Bloodredsword Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 Jane Eyre Frankenstein(original) Macbeth Midsummers Night Dream Romeo and Juliet Henry the V Ivanhoe Oliver Twist Animal Farm Julias Caesar(Shakespeare) The odyssey The Iliad Optional Reading for extra credit papers: The Bartimaeus Trilogy Atemis Fowl Books Tons more...Cant' remember then all off the bat. Thats grades 8-9(not taking literature this year) Listen to the mighty words of Bloodredsword. Tip it MGC Xbox live leader board! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yomom1919 Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 To give Beowulf a rating would be an act of blasphemy. Ugh... Anglo-Saxon literature... I've probably read every single ancient anglo saxon piece for my english class, and im sick of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lenin64 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 2/10. just plain bad Holes 6/10pretty good, 7/10 8th Grade The Last Book in the Universe 7/10 The Giver 5/104/10. ending blew 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 6/10meh for Night and R&J The Iliad 9/10 The Odyssey 8/10 9/10. one of the best. Scylla ftw! 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 not yet, but will this year, so I'll bold anyways 12 Angry Men 8/10 only saw thw movie, actually :oops: Antigone 6/10 11th Grade (Current) To Kill A Mockingbird 7/10 (Just finished)6/10, it was alright. But you waited until 11th grad to read it? :XD: *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 the ones I have read are in bold, my rating also in bold. Command the Murderous Chalices! Drink ye harpooners! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow- Death to Moby Dick!BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nom Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 The Bartimaeus Trilogy Dude, you're like the first person I've found who has read those books besides me! Not classics, nowhere close, but they were great. And yes, I read the abridged short-story version of Flowers for Algernon in school. It was still good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctp080188 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.... SLAVERY IS BORING THE SUBJECT IN PARTICULAR, WHO GIVES A CRAP SHH HUT YUH MUH. DERKHED. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tryto Posted October 31, 2007 Share Posted October 31, 2007 hmm..let me see.. macbeth Great expectations Oliver Twist Gulliver's Travels-Swift 1984, Animal Farm, Coming Up For Air, Keep The Aphidistra Flying(his best IMO)-Orwell Frankenstein Dracula The Iliad The Odyssey The Divine Comedy(Inferno, paradiso, other one(about limbo))-Dante The Sillmarrillion, Lord of The Rings, The Hobbit-Tolkien Romeo and Juliet To Kill a Mockingbird Dr jekyll and Mr Hyde-Carrol Lord of The Flies-Golding The Great Gatsby The Catcher in The Rye Thats off teh top of my head, ive read tons more... When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. ~Jonathan SwiftWebsite Updates/Corrections here. WE APPRECIATE YOUR INPUT! Crewbie's Missions!Contributor of the Day!Thanks to artists: Destro3979, Guthix121, Shivers21, and Unoalexi. 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.... SLAVERY IS BORING THE SUBJECT IN PARTICULAR, WHO GIVES A CRAP not me. I really dont think its a decent basis for a "classic" novel at any rate. Maybe its just our english teacher.. and the fact I have to do an essay on every other freakin page... but it really is woefully boring. We've been doing it since the beginning of the year and we're not even halfway through yet.. I could have finished the book 10 times over by now.. but because some people cant read..we take it slow... I dont want to finish it on my own because as boring as my english teacher is.. I can appreciate what shes doing and its useful to have her interpretation of the story whilst reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Putter Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 I read: Hamlet MacBeth Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Nights Dream The Giver The Outsiders Animal Farm Holes To Kill a Mockingbird Of Mice and Men A Tale of Two Cities A Clockwork Orange One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay (not considered a classic, but excellent) 1984 Dune ...and that pretty much sums up every important book I've read in the past 6 years (also read a Dune Spinoff, the sparknotes of Cold Mountain, some book called Plainsong, the abominable Independance Day), and all but the last 5 were curriculum reading, and all but the last 2 were related to school in some way...That's right - I've read 2 books on my own in 6 years, wanna fight about it? As for the ratings, those are unimportant. What I find pretty neat is that all over the globe, the English classes pretty much use the same material. I mean, Shakespeare and TKAM are fairly obvious, but The Giver, The Outsiders and Holes seem to be used a lot. Neat-o. