta boy!...(y)

[TAL]

I've never had any required reading in school.

[MC Moot]

I've never had any required reading in school.

Really?...in Finlandia?...no book studies?...:confused:

[TAL]

There have been many many times where I have had to write a paper or talk in front of the class about a book.
But everyone got to choose which book they wanted, sort of. The teacher had to approve and there were usually a genre to pick from.

[MC Moot]

^that's interesting...so you bring your own suggestions forth?...we had a choice of novels and you had to read and report on a given number of books over the semester/year...I remember the dumb kids and jocks using Coles notes or renting movies at the last minute before deadlines...:rolleyes:

[saz]

“The Outsiders” S.E Hinton


do it for johnny! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpIcPde4rAo)

[MC Moot]

^ Rumblefish… (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T0yYvOyN_U)(y)

[MC Moot]

Billy Shakespeare was required of course...

"Romeo & Juliet"
"Macbeth"
"Taming of the Shrew"
"Othello"

as was Edgar Allen Poe collected like...

"The Masque of the Red Death"
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue"
"The Pit and the Pendulum"
"The Premature Burial"
"The Purloined Letter"
"The Tell-Tale Heart"
"A Dream Within A Dream"
"The Raven"

"At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P Lovecraft

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"The Road Not Taken" Robert Frost

"Poems" Emily Dickinson

[MC Moot]

"Call of the Wild" Jack London

[camo]

The Viz (y)

Cider with Rosie. A very descriptive read. Ideal for building up layers of literacy in teens.

[mickill]

Superfudge

[MC Moot]

Superfudge

Oh yes...nice one..."Tiger Eyes", "Freckle Juice" and "Blubber" were all choices as well...(y)

[MC Moot]

Cider with Rosie. A very descriptive read. Ideal for building up layers of literacy in teens.

that sounds pretty interesting...(y)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider_with_Rosie

[camo]

that sounds pretty interesting...(y)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cider_with_Rosie

It paints a beautiful idyllic picture of the great british countryside (y)

Also...any of the 'Just William' books.

[HEIRESS]

fuck 1984, it was all about the:The Chrysalids (http://www.amazon.com/Chrysalids-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590172922/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1250103327&sr=1-1)

The Pigman (http://www.amazon.ca/Pigman-Paul-Zindel/dp/0060757353)

I was that loser in highschool that read the assigned book the first night it was given out and then I had to sit through weeks of the teacher trying to discuss each chapter and half the class not having read it yet.
I hated english class for this reason, but atleast it didn't ruin my love for reading.

[Gareth]

i cant really remember what i had to read at high school except "the wave" and "wizard of earthsea"
but i grew up on golden books

[MC Moot]

fuck 1984, it was all about the:The Chrysalids (http://www.amazon.com/Chrysalids-York-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1590172922/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1250103327&sr=1-1).

My Ma bought me "Day of the Triffids" after I was done the Chrysalids...she'd alway's do that...domino effect like...(y)

[MC Moot]

"How to Eat Fried Worms" by Thomas Rockwell

"This Can't Be Happening at Macdonald Hall" Gordon Korman

"Beware the Fish" Gordon Korman

:D

[MC Moot]

I just remembered that we had a librarian in mid school who banned “Choose Your Own Adventure” books because she believed them to be detrimental to developmental discipline and concentration…like they were banned from the school not just the library...:rolleyes: