PumpkinPete112 Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Im America there are books that are considered "classics". Throughout my high school career (in 11th) i have read some of these, the ones italiced are the ones i consider classics, and some of them are just books plus a rating of my opinion (out of 10) 7th Grade Island of the Blue Dolphuns 4/10 Holes 6/10 8th Grade The Last Book in the Universe 7/10 The Giver 5/10 The Outsiders 8/10 9th Grade The Old Man and the Sea 4/10 The Diary of Anne Frank 8/10 Ellie Wiesel's Night 10/10 Romeo and Juliet 6/10 The Iliad 9/10 The Odyssey 8/10 The Mythological stories of famous gods/heroes 7/10 10th Grade The Pigman 1/10 Finding Forrester 7/10 Flowers for Algernon 9/10 The Tragedy of Julius Caesar 10/10 12 Angry Men 8/10 Antigone 6/10 11th Grade (Current) To Kill A Mockingbird 7/10 (Just finished) *The Crucible *The Great Gatspy *A Tale of Two Cities *The Scarlett Letter *Catcher in the Rye So, at this point in your education, what books have you read in school? Favorite: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar because i am into the Roman stuff Worst: The Pigman- doesn't qualify as a book and i barely finished it in time for the tests Sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwarfdude3 Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Holes is a literary classic? :lol: I read the crucible, its pretty good, 8/10. We're reading the Scarlet letter right now, and it is kinda sucky. last year: The Chosen: 6/10 Lord of the Flies: 10/10 (this book rules) Hiroshima: 3/10 Night: 5/10 A Separate Peace: 6/10 oh yeah, I had forgotten Animal Farm: 9/10 and freshman year: Miss Jane Pittman: 4/10 Things Fall Apart: 6/10 Life of Pi: 10/10 (another great book) To Kill a Mockingbird: 8/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PumpkinPete112 Posted October 31, 2007 Author Share Posted October 31, 2007 Well i think we are reading Te Scarlett Letter Also now that i think about it. But only the ones i have italiced are "classics" and we might read a seperate peace Sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venomai Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I've read a lot of the books in your list, most are pretty decent. From the top of my head and with very rough ratings... Macbeth - 6.5/10 although I didn't read it very seriously.. King Lear - 8/10 Romeo & Juliet - 9/10 Merchant of Venice - 7.5/10 Catcher in the Rye - 9.5/10 Lives of the Saints - 7/10 The Sun Also Rises - 7/10 Mockingbird - 7/10 Golden Compass - 8.5/10 My Financial Career - 9/10 short but great I really would love to read Life of Pi and 1984.. two books that are top of my list (after I finish all my thrillers :P). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam_ross0 Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 The Bold ones are the ones I consider Classics. The rest are just memorable for some reason. Island of the Blue Dolphins 3/10 Holes 8/10 The Giver 1/10 The Outsiders 8/10 The Hobbit 10/10 Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 8/10 The Diary of Anne Frank 9/10 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 9/10 Flowers for Algernon 10/10 The Gadget 7/10 Dragon's Bait 6/10[/b] Teen Angst? Naaahhh... 8/10 Be More Chill 9/10 Its Kind of a Funny Story 9/10 I hilighted Flowers for Algernon because, honestly, it was one of the best books I've ever read besides The Hobbit. It was amazing..I was always wondering what would happen next. It will definitely be a Classic in a few years. I Hilighted the LOTR Series because they are definitely classics. I picked the Hobbit as my Favorite...it's just an amazing book. I picked The Giver as my Least Favorite..because, I'm sorry, it just flat out sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nom Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Lol, we read The Pigman in 8th grade. Worst book ever. As a matter of fact, I read most of those books somehwere along the line, minus The Odyssey and The Iliad. Flowers for Algernon was one of the best short stories I've ever read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giordano Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 -9th grade To Kill A Mockingbird 5/10. Uninteresting... Romeo and Juliet 7.5/10. Alright book. Quite humorious irony in the end though. :P The Oddessy 9/10. I liked it. A interesting adventure and mystery. Yarr... -10th grade (currently in) The Lord of The Flies 6/10. I thought it was going to be good, but noes. :( Too slow and uninteresting. "The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you never hear it you'll never know what justice is." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PumpkinPete112 Posted October 31, 2007 Author Share Posted October 31, 2007 Lol, we read The Pigman in 8th grade. Worst book ever. As a matter of fact, I read most of those books somehwere along the line, minus The Odyssey and The Iliad. Flowers for Algernon was one of the best short stories I've ever read. Flower for Algernon is a full fleged novel and thats the one im talking about Sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unknownmasterofnothing Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Only books I remember are odyssey 6/10 gilgamesh 7/10 dantes inferno 8/10 1984 8/10 all quiet on the western front 8/10 the scarlet letter 4/10 things fall apart 6/10 the great gatsby 9/10 midnights children 9/10 hamlet 7/10 the illiad 9/10 njal's saga 7.5/10 aeneid 5/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickeley102 Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 they are all good, except i hated the sun also rises, hemingways worst. The best to me is anything by john wyndham or the ender series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonorhc Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 To give Beowulf a rating would be an act of blasphemy. Varrock Library: Shattered Sky | Silent Thunder | The Emperor's FinestAstri @ MythWeavers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quoi_Tu Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 A Clockwork Orange! Best book I read in highschool. Beer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
