that one is nice as well

some classics that many students need to read

flowers for algernon
animal farm
equus ( pretty wierd book =) )
the great gatsby
1984
the metamorphosis
lord of the flies

Its a good book...read it in Highschool for lit class and again in college for lit class...the second time around it was even better...

I had to read it for class and by far i would have to said it was the most boring book i have ever read in my life

The Great Gatsby is a good book...very good read!

Meh, after reading the "On the Road" thread, I half expected this. Even so, it still made me unhappy to read what you wrote here. :[

this

its actually pretty good

I remember the first time reading the book, about 5 months ago during school as well; I hated it.

I had to find themes and a whole lot of pointless things that I wouldn't need to know later on.


I re-read it a month or so ago and loved it. I find it humorous how human behavior really works. They're living in the roaring twenties, a prosperous time, yet their morals fade and they just live a lie.

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Read it junior year as requirement. Was ok, I didn't mind reading it, say as much as SCARLETT LETTER. That was torture.

Same thought on Catcher in the Rye. But I am very tempted to re-read these and probably have some mind to actually appreciate them.

i thought it was a wonderful book. Fitzgerald is an amazing classic American author... maybe when you're older.

jane eyre
now that was a fucking boring book