[ SECRET POST #3289 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3289 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Furiosa from Mad Max: Fury Road, AEon Flux from the AEon Flux Movie. Charlize Theron]


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[WWE/Supernatural]


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[The Price of Salt/Carol]


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[Bravely Default]


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[Bones/X-Files]


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[Zenon]


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[Fallout: Nuka Break]


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[Neko Atsume]


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[Mass Effect]

















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Comments

Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

What are some high school or lower required reading books that you loved. What were some you hated?

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

I loved Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jane Eyre. I hated Wuthering Heights and Animal Farm.

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

I hated Crime and Punishment

Spoilers: Some dude kills an old lady, angsts about it for 600 pages, then finds God and all is well!!!

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't like The Great Gatsby in high school but I enjoyed it when I had to read it in college. Probably the same for Shakespeare. I loved The Scarlet Letter Moby Dick, Jane Eyre (read this long before it was assigned, actually), Huck Finn, My Antonia, Silas Marner and...that's all I can remember. Hated Wuthering Heights, Ethan Frome, and anything by Jane Austen.

Re: Required Reading

[kaijinscendre]

I think I was the only person in my class who loved The Good Earth. That final scene hurts me in the heart.

I hated ANYTHING by Charles Dickens and Shakespeare.

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

I hated all the Shakespeare plays, especially Romeo and Juliet. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest wasn't too bad.

Re: Required Reading

[sarillia]

First thing that came to mind is Inherit the Wind. I love that play.

I don't think there were any that I hated. There are very few books I've ever read that I hated. I can usually find something to like about anything. My mind does it automatically. Sometimes I even completely forget about aspects I didn't like and I'm surprised to hear them brought up later.

Re: Required Reading

[blitzwing]

I liked To Kill a Mockingbird, Old Yeller, and disliked Romeo and Juliet... and that's all I remember for required reading in school, tbh.

Unless you're counting stuff for the AR program as required reading. That would open up a lot options for faves and hates.

Re: Required Reading

[nonnymouscawitz]

In the eighth grade we were assigned 'A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court' as summer reading. I have no memory of that book beyond how much I HATED it. It was the first book I can remember refusing to finish.

I also had to read 'The Awakening' in AP English and couldn't stand it, though looking back that may be because 16 year old me had no concept of 'values dissonance' and was harshly judging the main character for not conforming to my modern opinion of what she should have been.

'Number The Stars' is still one of the best damn books I've ever read, though, and I was the only one in my class who enjoyed 'Great Expectations'.

Re: Required Reading

[case]

Death of a Salesman is still one of my favorite plays! But the Crucible was terrible.

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

I really loved The Joy Luck Club at the time, though the last time I reread it I suddenly realized I didn't like it anymore for some reason. Also liked Macbeth and Catch-22. Hated Romeo and Juliet, though I did eventually have a college professor who made it more interesting.

Re: Required Reading

[feotakahari]

Loved: Macbeth, Fahrenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Giver, The Yellow Wallpaper, Desiree's Baby EDIT: forgot Oliver Twist

Hated: The Scarlet Letter, Cat's Cradle, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God*, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God**

*Seriously. Most teachers just teach The Scarlet Letter as an example of the 17th-century writing style, but this one wanted something actually written in the 17th century. He claimed most other American books from that time were even worse.

**This one inspired one of the best villains I've ever written, so it's all good

Re: Required Reading

[loracarol]

From the ones I can remember....

Liked:

Belle Canto
Life of Pi
Great Gatsby
Shakespeare
The Good Earth

Disliked:

Catcher in the Rye. Fuck this book. I kept a tally of every time the main character annoyed me, and it was over 100.

All books that were written with the dialect's written out. Nothing personal, but I had a hard time parsing them. :/

ETHAN FUCKING FROME. I swear that Zeena was a witch, and that cat was her familiar. Seriously, her face showed up in wood, wood floats (and burns) you know what ELSE floats? WITCHES.

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

Wasn't technically required reading for the whole class, but I got assigned Dracula as part of my final essay in AP English. Probably my favorite... because I can't really remember anything else I truly enjoyed from high school.

I pretty much enjoyed everything I read on some level, but I hated The Scarlet Letter. It doesn't take much to bore me, but that book bored me.

Side-related: Brave New World probably was the most uncomfortable to read. Which I think is pretty much the point since it's a dystopian novel? It's been awhile.

I would read Brave New World again, but I won't touch The Scarlet Letter with a 10 foot pole.

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

Loved: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Outsiders, Macbeth, Beowulf

Hated: Romeo and Juliet, The Crucible

I think I'm the only one who ended up liking The Outsiders after my class went through it. Though I know I wasn't the only one who ended up loving Beowulf. It kind of helps that the teacher wanted us to create epic comics of it and I love drawing stuff. <3

Re: Required Reading

[slashgirl]

Loved Shakespeare, enjoyed The Guns of Navarone and Fifth Business.

Hated To Kill a Mockingbird and The Lord of the Flies. That was the only book (during my school life) that I couldn't finish and I bought Coles Notes for.

Re: Required Reading

[dethtoll]

I hate most "classic" literature -- i.e. the Victorian/Edwardian-era nightmares that get foisted on everyone growing up. The only stuff I could enjoy was Shakespeare or stuff written after 1910, and even then I don't like Midsummer Night's Dream.

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much hated all the books I was required to read. I wasn't a reader, I hated being forced to read, especially about subjects I didn't give a shit about.

I did come to appreciate some of them though. Would not go back for a second read though.

Re: Required Reading

[philstar22]

I loved War and Peace. I hated Wuthering Heights.

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

I first read Animal Farm in elementary school, probably because my older sister was reading it in high school and had it around the house. I really liked it then, but I took it literally as a story about talking animals. I didn't like it as much when I realized all the characters were mouthpieces for a Russian political drama.

Loved most of what I read, though. I don't think there was a classic I really hated at all. Even though it's constantly claimed by emo crowds, I think The Catcher in the Rye really is a brilliant book which deserves its fame. The Brothers Karamazov is a work of art, so is Les Miserables. Mark Twain is amazing. The Outsiders was my all time favorite book in junior high school.

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

Loved:
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Separate Peace
Shakespeare, especially Julius Caesar
Beowulf
The Canterbury Tales
Ivanhoe
All Quiet on the Western Front
Lord of the Flies (I read this years before it was assigned, this actually remains one of my favorite books)


Hated:
The Old Man and the Sea
Of Mice and Men
(hilariously I actually really love both Hemingway and Steinbeck's other works, but these both bored me to tears)
The Scarlet Letter

Weirdly I actually didn't read most of the 'staple' required reading books. And for most of the ones I did read, I had read them on my own before being assigned them. I think the only two I went into blind were The Scarlet Letter, all of the Shakespeare plays, and Beowulf.

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

loved: the outsiders, The count of Monte Cristo, Catch-22 (it was rec'd not required, probably too much about whores)

idk most the ones i hated i've blocked from my memory

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

In primary school we were required to read a book called The Red Pony, which I remember disliking at the time as being just stupid and dull. These days I'd call it trite, cliched, and smug. Other than that I enjoyed most of the books we were given to read but I cannot say I loved them, nor that any particularly stand out.

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

All's Quiet on the Western Front
Alas, Babylon,
The Joy Luck Club.

Can't really think of any that I hated. Probably blocked them out of my memory if I did.

Re: Required Reading

[(Anonymous)]

I liked Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, and The Scarlet Letter just fine.

I hated, hated, HATED Sons and Lovers and A Clockwork Orange.