Books You Were Forced To Read But Then Loved

"Where The Red Firn Grows". About a boy and his two mail-order Huntin Dawgs.

That's a story of Friendship!

 

A Farewell to Arms...I love Hemingway.

 

ahh yes Brave New World...what an incredible book...and to think i didnt want to read it at first either. but huxley was basically exactly on target with his predictions of what our future society would be (or now is)

 

Lord of the Flies

 

Lord of the Flies

To Kill A Mockingbird
1984
Things Fall Apart
The Great Gatsby

My senior year we also had to do a project on one religion for my Humanities class, my group got stuck with Buddhism. It changed my life. I definitely have not been the same person since. I know that doesn't have anything to reallly do with this post, but I read a lot of books for theat project that were about Buddhism.


One I was forced to read and hated? The Prince by Machiavelli, it sucked so much ass!

 

the outsiders, the giver and samaria

 

Emma by Jane Austen. It was a set book for my English Lit A level ( long time ago ) and I so hated it.


Don't think I had read it all the way through by the time of the exam. Took it home to read in the summer holidays and totally fell in love with it, and read all of Jane Austens books in quick succession

 

"Bridge to Terabithia" it ended up being a really good book, i had to read it sometime in elementary school I think!!
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catcher in the rye...and the handmaids tale

 

Of Mice and Men
Illuminatus Trilogy (I always wanted to read it but never read it till i was nagged to take it on holiday.)

 

To Kill a Mockingbird(Atticus is my hero) and Catcher in the Rye.

 

The exact same goes for me... To Kill a Mockingbird and, especially, Catcher in the Rye.

 

'crime and punishment' by dostoevsky. really good after talking and thinking about it.

 

The Pigman - Paul Zindel


After I read this book for the first time I cried, it really got to me.

 

Atticus Finch is the man! He's defenetely one of my favourite literary characters...


Ordinary People is another that I ended up liking...