Books you had to read that you liked

[Hil]

So, what are some books you had to read for classes but you actually liked? Here are some of the ones I liked:

-Tuck Everlasting
-Number the Stars
-Patty Reed's Doll
-To Kill a Mockingbird (It kind of grew on me.)
-The Miracle Worker
-All Creatures Great and Small
-Romeo & Juliet (I read Macbeth too, but I just don't see the appeal.)
-A Separate Piece (It took me a while to like it. I liked it more the second time reading it.)
-Rebecca
-Catcher In The Rye (One of my all-time favorite books.)
-Night

Yeah, I know it seems like a lot, but I dislike a lot of the books I've had to read too.

[May]

It's been a long, long time, but I do remember some of the books I read in school that I liked:

Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby

(I can't remember any others)

[Dragonfire]

- A Separate Peace
- Night
- Hamlet
- Catcher in the Rye
- Catch-22

Catch-22 is probably my top favorite.

[Shoyru_Lover]

The entire seris by Enid Blyyon - especailly Brer Rabbit... malory towers and st claires.

[Twitchy]

Jakes Tower
Stone cold
Holes (Thank-you to paul for reminding me )

Those are the only books we have been made to read, and I quite liked them. Though I do prefer Jakes Tower to Stone Cold.

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[Wind]

Catcher In The Rye
Othello
Animal Farm

We didn't get many books to read, but those were surprisingly good. The others... kinda sucked

[Paul]

Of Mice & Men by John Steinback
An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley.
Holes by Louis Sachar.
Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare.

About it, really.

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[Twitchy]

Of Mice & Men
An Inspector Calls
Holes
Romeo & Juliet

About it, really.

OH! I liked Holes! I had to read it in year 7 and actually went of to buy it so I would have my own copy!

*runs of to add to list*

[EvilPickle]

Romeo and Juliet, Animal Farm, Othello, and Harry Potter are the ones that stand out. I've probably liked others, but can't remember their names.

[Teelie]

I've had to read so many stories I probably have read a small library's worth. A few of the ones that stick out for liking them:

Beowulf
Of Mice And Men
The Odyssey
The Iliad
Canterbury Tales
A Mid Summer Night's Dream
Romeo & Juliet

Pretty much anything from the Greek & Roman lit.

[Tharkun]

Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby

Seriously? Those were the ones I wouldn't wish on the dentists across the street.

As for me...

Macbeth! Macbeth Macbeth MACBETH!!!
Frankenstein
Glass Menagerie
That book by Viktor Frankl, what was it called?
The Green Mile - seriously, it was assigned
Grapes of Wrath (even though I'm completely against the politics, and the Joads should seriously get white-collar jobs)
Fahrenheit 451
The Odyssey

[Igg]

Frankenstein

The Odyssey

To echo your post to mayanspilot....FRANKENSTEIN?! Have you actually taken leave of your senses and sent them on a nice long holiday in the far reaches of the North pole? I wouldn't wish anybody in the world to read Frankenstein unless it was that or death/horrible torture/you get the picture. Good God that book is a long winded boring pile of crap. It even has an unecessary chapter. Chapter 14. Why. WHY? Goddamnit Mary Shelley. You started writing the book because you and your friends were so boring that the best thing you could think to do in bad weather was to have a story writing competition, there was NO NEED TO CARRY ON AFTERWARDS.
And... the IDEA was so good! But god, she just couldn't write, and it's such an unenjoyable book to read.

Kudos on The Odyssey though, even though I'm currently having a nervous breakdown studying it for an exam tomorrow.

[Ziggy]

To Kill a Mockingbird, although hard to get into and written sort of weird, has a really good underlying message. I hated it - HATED IT while I was reading it, but once I got to the end I really found I liked it.

On the other hand, A Separate Peace was, in my opinion, horrible. I know this is probably too much information, but I remember falling asleep reading it once and drooling *all* over it. When I had to turn it in the next day, my teacher asked me why it was wet and all I could say was "It rained and I have a mesh backpack." D'oh!

[Tharkun]

I'll grant you that Mary Shelley foreshadows with a sledgehammer. (What was Chapter 14?)

[Igg]

Chapter 14 was the one that was entirely DeLacey family history.

Woo-hoo.