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reaper88888 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Pah, those aren't classics, most of them(most) are boring junk... :P To Kill a Mockingbird IS classic, however, as are The Odyssey and the Iliad. Here are some real classics that are good books as well..: The Catcher in the Rye Dune Starship Troopers(Or anything by Heinlein) anything by Poe Anything by Asimov 1984 Animal Farm LOTR There is no meaning or truth in life but that which we create for ourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satenza Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 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! Like a dissertation or something? With so many trees in the city you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. But you knew that there would always be the spring as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. In those days though the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaphias Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 George Orwell: Animal Farm 10/10 Ick, hated that book.. the movie was even worse though. I still get nightmares. 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...
foolgool Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 To Kill a Mockingbird-9/10 Diary of Anne Frank-8/10 Flowers for Algernon-6/10 Too depressing The Invisible Man-7/10 The Odyssey-10/10 One of the best stories ever written. LotR-10/10 Romeo and Juliet-8/10 Delicious irony. A Separate Peace-9/10 The code in my sig should say 1032 not 0132. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meol Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 It depends on what you consider classics. I've read The Odyssey, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Animal Farm (great book), both parts of Don Quixote, Oliver Twist, the LOTR, (along with the Hobbit and the Silmarillion) and the Perfume. The only bad thing about the older ones is the narration style, which sometimes can get quite boring. This signature is intentionally left blank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stan18 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 A separate peace - 2/10 Animal Farm - 6/10 To Kill a Mockingbird - 9/10 Huck Finn - 6/10 Pride and Prejudice - 10/10 Gulliver's travels - 9/10 Scarlet letter - 9/10 Moby [bleep] - 1/10 Billy Budd - 5/10 Les Mis - 10/10 A tale of Two cities - 5/10 Count of Monte Cristo - 10/10 Don quixote - 7/10 thats all i remember right now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kelem_ryu Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 For english literature (not sure what counts as literature though) these are the ones i read in original (as opposed to german translations): MacBeath - Shakespear Some short stories by Poe Alice in Wonderland - Carroll The Old Man and the Sea - Hemmingway The Crucible - Miller Island - Huxley Some short stories by Bukowski =P guess that's it the ones i read as german translations: Othello - Shakespear A Midsummer night's dream - Shakespear Some short stories by Poe 1984 - Orwell Animal Farm - Orwell The Wave - Rhue Fahrenheit 431 - Bradbury Brave New World - Huxley A Clockwork Orange - Burgess guess that's it again German literature: Die RÃÆÃâÃâäuber - Schiller Der Talisman - Nestroy Einen Jux will er sich machen - Nestroy Siddartha - Hesse Der Besuch der alten Dame - DÃÆÃâÃâürrenmatt Die Physiker - DÃÆÃâÃâürrenmatt Der Richter und sein Henker - DÃÆÃâÃâürrenmatt Das Parfum - SÃÆÃâÃâüÃÆÃâÃâ¦Ã¸kind Die Schachnovelle - Zweig Angst - Zweig Die Verwandlung - Kafka Jugend ohne Gott - von Horvath Nathan der Weise - Lessing Sappho - Grillparzer Das Leben des Gallilei - Brecht nothing more comes to mind other (all in german translations) Life is a dream - de la Barca The school for wives - MoliÃÆÃâÃâère Everything by Sophokles (besides "Ajax". Grew bored of antique greek dramturgy before i got to read that one) Seven against Thebes and The Persians by Aischylos The Gilgamesch Epos Metamorphoses - Ovid Not too much - i'm more a fantasy than a literature person. Nevertheless many of those were very cool reads. (I forgot some. "Willhelm Tell" and "Iphigenie auf Tauris" just came to my mind, so i'm sure there are others as well.... "Das goldene Vlies" for example. Oh and "Der Fremde" by Camus) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwarfdude3 Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 A separate peace - 2/10 Animal Farm - 6/10 To Kill a Mockingbird - 9/10 Huck Finn - 6/10 Pride and Prejudice - 10/10 Gulliver's travels - 9/10 Scarlet letter - 9/10 Moby [bleep] - 1/10 Billy Budd - 5/10 Les Mis - 10/10 A tale of Two cities - 5/10 Count of Monte Cristo - 10/10 Don quixote - 7/10 thats all i remember right