Worst and Best books you had to read at school?

Best Books:

-Lord of the Flies

-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

-Night

-And Then there were None (also known as Ten Little Indians)

Worst Books:

-The Giver

-House on Mango Street

-The Old man and the Sea

List Some Of The Books You Hated Or Loved That You Read For School

They were all good. I've never come across a bad book... unless of course it was a romance noval. Which we were never required to read.

And Old man and the Sea is one of the greatest books ever written.. I'm sorry you don't have the ability to see that.

Best:

Fahrenheit 451- Even though I had to read it 3 years in a row

Of Mice and men

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Worst:

Dracula- Not a bad book, but very dated and overrated

Anthem- I hate Ayn Rand's books with a passion that burns like a thousand raging forest fires. She is such an awful writer and storytellers, so preachy about her own political views that the story gets lost and the characters are all terrible.

High Fidelity- The film is much better, for some reason I didn't like the book at all.

They were all good. I've never come across a bad book... unless of course it was a romance noval. Which we were never required to read.

And Old man and the Sea is one of the greatest books ever written.. I'm sorry you don't have the ability to see that.

EMOEVOLUTION

its great for the themes and life lessons it teaches you. when i was writing my essay on the novel about the themes, i realized how good the lesson were. i just dont like books like that though. i like the great morals and themes, but i say it is the worst cuz it is so uninteresting and dull for most of the book. most of the books i listed under best books were very exciting to me. Old man and the sea was not

Best=Sadako and the Thousand paper cranes. We all read it together in the 5th grade and it was such a sad yet amazing story

Worst=Some boring ass book in the 3rd grade about some boy and a fishing boat.

I pretty much liked all the books I had to read. And hemmingway is the greatest author ever.mattykovax

i dont see what is so amazing about his books besides the great themes and life lessons they teach. but boy does he make it boring to read his books!

Then again he DID win the Nobel Prize in Literature, so i guess im just missing out on something..

[QUOTE="mattykovax"]I pretty much liked all the books I had to read. And hemmingway is the greatest author ever.Noskillkill

i dont see what is so amazing about his books besides the great themes and life lessons they teach. but boy does he make it boring to read his books!

Then again he DID win the Nobel Prize in Literature, so i guess im just missing out on something..

Best was Catcher in the Rye, and by far the worst was A Separate Peace.

I pretty much liked all the books I had to read. And hemmingway is the greatest author ever.mattykovax

i dont see what is so amazing about his books besides the great themes and life lessons they teach. but boy does he make it boring to read his books!

Then again he DID win the Nobel Prize in Literature, so i guess im just missing out on something..

Worst:

House on Mango Street

The Color Purple

The Giver

Best:

1984

The Lord of the Flies

Being There

The Odyssey

[QUOTE="mattykovax"][QUOTE="Noskillkill"]

i dont see what is so amazing about his books besides the great themes and life lessons they teach. but boy does he make it boring to read his books!

Then again he DID win the Nobel Prize in Literature, so i guess im just missing out on something..

LoG-Sacrament

Animal Farm was very enjoyable. A Tale of Two Cities was impossible for me to read. I prefer older literature, but something about Dickens' prose was very boring to me.Cherokee_Jack

I only had to read exerpts from A Tale of Two Cities. I can't stand Dickens either. He was essentially paid by the word, so he made his stories as wordy as possible, and I can't stand it.

Worst

Heart of Darkness

Best

Catch 22

Night

[QUOTE="LoG-Sacrament"][QUOTE="mattykovax"]I find his books to be the opposite of boring,especially considering he was the master of the short,declartive sentence. the only author I have seen since that cuts to the chase like that is Cormac Mcarthy.mattykovax

Probably a good idea. His last two books Snuff, and Pgymy were awful. I think his best book is Survivor.

He was essentially paid by the word, so he made his stories as wordy as possibleGuppy507

Worst: The Great Gatsby, Tess of the D'Urbervilles Best: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Oryx & Crake, A Clockwork Orange, Twelfth Night, Fifth Business, Animal Farm, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.Lockedge

Its funny I have read most books by Anthony Burgess but Clockwork Orange is not one of my favorite of his. I think a lot people only know him for that book, when really he has done much better.

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chuck palahniuk has a minimalist style too. i dont think hes remotely as good as mccarthy, but you may like his writing style if you havent already given him a shot.LoG-Sacrament

Probably a good idea. His last two books Snuff, and Pgymy were awful. I think his best book is Survivor.

[QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

[QUOTE="mattykovax"]I read him up untill choke and then I started losing interest.

mattykovax

Probably a good idea. His last two books Snuff, and Pgymy were awful. I think his best book is Survivor.

Fight Club is ok too, but for some reason Survivor really stuck with me. It is sad how awful his last 2 books were though, Pygmy especially was so bad I really didnt want to read it for a while.