venomai Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 they are all good, except i hated the sun also rises, hemingways worst. The best to me is anything by john wyndham or the ender series It was the only Hemingway I've read so far, and it was pretty decent. I also read it in Spain during the running of the bulls, which probably made the book seem a lot better. I'll look into other Hemingway books though, he seems like a good author. I hear lots about clockwork orange... gotta read that one too. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doomy Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I've only read Holes of all those Doomy edit: I like sheep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaphias Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Meh, I'm only in 8th grade, but have been reading above 12th grade level since 4th grade, yet I've only read The Giver, and I have to blame my teacher for that. Oh, Holes too, but thats nowhere near a classic. 8,325th to 99 Firemaking 3/9/08 | 44,811th to 99 Cooking 7/16/084,968th to 99 Farming 10/9/09 | Runescaper August 2005-March 2010Tip.it Mod Feb. 2008-Sep. 2008 | Tip.it Crew Sep. 2008-Nov. 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaperClipsYaaaar Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 The Old Man and the Sea 4/10 The Diary of Anne Frank 8/10 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaziek Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 To kill a mockingbird is the GCSE set text.. so I'm about halfway through.. and god.. ITS SO BORING!! i mean.. who gives a flying crap?! and what in gods name possesed Harper Lee to write a 300 page story about that subject in particular! It doesnt even get going with the proper story until like 150 pages in.... venomai , when you say golden compass.. do you mean The Northern Lights, by phillip pullman? If so.. then thats one helluva book, and series, especially the final one.. but its not really a literary classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baron8000 Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 To kill a mockingbird is the GCSE set text.. so I'm about halfway through.. and god.. ITS SO BORING!! i mean.. who gives a flying crap?! and what in gods name possesed Harper Lee to write a 300 page story about that subject in particular! It doesnt even get going with the proper story until like 150 pages in.... Get used to it, most of the time when you are forced to read in school its difficult to enjoy - when I read it first time (for GCSE as well) it was horribly dull but when I revisited it in my own time it was brilliant (for extra hilarity watch the genuinely awful film version). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubsa Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 God, good luck with The Scarlett Letter. Talk about feminism at its most weak and desperate. To kill a mockingbird is the GCSE set text.. so I'm about halfway through.. and god.. ITS SO BORING!! i mean.. who gives a flying crap?! and what in gods name possesed Harper Lee to write a 300 page story about that subject in particular! It doesnt even get going with the proper story until like 150 pages in.... Now that's blasphemy. This is how much you all raised for charity. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deiophobus Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 your 11th grade curriculum is the exact same as mine, apart from to kill a mocking bird (9th grade). I just finished the Scarlet Letter, and going onto the crucible. I don't know if these would be considered classics, but on my own I've read Jane Eyre and Les Miserables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abelmisi Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 George Orwell: 1984 8/10 George Orwell: Animal Farm 10/10 William Golding: Lord of the flies 5/10 Charlotte BrontÃÆÃâÃâë: Jane Eyre 6/10 Holes isn't a classic but whatever, read that too. 8/10 + a lot of Hungarian classics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barihawk Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I beat you all. I read Romance of the Three Kingoms in all it's 6000 page entirety and wrote a 32 page essay on it. Hah! My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. -Sir Arthur Wellesley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assassin_696 Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I'm not really into literature, but i've read the following "classics": Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare Macbeth - Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare The Strange Incident of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Caroll To Kill A Mockingbird - Lee Nineteen Eighty Four - Orwell Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck Great Expectations - [bleep]ens Swallows & Amazons - Ransom Various classic poems No point giving them a rating out of ten, impossible to rate literature like that. "Da mihi castitatem et continentam, sed noli modo" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordanFreeman Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 I finished To Kill A Mockingbird the end of the summer before Sophomore year... The Time Machine - H.G. Wells The Invisible Man - H.G. Wells Romeo And Juliet The Tragedy of Julius Caesar Night The Diary of Anne Frank I can't really remember all of the books I've read throughout school, but these are some I've seen on other peoples' lists that I know i've read O:) I mostly read modern fantasy, but I've gotta say, both of the H.G. Wells books I've read have blown my mind, simply amazing. To Kill A Mockingbird was also an excellent book, I really enjoyed it. "El que no arriesga no gana" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echofish Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Our first English Lit. coursework was about 'A View from the Bridge'. It's not a story; it's a play, it's still a nice read : Ultra Unholy,Hearted Machine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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