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Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
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.
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I had to do a presentation on "Surfacing" in college. It sucked (both the book and the presentation).
Although I enjoyed it, I thought it was weird that we had to read Rebecca in sophmore advanced english. The boys hated it and I think its literary quality is dubious. But since I had to read The Red Badge of fucking Courage, I didn't feel bad for all the boys having to read about evil Ms. Danville and the hot and brooding Mr. DeWinter.
