<p>october sky and ender's game
everythingelse was boring...</p>
<p>Grendel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice</p>
<p>I'll go ahead and tell you the 2 worst: Grapes of Wrath and Things Fall Apart</p>
<p>one flew over the cuckoos nest, the odessey, catcher in the rye..... the worst: lord of the flies</p>
<p>Jane Eyre put me to sleep :(</p>
<p>A Clockwork Orange
Slaughter House Five</p>
<p>Never read Jane Eyre, but read the Eyre Affair for a required summer reading and it was the most confusing book EVER. It was stupid for my school to assign because it had so many allusions to books we haven't been assigned yet.</p>
<p>I am reading Things Fall Apart right now, and it is not very bad. Grapes of Wrath, on the other hand, stinks.</p>
<p>I favorite book when I was a kid:</p>
<p>Mr. Popper's Penguins</p>
<p>PRIDE AND PREJUDICE!!!!! i recommend it!</p>
<p>kinglin: the same thing happened to me.</p>
<p>Jane Eyre, East of Eden, Captains and the Kings
Irving Stone's books (researched fiction that my history teacher makes us read) are fairly good, but not spectacular - my favorite was The President's Lady about Jackson</p>
<p>Favorites that are required: East of Eden, Age of Innocence, To Kill A Mockingbird
Favorites that I chose to read: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, October Sky as well, Gone With the Wind, a few others that escape me right now
Least favorites that are required: Billy Bud, Invisible Man (so depressing), another one that we read a while ago
Least Favorites that I chose to read but really shouldn't have: The Bell Jar (really depressing), Lord of the Flies, A.S. Byatt's Possession, and 100 Years of Solitude (just couldn't get into it)</p>
<p>AP Class is also doing King Lear and A Doll's House and another Shakespeare that I just don't remember for some reason. We do a lot of poetry because of the AP test's love of poetry. Favorites include Plath and some of Shakespeare's sonnets. </p>
<p>I read a lot of pop lit. too which obviously includes Potter, LotR, Da Vinci Code, and Bridget Jones' Diary. I recommend Perks of Being a Wallflower too.</p>
<p>What? Nobody's listed Grapes of Wrath positively? What was wrong with that book? Certainly better than some of the stuff we had to read--Cry the Beloved Country for one.</p>
<p>No mention of As I Lay Dying or The Sound and the Fury. What the hell?</p>
<p>You know, I'm actually enjoying Grapes of Wrath so far (just assigned), I kinda dig Steinbeck.. But I'm gonna be cliche and say Catcher was my favorite..</p>
<p>.. though I haven't really read too many of the assigned books, to tell you the truth.</p>
<p>I wish our school required catcher... read it on my own, but that would make for interesting class discussions.</p>
<p>not with my teacher. i wish lit was just read, read, read. no discussion. essays, sure, quick little analyzing essays. the discussions are just the teacher making you believe what they believe and its so boring. i would rather just every period be silent reading and writing. no talking or discussion permitted. i guess i can dream</p>
<p>Favorite School- The Stranger (Camus), The Brothers Karamazov (Doestovesky), Watership Down (Adams)</p>
<p>Favorite Own- A Clockwork Orange (Burgess), Catch-22 (Heller), Harry Potter 1-6 (Rowlings)</p>
<p>Amen, sittingbull, amen.</p>
<p>As much as I enjoy some of the reading, the discussions are indeed the worst, most of the kids don't really accept one another's opinions..</p>
<p>Our teacher gives us packets with questions to answer as we go along, which I abhor. I would rather read the book and discuss it when everybody's done reading it (or the corresponding cliff's notes) instead. I like writing essays, though.</p>
<p>I liked:</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby
Animal Farm
1984
Catch-22
Dracula
Much Ado About Nothing
Macbeth
Beowulf
The Catcher in the Rye
Jurassic Park</p>