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⌈ Secret Post #3986 ⌋

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Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[(Anonymous)]

For contrast

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[(Anonymous)]

My answer is a mixture of both threads, heh. In high school, we read Of Mice and Men and I thought it was the worst thing I'd ever read.

I read it as an adult, and it's now one of my favorite books. I think I was just so unprepared for the cynicism of it.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[kaijinscendre]

The Good Earth. I really liked that book. Way more than most of my peers.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, I loved that book! The movie stunk tho.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[(Anonymous)]

I read that because Oprah chose it as a book club pick and I've respected her since then. She also got housewives to read Faulkner! (But I didn't.)

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[replicantangel]

Jane Eyre and The Handmaid's Tale - still 2 of my favorite books.

Jane Eyre is probably some people's "classic that you hate" for above. And it's strange that I adore Jane even though her quiet perseverance is in some ways similar to Hester Pryne in The Scarlet Letter (which I abhor), but I do. I think it's partly the writing, partly the very British romance, and partly Jane's moments of sad triumph of asserting what she wants (especially when leaving Mr. Rochester). The book was *formative* in me, in regards to what strength as an oppressed gender could look like.

In a similar vein, The Handmaid's Tale was eye-opening. I read it 15 years ago for school and immediately read it again. Atwood is my favorite living author. Also formative in my thinking and seeing the world. For obvious reasons as of late.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[(Anonymous)]

+ 1 on everything Atwood writes

and + a billion on Jane, who is often overlooked as a great female character with strong convictions. I'm always impressed by how subtle and developed her character is when I go back and read it, especially that Jane herself doesn't seem to understand in her early years just how strong and self-sufficient she is and why other people find it so unsettling to observe. She's not emotionally cold, either, which seems to be the tradeoff for women who are survivors. Definitely reserved, but not unfeeling.

I love her so much and it annoys me when people reduce her down to something less complex.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[type_wild]

The Color Purple.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[sparrow_lately]

I didn’t read this in school but god it’s good.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[(Anonymous)]

Not books but I loved "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and "The Wanderer" of things I was introduced to in school. Also, "Culhwch and Olwen" and all the other texts that were part of my King Arthur studies course.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[(Anonymous)]

I share your taste. :-)

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[feotakahari]

I am that person who actually liked Oliver Twist. Dickens was very good at taking the patterns of crime and exploitation he observed in real life and portraying them in fiction.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[mrs_don_draper]

I really loved Of Mice and Men! My sister actually calls me Lenny because I often don't know my own strength, and I have a great love of all my pets!

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[sparrow_lately]

The list is very long, so I’ll try to limit myself: To Kill a Mockingbird, the works of Homer, East of Eden, The Quiet American, The Magus, American Pastoral, Catoh-22, and The Sun Also Rises.

And, of course, To the Lighthouse.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[fishnchips]

I really like The Canterbury Tales.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[ninety6tears]

TBH most of them unless it was a period of literature I just couldn't stand. I loved The Edible Woman, A Separate Peace, Poisonwood Bible, Catcher In the Rye, Martian Chronicles...

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[philstar22]

Shakespeare. Espeially Macbeth. War and Peace. To Kill a Mockingbird.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[(Anonymous)]

I really enjoyed Their Eyes Were Watching God. I liked reading about Janie's journey and her tragic romance.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[(Anonymous)]

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

It made me go to my school library to find out more about what happened to her. I was in tears because she never lived to see how famous her diary got. I heard it's the second most read book in the world next to the Bible.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[(Anonymous)]

Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion. They're my equal third favourite novels. It was such a change to read funny books for school!

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[cakemage]

I read Twelfth Night for English Lit 1 years and years ago, and to this day it remains my absolute favorite of Shakespeare's plays.

I did a book report on Black Beauty in 2nd grade, and I largely credit that book for my ensuing life-long obsession with horses. And no, I'm still not over Ginger.

Treasure Island, hands down.

[(Anonymous)]

Robert Louis Stevenson's writing just seems to have so much momentum. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was also pretty good.

I also liked Huckleberry Finn and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

I didn't like the themes at all, but Grape of Wrath was well-written.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[(Anonymous)]

Alas Babylon.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[(Anonymous)]

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. It's basically a self-insert fan fiction about Mr Rochester's mad wife in Jayne Eyre, but I found it so enthralling I ended up devouring it and despising Rochester before I ever read Jayne Eyre itself. It was full of descriptions of a part of the world I had absolutely no idea about, the Caribbean after the Emancipation Act, and the descriptions of the heroine reminded me eerily of Fuchsia Groan from Gormenghast, another favourite of mine. I wish I had my school copy of WSS that I filled with excited pencilled-in notes.

Re: Books Introduced in School That You Liked

[ladyguinevere83]

The Crucible (yes, technically a play, but we did it for English)

Also Sansibar oder der Letzte Grund that we did in German. Sadly I have never been able to find a translation, and my German is not what it once was.