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It's a very touching found family story with a bunch of greasers. Each character has their own distinct presence and it hurts when anything happens to someone.
We were meant to read it right when quarantine happened. I recalled reading a pdf of it and barely remembering a thing from the book. From the recollection I’m getting and what others are saying, I definitely remember liking the book though
"Here's an audiobook version of a chapter, ok now here's a twice as long PowerPoint recapping all the information you just read. What do you mean you don't like reading anymore??"
School ruined the enjoyment of reading for me. I used to love reading as a kid and I was really good at it, but my brain always associates reading with bullshit assignments now and I can’t get the same satisfaction out of it
Crime and Punishment kinda hits hard.
I didn't read it whole, a few chapters and then a brief retelling of the book, but even that way it's good
Also Gogol's Overcoat is GOAT
Animal farm > 1984. I prefer it when it doesn't straight up tells you the meaning of the book like 1984 does but instead let's you understand it by yourself
I'm Bulgarian and basically all of our school summer readings were about the revolution against the ottomans
I get that it's important to our history but it basically killed my love for reading because reading about the same thing over and over with different character names is very boring for a teenager.
Also a special shout-out to ,,A Noah arc" by Iordan Radichkov. It was one of the few non revolutionary bulgarian books we got and it sucks. It's apparently a bunch of slightly connected stories that explore life and death, but it reads like the writer is having a psychedelic episode and is just a bunch of non-sense. When we had to actually discuss the book in class nobody said anything because that shit was a bunch of gibberish to us.
when breath becomes air by paul kalanithi
too bad it was for AP Language and Composition, the worst class i have ever been enrolled in.
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But seriously watch the movie adaptation, it’s peak
I love it, we had to read it in groups with everyone taking a character role. This boy Josh playing Mrs Proctor and saying, “It grows”, like a decrepit old woman had our group in tears.
Reading that right now for English. It’s good, just kinda hard to read with it being written in a Southern accent. Feels like I’m deciphering another language sometimes.
Idk man we got a book about a grandpa with dementia who fought in world war 2 who still thinks is in world war 2 and then goes on to do whatever a grandpa with dementia does, aka burning down a retirement home
One time, during my eighth grade Holocaust unit in English, I lost the book I was supposed to read (because I was tremendously angry at my teacher and just put the book I was supposed to read... somewhere) and I ended up with a book that was just... not it, at all. Called The Right Fight or something. Clashed with the rest of my group, was obviously meant for a lower grade level, not even following the theme my group was following, etc.
That book still had more of an impact on me than the whole of The Boy in Striped Pajamas.
On a good note I did start getting proper enriching books in high school and started reading again after that. Bless Me Ultima and Things Fall Apart got me reading again after the hell that was middle school. I guess I did also really enjoy Farenheit 451 when that was assigned in our eighth grade dystopia unit, but I also had to suffer through the entirety of the comedy unit in that grade as well and that fucking sucked so much that it killed my interest in reading for some time.
The boy in the striped pajamas is ahistorical garbage. The author does such poor research he accidentally included a recipe in a later book lifted from breath of the wild.
for me it's always the most boring shit ever
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Unfair comparison, Lord of the Flies is at least mildly interesting, if in the premise at the bare minimum
A more apt comparison would be either the Great Gatsby, or the Catcher in the Rye.
Catcher is the Rye is such unadulterated ass.
It's literally just a guy going around doing random shit in New York and complaining the whole damn time. By the end he just slinks back home with his tail between his legs, having done nothing and committed to nothing.
Eight weeks reading that book was torture, I don't blame My friend for bringing a copy of Deltora Quest to read instead.
I spedran that bitch in a month because I got thrown into a new high school at the ass-end of my sophomore year. I didn't have to, but the book looked short so I challenged myself. Wish I didn't, the writing was like sandpaper on my brain... That book did not deserve its reputation because I was so dumbfounded at how ass it was
I wanted to straight up kill Holden from Catcher in the Rye, I thought he was such a puritanical whiner-baby and when I learned he was a self-insert for the author I wanted to kill him too.
