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Post by Jiren on Jan 16, 2016 0:41:25 GMT -5
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Ha, You too I remember - Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Macbeth - Romeo & Juliet - An Inspector Calls - Sherlock Holmes (Red Headed League I think)
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Post by wildojinx on Jan 16, 2016 0:48:27 GMT -5
Oh yeah, we also read A Seperate Peace, EVERYONE in our class HATED that book, it validated Lisa Simpson's opinion on it.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jan 16, 2016 0:48:53 GMT -5
I forgot to mention a collection of short horror stories, including one by Winston Churchill (yes, THAT Winston Churchill). It wasn't a large book, but some of the stories stick with you.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 16, 2016 0:53:56 GMT -5
Besides the ones they forced me to? Jurassic Park I read when I was 11 or so. Plus a ton of other Michael Crichton stuff I could find. Tons of hockey books, nothing else jumps out. I'm always reading something, even if it's not a book.
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Post by Phil Parent on Jan 16, 2016 1:10:59 GMT -5
Loved Albert Camus' "Caligula", loved Agatha Christie's "Ten Little n*****s"...
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Post by Hawk Hart on Jan 16, 2016 3:05:25 GMT -5
I had to read a bunch of books in school, there were only a few I actually read including To Kill a Mockingbird, Ishmael, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Great Gatsby, and the Odyssey. Those are among my favorite books now, everything else was either awful or something I'd read before.
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Post by The Spelunker! on Jan 16, 2016 3:25:25 GMT -5
Animal Farm Brave New World 1984 Siddartha Things Fall Apart The Woman Warrior Macbeth Hamlet Raisin in the Sun Great Gatsby Diary of Anne Frank Romeo and Juliet Cask of Amontilado West Side Story Giver Pride and Prejudice Midsummer Night's Dream The Odyssey Off the top of my head as assigned books. I did an absolute ton of personal reading though.
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Post by SmashTV on Jan 16, 2016 4:41:47 GMT -5
Animal Farm Of Mice and Men The Diary of Anne Frank
I had no idea at the time that they were regarded as classics. I'm glad looking back, that I was exposed to them at an early age (well, 13 onward).
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 16, 2016 5:19:01 GMT -5
Every Cirque Du Freak book, I was in love with that series
And then they made an incredibly SHITTY movie out of it...
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Post by LexExpress on Jan 16, 2016 8:37:50 GMT -5
Okay, this might actually be the best place to ask this... when I was a kid, I had this book of scary stories. One of them (which had an illustration on the cover) was about a kid who gets bitten by a bug and his skin becomes see-through, so he's a skeleton monster and has to live in the mountains. Can anyone please tell me the name of this book? I've been wondering for years about this. That sounds a lot like the story 'Clear as Mud' from 'Undone' by Paul Jennings. littlelibraryofrescuedbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/undone-by-paul-jennings.htmlI had the second version on that link, with the creepy overlay cover
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 16, 2016 8:42:01 GMT -5
The BFG
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Post by LexExpress on Jan 16, 2016 8:48:47 GMT -5
My favourites as a kid were: The BFG (and Roald Dahl in general) Little Women & Good Wives (Louisa May Alcott) The Hundred and One Dalmatians (Dodie Smith) The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 and 3/4 (Sue Townsend) Enid Blyton's Mysteries series The Saddle Club series (Bonnie Bryant) Horrible Histories The Catcher in the Rye Anything creepy - so Paul Jennings short stories as above, which I had loads of, Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, and the Creepers series by Edgar J. Hyde Then in my teens I got into Agatha Christie in a big way and read nearly all her novels.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jan 16, 2016 8:55:44 GMT -5
Moll Flanders, which I hated, because it's written from the perspective of an old timey uneducated whore, which made it virtually incomprehensible.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2016 9:01:13 GMT -5
(Random order, I can't link up grades and specific books. More often than not, we'd watch the movie version afterwards.)
The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer Animal Farm Hiroshima To Kill A Mockingbird The Count Of Monte Cristo Of Mice And Men Charlotte's Web (I think) A Separate Peace Lord Of The Flies The Old Man And The Sea Pygmalion The Crucible The Grapes Of Wrath The Scarlet Letter
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Post by The Unconquered Sun on Jan 16, 2016 9:36:11 GMT -5
The ones I remember 1984 The Cather InThe Rye The Scarlet Letter Salem's Lot The Great Gatsby All Quiet On The Western Front Huckleberry Finn A Tale Of 2 Cities Then in college I had to read Joseph Conrad's The Children Of The Seas, under it's original name (Google it). Pissed everybody off and I have no idea why or whose "bright" idea that was.
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Post by Gecko on Jan 16, 2016 10:46:49 GMT -5
Later on it was all the usual stuff that other people have mentioned, but in Primary school we did do a lot of Roald Dahl's stuff and we even got a visit from Quentin Blake.
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Post by bitteroldman on Jan 16, 2016 10:59:20 GMT -5
Catch-22 The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Slaughterhouse 5 Cat's Cradle Dune The Crucible To Kill a Mockingbird Up the Down Staircase Flowers for Algernon 1984 Brave New World Animal Farm Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas The War of the Worlds Lucifer's Hammer A Canticle for Leibowitz
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Jan 16, 2016 11:57:33 GMT -5
"The [person] who does not read good books has no advantage over the [person] who can't read them."
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Post by Long A, Short A on Jan 16, 2016 11:58:23 GMT -5
As a class The Outsideres(we watched the movie too) Romeo and Juliet(we watched the movie too) The Crossing Their Eyes Were Watching God The Diary of Ann Frank On my own Classmates by Request The Patriot Game Part of Little Women Madame Bovery(sp?) True Women
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Post by Beav on Jan 16, 2016 15:16:32 GMT -5
Okay, this might actually be the best place to ask this... when I was a kid, I had this book of scary stories. One of them (which had an illustration on the cover) was about a kid who gets bitten by a bug and his skin becomes see-through, so he's a skeleton monster and has to live in the mountains. Can anyone please tell me the name of this book? I've been wondering for years about this. That sounds a lot like the story 'Clear as Mud' from 'Undone' by Paul Jennings. littlelibraryofrescuedbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/undone-by-paul-jennings.htmlI had the second version on that link, with the creepy overlay cover THAT'S IT!!! I have been looking for that book forever. Seriously, thanks!
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