LittleHurt05 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ May 9, 2013 -> 11:34 PM) Any relation to the story of the West Memphis Three? No, God vs Satan, Angels vs Devils. Paradise lost (1,2, and 3) is an intense and sad documentary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ May 10, 2013 -> 06:31 AM) /fap *BARF* /fap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Lord of the Flies was the s***. Also, for those that liked The Outsiders, how did you not immediately follow that up with "That was Then, This is Now" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illinilaw08 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 (edited) Loved: To Kill a Mockingbird Call of the Wild Into the Wild (was one of a number of choices for an independent reading thing my Jr. year of high school) My Antonia (actually had to read it twice. Liked it way better time 2) Hamlet Catch-22 Hiroshima Struggled with: Great Expectations. Seemed long for the sake of being long. Edited May 10, 2013 by illinilaw08 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 I didn't see it mentioned, but one I did love was The Most Dangerous Game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ May 10, 2013 -> 08:18 AM) Loved: To Kill a Mockingbird Call of the Wild Into the Wild (was one of a number of choices for an independent reading thing my Jr. year of high school) My Antonia (actually had to read it twice. Liked it way better time 2) Hamlet Catch-22 Hiroshima Struggled with: Great Expectations. Seemed long for the sake of being long. Read Catch-22 in high school as one of our "independent study" novels. Read it several times since and probably my favorite book. Still haven't read the sequel Closing Time, though. I read Great Expectations three or four years ago. Agreed that it was a struggle to get through at times. Found the same with Brothers Karamazov, even though I really enjoyed it. If you like Russian lit, Chekhov's The Princess is a great short story, only a few pages long. It's notable for its portrayal of clinical narcissism and all of the diagnostic markers for it years before it was fully understood as a psychological problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPN366 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 QUOTE (Brian @ May 9, 2013 -> 08:42 PM) Took a basic Shakespeare class my last year at SIU. Some was tough to interpret. Othello is my fav. Othello owns. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ May 10, 2013 -> 08:27 AM) I didn't see it mentioned, but one I did love was The Most Dangerous Game I always forget the name of that one, but that was another good story and frequently referenced in pop culture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPN366 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 9, 2013 -> 02:59 PM) Somehow I never read Catcher in the Rye, 1984, Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, any Twain and a bunch of other "everybody reads those in school" books. Animal Farm is damn good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ May 9, 2013 -> 08:46 PM) I always like Midsummer Nights Dream Ugh, but only because I had to read it like 4 years in a row. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JPN366 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 QUOTE (Steve9347 @ May 9, 2013 -> 02:48 PM) Because reading a book is so hard. It's like the internet, but on paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illinilaw08 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 10, 2013 -> 07:31 AM) Read Catch-22 in high school as one of our "independent study" novels. Read it several times since and probably my favorite book. Still haven't read the sequel Closing Time, though. I read Great Expectations three or four years ago. Agreed that it was a struggle to get through at times. Found the same with Brothers Karamazov, even though I really enjoyed it. If you like Russian lit, Chekhov's The Princess is a great short story, only a few pages long. It's notable for its portrayal of clinical narcissism and all of the diagnostic markers for it years before it was fully understood as a psychological problem. Agreed on Catch-22. Like you, I read it as an independent study in high school. Loved it. I try to pick it up every couple years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 I tried to get my wife to read it but she just couldn't get into it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenksismyhero Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 (edited) Did anyone read the Jack London books? Call of the Wild obviously, and White Fang. I was also big into Gary Paulsen in Junior High/High School. Hatchet was one and there was a sequel. About a teenager that is caught out in the middle of nowhere after a plane crash. Similarly when I was younger I really enjoyed The Island of the Blue Dolphins, which is basically the same story but a young hawaiian girl. Now that I think about it, kind of odd that I was into so many isolation/survivor books. I also remember an awesome series of like 5-6 books I read in junior high about a guy going from high school baseball through the big leagues. I have no idea what it was called though. I'll have to try and find them. Edit: dammit I accidentally deleted my initial post. Edited May 10, 2013 by Jenksismybitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Animal Farm was just a pro-Trot allegory for the rise of Lenin and then the Stalin-Trotsky conflicts. I think a lot of people read their own ideas into that story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witesoxfan Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 Tried reading Something Wicked This Way Comes as a 12 year old. Got like half way through and just couldn't continue from there. It was way over my head. Also, I have Infinite Jest. I've read about 11 pages of it. So close to being done! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iwritecode Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 When I was in HS I remember having to read: 12 Angry Men To Kill a Mockingbird Romeo and Juliet The Crucible Great Expectations Those last two I remember almost nothing about them. A few other stories I remember reading in school are: Something for Joey, Where the Red Fern Grows, Soup and Me. Some of the "classics" I've never actually read: Of Mice and Men The Great Gatsby The Scarlett Letter Lord of the Flies The Lottery Catcher in the Rye I'm currently reading Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. They are all put together in a single paperback. I'm only halfway through Frankenstein and having only a vague knowledge of the story based on movies and other pop culture, it's not what I was expecting at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightni Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 The movie that they made of 12 Angry Men is amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyyle23 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 I forgot about Lord of the Flies. I read the Jack London books voluntarily, never as part of a curriculum. I also really enjoyed Where the Red Fern Grows and the "Big Red" books about the kid with the Irish setters Anything that was "a boy and his dog" i read Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 (edited) Wuthering Heights I hated. Most of the books I was assigned I liked alot. I really liked the stream of consciousness books like Joyce and Faulkner. Heart of Darkness by Conrad was one of my personal favorites. Edited May 10, 2013 by RockRaines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeSox Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 QUOTE (RockRaines @ May 10, 2013 -> 11:57 AM) Wuthering Heights I hated. Burn all 19th Romantic literature. Expunge it from the face of the Earth. Most of the books I was assigned I liked alot. I really liked the stream of consciousness books like Joyce and Faulkner. Heart of Darkness by Conrad was one of my personal favorites. I couldn't get into Joyce in high school, but I've re-read some of his stuff recently and enjoyed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RockRaines Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 10, 2013 -> 11:59 AM) Burn all 19th Romantic literature. Expunge it from the face of the Earth. I couldn't get into Joyce in high school, but I've re-read some of his stuff recently and enjoyed it. Yeah, its one of those types of books that takes more concentration than most folks have in HS. English and literature was one of the only things I liked about school and I had a teacher than took an interest in me and made me sort of dissect books as I read them which helped me immensely. I couldnt agree more with your first point. Hate most of that entire genre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Middle Buffalo Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 I like reading, but I never liked trying to figure out symbolism, etc. I just like reading a book for enjoyment. I sometimes wonder if teachers assign meaning to things that the author never intended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve9347 Posted May 10, 2013 Share Posted May 10, 2013 QUOTE (JPN366 @ May 10, 2013 -> 08:34 AM) It's like the internet, but on paper. Ha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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