I never read:
- The Grapes of Wrath
- To Kill a Mockingbird (watched the movie)
- Sula
- Joy Luck Club

...omg, now that I see this I hardly read any of the books in my AP English class, LOL!!! How I passed with a B I hvae no clue?

Passage to India.
Twelfth Night - I just... don't find it funny.

I have never read A Tale of Two Cities
or Pride and Prejudice
or Shakespeare or
Gone With The Wind

The Rider on the White Horse by Theodor Storm
Intrigue and Love by Friedrich Schiller
Woyzeck by Georg Büchner

I'm from Germany so obviously I had to read many German classics. Surprisingly, I really liked Faust by Goethe.

Originally Posted by TheAnni

Woyzeck by Georg Büchner I'm from Germany so obviously I had to read many German classics. Surprisingly, I really liked Faust by Goethe.

I loved Woyzeck!

Originally Posted by karmenzsofia

Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" is a short story. It's quite interesting. And crazy.

Yes. Yes, it is.

I also skipped A Separate Peace.

I loved Kafka (we read The Metamorphosis, The Trial, In the Penal Colony . . . that one was insane . . . and A County Doctor).

When I was in High School, I really struggled with Faulkner's "Sound and the Fury." I couldn't get through that book - I forced myself to read it, but I just got words in a string.


When I was in college, I tried it again. It was much better when I was drunk.



I had a teacher who said, "I have three types of students - ones who love Hemingway and Melville and loathe Fitzgerald and Hawthorne. The ones who love Fitzgerald and Hawthorne and detest Hemingway and Melville. And the Philistines."

Somehow got through school without doing any Shakesp. properly. Got really into Ray Bradbury though.

Remembrance of things past. Far too long for me

Originally Posted by septembersiren

I have never read A Tale of Two Cities or Pride and Prejudice or Shakespeare or Gone With The Wind

Dude, Gone with the Wind (and Austin for that matter) was an assigned book in your high school?! I wish it was in mine! Awesome book.

The ones I remember are The Scarlet Letter, Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.

The Shakespeare thing too, but really I don;t get why those are assigned reading anyway. Shakespeare only resonates when it's performed, not read.

none of the books you mentioned were assigned reading for me
we did Shakespeare in junior high but I never enjoyed reading it
I read a lot on my own
I never read gone with the wind
my mother said the movie was so close to the book I didn't have to read it
my mother read her way through the local library
I read the grapes of wrath I am named after one of the characters rose of sharon I did read of mice and men
I have read so much that many things I have read I have forgotten
I am old
don't call me dude please

Originally Posted by Midge S

Dude, Gone with the Wind (and Austin for that matter) was an assigned book in your high school?! I wish it was in mine! Awesome book. The ones I remember are The Scarlet Letter, Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. The Shakespeare thing too, but really I don;t get why those are assigned reading anyway. Shakespeare only resonates when it's performed, not read.

Originally Posted by Vintage Leather

I had a teacher who said, "I have three types of students - ones who love Hemingway and Melville and loathe Fitzgerald and Hawthorne. The ones who love Fitzgerald and Hawthorne and detest Hemingway and Melville. And the Philistines."

I think I'm the Love Fitzgerald and Hawthorne type.

I could not get through anything by Charles Dickens. I remember being assigned "Bleak House" by one of my professors in college and couldn't make it past 300 pages or so. Boy, how I tried.

Another professor assigned "The Crying of Lot 49" by Thomas Pynchon. None of the characters was remotely likeable to me and I just gave up less than halfway through.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451. I'm not a huge science fiction person to begin with, but what I really hated was how I couldn't connect to any of his characters on a personal level.