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This Week's Question
Is there a book that you were required to read in school that you actually loved? – Suggested by Natalie Hearts Books.
Well, no. Not because I hate all the books, but because my school never required their students to read a book (except textbook). Once, they give us an assignment to wrote the synopsis of a novel, but we get to choose the novel. Of course the students pick their favorite book or popular book (so they don't have to read the book. Instead, they read the synopsis from wikipedia and wrote it based on it lol. I didn't do this, of course). So yeah, the answer is no.
What about you?
I didn't have to read a lot of books in high school either, but the professors about killed me in college! SparkNotes was my friend ;) One of my favorites was "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien, a fictionalized retelling of events from the Vietnam War. It was brutal and very graphic but I loved it all the same :)
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I only liked one book.. One on my Philosophy subject back from college. :)
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That's new! Even though required reading wasn't one of my favorite things, I still enjoyed it to an extent because it "forced" (I don't know if I like that word) to pick up books that I wouldn't have picked up on my own. My favorite one I had to read was The Book Thief by Markus Zusak :)
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Wow I think back when I was in school that would have been pretty cool because I hated reading the books they assigned, but now I think all school should require certain books to be read. Powerful ones with messages we should all hear and learn from. I wish I would have read all the books assigned in school. I am going back and reading them now though.
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We had to read two books each from a list of four. Then one summer I had to read 4 additional books for an upcoming class. Whew!! Glad I was a reader.
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That's really sad some of the books my school made me read were bad but some were great, like the Outsiders, Of Mice and Men, and Lord of the Flies New Follower here !
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YES!! To Kill A Mockingbird was REALLY good :D
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Hopping through. I'm surprised at seeing several people who didn't have to read books in high school. That seems like a very odd curriculum to me. Did you enjoy your textbook reading at least?
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Hmmm. I think I remember enjoying Lord of the Flies. I was also the only person who got an A on the paper we had to do about it afterwards, so clearly I was paying attention to it at the very least,
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