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23 Books You Didn't Read In High School But Actually Should
BuzzFeed ^ | July 5, 2013 | Spencer Althouse

Posted on 05/30/2014 12:34:14 PM PDT by EveningStar

You probably SparkNoted these books before, but now's your chance to read them.

(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education
KEYWORDS: books; literature
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To: relictele

That’s my fear as well. I know that Maya Angelou was on my son’s reading list, although I think it was just a poem or two.


61 posted on 05/30/2014 1:09:41 PM PDT by Scutter
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To: gr8eman

Catch 22 was brilliantly written comedy.


62 posted on 05/30/2014 1:11:05 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: EveningStar

most of those were mandatory reading at my high school!


63 posted on 05/30/2014 1:13:30 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: GeronL

I think it is more like the Ira Levin book I mentioned-and don’t pass that scanner without touching your bracelet to it...


64 posted on 05/30/2014 1:13:44 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

This list is much better than a lot of “you should read lists” or great books lists.


65 posted on 05/30/2014 1:13:52 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: dfwgator; napscoordinator

LOL Wish there was a link for that. I laughed anyway cause I can just “hear” him.

@naps, I guess we’re about the same age. Wonder what kind of stuff they’re reading now. (Or maybe I don’t wanna know. Probably Alinksy, Marx, & Hitler. Tell me it’s not that bad!)


66 posted on 05/30/2014 1:14:23 PM PDT by KGeorge (Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand ought to be required reading for every high school student.

It would take at least a semester to cover it properly.

While I am not against that I don’t think you would ever get a school district to agree to devote the time.

67 posted on 05/30/2014 1:14:25 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

If you missed this list, then you didn’t miss much.


68 posted on 05/30/2014 1:14:49 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Scutter
I read most of those in high school. I wonder what students today are reading instead if not those classics?

My daughter read several in middle school, is currently reading "To Kill a Mockingbird" and both the 9th and 10th grade Honors English teachers had issues with a number of the students because they had already done most of the scheduled Shakespeare in middle school.

My daughter and her friends who were in the Talented and Gifted programs from 2nd thru 8th grade don't understand how most of the other kids are even in an Honors English class.

69 posted on 05/30/2014 1:15:51 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: SeaHawkFan
The Bible is the book to live by. It is not one I would recommend for literary enjoyment. Just finishing up re-reading Joshua. Talk about wholesale slaughter...

I have read most of C.S. Lewis and agree with the two you chose.

I had to look up The Road to Serfdom and it definitely is going on my list. Thanks for the heads up!

70 posted on 05/30/2014 1:15:56 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: gr8eman

I tried re-reading it in my early 30s. Unreadable. Couldn’t get past the first 20 pages.

I think it’s an experience that plays best with teens. Once you’re past that, it’s all nonsense.


71 posted on 05/30/2014 1:16:34 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: GeronL
“refreshing”??

Did you reply to the wrong post?

72 posted on 05/30/2014 1:19:02 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: EveningStar

With the exception of “Night” by Elie Wiesel, I’d been assigned all of those for reading from high school into my freshman year at college. Read Kafka’s “Die Vervandlung” (The Metamorphosis) in German.


73 posted on 05/30/2014 1:20:03 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Wow, I’ve read about half of these.


74 posted on 05/30/2014 1:20:54 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Conservatives are all that's left to defend the Constitution. Dems hate it, and Repubs don't care.)
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To: KGeorge

I guess we’re about the same age. Wonder what kind of stuff they’re reading now.

I believe so. I can only guess at the public schools. Mine go to Catholic School thankfully. The neighbor kids all go to public and you can just see them slumped over walking to the bus stop like it is the end of the road for them.....daily no less. I tell you I actually feel sorry for kids today having to go through that.


75 posted on 05/30/2014 1:24:09 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Governor Scott Walker 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: EveningStar

Most of these are very good books. Certainly not worth vitriolic arguments over. I would leave off a few, especially that piece of garbage Catcher in the Rye...I would add some classic Sci Fi. Can’t go wrong with most of Heinlein and Asimov.


76 posted on 05/30/2014 1:24:16 PM PDT by strider44
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To: Texan5

Atlas Shrugged totally changed my political thought process.


77 posted on 05/30/2014 1:29:00 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: EveningStar

To which I would add, “A Cry of Angels,” by Jeff Fields, one of the best books I’ve ever read. If you like Mark Twain, you’ll enjoy this book.


78 posted on 05/30/2014 1:29:45 PM PDT by Hootowl
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To: EveningStar

What is Dystopian books for 400 Alex?


79 posted on 05/30/2014 1:32:44 PM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Blood of Tyrants

A few of those either weren’t published yet or were not on our HS’s approved reading lists. I cleared the senior English list in my jr year well before Christmas allowing me the time to read material of practical and immediate use to me; Hot Rod magazine, Rod and Custom magazine, and the J.C. Whitney catalog. Ripped through the Ace Double sci-fi paperbacks and sci-fi mags during the summers


80 posted on 05/30/2014 1:32:59 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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