[QUOTE="LoG-Sacrament"][QUOTE="mattykovax"]I find his books to be the opposite of boring,especially considering he was the master of the short,declartive sentence. the only author I have seen since that cuts to the chase like that is Cormac Mcarthy.mattykovax

Best:
The Catcher in the Rye (my favourite book!)
Fifth Business
The Outsiders

Worst:
Never Cry Wolf (the only book I couldn't finish)
The Great Gatsby

[QUOTE="Lockedge"]Worst: The Great Gatsby, Tess of the D'Urbervilles Best: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Oryx & Crake, A Clockwork Orange, Twelfth Night, Fifth Business, Animal Farm, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.Film-Guy

Its funny I have read most books by Anthony Burgess but Clockwork Orange is not one of my favorite of his. I think a lot people only know him for that book, when really he has done much better.

An "introduction" book themed around the cross application of cognitive and dynamic psychotherapy written by Anna Kåver.

Its really the worst book i´ve attempted to read, period. It kept pulling numbers out of its ass, and when i looked for a source reference, there was none to be found. I didn´t even make it to the 2nd chapter.

The best book i´ve read in context with studies would be Katzung & Trevor's Pharmacology: Examination & Board Review.

It got me really hyped about medicinal & pharmacological science, and was more detailed with more accurate numbers than Lippincott´s, so it rejuvinated my diminishing eager in many ways. (:

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[QUOTE="Lockedge"]Worst: The Great Gatsby, Tess of the D'Urbervilles Best: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Oryx & Crake, A Clockwork Orange, Twelfth Night, Fifth Business, Animal Farm, and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.Lockedge

Its funny I have read most books by Anthony Burgess but Clockwork Orange is not one of my favorite of his. I think a lot people only know him for that book, when really he has done much better.

When you have time I recommend you read Earthly Powers, The Doctor is sick, The Long day wanes, and The Enderby series. Those are his best:P

[QUOTE="Lockedge"][QUOTE="Film-Guy"]

Its funny I have read most books by Anthony Burgess but Clockwork Orange is not one of my favorite of his. I think a lot people only know him for that book, when really he has done much better.

Film-Guy

When you have time I recommend you read Earthly Powers, The Doctor is sick, The Long day wanes, and The Enderby series. Those are his best:P

I have enough awkward humour in Gravity's Rainbow....Lockedge

you didn't like the giver? i thought it was pretty good

favorite:

brave new world

slaughterhouse five

the great gatsby

lord of the flies

othello (not a book but whatever, i liked it)

the picture of dorian gray

all the king's men

did not like:

the scarlett letter (kill me now lol)

king lear (again, not a book, but whatever)

there's a few that i forget their names, i hated them that much

Worst

Heart of Darkness

Best

Catch 22

Night

vidplayer8

Best Books:

-Lord of the Flies

-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

-Night

-And Then there were None (also known as Ten Little Indians)

Worst Books:

-The Giver

-House on Mango Street

-The Old man and the Sea

List Some Of The Books You Hated Or Loved That You Read For School

Noskillkill

Best
Probably the outsiders I was 7th grade I think, that was a good book.

Worst
The Giver. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........

Best:

Catcher in the Rye
Phaedra
Things Fall Apart
The Flies

Worst:

Brave New World
.... some other books I can't even remember cause they were that forgettable.

The only book I ended up not being able to really get into was Catcher in the Rye...It was the only book that I read the CliffNotes for. Too many good books to list...But Lord of the Flies is my favorite book ever and I originally had to read it in like 4th or 5th grade.spazzx625

"Kill the beast, cut it's throat, bash it's head!"

Lord of the Flies is definitely up there but I'm still partial to 1984 and Animal Farm.

Best: the chrysalids

worst: shakespear (old english is dumb)

[QUOTE="spazzx625"]The only book I ended up not being able to really get into was Catcher in the Rye...It was the only book that I read the CliffNotes for. Too many good books to list...But Lord of the Flies is my favorite book ever and I originally had to read it in like 4th or 5th grade.br0kenrabbit

"Kill the beast, cut it's throat, bash it's head!"

Lord of the Flies is definitely up there but I'm still partial to 1984 and Animal Farm.

Animal farm was quite good as well! Damn those pigs! D:

Worst- Great expectations, The Alchemist, Out of The Dust, My Brother Sam is Dead, Johnny Tremain

Best- The Outsiders

i read one book in school when i was 12...it was crap and i havn't read any of the other books from school

Best: the chrysalids

worst: shakespear (old english is dumb)

Espada12

You read The Chrysalids in school? I love John Wyndham, you should Day of the triffds, and the Kraken wakes.

I hate to be honest, but I haven't really liked any of the books I've been required to read in school. They just aren't my type of books. With that said, I think the worst ones I've had to read were the Giver and The Christmas Carol. Both books in my opinion were boring and I found the Giver to be somewhat disturbing.