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

Trition

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Best: Year 11 - 1984 Year 10 - To Kill a Mocking Bird, Year 9 - Lord of the Flies the rest were pretty awful. Except in year 3 when I read Hatchet. I loved that book so much that in year five, after re-reading and re-reading it I stole it form the class book box (shhhh...don't tell anyone..)

Worst: Too many...actually, I remember especially hating Artemis Fowl. I think I would have loved it if I were even one year younger, but as a year 9 text it almost killed me!
 

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Best - Goodnight Mister Tom, To Kill a Mockingbird
Worst - Turning of the Screw
 

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worst book i ever read was for english -Huckleberry Finn.
its terrible.
 
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Worst: Emma was a pain in the butt to read. So gossipy and descriptive.
Liked& was bearable: The Outsiders S.E Hinton
 

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Uhh i think it was called the red pony? tat was really bad. Only novel i didnt finish for school :s
 

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Best: handmaid's tale, othello, the penelopiad, the glass menagerie, Hedda gabler
Worst: to kill a mockingbird. Hands down my most disliked text.
 

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Best: Chinese Cinderella in year 8, I think one of the few books I actually didn't mind reading. Also I think Frankenstein next year will be interesting
Worst: I've disliked many, and right now I can't bring myself to continue reading Wild Swans. It's so long and sometimes it's just overload
 

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best: to kill a mockingbird, year 10. one of my favorite books.
worst: the dark is rising, year 7. needs no explanation.
 

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best: animal farm. Was so good that I had to read it again
worst: exposure. you people probably don't know what it is but it is an appropriation of Othello in which the author doesn't even know what tense is.
 

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best: to kill a mockingbird
worst: kiffo and the pitbull or some ridiculous name like that.
 

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Best: i cant remember. I don't mind shakespeare though :)
Worst: Plenty e.g. CURRENTLY PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, LETTERS TO ALICE. THE WORST
 

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Best: The Catcher in the Rye, closely followed by 1984
Worst: Jane Eyre, closely followed by Pride & Prejudice, unbearably boring :sleep:
 
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Best: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger or Animal Farm by George Orwell (Year 9 & 10)
Worst: Emma by Jane Austen (currently doing it, Year 11, it is so fucking shit)
 

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Worst: wow so many! My least favourite two though would probably be Mouldy's Orphan and Tess D'Urbeivilles.
Best:probably Dragonkeeper

Many books other people have read through HS I think are really good books, like Animal Farm.
 

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Worst: Educating Rita - Willy Russell (blurgh..... the whole play literally takes place in a room......... I wanna vomit when I see/hear no GREEN scenery).

Best: The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time - Mark Haddon (best combination of drama + humour)
Educating Rita can get boring at times, but its not because the action only takes place in one room. Some of the best plays of read never change their setting.
 

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