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Worst liberal/left wing book that you forced to read in High School or College?
My Squash ^ | 10/31/02 | Burkeman1

Posted on 10/31/2002 8:48:55 PM PST by Burkeman1

Everyone has their horror story about some PC or Left Wing book they were forced to read in High School or College. My worst book was in High School. It was "The Fixer" by Bernard Malamud. It was the tale of a Russian Jew being falsley accused of the rape and murder of a Christian Russian girl just before the Communist coup of Russia. He was innocent of the crime and the book details his time in prison and the torments he was subjucted too. OF Course during his time in prison he becomes a Marxist and hopes for revolution! The entire book was one giant communist propaganda piece. Since I had already read Solzenitsyn by that time and questioned the book in class I was told to shut up by the teacher. I did- to my shame- and got my "A".

What is the worst piece of Left wing crap that you were forced to read in school?


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To: MHT

I had to read Zinn's book last year for my 11th grade history class and I couldn't take it. Everyone else in the class lapped it up because they were in love with our commie of a teacher. He lived in East Germany for a while!


262 posted on 02/13/2005 7:45:09 PM PST by alexgott
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The absolute worst book I ever had to read - Briefing for a Descent into Hell - Doris Lessing - So horrible I think no one in the class actually finished it

Portrait Of the Artist - Augh!!!! At least we didn't have to read Ulysses!!!

Johnny Got His Gun - our teacher did tell us about Dalton Trumbo before we started that one, so we had the whole Black List background.

Bless the Beasts and the Children - hero kid dies freeing buffalo that are going to be hunted.

Lord of the Flies - Sorry, just too gross for me.

In college - Chaucer - while I liked the author, I absolutely hated the instructor. He was Jewish and hated anyone who was Christain. He later got stabbed in the men's room at the college by the husband of the PR woman he was having an affair with. What goes around...

I went to a private High School, - most of the English teachers were pretty liberal , but they didn't try to force their views on us. And I remember doing a book report on Fear of Flying in 10th grade. Well, it was alot more interesting than Moby Dick. :-)

263 posted on 02/13/2005 8:53:29 PM PST by KosmicKitty (Well... There you go again!)
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To: Burkeman1
Get this. When I was in fifth grade, I was assigned Jonathon Livingston Seagull. I don't remember anything about the book except Neil Diamond did an album based on it. Enough said.
264 posted on 02/13/2005 8:57:42 PM PST by SamAdams76 (Earth is just a prison for intergalactic riff-raff)
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To: alexgott
No doubt about it--Zinn is the absolute worst revisionist in the history of history. It still floors me that he stays on the Amazon history bestseller list.

By contrast, the BEST book I have read this season is Uncivil War. Using the author's thesis of New Elites versus the Have-Not's, the 2004 election was predictable. It's a read much worth the paper it's printed on!

265 posted on 02/13/2005 10:23:13 PM PST by MHT
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To: Burkeman1

bookmark and back to the top. Great idea for discussion!

(some gary snyder (?) book, Island of Turtles (?) Mostly, the textbooks, though. )


266 posted on 02/13/2005 10:33:56 PM PST by withteeth
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To: Burkeman1
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
267 posted on 02/13/2005 10:38:43 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
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To: Lancey Howard

That is what I did...but I was meaner. I went back and told them I wrote whatever they wanted to hear, and it was all bull$hit!!


268 posted on 02/13/2005 10:47:44 PM PST by international american (Tagline now fireproof....purchased from "Conspiracy Guy Custom Taglines"LLC)
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To: BlackVeil

The Great Gatsby. God, that book was horrific. The most amazingly dull and unreadable piece of tripe I ever had to refuse to finish reading. Even the Cliffnotes were unbearable.

Catcher in the Rye was probably the lousiest of the books I did actually manage to get through.

Animal Farm, 1984 were the best books I was assigned.

Qwinn


269 posted on 02/13/2005 10:51:53 PM PST by Qwinn
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To: MHT
No doubt about it--Zinn is the absolute worst revisionist in the history of history. It still floors me that he stays on the Amazon history bestseller list."

I can tell you why he stays on the bestseller list. But you will not like it.

His book is a textbook and therefore is purchased by government funded learning institutions. In other words your tax dollars go to this leftist fool so each year his book can teach a whole new crop of young Americans why they should hate America.

The mind boggles at such but alas it is true.

270 posted on 02/13/2005 10:52:42 PM PST by Mad Dawgg (French: old Europe word meaning surrender)
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To: Qwinn
Animal Farm, 1984 were the best books I was assigned.

Animal Farm had the added advantage of low page count!

271 posted on 02/13/2005 11:10:10 PM PST by Fresh Wind (If 4600 voters in NH had switched to Bush, Ohio wouldn't have mattered.)
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To: laurav
Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, The Bean Trees, was fairly readable.

Even the liberal guys in my class agreed that each page dripped with man-hatred. None of the girls saw it, they liked the book.

There's only one male in that entire book who is portrayed in a positive light. He's a minority, he's a left-wing refugee, he doesn't speak English--actually, we don't really know this, because he almost never says anything, he just follows his wife around like a dog. That's Kingsolver's "perfect man." God forbid a man should have his own opinions and free will. Every single other man is some sort of demon figure responsible for hurting women. It was pure poison. That was the worst liberal book I had to read in high school.

272 posted on 02/13/2005 11:18:27 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: Burkeman1
I forgot the exact name of it. It was for a sociology class and was about cultures in media. It was OBSESSED with gayness and was a very long book.
273 posted on 02/13/2005 11:23:18 PM PST by Dan from Michigan (Republican Party Reptile)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Having to "subsidize" Zinn is like watching our government dollars flow to NPR and PBS. If they were so darn good, they could make money and survive on their own WITHOUT benefit of our tax dollars. Sesame Street used to be a gold mine for its licensees. I hope Bush's theoretically "leaner" budget has some deep surgical cuts for the National Endowment for the "Arts", NPR, PBS, and other leftist voices.


274 posted on 02/13/2005 11:29:22 PM PST by MHT
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To: xm177e2

Wow, I'd forgotten this thread existed. Fun to take up a discussion again a year hence!

I'm sure the girls in your class liked Bean Trees because unfortunately, there still aren't that many books with spunky heroines out there. I was a lefty at the time I read it, so I'm sure that had something to do with it, but the prose is clean, and the female lead character is fun. Most books I had to read in high school were about boys. We all like to see ourselves reflected in literature.


275 posted on 02/15/2005 6:20:42 AM PST by laurav
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To: MHT

that book immediately came to mind, i had it assigned to me in a class for future history teachers, so i'm guessing it's getting assigned a lot! Horrible book..


276 posted on 02/15/2005 6:33:08 AM PST by pesto
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To: Burkeman1

Anything post modern - Luce Irigeray (sp?) or Jacques Derrida were the worst.


277 posted on 02/15/2005 6:34:38 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: Burkeman1
What do you call a socialist on a college campus?

Professor
278 posted on 02/15/2005 6:35:09 AM PST by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: harbingr

That's a darn good list!

So I assume that 'math is tuff' did you a world of good, if you passed H&R-based Physics? ;-P


279 posted on 02/15/2005 6:43:41 AM PST by FreedomPoster
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