Best Books You've Been Assigned to Read

[T-God]

Catcher in the Rye in High School

King Lear in university.

This is a cool idea for a thread.

[Triumph36]

A short story book in high school - it had the Wall by Sartre, Gooseberries by Chekhov, among others - it made me realize I enjoyed literature.

I'll echo T-God's selection of King Lear, though I'd nominate Plato's Gorgias and Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War.

[ImsaKidd]

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A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

The Trial - Kafka

Both in high school.

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Wow - impressive. Where in TO did you go to high school? We never got anything close to that. It was all Fifth Business and Margaret Atwood for us.

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We did a bunch of Kafka, and we did clockwork orange.

My school has its own friggin website: www.imsa.edu

Yes, i'm glad it's done.

[divides_by_zero]

Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and Henry V

I'm a Shakespeare fan already and I don't think I would have gone to these without it being assigned. They are now some of my favorites.

[Big Poppa Smurf]

Dracula is a really good book.

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[Jdanz]

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Probably The Forgotten Solider by Guy Sajer this past semester. It details the time Sajer spent as a German solider in WWII.

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Rose, WWII, NYU? Really good book btw

I read an Economic Analysis of Property Rights for a Pol class, it was boring as hell at first, but after i got into it and after some reflection it's pretty awesome. It wasn't all that interesting, but it was so well argued and detailed that it changed my whole thinking on politics/economics.

[neuroman]

Crime and Punishment, assigned in high school.

[catalyst]

lord of the flies, the things they carried

[TehPokarKing]

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This is easily one of the best books of the 20th century...

TPK