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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: Bullish

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand ought to be required reading for every high school student.


41 posted on 05/30/2014 1:00:21 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: EveningStar

Teachers have a hard time getting many students to read one book, much less 23.


42 posted on 05/30/2014 1:01:29 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: GeronL

On second thought, perhaps I should be the one to read those again. My politics were in line with Steinbeck’s back then. Things have changed.


43 posted on 05/30/2014 1:01:40 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: EveningStar
23 Books You Didn't Read In High School

I don't get the title - it's basically a standard high school reading list. I read the majority of them.

44 posted on 05/30/2014 1:02:14 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: EveningStar; rjsimmon

I’ve read most of them, some were impossible for me to relate to in any way, others I liked and read twice and more-like “1984”, “Lord of the Flies”, “Slaughterhouse Five”.

I have to say that “Atlas Shrugged”, “The Illustrated Man” and “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, “Farenheit 451” need to be on the list-maybe also “The Fountainhead”.

I’ll also nominate Ira Levin’s “This Perfect Day”-a 1984-like novel, only more relevant to these times and-to me at least-more hair-raising. I’m reading it again right now, and have turned all my friends on to it...


45 posted on 05/30/2014 1:03:06 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

I read most of those in high school. I wonder what students today are reading instead if not those classics?


46 posted on 05/30/2014 1:03:25 PM PDT by Scutter
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To: relictele

self correction: salesman predated the blacklists but Miller was a leftie through and through.


47 posted on 05/30/2014 1:03:41 PM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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To: EveningStar
Not sure why Catcher in the Rye gets such a bad rap; I remember liking it better than a lot of things I had to read. I'll have to re-read it and see if my opinion's changed. Best one on this list is Animal Farm.
48 posted on 05/30/2014 1:03:51 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is DOMESTIC ENEMY #1!)
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To: KGeorge
I read Slaughterhouse Five (& other Vonnegut novels) in high school

"... and *another* thing, Vonnegut! I'm gonna stop payment on the check!"

49 posted on 05/30/2014 1:04:01 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Sister Mary Katherine is most displeased. You will read them all again. ;p


50 posted on 05/30/2014 1:04:05 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Europe is living 1984, ours is more like Brave New World


51 posted on 05/30/2014 1:04:11 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Scutter

I fear than Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou loom large on many reading lists.

Poor kids.


52 posted on 05/30/2014 1:04:47 PM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Ok. I read Animal Farm...liked it. The Great Gatsby was ok. Beowulf absolutely hated it. And I did read Lord of the Flies it was ok.


53 posted on 05/30/2014 1:05:14 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Governor Scott Walker 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: EveningStar

48 Laws of Power ... especially for your kids and grandchildren .....


54 posted on 05/30/2014 1:05:20 PM PDT by Patton@Bastogne (.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Everyone in this novel is pretty messed up, and that’s refreshing. Also, James Franco is releasing a film adaption of the book, so you have to read it before that comes out, too.

Not me.

I am very rarely pleased by a film adaptation.

I would much rather see the movie first. That way I can enjoy both.

55 posted on 05/30/2014 1:05:25 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: EveningStar
I have read about half of these books and am just starting to read Brave New World. George Orwell's two books, 1984 and Animal Farm are absolute essentials to understanding what is happening to our country.
56 posted on 05/30/2014 1:05:48 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Pontiac

messed up people is “refreshing”??


57 posted on 05/30/2014 1:06:05 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: KGeorge

It was “Enriched” when I was in school......Me too!


58 posted on 05/30/2014 1:07:47 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Governor Scott Walker 2016 for the future of the country!)
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To: rjsimmon

The Orwell books are good, and maybe a few others.

Would like to see:

1. The Bible
2. The Road to Serfdom
3. Free to Choose
4. Screwtape Letters
5. Chronicles of Narnia

I’m sure there are others.


59 posted on 05/30/2014 1:08:33 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: Bullish
I would also add "Crime and Punishment" by Dostoevsky, "Pride and Prejudice" by Austen and "Huckleberry Finn."
60 posted on 05/30/2014 1:08:55 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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