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The classics I've loved reading have included Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Animal Farm, Call of the Wild, The Scarlet Letter, Of Mice and Men, Native Son. Also The Fellowship of the Ring, although I'm not sure if Lord of the Rings is widely regarded as classic literature... The only classic book I've ever truly hated reading has been The Grapes of Wrath. I disliked A Farewell to Arms, but I wouldn't go so far as to say I hated it; TGOW is probably the only classic that I feel utter hatred for.
Would you mind telling me a little bit more about that? I am a teacher and my school has a class set of the book, but I'm not sure if it's something I should have my students read... or just something to get for my classroom library.
Its the story of a dystopian society where war is always going on, houses are all fireproof, reading is outlawed. The firemen burn books and the houses that they were in. The story follows firefighter Guy Montag and his struggle to understand the society that he lives in.
I wasn't supposed to read Fahrenheit 451 for school but my L.A. teacher said we should read it because later we had to read Something Wicked This Way Comes. When we were about to start it, my teacher looks at me and says "This is your worst nightmare." Predictable? I THINK NOT!
I love watching your videos because you are this burst of excitement that pops out at me every time I watch a video. Regardless of what it's about, your videos always put me in a better mood :)
Night by Elie Wiesel was a book I really enjoyed reading in school. I got emotionally connected to the characters and the events happening around them.
What's so great about The Catcher in the Rye is that there's no middle ground. You either love it or you hate. I'm firmly in the love camp. I remember thinking To Kill a Mockingbird was boring, but loved Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm. I read Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights as an adult and they were all amazing reads. Actually, Wuthering Heights is my favorite book EVER.
One of my faaavourite books is The Secret History by Donna Tartt. I don't know why it isn't more widely appreciated- in the UK at least ...it's set in an American University, the main characters are Classics students who dabble too much in old rituals with the most unpredictable and unexplainable consequences. If you google "it is a very greek idea and a very profound one" there's a brilliant paragraph from the book that gives you a taste of the ideas and things :)
I really dug Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451." I was a very shy person in high school, but I loved it so much I volunteered to read a few passages in front of the class!!
I could not stand Great Gatsby. I hated every single character except Nick. I though Daisy and Tom were stupid and Gatsby was kind of a jerk to bring Nick into his relationship issues. it's also a bit stalkerish to move right next to the previous love of your life. No hate for anyone that liked Great Gatsby, but I despised that book.
"Slaughterhouse 5" and "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse, and "Grendel" by John Gardner (Beowulf from the monster's perspective) were my favorites in high school.
Oh my Gosh!! I loved reading The Giver when I was in 7th grade! I got really into it and it just flew by so fast! After we finished it I looked into more Lois Lowry's books and found that the giver had 3 more books in a series of it! I ABSOLUTELY loved them and the first ones Gathering Blue. I REALLY suggest you guys read it and the others because they are awesome!! :D
We read Maniac Magee in fifth grade and really loved it. It was probably so good because my teacher would give each of us a copy of the book and we would all have a part which was awesome to do.
read the giver in school and loved it like middle school or elem and i also loved a wrinkle in time and read the series now im re-reading it. Brings back good memories.
I loved the Great Gatsby. The characters were a little distant, but i think that was on purpose. Daisy was a cold, self-involved person, and Gatsby had only one goal for his life, which was getting Daisy. Nick was a good narrorator for the story, being an observer of Gatsby and Daisy's story. I love the 20's and this story with all it's description. I also love love love Pride and Prejudice, The Yearling, The Westing Game and The secret Garden. A Tale of Two Cities is defiantly worth reading as well!
I am in a lower grade, the kind that reads middle grade books. Most of the classics I enjoy I am going to be reading for school later in life. For example, I read the catcher in the rye (I wrote a hate-fiction where Holden gets hit by a bus) and it will not be required for school for three years, and I don't read Animal Farm for school for another two years, but I read it a few weeks ago and it blew me away. I usually read the books required for school WAY before I actually am required to read them
Absolute favourite school reading book was 'The Kite Runner'. I never used to like reading until this book, I couldn't put it down, I read in all the time. To the point I accidently dropped it in the bath which was full. I cried because I couldn't keep reading until it dried.
Books and my reactions During High school: -Tom Sawyer twice! (hated both times) -Huck Finn (better than Tom Sawyer but still found it boring) -To Kill a Mockingbird (meh) -Of Mice and Men (this was pretty good) -Pride and Prejudice (didn't like the idea of reading it, but liked it when I finished) -Fahrenheit 451 (not bad, definitely interesting) -Heart of Darkness (weird, but I don't really like it) -Holes (meh, fun, but nothing too exciting) -Hatchet (barely remember it...) -Call of the Wild (long, and detailed, but I kind of like it) -Frankenstein (hmm...long, different, but not too bad) During College: -To Kill A Mockingbird (dude! I never knew how good this book was!) -A Tale of Two Cities (going in: Charles Dickens? no... After: I love this book!) -Heart of Darkness (no! I didn't like it the first time, I still don't like it) -Frankenstein (I don't remember it being this detailed...ugh, so long...) -One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (excited to read it, really enjoyed it)
omg I am so happy that I am not the only one who feels that way about the great gatsby! I had like not idea who daisy even was as a character because she was only in two scenes! it was so frustrating because I really wanted to like it.
