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Wuthering Heights for me... not sure why it struck a chord but was a huge fan
Catcher in the Rye also ... though I expect to see a few throw that one up
The idea for this thread popped up in my "Worst book" thread, so I thought I would role it out there given that these are the dog days of hockey and I have nothing better to do.
I said that "Lord of the Flies" and "The Scarlet Letter" were my two favourite books I HAD to read for a class. I read "Lord of the Flies" in grade 11 and "The Scarlet Letter" in my first year of university. Both are great, and I hadn't read either previously to HAVING to read them for class.
So what book was your favorite must-read in high school / college / university?
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it really is the dog days of Summer now!
Wuthering Heights for me... not sure why it struck a chord but was a huge fan
Catcher in the Rye also ... though I expect to see a few throw that one up
Experience is the teacher of all things.
The Catcher in the Rye is actually right there on my worst book list haha.
As I said in the other thread, Ender's Game was the best book I had to read for school. I went on to love the rest of the series too. (The movie didn't do it justice - they never do).
I don't know if this counts, but for one of my university electives a couple years ago, I had to pick a book to read that was set in space, I ended up finding the martian, with no reviews anywhere online as it had just come out, I gave it a shot and loved it. Writing style was amazing, and I have never laughed out loud so much from a book.
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Good By to All That by Robert Graves. I had a history teacher who didn't believe in teaching about history from text books and this was the first book I remember reading end-to-end without regard to the assigned chapters.
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I really enjoyed reading 'A Canticle for Leibowitz' in high school, although most of my classmates did not.
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It's cool that some teacher made you read Ender's Game. I read a lot of classic sci-fi, and gave that to my wife to read. Last one I gave her was Foundation, and she hated it. She really liked Ender's Game though.
In high school, I had to read The Grapes Of Wrath, which I thought was great. Later I read East Of Eden on my own, that was even better. I never read more Steinbeck, as I felt East Of Eden couldn't be topped.
I went to an engineering college, so there wasn't too much in the way of literature, but in the one "Humanities" course I took as a freshman, we read Stranger In A Strange Land. I had already read a couple of Heinlein books before that, but it put me onto a kick where I read everything of his I could find.
I did have to read Lord Of The Flies, but I've never read Catcher In The Rye or A Canticle For Liebowitz, but the latter is on my list and a copy sits in my classic sci-fi library. If anyone ever wants any classic sci-fi recommendations, I have some really good ones. If you like George R.R. Martin, he wrote a novella titled "Sandkings" that won both Hugo & Nebula awards and was made into a TV episode in the 1995 revival of the 60's TV series The Outer Limits.
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D: Bouchard, McAvoy, Morrissey, Heiskanen
G: Vasilevskiy
There are a few... Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1984 & Animal Farm by George Orwell, Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, and the play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett are among the favourites that I was 'forced' to read in school.
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I had a social economics class a couple years back. I had to read Thinking Fast and Slow from Daniel Kahneman. This books has changed the way I perceive everything around me. I really , really, suggest everyone reads this.
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Just teasing, fellas. I would have posted the vid of Homer screaming "Nerds!" out of his car, but I was in a rush.
I've always read a tonne (I've often got 2-3 books going at once), but literally nothing I ever read in school left any kind of impression on me, good or bad. I don't remember anything about school novels, beyond knowing which ones I read. I do remember that I was allowed to do a book report and essay on a graphic novel ("Church & State" by Dave Sim) and Asimov's "Foundation" in high school, which was awesome.
I didn't enjoy reading when I was in school. Now I can't read enough. Go figure. I learned good.
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I don't think I enjoyed reading at all in HS, but 1984 and Lord of the Flies weren't the worst. Someone mentioned MacBeth; that one I enjoyed as well and reference a lot to this day.
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