<p>Phillip Glass… Pure Win…</p>
<p>I’d go with “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh” or “The Alchemist.”</p>
<p>Ben Jonson’s “The Alchemist”?</p>
<p>@leafy*</p>
<p>East of Eden</p>
<p>Harry Potter was the book that actually encouraged me to read. My all time favourites are probably A Tale of Two Cities and The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy…and perhaps 1984.</p>
<p>harry potter introduced me to the wonders of reading too, when I was 7…
That and my parents always encouraging me to read =)</p>
<p>I first started reading Harry Potter (at a young age) by taking my mom’s books. I wanted to see what the fuss was about. At first, I was confused as to why people were wearing clocks. Then I realized that they were cloaks. :D</p>
<p>Also, I assumed that Dumbledore’s “Half Moon Glasses” were the vertical halves of a moon, not horizontal.</p>
<p>Catch-22 and A Bend in the River are the two most brilliant books I’ve read. The River Why is up there as well as 1984. Also, for novellas lets not forget Heart of Darkness and the Metamorphosis</p>
<p>^^ i imagined the same thing about dumbledore’s glasses</p>
<p>Jane Eyre!</p>
<p>Think Big Kick Ass, Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Also, The Principia xD</p>
<p>omg I just read this book A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, and it was absolutely brilliant. It upsets me that the author died at age 26 in a duel :[</p>
<p>^O.o Making bad jokes can have more serious consequences than I realized.</p>
<p>I hope you win all of your duels, or, in reality, are able to resolve your grievances before you measure paces.
Your antics always have won you mortal enemies. Learn from Lermontov’s/Pushkin’s examples</p>
<p>wow, why does every Russian author do stupid things resulting in death?</p>
<p><em>cough</em>Lermontov, Pushkin, and Gogol<em>cough</em></p>
<p>Lawl, I learn all sorts of obscure lit trivia from you.</p>
<p>But I suppose I could always refuse a duel if challenged. It’s not very sporting to shoot a man in cold blood.</p>
<p>The five people you meet in Heaven or The Count of Monte Cristo :]</p>
<p>Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. Not what I expected. At all.</p>
<p>I hate to be indecisive but I can’t choose but here are a few of my favorite selections.</p>
<p>The Catcher in the Rye-J.D Salinger
Life on the Color line-Greg Williams
The Outsiders-S.E Hinton</p>
<p>So far:</p>
<p>In-class readings:
Great Expectations
The Iliad
1984
only war novel I might ever think isn’t too bad: All Quiet on the Western Front </p>
<p>Out-of-class readings:
The Count of Monte Cristo (actually read during 7th or 8th grade but still favorite)
Ender’s Game
Picture of Dorian Gray
and others which I fail to recall currently…
Oh! and some Chinese lit too. :)</p>
<p>A Dislike List:
Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
The Kite Runner</p>
<p>The Bell Jar – probably because of my limited reading abilities, but I really couldn’t continue after the first couple chapters, already too sad…</p>
<p>A So-So List:
Life of Pi -meehh
Romeo & Juliet
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Call of the Wild – probably because I read it in 8th grade
To Kill a Mockingbird</p>
<p>I purposely omit Catch-22 and Scarlet Letter (current year readings) because I’m sort of ambivalent about both. I initially really, really did not like Catch-22 but then, thank you Ms. English Teacher, saw a lot more to analyze in both novels. </p>
<p>There are probably others that I’ve sadly forgotten. Yep.</p>
<p>The Hunger Games : Suzanne Collins : )</p>