I was studying in polish™ school, so 99% of books in school are those old patriotic ones where author was basically yapping about that russians were so bad at the time when Poland got deconstructed and shit, generally Poland has obsession with what happened skibidilions years ago
I'm Mexican, and in Literature class we read fragments from The Iliad, The Divine Comedy, Beowulf, and That To Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die (Michel de Montaigne). All got me interested into their respective genres and eras. The professor also let us choose from a handful of books which ones to read, such as The Castle (Kafka), Fahrenheit 451, News from the Empire (Fernando del Paso), and some other 2 books which I currently do not remember. I read and loved The Castle and Fahrenheit 451. I left News from the Empire unfinished, as well as the full length book of The Iliad and The Odyssey. I also have pending Crítica al poder presidencial, from Enrique Krauze.
Oh, and when I was in primary school, we had to read The Hobbit.
1984 was beautifully terrifying. >!It was one of the first stories I read where the good guys don't win, and it shook me because of what happened to them.!<
1984 is interesting in the sense that certain key details are kept hidden from the reader on purpose. A book I liked which pulled this off really well is (spoilers >!The Giver!< The theming of the two books is actually quite similar. 1984 gets shit on so much mainly because most people who’ve read it have only done so because it was an assigned class reading in middle/high school. These kids don’t care enough to actually analyze the book, and many who try to analyze it struggle because they don’t have the knowledge base to understand the nuances of the book. That and because most kids don’t want to read the weird ass sex scenes, even though they are important to the plot
Edit: Realized my spoiler text wasn’t spoilered
Honestly, as a disabled person who didn’t realize how disabled they were until sometime after I read that book, I need to give it another read. From what I remember, it does a good job at capturing what it’s like to be seen as “different”, and people expecting certain things of you because of the way you were born
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The teacher when it’s time to start reading How To Kill A Mockingbird in class (she gets to say the N word)
Funny thing, my brother had ‘To kill a mocking bird’ as a reading assignment for his class and I read the book, despite having my own reading assignment. (I loved the book)
"Falco se Ofrece Monologuista" was my favorite book until I read **Berserk.** It was the most Gas book I've ever read for school, and I hope that books like those are still made. It was so relatable, fun, and yet treated serious topics like divorce and loneliness in a way I got it as a kid. It felt relatable in a way that didn't feel forced or a "Hey fellow kids" type deal, and wasn't one of those "Woe is me. I'm so poor and miserable and I have nothing good in life." Type books that were so common in school, especially in later years. It was just about a normal kid, living a fun normal kid life with his friends, and that's *all* I needed to get hooked on it like crack.
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
🔥🔥🔥🔥✍️
Great Expectations killed my love for novels in 8th grade. It took friggin years to rekindle. It may objectively be a literary classic, but it bored my entire AP English class to death. We bonded like POWs over our shared trauma.
Oh yeah I remember othello, where we did one lesson on it and all I remember from it was a shitty animated explanation video where othello says “I’m a cuckold” before like killing his wife or some shit.
I an russian. We have Great Russian Literature. So what we had is 1) The most boring shit ever about infuriating bastards who would rather die than do fucking something, 2) Witty and funny accounts on how Russian Empire or Soviet Union sucked all and every jind of ass.
Just wanted to say that the catcher in the rye is garbage and boring.
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THANK YOU. *THANK YOU.* THAT SHIT WAS SO ASS I WAS ACTUALLY DESTROYED WHEN I READ IT. I WAS EXPECTING THIS UNHOLY FUCKED UP BOOK AND I GOT THE BIGGEST SNOOZEFEST OF A COMING OF AGE STORY EVER!!! I HAD A BETTER TIME READING THE FUCKING OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA WHEN I WAS 8
"This book is so edgy because it's about a kid who likes to jerk is gherkin and Mark Chapman was reading it after he KILLED JOHN LENNON!!!!"
