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Animal Farm. Partly because of the story and partly because the teacher had us analyze it to death.
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Secks Cauldron posted:Animal Farm. Partly because of the story and partly because the teacher had us analyze it to death.
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Feb 6, 2016 09:58
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symbolic posted:Animal Farm is great though?
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Secks Cauldron posted:I know it's a well-crafted and important piece of literature but I hate that story so much.
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LadyPictureShow posted:Ah, thanks! Looked up the summary on wikipedia, and yep, that's the one. if hemingway is too bleak for you then you can't read about half of all classics ever written because he doesnt have a single book anymore bleak than cormac or half the russians may i recommend redwall?
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51167.So_Much_to_Tell_You I didn't know that rambling E/N was a mandatory part of the curriculum.
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Feb 6, 2016 13:26
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extra stout posted:if hemingway is too bleak for you then you can't read about half of all classics ever written because he doesnt have a single book anymore bleak than cormac or half the russians I dunno man, one of my all-time favorite books is Johnny Got His Gun, and that's p. much about a dude that got reduced to a torso with no face in WW1. Just not a fan of Hemingway, I guess.
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Nooner posted:the worst was like this 12 page derail about how much better sex was in victorian england because people didnt just run around loving all willynilly like they do now so it was special and super good and it actually meant something. LOL what There was SO MUCH prostitution in Victorian England, it wasn't even illegal until 1886. Plus, the age of consent was 13 until 1885. Think about that. 
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extra stout posted:if hemingway is too bleak for you then you can't read about half of all classics ever written because he doesnt have a single book anymore bleak than cormac or half the russians I like redwall, at least when i was alot younger. it was animals killing other animals with sword fights. I think the first one is the best one and the rest of the series is ok to meh. Secks Cauldron posted:I know it's a well-crafted and important piece of literature but I hate that story so much. why didnt you like the story? not being a dick, just curious. i mean yeah, the ending is bleak as all gently caress, i liked it.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:why didnt you like the story? not being a dick, just curious. i mean yeah, the ending is bleak as all gently caress, i liked it.
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Feb 6, 2016 22:12
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symbolic posted:also whoever said Nectar in a Sieve, you were right. the only cool parts when one of her kids dies or there's famine or whatever are talked about in the simplest of terms, while an entire page is devoted to explaining what the crop harvest yielded. it may only be 180 pages but that's still far too long. I also hated Billy Bud. Another shorty that felt like it was five thousand pages long. Also the teacher wasn't super cool with us pointing out how homosexual it all was.
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Feb 6, 2016 23:59
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the culminator posted:Thats not the scarlett letter The S-gently caress Uh I guess Anthem then. Even as a high school libertarian that poo poo was insufferable.
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symbolic posted:yeah, the last line still gets me: The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which. I was going through my "read the last page of a book first" phase in 8th grade when I read this, so knowing that the story was assuming talking animals this page confused the gently caress out of me until I read through the whole book for context.
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Feb 7, 2016 00:03
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exethan posted:a separate peace was super dumb My favorite part of A Separate Peace was the part where our teacher insisted that there was absolutely nothing gay going on in the book. Certainly no homosexual undertones in there at all.
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mind the walrus posted:I was going through my "read the last page of a book first" phase in 8th grade when I read this, so knowing that the story was assuming talking animals this page confused the gently caress out of me until I read through the whole book for context. animal farm was a warning against fat america
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Feb 7, 2016 00:29
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House of Seven Gables. Had to just read the cliff notes summary because I couldn't stand half of every chapter being dedicated to describing a windowsill or some other inconsequential poo poo
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Feb 7, 2016 00:35
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My english teacher made us read Night by Elie Wiseal during my sophmore year and I thought it was pretty boring. We read Maus afterwards so that kinda makes up for it.
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Feb 7, 2016 02:30
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Pansacola posted:My english teacher made us read Night by Elie Wiseal during my sophmore year and I thought it was pretty boring. We read Maus afterwards to that kinda makes up for it. Do they still teach night after all the Elie wiseal controversies?
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Feb 7, 2016 02:33
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Capoeira Capybara posted:Skipped the whole thread to say "All Quiet On The Western Front". Like WWI might have been one of the most hosed up things that has ever happened, and that fucker still managed to make it into a very boring book. If All Quiet bores you I wonder how anything can hold your attention because it's like a 200 page book with 3 or 4 big action scenes.
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I disliked Equus, although a lot of the reason was because I had friends going through therapy for various reasons at the time and the '70s idea that psychiatry is inherently anti- ~*~ self-expression ~*~ made me roll my eyes.
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Nanomashoes posted:If All Quiet bores you I wonder how anything can hold your attention because it's like a 200 page book with 3 or 4 big action scenes. It was a long time ago all I remember was a bunch of school buddies signing up and then the main character getting sniped. I retained nothing in between.
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Feb 7, 2016 05:56
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I remember the scene where the cowardly guy gets a medal because the officer needed to give somebody a medal and liked his mustache. I think that was in the movie tho.
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I did not realize the Scarlet Letter was so universally reviled. I remember hating it in high school, but was considering rereading it to see if I was just being an idiot teen. I also did not know A Separate Peace was assigned so much. It was so mediocre and pointless and I have never heard anyone list it as a favorite or seen it referenced anywhere in anything. I assumed it was only a handful of schools assigning it.
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Feb 7, 2016 06:20
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It's assigned because it's overstuffed with trite symbolism that is easy for kids to write papers about and the subject matter is so innocuous and boring no parents can complain.
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Feb 7, 2016 06:35
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Yeah, it's a bog-standard coming of age story that deals with repercussions and death and heavy poo poo in a really approachable, simple way. It just also happens to be super boring and as standard "American novel of the 1950s" as it gets.
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It also deals with handling sexual feeling towards your best friend even though you guys are the same sex.
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Catcher in the Rye.
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Tale of Two Shitties
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FuturePastNow posted:Tale of Two Shitties
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think i quoted someone talking about my antonia earlier, but aside from that, separate peace was also bad. only things i remember are "kid falls out of tree" and "homo-subtext", and i don't think we talked about the second at all.
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trannys: a study on wtf by rohl dahl
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Red Minjo posted:My favorite part of A Separate Peace was the part where our teacher insisted that there was absolutely nothing gay going on in the book. Certainly no homosexual undertones in there at all. Same but with Moby Dick. Going to bed with a black dude was just something people did to save money on inns back in the day. And the sloppy blowjobs were surely just ishmael's curiosity about someone who was unique and strange by his reckoning.
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