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.
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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.
Catch 22 was brilliantly written comedy.
most of those were mandatory reading at my high school!
I think it is more like the Ira Levin book I mentioned-and don’t pass that scanner without touching your bracelet to it...
This list is much better than a lot of “you should read lists” or great books lists.
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!)
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.
If you missed this list, then you didn’t miss much.
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.
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!
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.
Did you reply to the wrong post?
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.
Wow, I’ve read about half of these.
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.
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.
Atlas Shrugged totally changed my political thought process.
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.
What is Dystopian books for 400 Alex?
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
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