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What books were you forced to read in school? - 8/26/2009 12:54:08 PM
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raspberry331
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What books were you forced to read in school?
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 8/26/2009 2:59:38 PM
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Elena1030
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"Forced"? As in required to read a certain book and you hated it?
Well, I wasn't required to read it, but it was a choice on the list..... and I hated it: The Scarlet Letter. In 7th grade. I was curious as to the hooplah about it. We were supposed to read EVERY single bit of the book. I had such trouble getting beyond Hawthorne's prologue chapter about the Common House (or whatever it was)... that I almost didn't get the book read in time for whatever project we were assigned. Eventually, my mom told me to just skip it and get into the meat of the book. Reading went a bit faster then. Still there was a lot I missed b/c much of the story didn't sink in. (I don't know why.)
I was so glad when I was a junior in high school and we were studying American Literature that my English teacher didn't make us read that durn book. Sooooo glad.
Reading was one of my favorite things in school, and I began reading early. (Before kindergarten, I think.) To this day, I am a voracious reader. So... no, reading itself was never something I had to be forced to do.
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 8/26/2009 6:34:21 PM
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In college as an English major, I had to read loads and loads of books, of course, each semester. The one I ABSOLUTELY REFUSED to read was Lolita. I didn't even buy it, and I thought I'd flunk the midterm if that horrible book was on the test. It was, but thankfully we could choose two of three essay questions...and I definitely chose the other two. God provided! My professor never even knew I'd never read that detestable book.
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 8/26/2009 11:20:43 PM
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The great Gatsby(Yawn))))!!!
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 8/27/2009 7:18:16 AM
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If I was "forced" to read any books in school they were so forgettable that I don't even remember them. Honestly, I don't remember ever being required to read a book for any kind of class. Except for textbooks, books of course. But certainly not any works of fiction. I dunno, maybe the schools I attended were deficient or something. Still I don't feel like I've missed anything of earth shattering importance.
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 8/27/2009 10:14:43 AM
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Well, we were required to read a lot of books. Some I liked. Some I didn't.
I didn't really have any that I detested at this level. There were plenty I've read for class or on my own that were overrated.
Moby Dick for one. The Great Gatsby for another (although that once was a pretty easy read).
I'm pretty tenacious though.
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 8/28/2009 2:24:03 PM
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I read a combination of PARTS of the books, along with Cliff's notes. I learned my sales techniques in high school!
It usually worked. Never got below a B in English comp
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 8/29/2009 12:08:17 AM
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I liked the movie The Great Gatsby, but it was not interesting to read as a teen. Great Gatsby remains one of the few books I've ready that I absolutely detested. It was just boring. But Redford's movie was awesome. I'm surprised to see so many not liking the Scarlet Letter. I loved that story and still do.
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 8/29/2009 1:29:08 AM
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I read Lolita and it is sitting on my book shelf. It was referenced to me by a woman who also mentioned it is read mostly by women. If not anything else it is a well written book. The subject matter is repulsive but in spite of that it has value if one can handle going into that dark area.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin would have to be at the top of my list as far as required reading. At the time i thought it was well written but found self despising the main character who, as i recall was married with two children and was not happy with hubby and seduces the teen male babysitter. Then she dismisses him after she is through. Afterwards she blames hubby. At the end she commits suicide. It may have been the whole college thing where the females in the class defended her, the males looked on, and me? I told them all she was despicable. Which did not make me to popular with the females in the class. Most of whom were smart but naive. One thing for sure, i will never forget that book. It is not fun being shunned in a college class but if i had to do it all over again i would not have changed a thing.
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 8/30/2009 5:16:13 AM
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I don't remember having to read anything I absolutely hated, but there was one book called The Mayor of Castorbridge or something like that that came pretty close. As i recall, it was about a guy who sold his wife and daughter to a stranger, and then, when the man she was sold to died, she and her daughter returned to her first husband. There was a lot more to the story than that, but that's the main thing I remember about it. When I was reading it, whenever the story would go anywhere else, I would be bored until it came back to that.
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 8/30/2009 2:01:23 PM
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I had to suffer through Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Great Gatsby, but worst of all was Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman.
OTOH, I enjoyed Moby-Dick and The Scarlet Letter.
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 8/30/2009 2:17:45 PM
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Assigned Tom Sawyer in American Lit. but refused to read it. Bluffed my way through whatever reports and/or tests on it.
I never liked Twain. I've always loved to read but I can remember miserably plodding through some of his short stories in my reading book in grade school.
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 9/2/2009 7:14:07 PM
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Lets see... like just about everyone the Scarlet letter was a complete yawn for me. I knew enough to get by on quizes and what ever else we had to do but I found it rather boring. I also hated doing Greek mythology.... how many times can you read The Odesy or some of the others. I enjoyed it when I was in 5th grade but the second time around I was really bored. There are some other books as well... but those two were the worst though.
I remember being forced to read Nineteen eighty four... and then there was All Quiet on the Western Front I liked it to a certain point but hated the ending. Especially after seeing the movie. (It has the actor who was John Boy in the Waltons.... and he gets killed) I also blame this movie for part of his disapearence for awhile in the tv show and later its another actor for awhile. (WWI book about a German foot soldier)
Then there's summer reading.... any body read "Watership Down" ? I found it interesting to a point but it was so long........ how long can write about rabbits.
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 9/2/2009 8:53:58 PM
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Well, I was required to read a lot of books throughout my K-12 schooling and then I went on to be an English major with a minor in Classics, so I've had to read a lot.
Hands down, however, what I absolutely had to force myself to read was anything, and I mean ANYTHING, by Hemingway. Unfortunately, he was popular choice by teachers in my high school career.
While I've never been a huge Steinbeck fan, I will say that I was glad that I was required to read Of Mice and Men; it was definitely one of the better pieces of American literature that was required reading for me in school.
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 9/2/2009 11:33:09 PM
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Herodutus, hated it.
As a teacher myself, it is tricky to assign any book and have students enjoy reading it. The mere fact of making a book an assignment brings on what I call the "book report mentality." I may have a book on my "want to read" list, but as soon as someone else assigns it as required reading, the "book report mentality" sets in and ruins it.
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 9/3/2009 2:21:33 AM
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ORIGINAL: TXRedhead
Hands down, however, what I absolutely had to force myself to read was anything, and I mean ANYTHING, by Hemingway. Unfortunately, he was popular choice by teachers in my high school career.
That made me remember the one Hemingway book I was required to read. It was The Old Man and the Sea and I was very grateful for the way the teacher had us read it. We only had the books in class, and we read along while she played an audio of the book. That was the only time any teacher had ever done that. If she hadn't, I'd have been bored out of my skull. As it was, the audio made it come alive.
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RE: What books were you forced to read in school? - 5/25/2010 4:16:05 AM
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In 6th grade we had to read The Red Pony. Saddest story ever
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