And what was your favorite?
My favorite was The Outsiders
My worse it's hard but probably....A brave new world (i know alot of you will disagree with that choice)
2007-12-11 16:10:21 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymity 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I had to smile when I read your question because the book I hated the most in hight school is the one my students told me I taught the best. I could not understand The Scarlet Letter. When I became a teacher, I knocked myself out trying to make it comprehensible and meaningful to my students.
2007-12-11 16:51:27 · answer #1 · answered by Little Gal 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens was horrible.
I know Dickens is a classic writer, but I just can't stand this flowery prose. I avoid any of his books, he makes a sentence into a paragraph. No wonder all his books are huge.
I have to read David Copperfield for english this year, I'm dreading it.
I think I probably loved Catcher in the Rye the most, or maybe The Grapes of Wrath.
2007-12-11 20:46:51 · answer #2 · answered by lucychan 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well three books stick out in my memory as the worst i had to read: "Way Past Cool", which was about street gangs and living in the ghetto. I found it so boring and hard to get through because it was so far from what my life was like i couldn't come close to relating. Another book we were forced to read was a book about how to write a novel called "Wild Minds" by a terrible author named Natalie Goldberg... my teacher loved it, it was just terrible. and lastly, i really did not enjoy "The Diving Bell and The Butterfly" which at that point was really beyond my reading level, and i found confusing and just boring.
I did find that overall my teachers had great taste and i found myself enjoying most of what we read, but my favorites had to be:
"Where The Heart Is" about a girl named Nova Lee Nation who gives birth in a wal-mart, it was funny, moving and had heart.
I also really enjoyed the play "The Heidi Chronicles" by Wendy Wasserstien which just opened my eyes to feminism and civil rights...
and i also really found myself enjoying "Of Mice and Men".
2007-12-11 18:02:10 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Silas Marner, by George Eliot. I reread it a while back to see if I appreciated it now, and it was just as sappy.
I went to high school so long ago, I can't remember much about what we read. I do recall reading A Yankee from Olympus, by Catherine Drinker Bowen and liking it a lot. It's a biography of US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. We had a book for an English class that had fourt titles in it; didn't have to read Yankee, but I read it anyway.
2007-12-12 09:40:12 · answer #4 · answered by MarianariaBibliotecaria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite was Catcher in the Rye. I have two books that were my worst to read the first was A Prayer for Owen Meany and the second was A Tale of Two Cities.
2007-12-12 04:32:35 · answer #5 · answered by eyecandy272004 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hated the play Julius Caesar by Shakespeare; it was just a dread. It was a required reading for my 10th grade English class. A shame because that was my favorite class because I had a crush with my English teacher.
My favorite were Catcher in the Rye by Salinger and The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.
2007-12-11 16:46:53 · answer #6 · answered by Boy, Interrupted 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I hated being forced to read "The Old Man And The Sea," a very boring Hemingway novel that really should have been a short story...but I'm so glad I was forced to read "A Tale Of Two Cities" by Dickens which remained my favorite book for years (until I read "Spindle" by Ian Taylor, my all-time favorite).
2007-12-11 16:25:31 · answer #7 · answered by spindlefan 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hated the Great Gatsby...what a yawn! I cant believe that kids are still being forced to read that thing! had a teacher that would give me books too advanced for the rest of the class, so I loved Gorky Park. Lord of The Rings Trilogy changed my life and art, Animal Farm, 1984...
2007-12-11 16:27:48 · answer #8 · answered by inkgddss 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Worst- The Scarlett Letter
Best- Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow
2007-12-11 20:28:00 · answer #9 · answered by Maria S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The worst book I can remember reading in high school was "Johnny Got his Gun" by Dalton Trumbo. It is about a soldier in World War One who has his arms, legs, ears, and face blown off so he is just stuck in laying in bed with his thoughts until he starts tapping Morse code with his body. I just remember being really grossed out. I also disliked "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley.
My favorite book that I read in high school was "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut.
2007-12-11 18:07:11 · answer #10 · answered by KL 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