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I don't even remember what I read in high school. Anne Frank or whatever that one book was about some frank named lady that lived in england and was ugly and couldnt get a man to love her. poo poo if I remember what it was called, was written by some boring english lady author.
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Was totally going to say The Scarlet Letter, so instead I will say gently caress The Last of the Mohicans. At least I can still remember what The Scarlet Letter was about. Last of the Mohicans was just a big grey blur of boring and pointless.
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Jan 31, 2016 16:02
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thathonkey posted:real talk though i never read a single assigned book in high school. teachers didnt know about sparknotes.com and other internet crib notes sources yet it was the poo poo. i went back and read some of the actually good and important novels later in life though so they kind of accomplished their goal. before sparknotes there was cliffsnotes, they were the same thing just in paperback form. the teachers knew
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Jan 31, 2016 16:06
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Lolita Should be banned along with all anime
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Jan 31, 2016 16:07
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Nuebot posted:I don't remember the title, I think it had something to do with bees maybe? But basically it was about a little black girl who gets violently raped by her dad and impregnated and no one cared or believed her so she goes crazy because she's pregnant with her dad's baby. It was pretty awkward. Did that really happen?
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Jan 31, 2016 16:08
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I think the best one was For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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Jan 31, 2016 16:18
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boom boom boom posted:Did that really happen? I think it's the plot of that movie precious
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Jan 31, 2016 16:23
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real talk, The Fountainhead It's like my high school WANTED us to be abhorrent little shits
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Jan 31, 2016 16:36
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Commie NedFlanders posted:Lolita At least, you should probably not have to read it in high school.
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Jan 31, 2016 16:43
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Unsurprised to see the goon hate for Things Fall Apart, the sole book you had to read that was written by a black man Also judging by some of your "high school" selections, many of you appear to have been in remedial English
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walgreenslatino posted:Unsurprised to see the goon hate for Things Fall Apart, the sole book you had to read that was written by a black man Hey now, Cry the Beloved Country was also total garbage.
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Jan 31, 2016 16:53
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Blue Train posted:before sparknotes there was cliffsnotes, they were the same thing just in paperback form. the teachers knew well if they knew they didnt give a poo poo that i was using them to ace every test and paper about the books so all's well that ends well i say
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Jan 31, 2016 17:28
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I remember we had a mock trial about Scarlet letter in my class and I had been reading ahead/reading cliff notes and we weren't supposed to go past a certain point so when they put me on the stand I spoiled that lovely book for everyone. I was pretty  about it, too.
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Jan 31, 2016 17:41
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thathonkey posted:well if they knew they didnt give a poo poo that i was using them to ace every test and paper about the books so all's well that ends well i say Are you just now realizing that teachers don't give a poo poo if you read the book?
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satanic splash-back posted:Are you just now realizing that teachers don't give a poo poo if you read the book? Most teachers don't give a poo poo in general, homie.
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Jan 31, 2016 17:42
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Larry Parrish posted:I used to hate Shakespeare in class but my senior English teacher had us watched Hamlet with Kenneth Branagh, and use the books which had the same copy of the script and footnotes to follow along and get over any old phrases you had trouble with. It seems retarded to me to read plays as literature, sort of like reading the screenplay of Citizen Kane and pretending its literature. What kind of idiot thinks a visual format like a play or movie is any good with just the written lines? I loved the Shakespeare books we read at school. Before we even touched the books, we watched them being acted, which helped a poo poo load to understand them. And when examining passages the video would be played so we could at least see and feel the meaning of it. I heard other classes didn't get the same treatment, just plain reading of the books.
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I really liked macbeth. The merchant of venice was okay, romeo and juliet is blah and i forget the last one I did. hamlet maybe?
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Ben Smash posted:Most teachers don't give a poo poo in general, homie. agreed
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walgreenslatino posted:Unsurprised to see the goon hate for Things Fall Apart, the sole book you had to read that was written by a black man You make a good point, but I'll add Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison to the list of crappy books. It's full of ridiculously obvious symbols, like a paint factory where every color has black in it as the base and this boxing match where a black dude in red, white and blue boxing shorts gets his rear end kicked by a white guy to the cheers of the crowd. Oh, and this guy's piggy bank is this African design and it ends up getting smashed. I liked Their Eyes Were Watching God though. She did her research into juke joints and authentic black American culture.
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A Strange Aeon posted:You make a good point, but I'll add Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison to the list of crappy books. It's full of ridiculously obvious symbols, like a paint factory where every color has black in it as the base and this boxing match where a black dude in red, white and blue boxing shorts gets his rear end kicked by a white guy to the cheers of the crowd. I really liked Their Eyes Were Watching God. I remember in my english class we were discussing some passage and a student said, "Well... I don't want to say 'erotic' but -" And my teacher cuts her off, "YES YES, You do want to say erotic! It was absolutely erotic!"