I loved a Thousand Splendid Suns: it was so true and realistic. You could actually feel the growing bond within the characters and as you read you grew a bond with them through all of their many tough events. One book I seriously dislike is The Awakening. I couldn't deal with the ending or just the main characters actions in general.
To Kill A Mockingbird. I'll be honest and say I hated it the first time I read it for school, but I had to reread it (I went on student exchange and that class was reading it) and it was so beautiful to me the second time because I understood the symbolism right off the bat.
I'm dyslexic so reading books for school was like punishment to me. in collage I started reading books during summer break to get away form the computer screens and spend some time out side with out being board. I started reading all the books I could find in English (i live in the Netherlands) that had the penguin on it because I figured that they must be classic and hopefully good. I'm glad i did. my fave 'classic' is Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe first published in 1722.
My god I HATED Hatchet! All these kids loved it and I'm just like HOW! There were some good aspects of it I just found it boring that there was no characters interacting.
it was definitely inspirational but i still wish here was some interaction with other characters besides flashbacks. xxShadowxx0202 If you want to hear my opinion on books more i'm starting a book tube channel called Nell The Demigod. Maybe you would like to see it?
In high school we read The Chrysalids, To Kill A Mockingbird, Lord of The Flies, Animal Farm, Julius Caeser, Hamlet, Macbeth, The Diary of a Young Girl, A Midsummer Night's Dream. The ones that stood out for me were Shakespeare's plays! I love William Shakespeare's work!! But novel-wise, I liked To Kill A Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies.
Back when I was in school, I took Literature at Sixth Form, I had to read everything from Of Mice and Men, to Great Gatsby (never actually finished that one) and An Inspector Calls! Some of the kids in my school were able to read William Goldings 'Lord of the Flies' which I kinda wished I had a chance to as Golding went to my school!
My all-time favorite classic, as well as favorite book/story period, is Little Women. Which i didn't even read for school, but because my sister gave it to me one Christmas and i read it for the first time that summer, before 7th grade. The '94 movie is one of my favorites, and i tear up every time. almost 150 years before Prim Everdeen, there was Beth March...
Going to school in Denmark I haven´t read a lot of the books you´re talking about here. But we did read a lot of books that just stuck with me like damn. (I´m translating the titles here, unfortunately I don´t think any of these books have been translated to English.) The "Daughter of the Shamer" series by Lene Kaaberbøl basically was my Harry Potter. I´d already read the first book, and the rest of the series, when my teacher picked it up and to this day no series has stuck with me quite like that. "Nothing" by Jane Teller gave me my first existential crisis when I was like 12, and "The Mad Ones"by Kim Fupz Aakeson opened the world of Dystopian fiction to me. I think I was incredibly lucky with the books we read in class. They really just fueled me and made me hunger for more. Also I completely agree about Hemingway ...
My favorite book I read in school was Catcher in the Rye. Since high school, I've actually gone back and read more J.D Salinger. A close second favorite was Romeo and Juliet.
The rest of the "A Wrinkle In Time" series is definitely worth reading. They don't have much to do with each other, but they all have the same characters. A Swiftly Titling Planet is probably the best one, and the strangest.
That one book where it's like a family in a cabin in the woods and I can't remember the book too well but it was BORING. I LOVE LOVE LOVED the Wayside books that my 3rd grade teacher read to us as well as The Giver, Al Capone Does My Shirts, and The Outsiders.
The Great Gatsby is an INCREDIBLE re-read. I read it after having read it, like, 6 years ago in high school. I absolutely loved it. It's suuuch a classic, tragic story, and I appreciate it so much more at 23 than I did at 16. Guess that's what an English minor has given me. :P
I don't know if it's an English school thing, but the only classic I had to read in school was Great Expectations, and I adored it. I read it in 'middle school' and high school, plus I think it helped that we watched the BBC Douglas Booth dramatisation in class alongside it. I almost wish we read more books in school because I've only really recently gotten into classics and I feel like I've missed out on so many good books. I recently read A Tale of Two Cities and it may be my favourite book ever.
I liked reading the outsiders. I hated reading Enders Game the first time in middle school but I enjoyed it more when I was a senior I high school. I didn't like reading of mice and men and lord of the flies.
For school I've read (other than divergent) were Animal Farm, The Giver, Savvy, Shades of Gray, Siddartha, Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet and The tragedy of Julius Caesar.
