Hideous.

Never read the book but saw the movie, dislike the movie, bad story wouldn't watch it again.




Bustramp

 

it isn't a utopic idea - its a social commentary on how our society already is.

 

It might have been a good book if I wasn't forced to read it for school... I had to rush through it and couldn't really get myself to comprehend half of it...

But... after writing a hugeass report on it... I appreciate the whole concept of it a lot. :uhoh2:

 

There making me read that book is school I’m up to the point where they think the
dead parachuter is “the beast”; horrible book. I figured they would kill Piggy
eventually.

 

i read it after reading Heart of Darkness. So I liked... cause it was easier to get through (Heart of Darkness is good, its just hard to sit and read it).

My favorite books from high school were Great Gatsby, Black Boy, and Crime and Punishment.




Richie, I had to read A Seperate Piece too. I thought Phineus (i think that was the friend's name..) was hot.. and then we watched the movie, and I was all mad at the casting director It was an ok book though. Better than To Kill a Mockingbird, thats for damn sure.

 

I liked the Great Gatsby after I had read it, but after we talked about it and went through, I found out that I disliked it. Fuck the american dream.

Black Boy is one of my favorite books. I wrote an awesome essay on that book.

Phinny was hot. I thought the guy that went to war was cool, the one that came back and went crazy. He had an awesome crazy-person-coming-back-from-war insight.

I need to read that book again...

 

oh yes!! I was supposed to read that ninth grade, and I couldnt get passed the 1st chapter....and I love to read, but that book is horrendous

 

Yeah, I pretty much was the same deal, but I did manage to get through it, if I recall. Or nearly...

 

i had to read that book ... i ended up reading random chapters but i and going back and reading the last chapters before the first ones ... it was horrible

 

analyzing a book always made me enjoy it more the next time i read it.

 

Ah shit. I LOVED Gatsby.

 

whoa. richie, i turned on my parents tv when i came over today. and A Seperate Piece was what was playing. thats just weird...
since we were talking about it.. and like, i havent thought about that book since I was like... 16 or something.

 

Concurred.

I always liked the symbol of the conch...

I also can't really help but like most books I read. Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn/Pride and Prejudice are the only exceptions I can think of.

 

Well, we're allowed to not agree on books... If anyone ever laid hands on my Twain, I would be obligated knock them upside the head with a copy of Following the Equator.

I think LOTF is a fairly good book... just so lacking. It could have been much better and I can see many places for improvement.

 

Ugh...Twain.

 

Wow... you really are in disgust with Twain.


Quite the dull man, but some of his wit gets me... particularly with Following the Equator.

 

If you go to University, wait until they try to force Atlas Shrugged on you.

And I just struggled my way through Summa Contra Gentilles and Summa Theologica for a political philosophy class. It makes me hate god.

 

Ugh...Ayn Rand.

I hate that woman with a passion.

 

I loved Lord of the Flies. Maybe it's because I've raised boys! Hahahaha!

 

They actually made you read that in highschool?