[SamAdams76]

There is actually a great body of American and English literature out there (I lump the two together). Pity that the schools keep pushing the worst ones on students - turning many of them off to reading forever. I found it difficult to slog through Catcher In The Rye also and I will forever associate the book with the loser that shot John Lennon.

Some of my favorite English literature is Lord Of The Flies by William Goulding and just about everything by J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Dickens. Some of my favorite American literature was written by John Updike, Jack London and Mark Twain. I say, bring back Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to our schools! Of course, the politically correct teacher's unions will have nothing to do with that.

[jalisco555]

I say, bring back Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn to our schools! Of course, the politically correct teacher's unions will have nothing to do with that.

The complete inability of modern English teachers to understant Huckeberry Finn is downright scandalous. They foolishly call the book rascist because Twain used the language of the day, without realizing that Jim is the hero and the book is an attack against rascism.