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Jan 31, 2016 18:07
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Airborne Viking posted:I forget the title, but there was one about a girl in a third world country going through a civil war, and all the horrible poo poo that happened to her. Including her brother getting a more hearty meal than her, masturbating in the room next to her, and some sniper that she slept with that eventually shot her. I vaguely remember this. Was it set in Laos or Cambodia or somewhere around there? I can't find anything about it on Google.
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Jan 31, 2016 18:08
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satanic splash-back posted:Are you just now realizing that teachers don't give a poo poo if you read the book? no but they tended to give a poo poo about blatant cheating. like if they could somehow prove i sourced answers from a cliff notes site im sure they would punish me for it or at least fail the assignment.
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Jan 31, 2016 18:08
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A Prayer for Owen Meany was the worst by a mile--worse than Ayn Rand, worse than any dated lit, just an unbearably terrible book.
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Jan 31, 2016 18:11
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Jane Austen - Emma. I recognize her talent for writing, character creation, language, etc., but that was such a tedious book about social interaction and faux upsets that I hated every page of it. All of the girls in class loved it because Emma's a spoiled bitch who thinks she knows everything, and teen girls identified with that. This was before I could google poo poo and had to actually read the book to know what was going on, and it sucked.
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Jan 31, 2016 18:12
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if u listed anything by steinbeck u should probably take a long deep think on why youre such a big dumb fag baby
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Jan 31, 2016 18:20
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Grapes of Wrath is really great.
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Jan 31, 2016 18:22
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Quellar posted:Catch 22. Just horrible. You can't try to be all serious after half the book is about a funny little merchant named Milo who sells cotton candy and other food.
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Jan 31, 2016 18:49
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anything dickens wrote 
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Jan 31, 2016 18:55
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To Kill A Mockingbird. I'd probably have liked it more if my teacher wasn't terrible.
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Jan 31, 2016 18:57
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there are some extremely shameful opinions itt
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Jan 31, 2016 18:59
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Watership Down gently caress that furry poo poo
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Blue Train posted:there are some extremely shameful opinions itt What do you expect when you are required to read a book and analyze it for a grade rather than read it and analyze it for enjoyment?
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Macnult posted:To Kill A Mockingbird. I'd probably have liked it more if my teacher wasn't terrible. I read To Kill a Mockingbird in high school, and I remember being grateful that I'd already read it before, cause if that was my first time the teacher definitely would've made me hate it
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Why cookie Rocket posted:Hey now, Cry the Beloved Country was also total garbage. Cry the Beloved Country was written by a white guy. It was also good. So you are double wrong.
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Macnult posted:What do you expect when you are required to read a book and analyze it for a grade rather than read it and analyze it for enjoyment? I wasn't referring to you, I can understand that a poo poo teacher can make a good book/interesting subject bad
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boom boom boom posted:Grapes of Wrath is really great. grapes and huck finn should be required in american english classes anyway my vote is for ethan frome, i've never read it as an adult so i don't know if it's actually a good book or not but god drat are its themes and characters totally unrelatable to a teenager; come to think of it we read the old man and the sea in the same class and the teacher was a 60 year old man so
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walgreenslatino posted:Unsurprised to see the goon hate for Things Fall Apart, the sole book you had to read that was written by a black man Sorry the only book my school system could find written by a black man was about yams. I liked the stuff we read by Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison so I guess it's just misandry?
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Jan 31, 2016 19:08
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Sod and Stubble. It was for history class.
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all of them OP
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Haier posted:Jane Austen - Emma. I recognize her talent for writing, character creation, language, etc., but that was such a tedious book about social interaction and faux upsets that I hated every page of it. All of the girls in class loved it because Emma's a spoiled bitch who thinks she knows everything, and teen girls identified with that. This was before I could google poo poo and had to actually read the book to know what was going on, and it sucked. In junior high we read one about a meek rich prude girl who becomes a hardened sailor during a trip home from England and leaves her lovely family to sail the seas with a bunch of foul mouthed men. It was called "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" and it owned. Profondo Rosso posted:if u listed anything by steinbeck u should probably take a long deep think on why youre such a big dumb fag baby The only Steinbeck work we had to do was The Pearl, also in junior high, and I thought it was pretty good. A lot of people give Catcher in the Rye poo poo but my friends and I kind of liked it. Thinking back on it now though makes me realize it was probably because we identified with the depressed awkward neurotic male teenager that was the protagonist.
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