now... :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AThousandLies Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 In my own time ... Catcher in the Rye (5/10) That's about all the literary canon-works I've read of my own accord. However, I have a list of 'books to read', which includes Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad Ulysses by James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Invitation to a Beheading by Vladmir Nabokov Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov As a part of school, I've read: Year 10 Romeo & Juliet by Shakespeare (6/10) Year 11 A Streetcar Named Desire (7/10) Macbeth by Shakespeare (8/10) The Collector by John Fowles(9/10) Year 12 Othello by Shakespeare (7/10) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (4/10) And, on top of that, poetry collections from William Blake and T.S. Eliot, both of which were very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebdragon Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 Don't really care to make a big post that no one's going to read about some books I've read, so I'll just say that of the classics I've read (and reading through this thread... I guess I've read more than I thought; can't classify 'em for the life of me), 98% of them were frikkin' weird to read. [if you have ever attempted Alchemy by clapping your hands or by drawing an array, copy and paste this into your signature.] Fullmetal Alchemist, you will be missed. A great ending to a great series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_OnE Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 In 8th grade: Romeo and Juliet - I hated it. In 9th grade: Julius Caesar - I hated it too. Shakespeare hasn't interested me much at this point. Ellie Wiesel's Night - I loved it. 12 Angry Men - I loved it. Of Mice and Men - I loved it. In 10th grade: The Crucible - It was pretty good In My Father's House - It's a great book so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubsa Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 George Orwell: Animal Farm 10/10 Ick, hated that book.. the movie was even worse though. I still get nightmares. Which movie? You mean the one with the rubber pigs? This is how much you all raised for charity. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanFranciscoGiants Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 I really liked Tom Saywer and Huck Finn, and The Good Earth was pretty good also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_matthews Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 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 Let me see... I highlighted the ones I read.. I'm in 9th grade, this year we've read Antigone, which I loved, only because everybody died... The Pigman is supposed to be 10th grade? I read that in 8th, along with The Giver, and The Outsiders. Pigman, Giver, and Outsiders I hate. Romero and Juliet, everybody knows that. Holes, was ok...Anne Frank was good, but only because I like books with history... Does the book "Of Mice and Men" count as a classic? If so... 9th Grade Of Mice and Men- 6/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PumpkinPete112 Posted November 2, 2007 Author Share Posted November 2, 2007 The Pigman is supposed to be 10th grade? I read that in 8th, along with The Giver, and The Outsiders. Pigman, Giver, and Outsiders I hate. Romero and Juliet, everybody knows that. Holes, was ok...Anne Frank was good, but only because I like books with history... Does the book "Of Mice and Men" count as a classic? If so... 9th Grade Of Mice and Men- 6/10 Its a very easy read but most of my school graduates with below a 10th grade reading level and education is really week. I myself have been PHS (Post-Highschool) since 6th grade but that doesnt mean much. This means most of the classes go slower and easier. Sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abelmisi Posted November 2, 2007 Share Posted November 2, 2007 George Orwell: Animal Farm 10/10 Ick, hated that book.. the movie was even worse though. I still get nightmares. The movie was a little sucky mucky, I'll agree with you at that. I loved the book for it's messages and criticism on the Soviet Era. The events inside of the book also have historic counterparts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PumpkinPete112 Posted November 2, 2007 Author Share Posted November 2, 2007 The Pigman is supposed to be 10th grade? I read that in 8th, along with The Giver, and The Outsiders. Pigman, Giver, and Outsiders I hate. Its a very easy read but most of my school graduates with below a 10th grade reading level and education is really week. I myself have been PHS (Post-Highschool) since 6th grade but that doesnt mean much. This means most of the classes go slower and easier. Sig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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