Follow Friday 7/26/12
Q: Summer Reading. What was your favorite book that you were REQUIRED to read when you were in school?
I'm about to let my nerd show a little here...I really liked a lot of the mandatory reading in high school. We did two Shakespeares every year--loved that. I loved Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. And The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. But my favorite was The Things They Carried by Tim O'brien. It was the first (maybe only) war themed book that really gripped me both emotionally and intellectually.
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ReplyDeleteI'm required to read a lot of Shakespeare at my school as well! I'm a new follower!
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I haven't read any of those but Slaughterhouse Five I have been eyeing for awhile.
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I'm a big fan of the Shakespeare stuff. Sure sometimes it is hard to follow, but the stories and the language are just gorgeous!
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Your number one favorite I haven't heard of, but some of the others you mentioned I read and liked too =D
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I didn't get to read any of those! And no, you are not the only one who doesn't like To Kill a Mockingbird. I started liking it AFTER I was out of school.. lol. Didn't much like it when it was required reading at the time.
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Haven't heard of the O'Brien book! Remember Gatsby though!
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Awesome choices. I read both Slaughter House Five and The Great Gatsby after high school. Old Follower. Thanks for sharing and visiting My FF
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Ohh I really wanna read The Great Gatsby !
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Since I went to school in The Netherlands, our required reading list was a bit different. Although we did read a lot by Shakespeare. I liked it right up to the point where we had to make a play all by ourselves and perform it in front of the entire class. After that not fun anymore... New follower!
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I loved reading Shakespeare's writing as well! :)
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I never read any of these ones but I'm glad you enjoyed them.
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EEEE The Great Gatsby, I totally forgot about that one. Loved it!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Great Gatsby was so good, I can't wait to see the new movie for it coming out.
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I think I read the short story version of that once - I'll have to check out the full length novel now. Cheers!
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Great picks! The Things They Carried practically punched me in the gut. My dad, both grandpas, husband, cousins, and many many friends are either active military or Veterans. O'Brien did an excellent job on that book.
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I haven't read any of those! Okay, no, I take that back. I read The Great Gatsby last year (but not for school). Slaughterhouse Five is on my TBR list though!
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I also loved Shakespeare, but I hated The Great Gatsby - still do. But maybe I'll go and see the Gatsby movie. I'm a new follower.
ReplyDeleteI usually enjoyed the required reading as well. Except Beowulf - I had a terrible time trying to get through that.
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While I didn't get to read it in school, I really love Slaughterhouse Five.
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New follower here. Thank you for stopping by my blog! I haven't read "The Things They Carried," but I actually own a copy...sitting on my enormous "To Be Read" pile. I have heard so many wonderful things about it.
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Wow, I haven't read any of those (except the Shakespeare of course).
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OMG!!!! I LOVED the O'brien book!!!! And all the shakespeare stuff too. Great choices!
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AHHH I love The Great Gatsby..one of my favorite books ever :)
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I think we're going on to some Shakespeare this year! The Great Gasby looks really good too!
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I admit I didn't like the required reading. I never got Shakespeare. In 6th grade I had an awesome teacher and he did do a great job with A Midsummer Night's Dream. Thanks for stopping by and I'm following GFC and Linky.
ReplyDeleteI had forgotten about Slaughterhouse Five, great choice!
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We did Shakespeare every year too. Thanks for stopping by my FF. New follower.
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ReplyDeleteI read The Things They Carried in college.. intense read, but fantastic.. Following you back!
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I really liked the Great Gatsby too. I didn't like the ending though. I'm totally a HEA kind of girl lol. Thanks for stopping by!
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I love The Great Gatsby. Just reread it last year and found it even more remarkable. For my American Lit Class in high school, we had one of those free choice type papers and I did mine on Kurt Vonnegut. I didn't get a good grade- I think I got a C. My teacher said Vonnegut wasn't "real" literature. My mom was in college at the time- taking a 20th Century American Lit type class. Gave it to her professor to read- he said it was an A paper. Not knowing it was written by a high school student. My teacher, I think, was just a literary snob.
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I loved most of my required reading too! Yay nerds!
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Great picks! Old follower here, Hooray!
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Shakespeare is one of my all-time favorite authors. I was so disappointed when I didn't get the Shakespeare course that I requested in high school. I still got to read Hamlet and Othello that year, but for me, the more Shakespeare, the better.
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gahhh I can't believe I forgot about Gatsby! I loved that book and Slaughterhouse 5 too! Great picks!
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I'm not a big Shakespeare fan and I didn't really like The Great Gatsby, but I'm glad you enjoyed them :) I haven't heard of that last one though, maybe I should've went to your school lol. Thanks for stopping by my FF, following you back <3
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Shakespeare? Heavy reading. Good for you. Thanks for stopping by my blog and thanks for the follow. I thought I'd pop over and check out your answers and of course follow you back!
ReplyDeleteI loved the Great Gatsby too. It's a great read. I haven't heard of the last book though, but it sounds like it really had an impact on you. :)
ReplyDeleteI haven't read Slaughterhouse V or The Things They Carried but All Quiet on the Western Front was a pretty compelling war story. :)
ReplyDeleteyay to Great Gatsby Buddies! and enjoying two Shakespeares a year is commendable, lol.
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I've always been a massive Shakespeare fan - I read even the ones that weren't on the curriculum! :)
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ReplyDeleteI was the opposite. I hated everything I was "forced" to read in school. Maybe it was the word "required" that did it for me.
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Ashley
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I am the complete opposite. If I had to do two Shakespeare plays every year I would have died. But that is just me. :) I am glad that you got to study books and plays that you enjoyed. English may have been better for me if that were the case.
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Old follower, I had a hard time remembering what I read in school.
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thanks for commenting! followed you back! :) *new follower*
ReplyDeleteI've been meaning to read The Things They Carried, but never got around to it.
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Hey! Thanks for stopping by! Haven't read any of those books :(
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The Great Gatsby UNITE! =) Following back.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I should have loved the Great Gatsby more than I did. It's one of those that I should probably reread now that I'm older. Especially since the movie is coming out.
ReplyDeleteShakespeare's always a good bet :-)
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Great picks! I still need to read Slaughterhouse Five. Thanks so much for stopping by my FF and for following! I am so sorry that I'm only now getting back to you! But I'm following you as well, now! Have a great week! :D
ReplyDeleteOf the 3 books you named (aside from Shakespeare), I've not read a single one. :-( Heard of them though. But I do love Shakespeare.
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