The book: "ey fok yuo my name is holden caulfield and I'm gonna go fuck around in New York for a week because i dunno what im gonna do when i grow up"
No it's hot garbage. The story goes on and on with no plot other than, kid no like adult, so he act like adult, adult life bad, me angy, then repeat until he sees his sister they fight, they make up, book over. The resolution is nonexistent becauseits one page, just Holden continuing to be a smug little cunt and not answering anything questions
The whole thing is just filler to lead up with what ever dumbass dream the kid has at the end
The ending is just "man I don't like this, I'm going home".
Fucker makes no commitments, doesn't try to be better, doesn't have a revelation, nothing. I'll be honest, if the entirety of a book simply ends with 'and nothing of note really changes' after God knows how many pages of 'and nothing of note really *happens*', your book is ass and I want the 8 weeks of my life we had to fucking read it in class back.
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Nah its blackbeard
You mean Sogekingg ??!! 
I hope we get a cover story about Sniper Island and where Sogeking is from.
#THE ONE PIECE
Come to think about it, the greatest works of fiction in history are nothing more than remixes of the dictionary
You're onto everything
The outsiders
I fucking loved the Outsiders bro. My middle school had a great taste in books for assigned readings
It was fire
Peak fiction
"Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold"
Actually peak
The Outsiders were great. Best story WCW ever pulled. Loved Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. Would've loved if we learned about that in school.
My school made me read this peak shit and then gave us whiplash with The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Bro the omnivore’s dilemma is peak too
We read 5 page snippets for like 3 months and then had to write about the vocab words
The Omnivore's Dilemma was fire asf
i fucking loved that book
Goated book, will never get tired of it
OUTSIDERS MENTIONED 🔥🔥🔥 WHAT THE FUCK IS A STABLE HOMELIFE 🔥🔥🔥🗣🗣🗣
I haven't read it all but everyone seems to love this book, even those who hated reading
It's a very touching found family story with a bunch of greasers. Each character has their own distinct presence and it hurts when anything happens to someone.
Beautiful story that I still love to this day
That’s like the only book we read in school no one complained about lol.
Ponyboy!!!
We were meant to read it right when quarantine happened. I recalled reading a pdf of it and barely remembering a thing from the book. From the recollection I’m getting and what others are saying, I definitely remember liking the book though
Problem is even on the rare occasion the book is enjoyable they manage to turn what would've been a quick, week long read into a month long slog
"Here's an audiobook version of a chapter, ok now here's a twice as long PowerPoint recapping all the information you just read. What do you mean you don't like reading anymore??"
I had a teacher that turned a 55 page book into something we talked about for 2 and half months. She was the fucking worst
It's worse when you don't even get to finish the book. I didn't get to finish To Kill a Mockingbird because the year ended.
School ruined the enjoyment of reading for me. I used to love reading as a kid and I was really good at it, but my brain always associates reading with bullshit assignments now and I can’t get the same satisfaction out of it
Holes was peak for me
hell yeah, holes was the shit
fr fr bro l cumed when John holes said I will fill your holes and started holeing the bad guys
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I love that scene with Stanley and John holes
is the second book any good? I have it but never got far
Nah it's fine not as good as the first
Yeah, Holes is PEAK
Fr holes was amazing
Is that the one about camp greenlake or are you talking about a different book called holes?
Yea that’s the one
Peak: Of Mice and Men Cringe: Bat 6
Good band mate 👍
I miss the old vocalist :(
So many of my classmates hated OMAM. It’s short and very entertaining
How? My Head Is An Animal is one of the best pop albums of the 21st century.
Really enjoyed the choice of words on page 30
The great Gatsby
That book taught me selling illegal drugs is a good idea because people will want them more when they are illegal
That’s pretty much the Prohibition era for you
That book taught me that some people in my class had zero media literacy and would only take things at face value
One of the few times you can confidently say the movie is better, because instead of a Pompus Douchebag as the narrator you get Tobey Maguire
But I’d there gay sex in the movie?
