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kittycatchat173 t1_j2aeg4d wrote

I also read the Chrysalids! I remember it being weird but there were definitely worse books in other years.

Shakespeare - A Midsummer night's dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (thank goodness for Sparknotes)

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (I enjoyed)

Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Probably my favourite out of all of them)

The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams (I don't remember a whole lot but I don't think it was that bad)

Agamemnon - Aeschylus (meh)

Dune - Frank Herbert (Way too long for high school English. I don't think I read it fully)

White Noise - Don DeLillo (Horrible book. There is no plot until the 21st chapter and it is all just absurd garbage)

Had to read a lot of other ridiculous books in French for high school too...

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tke494 t1_j2bmbqz wrote

I read Gone with the Wind in HS. 1000 pages, though not as dense as Dune. Since I loved Dune when I read it on my own in college, I'd loved to have read this in HS. Getting to discuss it in class sounds great. Actually, HS discussions usually sucked, since no one wanted to be there. Maybe if it were in Honors English.

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