Favorite book from school?

[Lord DragonsWing]

Gone With The Wind, King Lear and Animal Farm. Of course who can forget Dick and Jane and that wild and crazy series.

 

[sweetnpetite]

1984

great expectations

Grapes of Wrath

A Wrinkle in Time (not req.)

Lion, Witch and Wardrobe (also not req)


I can't tell you how much I LOVED 1984. I had a whole bunch of copys when I cleaned out my locker.

Anyway, I think I enjoyed *most* of what we had to read (accept Hemingway)

Even glad I had to read "Crime and Punishment" although Madam Bovary wasn't as interesting as it promised to be.

 

[sweetnpetite]

To Kill a Mocking Bird, Shabbanu,Hamlet and One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest were all favorites of mine and While I didn't really enjoy Catcher in the Rye it sticks to me. Go figure.

Edited to add The Giver.

WOW! That av!

Also want to add- Judy Blume. Esp. the one about a boy going threw puberty. "then again,maybe i won't" nothing by her was required of course.

We read the pig man by paul zindell. It seemed sort of sureal at the time, but I do love PZ.

 

[alyxen]

Ahhh!! Judy Blume!. Superfudge series was great.

This thread has brought back some great memories of books from the past. I may have to re-purchase and re-read some of these classics.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

A seperate peace. Don't even remember the author, but the story was very moving.

-Colly

 

[thebullet]

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer - I still read this one again about once every 3-4 years. It makes one concerned about how close 2004 Americans are to '30's Germans - uncritical nationalists who blindly and calmly follow a crazed government down a path to destruction.

Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein - It shows how easy it is to slip from freedom to facism in the face of war or terror; but Heinlein thought it was a good idea.

Revolt in 2100 by Robert A. Heinlein - Uncannily frightening and unsettlingly likely forecast of a religious right takeover of the USA - preceded The Handmaid's Tale by 50 years.

A Nation of Sheep by William Lederer - at least as relevant today as it was in the '60's.

The Status Seekers by Vance Packard

 

[alyxen]

A seperate peace. Don't even remember the author, but the story was very moving.

-Colly

John Knowles



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