Those books you read in Highschool...

Autentique, you live in Santo Domingo? I spent six weeks in the DR this summer.

 

really? that's so cool.. you are the first person in the forums that i know has been here . I do live in Santo Domingo.. did you like it?

 

9th Grade:
Fahrenheit 451
The Merchant of Venice
Romeo & Juliet
To Kill A Mockingbird
a lot of stuff by Edgar Allan Poe

10th Grade:
The Scarlet Letter
Moby Dick
The Grapes of Wrath (yes, the whole book)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

11th Grade:
The Canterbury Tales
Frankenstein (The Modern Prometheus)
Beowulf
Macbeth
Brave New World
Pride & Prejudice

12th Grade:
The Tempest
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Iliad
The Aeneid
Oedipus Rex
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone
Medea
parts of The Ramayana & Bhagavad Gita
parts of The Divine Comedy
A Doll's House
Hamlet
The Stranger
Fathers & Sons

They were all very interesting pieces of literature. I didn't think so at the time I read them.

 

how could i forget ibsen? :O

we read a doll's house and an enemy of the people

 

Wow, Prism...you read a lot of books.

Autentique...did I like it? I *loved* it. I was there with a group that was working with a school/church right outside of La Vega. So I was in La Vega every weekend. We went to Santo Domingo for a day, more like passed though, on the way to meet this one guys sponsor child. While there, though, we did stop and see some sites. Spent an evening in Santiago - watched a movie, went to the mall, just to experience the difference of beign out of the bario. It was alright, but I don't like malls - no matter where they are. I try to stay out of them. But the movie was good...although it was wierd how it was in English and Subtitled in Spanish - I thought it would be the otehr way around. So yeah, I loved it...and am looking forward to going back!

 

The ones I recall the most are: To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, The Oedipus trilogy, The Scarlet Letter, The Metamorphosis, Beowulf, The Odyssey, and a bunch of poems from an array of writers.

 

i hated reading until grade nine when i had to read catcher of the rye

 

what age bracket is high school? <--- British here

I don't know if its the same age bracket as high school but i'll give you the books I read during my GCSE years (the ones I can remember anyway)

The Lord of The Flies (did'nt enjoy at school but re-read quite recently and loved it)
An Inspector Calls (A play, went to see it performed in london, very good)
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth (love this play)

I'm sure there was more but they are'nt coming to mind at the moment. We read lots of poems aswell, one that really sticks in my mind is called 'Slough', can't rememeber who wrote it but I love the poem.

 

Autentique, one of my parents is from there. I've been there twice; it was gorgeous.

 

Highschool is like...14 years old to 18 years old.

 

in no particular order:

house on mango street
ender's game
a tree grows in Brooklyn
Gilgamesh
salt
romeo and julliet
the professor and the madman
Frankenstein (i read this book twice 9th and 10th grade)
macbeth
of mice and men
malcolm x
Hot Zone
scarlet letter
lovely bones
uncle tungsten
great gasby
animal farm
the crucible
pride and prejudice
east of eden
daughter of fortune
fallen angels

and other books i don't remember right now. i'm still in highschool and have a year and half left! sux :/

 

I don't remember the years we read them but ---

The Chosen by Chaim Potok - loved it
The Promise by Chaim Potok - meh
The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman - wow!!
Skinwalkers by Tony Hillerman - again, wow!!
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne - didn't appreciate it in high school, went back and reread it a couple of years ago and really liked it
A Kiss Before Dying by Ira Levin - it was alright
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand - meh
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - meh
Lord of the Flies by William Golding - meh
Animal Farm by George Orwell - meh
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - strange book
The Iliad by Homer - ick
The Odyssey by Homer - ick
and a bunch of other ones I can't remember anymore

 

i forgot some:

the odyssey
the iliad
beowulf
that plains book i mentioned earlier was called My Antonia

 

hmm.. first two years backhome we read some Slovak and Czech literature (I've read about five of those books)
Sofokles - Antigona (ugh)
Victor Hugo - The Cathedral of Nortredame (I'm not sure how it translates)
Goethe - The Suffering of young Werther (ugh)
and plenty more paperbacks

then in the second year it was
Lev Tolstoy - Anna Kareninova
hmm.. I don't remember.. I don't think read anymore school ones..
but that's the year read 1984 and the animal farm, On the road, and a whole bunch of these Hitchcock detective stories, and plenty more but didn't stick

Then here in Canada
we read some Shakespeare - King Lear and Hamlet (interesting)
Dudy Kravitz one
Great Gatzby

and on my own for school I read Aldoux Huxley's Brave New World
Kesey-One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Burgess-Clokwork Orange
Burroughs-Cities of the red night
Papillon by Henri Charriere (Awesome !!!!!)

and on my own The Process by Kafka, The perks of a Walflower, The Salem trials, The flowers for Algernon, and Dracula by Stoker (I didn't really read much those times tho)