Did you guys have to read The Outsiders in elementary school!? I must have read that book half a dozen times. So good. Stay Gold Ponyboy
Did you guys have to read The Outsiders in elementary school!? I must have read that book half a dozen times. So good. Stay Gold Ponyboy
I'm looking at that paperback right nowOriginally Posted by Godfather
Did you guys have to read The Outsiders in elementary school!? I must have read that book half a dozen times. So good. Stay Gold Ponyboy
I loved that one. It kept me reading when in other years I was ready to say forget it...as a Canadian we read a lot of Margaret Lawrence...I really disliked her writing style and really didn't empathize with the characters she'd created. The Stone Angel with the character Hagar Shipley. Ugh! Do kids really want to read about the bleak prairie winter and the hardships, really? Now that I'm older I know why I hated it so much...I saw much of that life when growing up.Did you guys have to read The Outsiders in elementary school!? I must have read that book half a dozen times. So good. Stay Gold Ponyboy
I remember the teacher defending the novel while I put it down unmercifully...she tried to tell me that it'd be good if I knew how cruel the prairie could be...I asked her if she'd ever lived in a 18' trailer on the prairie in the winter at 38 below...I had and I hated being reminded. My parents for their 25th anniversary exchanged quarters...no lie. That's how bleak it was. What was described in that novel was nothing compared with what I knew. I viewed it for the bullshit that it was.
Anyway, I'm ranting....back to normal mode...
I remember one novel we read "When the legends die" about a rodeo star who isn't top of the bill anymore. It hit home because my dad was not able to work anymore because of a car accident and it gave me an insight of what he must have been feeling.
I was really into poetry at an early age, and into Lewis Carrol type stuff that really had a lot of wordplay and imagery in the words like Jabberwocky. I've shown my 8 year old daughter all that stuff and I can't get her to stop reading...she views it like I did, as a ticket to high adventure.
My dad turned me on to stuff like the Rubiyat of Omar Khayaam and very unusual stuff, so when it came time to read the school-assigned reading, most of them seemed so pedestrian and ordinary, like Margaret Atwood.
I wish we could have studied stuff like Gordon Lightfoot's lyrics...talk about imagery. He's Canada's answer to Bob Dylan, but he can sing as well!
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Overall, I'm really into classic literature. I'm the only guy I've ever met that actually enjoyed reading Milton's Paradise Lost. With that being said, there was never really anything on my mandatory reading list in school that bothered me or gave me a hard time.
Moby Dick is a horrible read. It's ok up until he starts talking about all the different kinds of whales for 30 pages. I just can't get through all of the damned whales. But I was never forced to read it.
Tolkien's Silmarillion is a hard read. It's like reading the Old Testament.
Neither The Lord of the Rings nor The Hobbit were difficult for me.
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Man I cant remember ANY books I read in school.. That was like 200 years ago!
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath
Moby Dick is worse.
Wrong
Moby Dick is worse.
The Great Gatsby - I didn't like that one
Heart of Darkness - wasn't bad - but was painfully descriptive so it seemed really slow
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anything by Shakespeare
I am fixed
"Somedays I wake up and feel like nobody loves me. Other days I wake up and feel like I love nobody. Sometimes I wake up and feel tired, and worn out. Sometimes I wake up and feel like I cannot face the day. But someday I'll wake up and realize that waking up is pretty stupid because it just makes you feel like crap."
Read this in 8th grade, I remember every girl who signed my year book that year wrote Stay Gold Ponyboy or that poem from the book.Did you guys have to read The Outsiders in elementary school!? I must have read that book half a dozen times. So good. Stay Gold Ponyboy
Grapes of Wrath!
Ok, Lance. What did you hate about Steinbeck's masterpiece?
one good thing about only being one step above the remedial class was that I dun never had to read no crap classic books
The Bible
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