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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
LOTR was nothing compared to some the crap forced down our throats. Come on:
"A Separate Peace"?
"Catcher in the Rye?"
"The Old Man and the Sea"?
[And as I referred to earlier, I nearly burned down my high school for making us read that Dreiser book]
So go ahead - name the worst books your teachers forced you to read:
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The only books I remember from highschool are A Separate Peace, Catcher in the Rye and To Kill A Mockingbird. The worst was a Separate Peace and Phinny wasn't even hot in the movie version. And Parker Stevenson - don't get me started. I liked the two other books a lot. And the movie version of TKAM.
eta: We did have to read the Old Man and the Sea as well. I don't remember anything about it. But it's now coming back to me that we had to read a whole slew of Canadian books - i.e. Surfacing, The Stone Angel, and of course Bear, which is about a woman who falls in love with a bear and they almost do it, except when they are trying to consummate, he gouges her back with his claws (not fatally, but enough to make her back off). Go Canada.
