ST Alpha - "Favorite school book: Catcher in the Rye. Least favorite: Lord Jim. Honorable mention: Godel, Escher, Bach." (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 155

Favorite school book: Catcher in the Rye. Least favorite: Lord Jim. Honorable mention: Godel, Escher, Bach.

Posted by TFox Nov 17 '09, 10:19

I read that one for self-designed independant study credit in college, and really really enjoyed it.

Responses:

Least Fvorite: Labyrinth of the Mind -- nm - zeitgeist Nov 17, 11:10
I never liked 'forced' reading much. TKAM was good. Hick Finn was dreadful. - ty97 Nov 17, 10:30 8
- I didn't mind forced as much as the crazy amount of parsing and analyzing we had to do, esp. for AP english. - b. Nov 17, 10:40
- God, I love Mark Twain. - Callisto Nov 17, 10:37
- I think I woulda liked Huck Finn if we had more than 10 days to read it. - Will Hunting Nov 17, 10:32 2
  - Yeah, we were on the quarter calendar, and it was often a book a week. -- nm - con_carne Nov 17, 10:34 1
    - Most books, I can just fly through but the diction in that was awful - Will Hunting Nov 17, 10:35
- Mockingbird, Death of a Salesman, Gatsby... I miss getting assigned brilliant books to read. I do. -- nm - TFox Nov 17, 10:31 2
  - At that phase in my life, I didn't like it. I probably would like it now. - ty97 Nov 17, 10:34
  - Oh, I liked Death of a Salesman a lot. -- nm - kelly Nov 17, 10:32
Favorite school book: Lord of the Flies. Least Favorite: Ragtime -- nm - Jovian Nov 17, 10:27
I honestly don't remember most of what I read in school. - kelly Nov 17, 10:20 4
- I could see how reading could have been viewed as an optional skill in your town, for sure. -- nm - TFox Nov 17, 10:21 3
  - :( -- nm - kelly Nov 17, 10:22 2
    - (In my town, I think you can major in "wearing trackpants and hair gel in an Iroc", so lets not pretend I'm throwing meaningful stones here.) -- nm - TFox Nov 17, 10:27 1
      - *laughing* - kelly Nov 17, 10:30

Post a message top

Favorite school book: Catcher in the Rye. Least favorite: Lord Jim. Honorable mention: Godel, Escher, Bach.

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.