[.I have many favorites and dislikes of books I have read so far in school.

Ones I loved:
The Outsiders
To Kill Mockingbird
*The Perks of Being A Wallflower
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

Ones I could Live Without
April Morning

I think of any more...Add ones you loved/not so much loved and must read books.]

April Raintree was really good.....
Of mice and men!!
bridge to terabithia

[.ooh Bridge of Terabithia I love that book. The old movie was good too. Not the new one. The new one has too much special effects.]

I could totally agree with you on April morning. Almost feel asleep reading that one.
All My Sons, Of Mice and Men, Inherit the wind, they're all pretty good for school books. :3
I didn't really read much school books though.

I agree--The Outsiders and To Kill a Mockingbird were fantastic. So were The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre.

I really could've lived without The House on Mango Street. We read it several years ago, and it made me want to die ten times over. Shakespeare gets pretty tiresome as well, after a while. Marlowe's Faustus was a great break from Shakespeare.

More recently, our literature teacher has been forcing Russian plays upon us, and it's as if she wants to make us cry. ^^;; Tolstoy, Chekov, and the like. These I never want to read again.

The Outsiders! omg, I loved that book <3 Sodapop :DDD

I really liked The Catcher in the Rye. I read it at first and I was like, "GOD THIS BOOK SUCKS AND HOLDEN'S A WHINY IDIOT", but then we started studying it in detail and having class discussions and the book just became that much more alive.

My class recently finished up Romeo and Juliet; damn, those Elizabethan Englishmen were really, really horny. The perverts. I almost died from all the sex jokes. And then this company came to do a live performance for our school- the company was made of four men. I will never forget the nurse's falsetto XD

Right now we're studying Lord of the Flies, and it's pretty interesting so far. It's different, how there are no girls.

I didn't like Bridge to Terabithia.

I liked flowers for algernon. 8D

...and I remember my 3rd grade teacher read Sign of the Beaver to us. haha.

Those books we were forced to read O.o I hate them >.< I suppose it's only for cultural references. We mostly read things like Zola, Maupassan and Molière in france. Those are so boring >.<

My favorites were:

The Great Gatsby
Ender's Game

Yah.

I have read:
- Joy Luck Club
- To Kill A Mockingbird
- Flowers For Algernon
- The White Umbrella

Ooooh Jane Eyre.
I wanna read that. xDD

GainaSpirit: I agree with you on the Moliere bit; though he had good ideas, his plays are as boring as all hell. >.> It was a struggle just to stay awake through stuff like Tartuffe. My sympathies go out to you. @[email protected]

I've forgotten to say how much I enjoyed the Iliad. ^^ In its original poetic form, it's fantastic.

I really enjoyed Pride and Prejudice, Where the Red Fern Grows, A Wrinkle in Time, and that's about it for school books.

The Books I found boring and annoying were The Pigman, Lord of the Flies, and the worst of them all was probably Nothing But the Truth. The plot was just so stupid...

I loved the Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, and The Handmaid's Tale. The other ones I remember reading were okay, but stay away from Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome... dispite its small size, it is the devil :evil:. Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a nightmare. I consider myself a patient person and I am willing to give every book a chance, but that book was so terrible I could barely get past page 10 :evil: :evil: :evil: .

Oooh! Yes!

Loved:

Bridge to Terabithia
That book about the Nazis and the war in Copenhagen, Denmark..I forgot the name of it.
Hoot
Hatchet
The Beastly Arms

Hated:

None, surprisingly.

The Outsiders is such a great book! I remember reading that in my grade 9 English class.

Also, the book, The War Between The Classes is an awesome novel as well.

i was forced to read:

The Marian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury for a summer reading assignment for ninth grade. i had to read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde during ninth grade and also Romeo and Juliet, along with The Odysse (sp?) by Homer.

and the summer going into tenth grade, i had to read The Chosen by Chaim Potok and The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. i didnt finish that one. then, during the year i read To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. it was really good. and i read The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare.

then was the summer before eleventh grade where i had to read Exodus by Leon Uris. and throughout the year, i remember reading A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines and Their Eyes Were Watching God by some person i cant recall. i hated it because it used that technique that used the local dialect in the book. it took me a while to read it.

and finally during the summer of twelveth grade i read All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren and Grendal by John Gardner. and the The Great Gatsby by someone i dont know. also i just finished reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelly and i'm going to be reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. and then the year will be finished off with Brave New World by Aldouse Huxley.

edit: there were more books, but i just cannot recall them at the moment.

The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a genius of a man. X3

Hey, we had to read The Chosen too! As I recall, most of us hated it. To be fair, it was an okay book, but since it wasn't exactly a life-changer, being forced to read it just fueled the animosity. ^^;;

You're so lucky, you got to read Ray Bradbury and The Picture of Dorian Gray! Bradbury and Wilde are wonderful.

Originally Posted by fishnet

The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a genius of a man. X3

Hey, we had to read The Chosen too! As I recall, most of us hated it. To be fair, it was an okay book, but since it wasn't exactly a life-changer, being forced to read it just fueled the animosity. ^^;;

You're so lucky, you got to read Ray Bradbury and The Picture of Dorian Gray! Bradbury and Wilde are wonderful.

i actually liked The Chosen. i was the only person that i know of who like it. everyone else like The Good Earth. it sucked to me. i didnt even finish it. i skimmed the end. i reread on my spare time during the summer.
ray bradbury to me was not so great. probably because i had to write three pages of questions for each book. and the Picture of Dorian Gray seems like it will be a good read.

Originally Posted by fishnet

The Great Gatsby was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a genius of a man. X3

Hey, we had to read The Chosen too! As I recall, most of us hated it. To be fair, it was an okay book, but since it wasn't exactly a life-changer, being forced to read it just fueled the animosity. ^^;;

You're so lucky, you got to read Ray Bradbury and The Picture of Dorian Gray! Bradbury and Wilde are wonderful.

[.I read 1 page of The Great Gatsby =O
My dad wants me to read it.. so I won't count it as a book from school.
I should start reading it now...]

Hmm. . . I can't think of many, but I remember reading Romeo and Juliet. I loved the book. :3 We also got to watch the movie {Romeo+Juliet}, which helped to explain things I may have not fully understood with just reaching.
One of the books that I couldn't stand. . . It was either a bunch of short poems or stories, and it was. . . I think. . . A House on Mango Street?

Hm. I've had to read Fahrenheit 451, Green Mile, 1984, Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, Joy Luck Club, Night, Great Gatsby, East of Eden, Grapes of Wrath, Crime and Punishment, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Scarlet Letter, Crucible, Romeo and Juliet, Lord of the Flies, Hamlet... And probably many others that I can't remember. The only books that I honestly disliked were Grapes of Wrath (I positively love his writing style, but that book was just too long and too dry) and Portrait of the Artist (mostly because of the way my teacher taught it)

I really don't love any the books I read at school but theres one it's name is "Maria....someting I forgot the name??? T_T

Ones I liked best:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
Roll of Thunder, Here my Cry
Rebecca
And all the Shakespere we do

Ones I hated:
Jane Eyre
Beowolf
The Sword and the Stone
The Withered Arm

I had to read Huckle Berry Fin, The Scarlet Letter, Romeo and Juliet, and Julius Ceasar! some were boring others were okay

well the ones i loved when i read them in school would have to be:

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Jungle
The Great Gatsby
One flew over the Cuckoos Nest
and several others that i cant remember since highschool was four years ago..lol but those are the ones that stand out.