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Favorite Books You Read In School

Name: Somebody 2004-12-28 14:03

What are your favorite and least favorite books you read during your years in school (ie, ages 9 - 18 or so)?  If you have more than one of each, make a list.

Favorites:
   Watership Down
   Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (first 3 of series)
   The Giver
   All Quiet On The Western Front
   Lord Of The Flies

Least Favorites:
   The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
   Song Of Solomon (Toni Morrison)

Name: Anonymous 2006-12-25 10:50

Does this mean books we read that we were forced to read or ones chosen for personal enjoyment? I really hated most of the books that I had to read.

Favourites (conventional fiction)

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series - Douglas Adams
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Foundation saga - Isaac Asimov
numerous other Asimov books
1984 - George Orwell
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Books I enjoyed for curiosity/controversy-inciting value
-Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
-The Satanic Bible - Anton LeVay
-Finnegans Wake - James Joyce
-Doors of Perception - Aldous Huxley
-Various works by the Marquise de Sade
-Lolita - forget the author at the moment

Reading them and recommending them to other students was my way of passing the time - the school was a bit strict on morals and worrying about their "reputation" so a couple of them ended up being confiscated a few times but I got them back in the end so it was all good.

Least Favourite

Shane - forget the author but it was the worst book I remember having to read
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgerald - I liked it at first but then we had to analyse it to bits which took all the fun out of it
Anything by Shakespeare - so damn over-rated

Unfortunately I didn't really read too many books until my final years at school. 

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