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Were there any books at school that you had to study as part of a course but you actually ended up loving?
I had to study Of Mice and Men at school and it ended up being one of my favourite books. I found that I really liked studying it as well as it gave me an insight I wouldn't otherwise have had and I got to talk about it with other people which is half the pleasure of reading.

There were ones I hated in school..."A Separate Peace", Achebe...but two authors we did that I did grow to enjoy-Salman Rushdie and Aphra Behn

Although it was a compulsory read I loved "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. I thought Lee beautifully wove together two stories, that of a young girl growing up in the South in the 1930s and a story about prejudice, racial discrimination and of course bravery and standing up for what you believe in. I also agree with you BakerStreetJ, it was exciting going to class each day and analyzing the newest chapters with my classmates.

fiorabelle wrote:Although it was a compulsory read I loved "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. I thought Lee beautifully wove together two stories, that of a young girl growing up in the South in the 1930s and a story about prejudice, racial discrimination and of course bravery and standing up for what you believe in. I also agree with you BakerStreetJ, it was exciting going to class each day and analyzing the newest chapters with my classmates.

I love To Kill a Mocking Bird!

I fell in love with "Lord of the Flies" when I studied it as part of my English GSCE. I've read it so many times now. I agree, I really liked studying it as a class and having people to talk about it with. When you study a book you get to see loads of Insights that you'd probably miss just reading it.

I did the horror of managing to study English at Higher level in IB. We had around 11 books. Miss Julie, A Doll's House, Medea, Death of a Salesman, Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel), Annie John, Old man and the Sea, Remains of the Day, Macbeth, Things Fall Apart, Perfume- The story of a murderer.

hi....
i have read many books at school math's book, science book, social science book, Hindi book, English book,,general books...

Consider mine another vote for "Old Man and the Sea". I believe we read it as part of English 9 or 10.

hi i has study books like a science book English book with story books and poem book and Also Hindi Books like a poem and story written in Hindi.

i had to read "The story of my life" by Helen Keller bcoz it was part of my syllabus in high school.. i hated it..
it was written as an autobiography but seemed more like an environmental description book to me! ..it was utterly boring & no need to say i yawned throughout the book!

I found that studying the Shakespeare plays really made me appreciate them. When I read them on my own i couldn't understand them that well but when I had it explained at school i really liked them.

We didn't read hardly any of the "classics" in my school. The book that stood out for me reading in high school was A Separate Peace by John Knowles.

we did'nt exactly study "classics" at school but I had to read Crash a Jerry Spinelli book and instantly loved it.

I think the wife of bath was the one I was surprised to have liked so much
Never really read anything like it but I found it really interesting.

I did Julius Caesar play as part of school lessons ..it was fun!:)