Your Most Influential/Favorite Book
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Great book and movie. I believe Redford and Co. are debuting a documentary about it. Kornheiser has been discussing it on the radio.
It is kind of sad, I miss reading the Junie B. Jones and Henry Huggins books to my kids. I guess I need grandkids soon.
A lot of these listed wants me to get back to my parents' house and fish out all the books I had to read in high school. Two that I want to re-read are The Great Gatsby and A Separate Peace. Another one would be A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens can get reaaalllly wordy, but still a good book.
My sophomore year in HS, we were given a list of books, and choose one to read. I chose to read Roots by Alex Haley, which I found excellent. (another re-read) Then, there was my senior year in high school, and chose to read Jane Eyre off a list of English authors. Holy shmokes. To me, it was just....blech. The reading was just tedious.
My sophomore year in HS, we were given a list of books, and choose one to read. I chose to read Roots by Alex Haley, which I found excellent. (another re-read) Then, there was my senior year in high school, and chose to read Jane Eyre off a list of English authors. Holy shmokes. To me, it was just....blech. The reading was just tedious.
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I have to admit - we were supposed to read A Separate Peace our freshman year, and I skimmed it well enough to take the test, but never read it. I don't know why?? That was the only book where I ever did that.
I'm not a Bronte fan, despite my love of period Brit lit. Jane Eyre is okay and all, but... Same with Wuthering Heights. The whole first chapter just describes a room. I DON'T CARE.
I read a couple (long after this though). The last one was State of Fear, which was pretty interesting.
I picked up the first one a year ago and read it. I loved it and thought that it was WAY better then the movie.
My husband has. I suppose I should since he likes to discuss things he has read and some of the few we have in common are Hitchhikers Guide and Harry Potter.
I had never heard of Separate Peace... but who ever said Dorian Gray that's a good one.
Only book I ever skipped out on was in 5th or 6th grade and it was this:
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Only book I ever skipped out on was in 5th or 6th grade and it was this:
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I never read it, but I remember being in daycare and being forced to watch the movie over and over, and hating it.
My son had to read Ordinary People in high school and absolutely despised it. I see it has not hit anyone's favorite list yet. The high school kids around here all really love To Kill a Mockingbird.
Actually, I was going to mention that Jurassic Park is an awesome read. I actually read 3/4 of it before I went to see the movie. That was unfortunate because I ended up disappointed in the movie. I finished the rest of the book after seeing the movie, but glad that the book finished much better than the movie.
My favorite book is the Bible. I also love Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Silmarillion (& the other LOTR books). John Grisham's Bleachers is very good too.
In high school I usually LOVED English class and ate up 90% of the books that were required reading, but Jane Eyre was one of two books that was just a chore (the other being Scarlet Letter)
They are still using this book in the Palo Alto system. They must have rats out there.