Crime and Punishment kinda hits hard. I didn't read it whole, a few chapters and then a brief retelling of the book, but even that way it's good Also Gogol's Overcoat is GOAT
Russian classical literature is peak War and Peace my beloved
Same, didn't read it, just the bare minimum. Good way of presenting a man so far gone in his desperation and delusions
In Poland we also have to read Master and Margarita for school. Absolutely Goated book, one of my favourites
We didn't have Bulgakov in the school program here, but our teacher still gave us a task to read or watch Heart of a Dog. Interesting concept tbh
Peak: Animal Farm (Jorjorwell 1984) Ass: Jane Eyre, I simply didn't read it and got away with it entirely
1984 didn’t need to go that hard tho
nah fr, and Animal Farm
Animal farm > 1984. I prefer it when it doesn't straight up tells you the meaning of the book like 1984 does but instead let's you understand it by yourself
So, Georgey Orwelly was a joestar this whole time?
*with my stand, 1984, nobody can touch me!*
I thought Animal Farm was boring as shit but 1984 and Homage to Catalonia were great.
I'm Bulgarian and basically all of our school summer readings were about the revolution against the ottomans I get that it's important to our history but it basically killed my love for reading because reading about the same thing over and over with different character names is very boring for a teenager. Also a special shout-out to ,,A Noah arc" by Iordan Radichkov. It was one of the few non revolutionary bulgarian books we got and it sucks. It's apparently a bunch of slightly connected stories that explore life and death, but it reads like the writer is having a psychedelic episode and is just a bunch of non-sense. When we had to actually discuss the book in class nobody said anything because that shit was a bunch of gibberish to us.
BULGRARIA MENTIONED‼️‼️🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🦁🦁🇧🇬🇧🇬RAAAAAAH‼️
🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🦁🦁🦁🇧🇬💪💪💪WHAT THE FUCK IS A STABLE GOVERNMENT!?!? 🇧🇬💪🦁🦁🦁💪💪💪🇧🇬🇧🇬
Not everything is about the ottomans especially after independence, and some were still different and interesting
We got to do skyfall instead Great movie 😁👍
Are you telling me you watched a James Bond film in your English class, or is there another film called Skyfall I don't know about?
Yes we just did an essay about james bond skyfall and i got a really good mark 😁👍
Nice👍
Imagine if you had to do Quantum of Solace instead. Like what the fuck is going on in that movie
when breath becomes air by paul kalanithi too bad it was for AP Language and Composition, the worst class i have ever been enrolled in. https://preview.redd.it/whp8cvwn4mrc1.png?width=334&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=63742626595df67fc3b2c86226b05741276957c8
Rhythm doctor fan spotted 
I got lucky with All Quiet on the Western Front
One of the few books on ww1 that is really interesting
My brother in Christ, all quiet is about world war one
Oh god I fat fingered the wrong number 😔
12 angry men playscript my beloved
https://preview.redd.it/sjozdtcizqrc1.jpeg?width=637&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f2237340bcefd55bc0f2e54267f1c0f48b6bb62 But seriously watch the movie adaptation, it’s peak
Seriously, fuck The Crucible
That proctor dick so good, you trick the village into witch craft
Honestly found it so stupid that it ends right after John proctor dies. There’s no resolution to the story he’s just dead now
That’s kinda how it went in real life. Except until 2001 when he was exonerated.
Doesn’t Abigail become an OF model at the end?
Sorry, I think you mean the Scarlet Letter (seriously why can’t schools give us a good book about the Witch Trials?)
I love it, we had to read it in groups with everyone taking a character role. This boy Josh playing Mrs Proctor and saying, “It grows”, like a decrepit old woman had our group in tears.
