Good Books that you were forced to read at school

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Since I have been reading furiously since the age of six at the sometimes rate of a book or so a day (depending upon the size of the book) I have hardly noticed which books school introduced me to and the torrent of literature I lived through. I don't see words when I read, the words evoke scenes and actions, and good words evoke great actions. I love words but am severely puzzled as to why people do what they do when they obviously have better intellects than their actions reveal. Humans still puzzle me.

I was never forced to read anything in school, due to the fact that from about grade 5 to Grade 7 I was a voracious reader who was usually reading something that didn't pertain to what was being taught in class. In grade 6, my teacher pretty much left me alone.

I read 1984 several times, Brave New World, Animal Farm, and Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles on my own volition in grade 7, along with a lot of books pertaining to the 3rd Reich.

Animal Farm by George Orwell
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Macbeth
Julius Ceasar

MacBeth! That play sure was awesome. I had never read anything of Shakespeare before!

We also started reading the Phaidon, which was pretty interesting. Not big news, but some of Plato on the soul I had before too. Anyway, most others in class profited from it too.

We read lots of other books, but I found none of them to be of much interest.


Concerning English literature, we also read:

Animal Farm
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Brave New World


I wish we'd read Faust! That would have been awesome.

Animal Farm was good.

The Canterbury Tales-Bawdy without being crude
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea

i tell you what there is one bookk i absolutely cannot stand: OF MICE AND MEN!! !! ! i hate that book SO MUCH!! !! !

The Crucible
Romeo and Juliet
The Secret Life of Bees

Heh, it's basically medieval porn. I don't want to read "The Prioress' Tale" because of the anti-Semitism.

Anyway, I liked:
- To Kill A Mockingbird (and the role-play we did at the end. I was Scout)
- The Taming Of The Shrew (Katherine = awesome)
- Twelfth Night

The butcher boy, nietzche: morality as anti nature, karl marx and a book on the creation of pure capitalism

None that I was forced to read - I loved when my teacher would give us 45 minute of free reading time so I could read books I liked.

I forgot about 'The Secret Life of Bees'! That is one of my all time favourite books! I relate so much with Lily!

wait,

good books you were forced to read?

It's like saying, "he forced me to have great sex"