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Crow_Rodeo posted:"Holes" like seriously, no, it's garbage. holes is not a high school level book, it's like fifth grade level it's also good, unlike its sequel, which is fall from grace ya trash radiatinglines posted:My senior English teacher in hs was obsessed with Faulkner to the point of growing the same moustache and entering competitions for aping his writing style. Faulkner is good, though. The stream of consciousness chapters in the sound and the fury are the only ones in that style that haven't felt like a chore to read to me. i like his short stories better, they have that almost dark comedy cynical bite but they aren't five hundred pages of it Fur20 fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Feb 1, 2016 |
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radiatinglines posted:I had no idea atlas shrugged was assigned reading anywhere, what the gently caress? https://www.aynrand.org/educators/free-books-high-school
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I forgot about "a separate peace" about two dumb gay white boys at boarding school where the kid dies from being a little bitch after falling out of a tree.
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i remember Love Medicine being long as gently caress but it was pretty good
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The best novel for young people, like fourth grade to middle school, is kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson It has it all, good god drat I love that book
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:I forgot about "a separate peace" about two dumb gay white boys at boarding school where the kid dies from being a little bitch after falling out of a tree. a beta bitch bounced him off the tree and crippled him because he was jealous actually
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Blue Train posted:a beta bitch bounced him off the tree and crippled him because he was jealous actually I thought he died from a fat embolism or something?
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radiatinglines posted:I had no idea atlas shrugged was assigned reading anywhere, what the gently caress? Catholic high school in NYC. Go figure.
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Falun Bong Refugee posted:I thought he died from a fat embolism or something? he dies from a bone shard from this gimpy limbs travelling to his heart
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GORILLA BASTARD posted:Catholic high school in NYC. Go figure. american catholics are so weird and poo poo.
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Orkin Mang posted:american catholics are so weird and poo poo.
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*believes the sermon on the mount and objectivism arent cosmic oposites*
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It seems like everyone knew the characters in A Separate Peace were gay except for the author.
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Helical Nightmares posted:Edit: Oh Heathcliff! Oh gently caress you, get railed. I wanna rail heathcliff
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the culminator posted:Thats not the scarlett letter I read that in Jr. High, it wasn't as bad as the book we read after it, The Black Pearl. Worst from High School would have to be the novel one of the science teacher's at the school wrote about how giant scorpions and insects take over the Earth. They came to rule the future because environmentalists went too far and created a clean air machine that over oxygenated the Earth's atmosphere so all in invertebrates got huge and then we nuked them and made them super smart. Weird thing is the teacher that wrote is was HUGELY against marijuana or any other drug use. I took an F on the project because the book report I did for it was just echoing my dad's very valid and borderline vulgar criticisms of the book after I read some of it out loud to him when he asked me why i wasn't reading my book for class.
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mdm posted:I wanna rail heathcliff
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Orkin Mang posted:american catholics are so weird and poo poo. Repression, homophobia & guilt are the cornerstones of our religion.
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GORILLA BASTARD posted:Repression, homophobia & guilt are the cornerstones of our religion. I had a Sunday school teacher that wanted us to feel guilty about our thought sins.
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Three Cups of Tea by the now disgraced Greg Mortenson
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The Alchemist was the stupidest book I've ever read. It's a whole book that's the author masturbating about how "deep" they are. Edit: Their Eyes Were Watching God was pretty awful too because every character was dumb and naive stretched to the point of absurdity turbomoose fucked around with this message at 06:01 on Feb 1, 2016 |
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I went to a public, suburban high school in New England. Every summer our english department would try to assign "current" and "relevant" readings for young adults (aka Dave Eggers and John Green) Zeitoun was actually a pretty good book, but the year we read it was also the year Zeitoun (the protagonist of the non-fiction novel) was arrested for being a crazy wifebeater. Kind of dampened the emotional impact of the book. On the other hand, The Fault in Our Stars was terrible and i'm still kind of mad I had to read it. It's like everything i hate about young-adult fiction distilled into one insufferable novel
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Walden. Oh I grow beans but buy everything I need at the store and I don't want to pay taxes. Big deal. The kid in Hatchet was way cooler. e: neither of these were actually high school. nooneofconsequence fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Feb 1, 2016 |
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Feb 1, 2016 05:53
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Now I'm trying to think what I would have thought of DFW in high school. Not like Infinite Jest, but a short story from Oblivion or something. I probably wouldn't have liked it.
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Elements of style No loving or killing and i couldnt cum to it
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Buncha real dumb goon opinions in here hating on Gatsby. It's a classic for a reason. Also awesome; The Count of Monte Cristo. That book fuckin' rocked. yeah hearing all these people hate on gatsby is pretty weird, i thought it was way better than a lot of the poo poo i had to read for international baccalaureate are goons dumb? :O
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Gatsby is good but I feel like The Big Sleep is thematically similar and a much better novel. Chandler is never read in schools for some reason deapite undeniable influence on american storytelling.
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Gatsby was good. Now please write 300 words about the symbolism of the eyes in the billboard.
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do schools assign beat authors anymore
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nooneofconsequence posted:Now please write 300 words about the symbolism of the eyes in the billboard.
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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.
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Great Expectations
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For real I stole an interpretation of the Great Gatsby billboard from Johnny Depp in an episode of 21 Jump Street. My teacher liked it. She also repeated to another class my theory about the Metamorphosis being an allegory about familial incestual abuse.
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gigawhite posted:For real I stole an interpretation of the Great Gatsby billboard from Johnny Depp in an episode of 21 Jump Street. My teacher liked it. She also repeated to another class my theory about the Metamorphosis being an allegory about familial incestual abuse.
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Dad shoves a broomstick up Gregor Samsa's cockroach rear end don't tell me that's all there is to itsymbolic posted:is Metamorphosis any good? i don't really know if you can make a story about a dude turning into a giant bug anything but awesome. It's a good book but based on the premise you would think he would do some crazy cockroach stunts. It's like if spiderman spent the entire time in his room and passed away from dehydration house of the dad fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Feb 1, 2016 |
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Gazpacho posted:do schools assign beat authors anymore My 10th grade English teacher assigned On The Road. The jocks loving hated it.
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symbolic posted:weren't they representative of God or some bullshit Please support your argument with references from the text.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:My 10th grade English teacher assigned On The Road. The jocks loving hated it. You had a good English teacher. When you get a chance, try finding a copy of the scroll.
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nooneofconsequence posted:Please support your argument with references from the text.
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I also echo that Gatsby is a good book, gently caress ya'll.
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I sorta liked The Sun Also Rises when we were doing it in class and then I read it again a couple years ago and dropped it after like 50 pages. I do not have afición.
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