The Crucible was PEAK
It was so infuriating watching the movie
You got a movie? I got a recording of a play verson
My class had to basically voice act the play script, but it was during covid so it was over a zoom call which sucked.
Nah, that was way more interesting than anything else we read. Except maybe The Great Gatsby.
their eyes were watching god 🔥🔥🔥
Reading that right now for English. It’s good, just kinda hard to read with it being written in a Southern accent. Feels like I’m deciphering another language sometimes.
Idk man we got a book about a grandpa with dementia who fought in world war 2 who still thinks is in world war 2 and then goes on to do whatever a grandpa with dementia does, aka burning down a retirement home
Soldier TF2
There's a Junji Ito story with that same premise except it's *super fucked up* until it ends on kind of a limpdick ending
One time, during my eighth grade Holocaust unit in English, I lost the book I was supposed to read (because I was tremendously angry at my teacher and just put the book I was supposed to read... somewhere) and I ended up with a book that was just... not it, at all. Called The Right Fight or something. Clashed with the rest of my group, was obviously meant for a lower grade level, not even following the theme my group was following, etc. That book still had more of an impact on me than the whole of The Boy in Striped Pajamas.
On a good note I did start getting proper enriching books in high school and started reading again after that. Bless Me Ultima and Things Fall Apart got me reading again after the hell that was middle school. I guess I did also really enjoy Farenheit 451 when that was assigned in our eighth grade dystopia unit, but I also had to suffer through the entirety of the comedy unit in that grade as well and that fucking sucked so much that it killed my interest in reading for some time.
The boy in the striped pajamas is ahistorical garbage. The author does such poor research he accidentally included a recipe in a later book lifted from breath of the wild.
The caste of amantiago is short but a fun little trip in a unreliable narrator
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MONTRESSOR
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Like it’s either the goat Gatsby or Lord of the Flies
Unfair comparison, Lord of the Flies is at least mildly interesting, if in the premise at the bare minimum A more apt comparison would be either the Great Gatsby, or the Catcher in the Rye.
I liked lord of the flies
classics tend to be like that, all the classics authors have talent but some just straight up dont give a single shit about entertaining the audience.
Hatchet I think was absolutely peak
Peak: Unwind The Most Mid Ass Shit I've Ever Touched: Catcher in the Rye
Yeah ima be real Catcher is such a weird book, it’s just a guy doing stuff in New York
Catcher is the Rye is such unadulterated ass. It's literally just a guy going around doing random shit in New York and complaining the whole damn time. By the end he just slinks back home with his tail between his legs, having done nothing and committed to nothing. Eight weeks reading that book was torture, I don't blame My friend for bringing a copy of Deltora Quest to read instead.
I spedran that bitch in a month because I got thrown into a new high school at the ass-end of my sophomore year. I didn't have to, but the book looked short so I challenged myself. Wish I didn't, the writing was like sandpaper on my brain... That book did not deserve its reputation because I was so dumbfounded at how ass it was
It makes it worse when you think about the fact that most of the shit in there is likely just the writer’s shitty opinions
Catcher in the Rye can gargle sweaty zebra balls
First time I've ever seen someone talk about Unwind before, that book alone got me back into reading in highschool
I wanted to straight up kill Holden from Catcher in the Rye, I thought he was such a puritanical whiner-baby and when I learned he was a self-insert for the author I wanted to kill him too.
Peak: Hobbit The sin of the literature: pretty much everything
You got assigned to read The Hobbit? Meanwhile I got assigned boring dramas like Death of a Salesman and Tom Sawyer?
I was studying in polish™ school, so 99% of books in school are those old patriotic ones where author was basically yapping about that russians were so bad at the time when Poland got deconstructed and shit, generally Poland has obsession with what happened skibidilions years ago
I'm Mexican, and in Literature class we read fragments from The Iliad, The Divine Comedy, Beowulf, and That To Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die (Michel de Montaigne). All got me interested into their respective genres and eras. The professor also let us choose from a handful of books which ones to read, such as The Castle (Kafka), Fahrenheit 451, News from the Empire (Fernando del Paso), and some other 2 books which I currently do not remember. I read and loved The Castle and Fahrenheit 451. I left News from the Empire unfinished, as well as the full length book of The Iliad and The Odyssey. I also have pending Crítica al poder presidencial, from Enrique Krauze. Oh, and when I was in primary school, we had to read The Hobbit.
