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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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No contest -- same teacher made us read "Not Wanted On The Voyage" (Timothy Findlay) and "Handmaid's Tale" (Margaret Atwood). I think it was 10th grade English.
Surprised you didn't like Catcher in the Rye though. I never read it until relatively late in life, but it always brings a smile to my face when I flip through it.
