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It wouldn't matter in your case - nothing will save you from ignorance.
It might be required reading for school. Yeah that might suck but it's either that or dropping out of school and becoming a prison guard.
It wouldn't matter in your case - nothing will save you from ignorance.
I have really liked most of the books I have read. I actually enjoy all the classic fiction you read in school. Since then, I have read many of the les that teachers never assigned when I was in school.
Now, the most difficult books I have read include A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Heart of Darkness. I have not read the latter in some time. I should read it again with "older" eyes.
That's not something to be proud of tbhOther than textbooks I havent read a book since like middle school tbh.
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I was pretty awed when I saw that 40% of all college grads in this country haven't read a book since leaving school.
Some book called Beloved that I was supposed to read for an English class.
I only made it to page 20 I teenk. It was about some ****** who ended up killing all her kids in slavery/white man is evil etc etc etc
IIRC they made that into a TV movie starring Oprah (of course.)
The Iliad
The Fountainhead
The Old Man and the Sea
The Gunslinger
Some Ann Coulter book that basically turned me into a liberal based on how embarrassing I found it to have any philosophy in common with her.
The Ayn Rand no one is talking about recently!
Fie on thee, Gunslinger is great.
I just couldn't get into the Dark Tower books. Maybe I started too late. I even read the second one because I was told that's when it got good. To me, it felt like a bunch of random Stephen King ideas thrown together in attempt for some kind of narrative, and it did nothing for me.
First one is weird and pretentious (he wrote it two decades before any of the others), second, third and fourth are really good, fifth is decent, sixth and seventh are straight-up rush jobs, IMO.
I reread all of them recently after reading Wind Through the Keyhole (which was great to me, hope he keeps filling in stuff), and I liked the last few a lot more the second time around on them. I had read the first 4 many times before, and it would be incredibly difficult to name many if any books better than Wizard and Glass. The graphic novels starting with A Gunslinger Born are also good, all pre-Gunslinger timeline stuff.
My brother has been harassing to read the Dark Tower books, but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I've read the first few chapters of book one, but that's about it.
I remembered another one from high school that I hated: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
Hatchet was a fun read when I was in 6th grade, tbh.
All of mine came in school.
1) Macbeth (And its not even close)
2) The Great Gatsby (Just awful)
3) Hamlet (God I really hate Shakespeare. Thank God I was born in this millennium.)
Those weren't the only books I read in school...but the rest of them weren't in the same league of bad that those 3 fit into. And I never read books on my own time that I know I'd hate.
It's just criminal to make kids read Shakespeare and a piece of book like The Great Gatsby in school these days. Nobody thinks those books are good. Nobody.
Hey, how about the best books I've ever read?
1) Jurassic Park (Better than the movie except for the ending)
2) Twilight Series (Couldn't put it down...I just loved it. If you guys would try it and give it a chance...you probably would too.) (That said, the movies were GOD-AWFUL. Please don't use the movies for any kind of validation on why you think the books must suck. They made me sick!)
3) The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. (So freakin interesting. If you love World War 2. You will absolutely love this book)
4) Harry Potter Series (Similar to the movies, which in this case is a good thing, unlike Twilight.)
5) The Hunger Games (ONLY the first book. The next books in the series were REALLY, REALLY BAD!) (On another note, this author had a GREAT idea, but not so great execution. She had a battle-royal style book and yet she hates violence and unfortunately this shows throughout the book which squanders it's potential. I would bash the movie more because it strayed away from violence but then again...so did the book.)
5 -- The Innocent Man: Grisham is a terrible writer, and writing non-fiction didn't help.
4 -- Order of the Phoenix: The last 150 pages don't make up for the first 750. I almost couldn't read the sixth after that one.
3 -- Mockingjay: Not even them killing off almost every main character could save that book.
2 -- Atlas Shrugged: Too long, too boring, wanted to kill myself after first few dozen pages.
1 -- Clan of the Cave Bear: What could be worse than Twilight? Twilight set in Cro-Magnon times. Also, pointless rape conflict. So glad that series didn't catch on.
3 -- Mockingjay: Not even them killing off almost every main character could save that book.
Yeah...those Hunger Game sequels were brutal. And to think Lebron was reading those during the conference finals last year. Must have been what pissed him off and made him play so good that series.
great film though
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