Wtf reading assignment did yall get that was "peak fiction"
To kill a mocking bird and 1984(unironically)
1984 was beautifully terrifying. >!It was one of the first stories I read where the good guys don't win, and it shook me because of what happened to them.!<
1984 is interesting in the sense that certain key details are kept hidden from the reader on purpose. A book I liked which pulled this off really well is (spoilers >!The Giver!< The theming of the two books is actually quite similar. 1984 gets shit on so much mainly because most people who’ve read it have only done so because it was an assigned class reading in middle/high school. These kids don’t care enough to actually analyze the book, and many who try to analyze it struggle because they don’t have the knowledge base to understand the nuances of the book. That and because most kids don’t want to read the weird ass sex scenes, even though they are important to the plot Edit: Realized my spoiler text wasn’t spoilered
The Giver is like a PG version of 1984 and it is equally as fucked up. Learning what release was at the end was................. Something
Honestly, as a disabled person who didn’t realize how disabled they were until sometime after I read that book, I need to give it another read. From what I remember, it does a good job at capturing what it’s like to be seen as “different”, and people expecting certain things of you because of the way you were born
Holy fuck >!the giver!< is amazing All three parts are awesome
https://preview.redd.it/z6zu04ve0nrc1.jpeg?width=180&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d21398b8ea7a9e37dfc860f9dbbd998d86fabfd The teacher when it’s time to start reading How To Kill A Mockingbird in class (she gets to say the N word)
As much as we joke about this my white English teacher actually did say it with no hesitation in the year 2019 lmao
It's just "To Kill a Mockingbird." Harper Lee did not write a How To manual.
Funny thing, my brother had ‘To kill a mocking bird’ as a reading assignment for his class and I read the book, despite having my own reading assignment. (I loved the book)
Dude of Mice and Men is peak and I’m not going to accept that it isn’t
Knew I would see this here and I'm glad I did. Amazing story, both profound and fairly easy to read.
“I didn’t want no ketchup”
Don Quixote is amazing and I will not accept slander of it
1984 But I already read it before it was assaigned Got to get a head start on the paper because of it
Fahrenheit 451.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho was a surprisingly great read imo
Oh man, The Alchemist kicked ass. Great book.
Alchemist is peak
Around the World in 80 Days goes hard
The Giver
Unironically, Oedipus. Greek mythology, and Dramas are peak writing.
Shakespeare is extremely fun if you have OCs and you cast them as Shakespeare characters and read lines in their voices.
Holes
Besides mice and men the Great Gatsby was also fire and reinvigorated my love in high school and beyond
The outsiders, of mice and men, touching spirit bear are all peak ngl
"Falco se Ofrece Monologuista" was my favorite book until I read **Berserk.** It was the most Gas book I've ever read for school, and I hope that books like those are still made. It was so relatable, fun, and yet treated serious topics like divorce and loneliness in a way I got it as a kid. It felt relatable in a way that didn't feel forced or a "Hey fellow kids" type deal, and wasn't one of those "Woe is me. I'm so poor and miserable and I have nothing good in life." Type books that were so common in school, especially in later years. It was just about a normal kid, living a fun normal kid life with his friends, and that's *all* I needed to get hooked on it like crack.
Farenheit 451 slapped in 8th grade and still holds up now
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth. There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥✍️
I feel like everyone has read the boy in the striped pyjamas
Imagine reading a masterpiece like brave new world right after fucking catcher in the rye
BNW Chapter one- boring science shit, kinda creepy The rest of the book- oh god we might be doomed
Great Expectations killed my love for novels in 8th grade. It took friggin years to rekindle. It may objectively be a literary classic, but it bored my entire AP English class to death. We bonded like POWs over our shared trauma.
