worst/best english novel you have ever read in school? (1 Viewer)

[k150764]

WORST: Persuasion

i hate it with passion

 

[bored of sc]

Best: 1984.

Worst: To Kill a Mockingbird.

 

[youngminii]

Best: Fahrenheit 451
Worst: Othello (mainly 'cause I don't understand Shakespeare - at ALL)

 

[neeksy45]

best- i liked bridge to terebithia, read it in primary and high school though.
rosencrantz and guildernstern are dead was pretty good too.

worst was a 2-way tie. in the skin of a lion & 50th gate

 

[scaredytiger]

worst was a 2-way tie. in the skin of a lion & 50th gate

yeah but, once you knew what was going on, in the skin of a lion wasnt so bad, neeks.

 

[the-derivative]

Worst = Heart of Darkness (Eng Ext) and Smiley's People (Adv)

Best = uhh... probably Children of the Dust

 

[-may-cat-]

Best: 'The Treatment and The Cure' (read it for like the tenth time today <3)

Worst: Everyone seems to love it but i cant stand 'Looking for Alibrandi'

 

[marcquelle]

i agree it was just a terrible story line even when you did know what happens. And after analysing it 20 times it jsut gets worse and worse

 

[Tully B.]

Best: To Kill a Mockingbird (y9) / Interview with a vampire (y9)

Worst: The Dark is rising (y8) - it was fine, except it didn't have any of that high-brow stuff like a plot and characters

 

[youngminii]

Best: To Kill a Mockingbird (y9) / Interview with a vampire (y9)

Worst: The Dark is rising (y8) - it was fine, except it didn't have any of that high-brow stuff like a plot and characters

Really? I couldn't stand to read it.. I read about half of it in class (struggling not to fall asleep)
Then I watched a movie version
Terrible, absolutely terrible.. It's meant to be all 'inspiring' and shit but where's the inspiration?

 

[VampireGirl]

Worst book would have to be: 'My Place' by Sally Morgan which we studied in English Adv earlier this year.
Best books were: To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies & The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (which i used as one if my supportive texts, so we didn't actually study it as a class).

 

[milocole]

Worst:
-Hunting the wild Pineapple
-Catcher in the Rye
-Sopocles- Oedipus, Antigone

I like reading books that also are a film, so then I dont have to read the book!

 

[Ethanescence]

Best: Lord of the Flies
Worst: Wrack

Edit: Sorry, add Meryll of the Stones to the worst list also.

 

[-may-cat-]

Worst:
-Hunting the wild Pineapple
-Catcher in the Rye
-Sopocles- Oedipus, Antigone

I like reading books that also are a film, so then I dont have to read the book!

:O ARE YOU INSANE!!! they are beautiful!

 

[ratcher0071]

Worst:
-Hunting the wild Pineapple
-Catcher in the Rye
-Sopocles- Oedipus, Antigone

I like reading books that also are a film, so then I dont have to read the book!

Catcher in the Rye was Boring. But it was a pschological thriller

 

[kaz1]

Worst:
-Hunting the wild Pineapple
-Catcher in the Rye
-Sopocles- Oedipus, Antigone

I like reading books that also are a film, so then I dont have to read the book!

I liked the Catcher in the Rye because it didn't use pointless complicated language.

 

[Lyly]

Best novels:
Goodnight Mister Tom in Year 8 (but such a sad book!)
Playing Beatie Bow in Year 8 (intriguing!)

Worst novels:
Heart of Darkness this year (sorry, but it just doesn't interest me at all, although the topic we were doing was interesting)

 

[Tully B.]

To those of you who have placed "To Kill a Mockingbird" on your "best" list, God loves you. To those of you who didn't, not so much. For those of you who have called it boring (*cry*), God will strike down upon you not swiftly, but slowly until you will regret the day you did. I forget to mention "Lord of the Flies". Also good.

 

[youngminii]

To those of you who have placed "To Kill a Mockingbird" on your "best" list, God loves you. To those of you who didn't, not so much. For those of you who have called it boring (*cry*), God will strike down upon you not swiftly, but slowly until you will regret the day you did. I forget to mention "Lord of the Flies". Also good.

To Kill a Mockingbird is SHIT.

 

[5233andy]

John Le Carre's "Smiley's People" - extremely confusing to read.

Adeline Mah's "Chinese Cinderella" is a good read.

I wouldn't call it a favourite, but Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" is a revelation of the nature of humans. Its imagery simply captures the essence of English, thus being a good text to delve on about in essays, albeit being a little too complex to comprehend.

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Although I haven't read it, Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" seems to be quite popular amongst society. I know, it's about love and the like, but there must be something that that is awe-inspiring.