Posted on 10/23/2018 9:35:48 PM PDT by BlackAdderess
I didn’t get around to reading TKAM book until I was 40...and I’ve read 2-3 books a WEEK since I was a teen! Though, I DID see the movie before reading the book.
I would put it in my Top Ten, though my Top Ten has changed yearly since I could open and read a book. ;)
‘Outlander (Series)’
Pastor! Avert your eyes! That is soft-core PORN! I have girlfriends that love the books and the mini-series. I cannot stomach it.
Blech!
I think that's actually true. For the last fifty years or so, anyway.
But many people have only read the novels they were assigned to read, and they don't have happy memories of what teachers made them read.
I guess people also read popular novels down through the years, but whoever is doing the survey isn't going to ask about Stephen King or Judith Krantz or Jackie Collins.
Gatsby and Of Mice and Men end unhappily. Nobody read The Scarlet Letter all the way through. Huckleberry Finn has the race thing. And if you say Catcher in the Rye people will think you are a potential assassin. So what's left?
Give me Huck Finn any day.... TKAM isn’t a bad book, but hardly a favorite.
That book is the darling of the Left Wing Set and always has been.
I read all the classics, Dumas, Sr. & Jr., and all ,manner of other other books.
At no time in school was I assigned or read on my own TKAM.
I read trashy Harold Robbins novels and one rather risque book for it’s time, “The Harrad Experiment”, which my Mother caught me with and what a lecture I had on that.
I even hated the movie.
I remember reading “Moby Dick”, long , but a great book.
When I saw the list of books, I knew To Kill a Mockingbird would win. It’s a good book, a very sentimental book.
There were a some books on the list that had no business there: Twilight Saga?!? Fifty Shades if Grey?!?! Really!?!
It was fantastic. I read it as an assignment in 7th grade, including the cetology—and you just don’t see 7th grade assignments like that any more!
My favorite classic however has to be "Call Of The Wild" by Jack London. Perhaps more of a short story than a full-fledged novel but I read that over and over again, along with other London short stories like "To Build A Fire" and "White Silence."
I always wanted a dog like Buck.
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