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Post by emilythewonder on Apr 3, 2002 20:36:34 GMT -5
So far this year: All Quiet on the Western Front I actually liked it...a lot of people hated it but by coincidence I had watched the movie a couple weeks before (I didn't know we were going to read it) and I really enjoyed the book.The Odyssey This book deserves to die a painful death. Hehe...it's kinda fun to be able to say that I've read it...but it was NOT fun.Romeo and Juliet I love Shakespeare Although I do think that Romeo is a pathetic self-obsessed character and that Romeo and Juliet were not really in love, it was just an infatuation because they liked the IDEA of being in love, not actually BEING in love. Anyway...heh...To Kill a Mockingbird We just started this a couple days ago and I really like it! It's a fun book to read [glow=red,2,300] ¤*¤EMILY¤*¤[/glow]
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Post by Michaelangelo on Apr 6, 2002 22:21:25 GMT -5
^We're reading All Quiet on the Western Front right now! It's SO good-- I really, really like it. I wonder if I could steal the book from school... Love, ~The Kitten~
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Post by x n0ise on Apr 12, 2002 23:47:43 GMT -5
We also had to read the Diary of Anne Frank. It was a very good book. Boring at times, but what can I say. I really liked it overall. Learning about her lifestyle of the Secret Annexe...although I've already read the stinkin' book about a kajillion times. But it's all good. ;D
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Post by Larigirl on Jun 11, 2002 18:24:33 GMT -5
I read Bridge to Terebithia in grade 5, it's my all-time favourite book!
in grade 12 we read Catcher In The Rye, and Owen Meany... they were alright.
I read some books for an Independent Study Project in grade 13, all written by Amy Tan... I've read all her books and she's an amazing author!! her best book is The Hundred Secret Senses
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Post by DirtyMagic on Jun 20, 2002 17:08:15 GMT -5
^ We had to read that in fifth grade, too. I think I read it twice that year...I checked it out a few weeks before we were going to read it, and I liked it a lot. This year we read Julius Caesar (I didn't like it much) and To Kill a Mockingbird (It was GREAT.). The year before we read Romeo and Juliet (It's alright, I appreciate it more now than I did when we were reading it.), The Odyssey (I hated it, I hated the main character.), and Great Expectations (didn't like that, either, it was boring.). Before high school I had to read My Side of the Mountain (hated it.), The Outsiders (liked it), Hatchet (loved it), and various other books that I just can't remember for whatever reason
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Post by Alyssa on Nov 7, 2002 13:15:06 GMT -5
You're lucky - you get to read things that actually have a bit of variation in them. I live in Germany, and you can only read German stuff (in German lessons anyway), and for some reason you just go over the whole history of Germany (Nazis and seperation of Germany) again and again and again. I mean it's important, but still...
The books were mostly bad. Or just boring. There was one that was the most boring book ever, two that were supposed to relate to us as children/young teens but were plain stupid, and one that's not very interesting, but okay.
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Post by Gabster on Nov 27, 2002 0:43:59 GMT -5
So far this year... Fahrenheit 451 - HATED IT. WITH A PASSION. This book was just...blah to me. I couldn't get into it, and after analyzing every single freakin' page, I wanted to burn it. Which is proof that I learned nothing from it, as you will understand if anyone hear has read it.
Romiette and Julio - No, I did not make a severe typo. That's what the book was called. It was a modern twist on Romeo and Juliet. The teacher didn't actually assign it, it was part of an independent reading report, and we got to choose our own books. I actually really enjoyed it, and ended up getting a 97 on the whole shebang.
The Odyssey - That's what we're reading right now. It's kind of stressful having to read 20 pages and then type 200 words (words have to be 4 or more letters) on it, but I'm getting into it. I think it's a pretty good book, and once you get used to the tone, it's easier to understand.
Past Years (what I can remember, @ least): Bridge to Terebithia - Not much I remember about this one, since it was @ the beginning of 6th grade. I liked it, though.
Danny, The Champion of the World - Stupid book. 6th grade. I didn't like it @ all.
My Brother Sam Is Dead - OK, um, well, the title kind of gives the entire freakin' book away, now doesn't it?
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - I liked it. It was pretty good, and the workload on it was light, which let me actually *enjoy* it.
And...I can't think of anymore.
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Post by ¤SassySteph0248¤ on Nov 27, 2002 22:02:43 GMT -5
Last Year: *The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle(pretty good book) *Christmas Carol (big word version!! ahh) *Slakes Limbo (ok book)
This year: *Farewell to Manzanar(kinda boring, but had a few good parts) *Anne Frank
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Post by Gabster on Feb 16, 2003 18:37:11 GMT -5
The House on Mango Street - We finished that a couple weeks ago. This was my first experience with margin notes...translation: we had to analyze every word of every sentence of every page. I didn't like the book to begin with, so you can imagine my feelings towards it when we were done.
The Old Man and the Sea - We're reading this now. It's actually pretty good, for required reading, and it applies to a lot more than just fishing. However...it's really dragging along because we have to take REALLY detailed, in depth notes, which take me nearly 10 minutes a page.
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Post by DirtyMagic on Feb 20, 2003 22:17:09 GMT -5
So far this year, we've read The Crucible. And right now we're in the middle of The Red Badge of Courage.
I hated The Crucible at first, but it turned out to really not be that bad.
I don't think I'm actually going to make it through The Red Badge of Courage, it's so boring...and I don't understand what's going on half of the time. Blah.
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Post by Spazmatikal on Feb 20, 2003 22:54:48 GMT -5
alright, i'll just type up what i've read this year alone for AP english (11th grade)
summer reading for the class was: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood: AWESOME BOOK! I loved it. I can't praise it enough.
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines: this book was alright. I wasn't too into it.
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut: I really liked this one, it was so random and weird... i think we may have to read it again this semester (it was on the summer reading list as one of the books of choice we had to read... so there was like ten others i could have chosen from)
During the school year: The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne: okay, my teacher gave us this book the second freakin day of school and we had to read it in a week. i don't think i would have hated it as much if i didn't have to read it so quickly. argh.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller: i read this in eigth grade also. it wasn't heinous.
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: Decent. I didn't hate it, didn't like it as much as a lot of people in my class though.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey: Great book. It was long, and a lot to take in, but I really enjoyed it. I want to see the movie of it with jack nicholson.
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck: my evil teacher assigned this one over winter break. I think steinbeck is amazing, but i don't want to read steinbeck over my VACATION!
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald: My first experience with marginalia. evil stuff, that is. but i liked the book anyway, i like fitzgerald's style.
i *think* that's all the novels we've read in this year so far. geez...
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