Worst and Best books you had to read at school?

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Best: the chrysalids

worst: shakespear (old english is dumb)

Film-Guy

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

Yea I did! lol it was great!, I'll check those books out as well!

Best:

1984

Life of Pi

Worst:

The Great Gatsby

Of recent years: Of Mice and Men. It was okay, just not something I preferred.

As for best, I loved Raisin in the Sun.

I really can't think of a book I've read for school that I've really hated. In general, I like almost everything I read.

Best: The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, Frankenstein, To Kill A Mockingbird, Night

Worst: A Separate Peace, The Scarlet letter, Billy Budd (worst of all time probably), Canterbury Tales, Great Expectation, etc.

Best:
Anthem
Crucible (its a play though)
Edit: To Kill a Mockingbird

Worst:
Scarlet Letter

Lord of the Flies was definately one of the better ones. I'm German and we read all of this old German literature in German class...most of it is boring as ****. But still better than reading Shakespeare imo. Now THAT was no fun.

edit: I remember reading Hatchet by Gary Paulsen...that was a good book.

I enjoyed Of Mice and Men but hated anything by Shakespeare. Big_Bad_Sad

Oh yeah, Julius Caesar was the one thing I read in school that I really hated. Shakespeare isn't that great when read in general, but Julius Caesar was terrible.

[QUOTE="Big_Bad_Sad"]I enjoyed Of Mice and Men but hated anything by Shakespeare. HomicidalCherry

Oh yeah, Julius Caesar was the one thing I read in school that I really hated. Shakespeare isn't that great when read in general, but Julius Caesar was terrible.

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

Best- The Outsiders

megahaloman64

We had to read Macbeth for our GCSEs. I failed that exam. Big_Bad_Sad

worst: Scarlett letter

Best: i dunno, i enjoyed quite a few:

of mice and men

crime and punishment

1984

Shakespeare is alright if you have the right ****ates to make it funny :D

just some off the top of my head

Best

The Great Gatsby

Of Mice and Men

House on Mango Street

Lord of the Flies

The Pearl

All Quiet on the Western Front

Worst

Brave New World

A Separate Peace

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

Legendaryscmt

:lol: all the people in honors language arts this year are having to read that book. just about all of them hate it. Fortunately im in Gifted, and we are reading the Odessy. Its frikken bad ass. I actually get it. We read it once in 7th grade but it made no sense. But im in 9th grade and i have learned a lot more and i actually understand it.

btw another book i hated(well it was a play):

MacBeth. Oh God NO! It was so boring and terrible. And i missed the first week of when we began the book in class, so when i came back, a week late on the stupid thing, it made even less sense.

Best: Samurai's Garden, really cool story with some pretty depressing parts that I enjoy.

Worst: Pride and Prejudice. This books needs to be mentioned in this thread. It just had very little merit besides teaching people how money and social class affect everyone's and not to judge people at first impression. One of the only books I have disliked in high school.

Best

The Great Gatsby

Of Mice and Men

House on Mango Street

Lord of the Flies

The Pearl

All Quiet on the Western Front

Worst

Brave New World

A Separate Peace

Lief_Ericson

House on Mango Street? BLEGH!!!

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Best

The Great Gatsby

Of Mice and Men

House on Mango Street

Lord of the Flies

The Pearl

All Quiet on the Western Front

Worst

Brave New World

A Separate Peace

Noskillkill

House on Mango Street? BLEGH!!!

i liked the way it was writtin

I enjoyed about 90% of the books I read in highschool

Favorite

Hamlet

The one I didn't enjoy that much was

The Scarlett Letter

Worst: The Metamorphosis

Best: Of Mice and Men, Siddhartha, Oedipus.

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Best

The Great Gatsby

Of Mice and Men

House on Mango Street

Lord of the Flies

The Pearl

All Quiet on the Western Front

Worst

Brave New World

A Separate Peace

Lief_Ericson

House on Mango Street? BLEGH!!!

i liked the way it was writtin

i think that was on of the worst parts. the book was so choppy and the book never seemed to follow a plot. And by the end nothing really changed except now she knows that she can't forget her family and friends when she is famous....woo..hoo.??

I didn't really hate any books I've read in school, but my least favorites were 1984 and Life of Pi. My favorites were Cather in the Rye, The Great Gatsby and Night.

Best: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest

Worst: I can't remember the name of the book, but it was about a girl and guy who were in love. The guy couldn't marry her so his (not exactly genius) plan was to marry her sister instead. I really hate romance stories about stupid and selfish people.

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

Best- The Outsiders

Mousetaches

i hated it, it was a bore fest.