A few of the classics I now like are because I had to read them for school. I'm currently reading the Scarlet Letter. It's hard to chose a favorite, but I really like the Scarlet Pimpernel and Tale of Two Cities.
My school favorites are 1984 by George Orwell, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and Life of Pi by Yann Martel. You should definitely check them out! All of these were read during my AP English class senior year.
I read Percy Jackson because my mom was my teacher and she let me pick since I' m so bad at concentrating. I also read some boring ones that I can't really remember.. That's how much I enjoy that.
the books i have had to read this year for 7th grade and these are ones that i love not counting the ones i didnt are the giver and the outsiders awesome easy read books
I've read a book called Seven Per Cent Solution by Nicholas Meyer (No he is NOT related to Stephine Meyer) way back in middle school but it wasn't for a class. I'm into Sherlock Holmes in a big way and this was a Holmes story that was diffferent from all the others I've read then. It was published in the late 70's and there was a movie too. The author responsible for the book also wrote the screenplay for the film.
loved this place has no atmosphere...tht was going into 7th grade and i actually read tht one...i pretended to read the giver when we had to and i pretended to read a wrinkle in time...and my mom read ender's game for me...i liked catcher in the rye and the great gatsby...and i only got through half of a prayer for owen meany...omg hatchet, i forgot about tht one...and i did actually read the secret life of bees...and losing julia was freaking amazing...i cried, love...
I remember absolutely hating Oliver Twist and A Separate Peace when I read them in ninth and tenth grade respectively. Some of my most favorite books have come from my high school's curriculum, though-- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein, and Invisible Man, being a few. My all time favorite book that I ever read in high school is The Hobbit. I read it as a senior, and it sparked an incredible interest in Tolkien. I fell in love.
The only required books that I ever really enjoyed were The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, and Yellow Fever, 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson. Those books really made me feel things other than boredom. I remember with The Outsiders I had to read the book three times before I could reread it and watch the movie with my classmates without crying.
"The Count of Monte Cristo" (Alejandro Dumas), "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" (Edgar Allan Poe - story compilations), "Rafaela" (Mariana Furiasse), and "October, a crime" (Norma Huidoboro).
I am guilty of loving reading classics at school while everyone was like ah so moist! We did a lot of Shakespeare and I loved The Tempest, the extended metaphors In Romeo and Juliet, Of mice and men
Four classics recommendations: Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild; The Bell Family by Noel Streatfeild; Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer; and I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.
I'm homeschooled so I never had to read any of those books, but I have read a few classics. I just finished To Kill a Mockingbird, and I loved it. One of my favorite books. I read Dracula by Bram Stoker earlier this year and I liked it. It was harder to get through than Mockingbird, though. I read A Wrinkle In Time years ago and I loved it. It's been a while so I'm thinking of re-reading it. I love all of your videos and I'm getting lots of books for my Summer Reading List. Thanks!
I am currently reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, because I watched The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. I am completely in love with it. All of the drama. Love it.
Have you ever read To Kill A Mockingbird ? It's a really good one . As for dislike ... Ernest Hemingway : The Old Man in the sea . It wasn't bad but .. I couldn't get through it . I was thinking about re-reading it . It was amazing writing , but some chapter's ...
I loved The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice, and The Catcher in the Rye. Couldn't stand Tom Sawyer in 6th grade when we read it. But in senior year, I reread it and LOVED it!
I remember being in 10th grade reading Lord of the Flies and HATING IT! The only book that I ever loved that was required reading for school was in 9th grade when I had to read To Kill A Mockingbird. I have reread that book so many times and it never gets old! Love it! Then when I was a senior, I had this really weird english teacher and she made us read Kite Runner. Have you ever read that? Well if you have, you totally know what I'm talking about then about the teacher being weird.
When i was in highschool my english teacher had us read great gatsby but also the hunger games and the life of a part time indian. I enjoyed the first two but not so much the third. I also had to read things fall apart which i liked alot.
Others -The Givetr (One of the extremely few books I cried about) -Polyanna -Anything by L.M Montgomery -Black Beauty (finished the children's version in about a day at 3rd grade) -Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm -Where the Red Fern Grows -The Nightingale that weep (or something like that) (the ending was kinda creepy) -The Joy Luck Club -Don't if this is a classic but anything by Lloyd Alexander -The Picture of Dorian Gray -Jane Eyre (liked it WAY better than Jane Austen)
Oh I LOVED a wrinkle in time!!! You definitely should read the rest of the series. The second book, A Wind in the Door, is more confusing but it's still good. And then the third book, A Swifty Tilting Planet, is AMAZING. I reread that book so many times, IT'S SO GOOD. And then there's a companion book called Many Waters, and it's about Meg'a brothers Sandy and Dennys. Many Waters was probably my favorite book of all time until I got into the Mortal Instruments. I literally read it so many times
We had to read a book called the Tulip Touch in class and I hated it. It was really slow moving and you get really curious at the beginning and then nothing really happens half the time.
