Books You Remember From School

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Our English teacher never made us read any Shakespeare plays, we just had to watch the films.... 

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LOL...yeah after we would finish reading the books, we would then watch the films. Our teacher got in trouble for showing us Roman Polanski's Macbeth.

lol still in school so i can contribute a big list

romeo and juliet --> every grade... reading it now
inherit the wind
haroun and the sea of stories <-- messed up first name lolz
1984

arg cant remember... i read bout like 4 - 5 books this year

4-5???? that&#39;s all????

We had to read 8 for Dutch
4 for French and English and 3 for German&#33;&#33;&#33;

Agh&#33; 1984...how could I forget that. Oh and Brave New World.

I liked both 1984 and Brave New World a lot....learnt a lot from these books and they both changed my view on the world....

Thanks George and Aldous :lol:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Catcher in the Rye
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Separate Peace
The Great Gatsby
Lord of the Flies - watched the movie, too

I had to memorize some verse from Shakespeare and recite it in front of the class.
We never read Shakespeare, but we did watch "The Taming of the Shrew" with Elizabeth Taylor.

The Merchant of Venice
The Great Gatsby
Grapes of Wrath
Romeo and Juliet
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Last Mohican
Great Expectations
Oedipus Rex

And the one I remember most was - Johnny Got His Gun. (It is the basis for the Metallica song "One". It was one of the most depressing things I&#39;ve ever read.)

To Kill a Mockingbird
Holes
some praire book cant think of it but it was retarded ah crap... oh well those are the ones i remember

to kill a mocking bird
one flew over the cuckoo&#39;s nest....an awesome read
wuthering heights.....shudder
pride and prejudice.....shudder shudder
the mayor of casterbridge....OH MY GOD&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33; stop the pain please make it go away

we also got to read shakespeare...i really enjoyed macbeth
and we had one groover of a teacher who let us in on the secrets of pinter and beckett and co. now THEY were worth the read


botts

I remember spy who came in from the cold boring
the coulor purpe (our teaching said it was wanking material so we couldn&#39;t read it anymore
farinheight 451