<p>no i do not consider myself well-read.</p>
<p>i read non-fiction and newspapers, wiki and CC sometimes :D</p>
<p>I’m reading “All Quiet on the Western Front” now! My history teacher did say it was very insightful.</p>
<p>EDIT: I also thought “A Separate Peace” had good insight on some aspects of human nature.</p>
<p>I love reading!
I don’t think I’m that well-read though… maybe well-read in comparison to my peers. I tend to read science articles in periodicals and blogs and wikipedia instead of novels, so I’ve probably only read about 220-250 books in my life (I’ve tried making a list with a sentence or two as a review/commentary, but I can’t really remember ALL the books I’ve read). I just finished Crime and Punishment, which I enjoyed very much and plan on rereading when I have time to… uh, breathe. My favorites, though, are The Stranger, Dubliners, Steppenwolf, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Genome, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Importance of Being Earnest. I read The Great Gatsby for APLang and loved the writing style. The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod was super interesting, too… Ah.</p>
<p>Olgita, I was just about to get the book The Brothers Karamazov 
… and somebody recommended Notes From the Underground. Hm.</p>
<p>I don’t consider myself to be well read, especially compared to the others who are having similar aspirations as I am at this age. Out of my school, yes. 90% of my school probably doesn’t read anything outside the required text. Well, myspace comments don’t count. </p>
<p>The people who do read, love to read (like me!). I’m fascinated by law/civil rights, and law school is definitely something that I am thinking of (I’m in 8th grade), so I do read quite a lot of legal stuff in comparison to my peers.</p>
<p>RacinReaver- I’m in the process of reading that book right now! It’s quite interesting.</p>
<p>I don’t feel well read…yet. I love reading and have read many wonderful books, but simply not enough or a wide enough selection. There are so many amazing authors out there, both contemporary and classical, and I haven’t had a chance to even begin being well read.</p>
<p>Claire18: We just read All Quiet on The Western Front in English. I thought it was amazing.</p>
<p>I wish! I have almost no time to read anymore (ah, junior year!). When I do read, i try to read “good” books. (AKA no like teen girl stuff, if you get my drift). I was thinking of reading either One Flew Over the Cookoo’s (sp?) Nest or Catcher in the Rye… Which one is better? (On another note, what is the one book that you think everyone needs to read at some point in their life?)</p>
<p>Both are good books, but I’d recommend One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by far. If you haven’t seen the movie, don’t, and just read the book instead.</p>
<p>After you’ve read the book, don’t see the movie, because it makes everything else that happens during it that much more sad.</p>
<p>I just finished reading “To Kill a Mockingbird” for a book test. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t good either. I hate reading for the most part. But I do plan on getting a few books by Ansel Adams.</p>
<p>As Twain said, a classics is a book everyone praises but nobody reads.</p>
<p>Some classics are odd, but a lot of them do have good meaning behind them.</p>
<p>I think the writing is what gets to a lot of people. When my class did “Lord of the Flies” last year we found it hard to read due to the writing style, but pretty fascinating to discuss when it came down to the themes of the book. We found the meaning behind the words very interesting, but not the words themselves. It was an odd experience.</p>
<p>I think the great thing about classics is that a lot of them were groundbreaking. Many of today’s books are heavily influenced by, or just spinoffs of, classic stories. And it’s always cool when you read a classic and come across an idiom or figure of speech and you’re like oh, so that’s where that comes from</p>
<p>Julius Caesar has a lot of those (like “the Ides of March” and “It was Greek to me”). There’s a list of them our teacher compiled, actually. It was pretty cool.</p>
<p>I’m the one who introduced the wonderful resource that is SparkNotes to my class.</p>
<p>I consider myself Well Googled.</p>
<p>I tend to devour books like crazy, so I guess I’m well-read based on the wide variety of books I read. I also read a lot of stuff that high school students don’t read (at least, not for fun, as I do). The majority of my friends have no idea who many of my favorite authors, like Salman Rushdie or Jack Kerouac, even are.</p>
<p>When I told my 7th grade English teacher that I was reading Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Art of War, she told me I was becoming more well-read than many of her colleagues. That was a nice ego boost, whether or not it was true. :-D</p>
<p>I don’t consider myself well read. At least not to the point when it comes to classics. I do like the majority of them, when I read them, but mostly I’m more someone for Thrillers. The only thing about being well-read to me is that I am normally one of the first to finish a reading assignment for class. I just hate leaving books unfinished, so I am a pretty fast reader.</p>