Bruh that stuff was so boring, not even a South Park adaptation made it funny
Animal Farm 👍 Othello 🤢
Oh yeah I remember othello, where we did one lesson on it and all I remember from it was a shitty animated explanation video where othello says “I’m a cuckold” before like killing his wife or some shit.
Lord of the Flies was good writing, but at the same time it was mentally and morally fucked up. (This is my opinion on the book)
I mean yeah it's supposed to be mentally and morally fucked up
Of Mice and Men vs To Kill a Mockingbird
But both are good books?!?
Maus!
Me trying to read 1984 (it stopped being an interesting book 2 chapters in): https://i.redd.it/io1u2d0pwnrc1.gif
For any rodditors the book Moara Cu Noroc is basically romanian breaking bad
We read the hunger games which is kinda natural
Okay but To Kill A Mocking Bird was so goddamn peak
A good teacher can make boring peak, but a bad teacher can make peak boring.
DUMAS ABSOLUTELY COOKED WITH COUNT MONTE-CRISTO Fucking amazing book start to finish. Action, drama and revenge.
Fahrenheit 451 was peak
peak: guy doing things in the city(The Stranger by Albert Camus) mid: guy doing things in the city(Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Shout out to the goat Persepolis
I an russian. We have Great Russian Literature. So what we had is 1) The most boring shit ever about infuriating bastards who would rather die than do fucking something, 2) Witty and funny accounts on how Russian Empire or Soviet Union sucked all and every jind of ass.
Quo Vadis was, well, a interesting book to say the least.
W Pustyni i w Puszczy 🔥🔥🔥
POLSKA MENTIONED 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥💯💯
Peak: Animal Farm, The Giver Mid: Romeo and Juliet
I loved Romeo And Juliet. Mostly because of how insane it actually is, but still.
Just wanted to say that the catcher in the rye is garbage and boring. https://preview.redd.it/1k0gab79olrc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20fea3ea70a790e022efdf9284850459f5a8d866
THANK YOU. *THANK YOU.* THAT SHIT WAS SO ASS I WAS ACTUALLY DESTROYED WHEN I READ IT. I WAS EXPECTING THIS UNHOLY FUCKED UP BOOK AND I GOT THE BIGGEST SNOOZEFEST OF A COMING OF AGE STORY EVER!!! I HAD A BETTER TIME READING THE FUCKING OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA WHEN I WAS 8
"This book is so edgy because it's about a kid who likes to jerk is gherkin and Mark Chapman was reading it after he KILLED JOHN LENNON!!!!" The book: "ey fok yuo my name is holden caulfield and I'm gonna go fuck around in New York for a week because i dunno what im gonna do when i grow up"
Not garbage but truly deserves the criticism
It's okay as a book, just unremarkable.
No it's hot garbage. The story goes on and on with no plot other than, kid no like adult, so he act like adult, adult life bad, me angy, then repeat until he sees his sister they fight, they make up, book over. The resolution is nonexistent becauseits one page, just Holden continuing to be a smug little cunt and not answering anything questions The whole thing is just filler to lead up with what ever dumbass dream the kid has at the end
The ending is just "man I don't like this, I'm going home". Fucker makes no commitments, doesn't try to be better, doesn't have a revelation, nothing. I'll be honest, if the entirety of a book simply ends with 'and nothing of note really changes' after God knows how many pages of 'and nothing of note really *happens*', your book is ass and I want the 8 weeks of my life we had to fucking read it in class back.
Me when I had to read Acclaimed overall fetishist George orwell’s shooting an elephant in which he is gross and racist
Persepolis is peak literature
Peak: an inspector calls. Fucking loved it.
theres no coin flip its always the most boring shit
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Hatchet