worst/best english novel you have ever read in school? (3 Viewers)

[Aerath]

Ahh Steinbeck - I was going to use 'Of mice and men' for my english assessment - but didn't have enough time to read/analyse the book.

Should've read it - it's an awesome book. =)

 

[the-derivative]

Should've read it - it's an awesome book. =)

Yeah - if only I wasn't short for time.

I could read it these upcoming holidays

 

[Aerath]

Yeah - if only I wasn't short for time.

I could read it these upcoming holidays

Haha - you could.

 

[laureese]

things fall apart - chinua achebe

worst by far

 

[the-derivative]

things fall apart - chinua achebe

worst by far

That sounds bad already

 

[laureese]

That sounds bad already

oh its bad... the kind u dont finish even if it means sacrificing ur education

 

[Sarah182]

Worst:
Emma by Jane Austen
I wanted to burn the thing half way through.
I didn't end up finishing it! (thats how much I hated it, never done anything that lazy before) I settled for summary after summary, reading quotes and so many practise essays

Best (All from Year 10) :
Tomorrow When the War Began
Fireshadow

 

[Doctor Jolly]

Worst:
Emma by Jane Austen
I wanted to burn the thing half way through.
I didn't end up finishing it! (thats how much I hated it, never done anything that lazy before) I settled for summary after summary, reading quotes and so many practise essays

Best (All from Year 10) :
Tomorrow When the War Began
Fireshadow

Ey, you like the tomorrow series then?

 

[laureese]

Worst:
Emma by Jane Austen
I wanted to burn the thing half way through.
I didn't end up finishing it! (thats how much I hated it, never done anything that lazy before) I settled for summary after summary, reading quotes and so many practise essays

yeah that book is probably just as worse... i never got past chapter 22 and the worse thing is we had a class vote and we freaking CHOSE THAT BLOODY BOOK.. burn away!

 

[wendybird]

Worst: Chain of Hearts...biggest load of pseudo-angst teen-y crap i have ever read.

Best: this year, Letters to Alice by Fay Weldon.

 

[annabackwards]

Worst: Tess of the D'urbevilles year 11--> Ok storyline... too much description about
the stupid scenery and dragged on and on and on....

Best: Animal Farm in year 9 --> made the modern history student in me grow ^^

 

[chichichip]

Worst: The House Guest *HEADDESK*
Best: Possibly Lord of the Flies? I thought it would be overrated and crappy, but I found it to be an awesome book

 

[selablad]

Haven't really had a 'best' novel. They've all been pretty average. Our school never chooses really cool books, like Animal Farm or Lord of the Flies or whatever. Just random coming of age stories about teenage issues...
The worst, as in the most boring, was Falling Leaves (the 'adult' version of Chinese Cinderella). Ack it was boring. The only set book I just couldn't finish.
The worst in terms of the most poorly written was City of the Beasts in year 10. My friends and I wrote a letter of complaint to the teacher about how awful her writing was. I still shudder to remember it...

 

[xXmuffin0manXx]

ive enjoyed reading all my school novels..

unless you count shakespeare, i didnt mind

 

[Sarah182]

Ey, you like the tomorrow series then?

Yeah I really do, most of John Marsden's novel are terrific.

 

[KeepHoldingOn]

Worst:
- And the Big Men Fly (in yr11)

- The Club (in yr12)
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Wouldn't catergorise them as novels as they are plays but they were still bloody boring to read.

Best:
- Briar Rose by Jane Yolen (yr12)
- Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta (yr10)
- Harry Potter & the Philosophers Stone (yr5)
- Macbeth (yr10)

 

[Awesomeness...]

Worst --> Goodbye Vietnam (forgot who the author was)
I had to read it in yr7, it's so retarted & boring

Best --> Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen
I had to read it in yr 8. A very touching & heart felt story. I really feel
sorry for her =(

 

[morganjane]

Best Novel in school- Goodnight Mister Tom, such an amazing book, read it in junior high sometime.

Worst Novel in school- i'm sure quite a few other past hsc students do agree that Emma by Jane Austen fits that title...

 

[Air Jordan]

Woo! Go animal farm!

 

[Aquawhite]

Best School Novel: To Kill A Mockingbird

Worst School Novel: The Stronghold (piece of novelty [hehe get the pun] shit!)