2007-07-12 15:14:05 · 20 answers · asked by Sharon Newman (YR) Must Die 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Best - To Kill a Mockingbird; And Then There Were None; Flowers for Algernon ... these are now some of my favorite books! =)
Runners-up (Runner-ups?) to Best - Romeo & Juliet; Julius Caesar; A Separate Peace; Catcher in the Rye; Twelve Angry Men
Worst - Backwater (by Joan Bauer, I think)... ugh, that book was horrid. I don't remember ANYONE liking it, even a little bit.
And then there are those books that are in the middle - I don't hate them, but I don't love them either... Tears of a Tiger; some book about the Titanic that I can't recall the title of. And of course, there's those books yet to be read... I'm only going to be a junior (in highschool) this year.
2007-07-12 15:41:23 · answer #1 · answered by ♥ Dani 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since this is just about books for English I'd say the best was As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner which I read as a junior, and A Separate Peace by John Knowles would come in second from freshman year. The worst book was The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway from the same year. It had a pretty good ending, it was just the trip at sea with the fish that was so boring; it drove me crazy.
Actually I've just remembered THE worst book I've read for English. In 11th grade I had to read Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural by Ronald White. It's all about rhetoric and things about the speech. I'm sure there are much better books my teacher could have picked out.
2007-07-12 16:28:10 · answer #2 · answered by armageddon144 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SHORT STORIES
Best: The Best Loved Fairytails of the World
Worst: To Be a Hero
BOOKS
Best: The Odyssey or Animal Farm
Worst: The Giver
2007-07-12 15:21:46 · answer #3 · answered by Allice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best: To Kill A Mockingbird and Jane Eyre
Worst: Fahrenheit 451
2007-07-12 19:24:53 · answer #4 · answered by [Krystle] 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
so many good ones... the best was To Kill A Mockingbird though. Or maybe The Grapes of Wrath. Oh, so many good books, it's hard to choose.
worst, probably A Brave New World. just didn't like it. at all.
2007-07-12 17:10:31 · answer #5 · answered by lifeinmono 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best was To Kill a Mockingbird and the worst was The Good Earth.
2007-07-12 15:20:30 · answer #6 · answered by noodles 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I discovered William Golding - Lord of the Flies - in English classes.
But Catch-22 by Joseph Heller was the standout.
Worst was whatever bit of Dickens was inflicted on me. For some reason I have never been able to finish anything by Dickens.
2007-07-12 15:18:58 · answer #7 · answered by iansand 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Best, To Kill a Mockingbird, (as a incoming sophomore, I haven't had to read a terrible book for English yet)
2007-07-12 15:17:12 · answer #8 · answered by istillcandream 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best book is the Fifth Business, forgot the name of the author and worst was Romeo and Juliet.
2007-07-12 15:17:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best is To Kill a Mockingbird
Worst is this book called "The Sun also Rises" Or something along those lines
2007-07-12 15:31:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