I honestly don't remember like any of the stories I was forced to read from this list.

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I feel like I'm getting "A Separate Peace" confused with the movie "School Ties".



I'm literally faceplaming my own stupidity.

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haha, well they are both deeply homoerotic, A Separate Peace is just more upfront about it (Gene and Finny were totally gay COME ON).







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We watched "School Ties" at my heavily Jewish school to see how it could "relate to our school". I was like, "bitch, half the kids in this room are wearing Bar Mitzvah sweatshirts, I'm not really seeing any correlation here". smh.



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LMAO HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER

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I love that one

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Although it really should be "How I Met My Mother".

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THAT ONE IS MY FAVOURITE ONE OUTTA THE LOT. I COULDN'T STOP GIGGLING AT IT :D



fucking love this list. :)

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That's my fave.

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Best, most fitting one from this list imo.

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Does it make any sense other than socialism=social? I found that to be the worst one tbh.

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it made no sense to me, but I didn't see the Social Network so idk.

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No privacy.

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i hated the grapes of wrath. did not feel any sympathy for the protagonists at all.

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Ive never read anything worse than the grapes of wrath. Its just boring traveling shit, turtle, more traveling, dude gets breastfed

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MFTE, THANK YOU!

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all I remember is the turtle tbh, lol.

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I couldn't finish it. East of Eden is the VASTLY superior Steinbeck novel, imo. I have no idea why it is not considered his seminal work. Maybe I should try rereading Grapes, tho.

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i had to read it for a class once and i just about read the first three chapters cause i had to explain that stupid turtle and then that was it. i never touched it again and i never will.

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Greatest comment EVERRRRRRRRR!!!!!

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I have tried to get into John Steinbeck so many times and I just cannot



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Aww, really? It's my dad's favorite book, he used to read it for me when I was a kid.

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dust bowl stories are so incredibly degrading (and still not half as horrific as what happened irl, apparently), that i just can't NOT feel sympathy, no matter how unlikable the protagonists are.

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east of eden is flawless (my favorite book) and should be considered THE steinbeck novel.



everything else was shit.

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LMFAO I love these posts!!! So happy there's a book version out now.



Umm, I fucking hate TKAMB and always will.

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finnegan ! HAHAH i remember a girl i know wrote a separate piece fanfic

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lol I remember reading it in high school and thinking "This shit is just BEGGING for fanfiction."

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Yay a book post!



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wuthering heights

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Me too!

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Bossypants by Tina Fey

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Currently: Tom Clancy's "Patriot Games"

Soon to be: Random Book

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The Kite Running

Everything You Know About Politics and Why You're Wrong

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Bossypants by Tina Fey

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World War Z for the first time!

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also reading the outlander series by diana gabaldon



and north & south



borders by my house going out of business: both the best and worst thing to happen to me in april

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Kiss of the Spider Woman

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mindless romance where all the women are fucking idiots and the men aren't that much better.



It keeps me distracted from reading school work on open access and copy right and blah blah blah.

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Anansi Boys

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infinite jest, but I haven't read a chapter in like 3 weeks

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Salmonella Men on Planet Porno.



Not enjoying it as much as I expected.

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I'm reading The Hobbit again

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

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The Stand!

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House of Leaves

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The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

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Just finished reading Matched. It was better than I expected. Not a great novel, but still worth a read.

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Sex with the Queen by Eleanor Herman



really good and very interesting

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The Stand

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Dividing my time between The Demon's Covenant and Kushiel's Dart . I've read both before though.

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the handmaid's tale

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battle hymn of the tiger mother!

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Pillars of the Earth~

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Just finished Watership Down.

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Diana: Finally, The Complete Story by Sarah Bradford



I really want to read Jane Eyre again, even though I just finished it, but I doubt I hate time. I also want to try and re-read the Harry Potter series.



And I'm going to get The Dutchess when I get the money, and I have a couple of books I've started but never finished. I love reading so much, but there aren't enough free hours in a day!



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About to finish Gone With The Wind. God damn long ass book.

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It Blows You Hollow- Diane Seuss

The Bell Jar- Sylvia Plath

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I just finished Mockingjay and can now go rage and not be spoiled in Hunger Game posts....yay! :)

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Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England

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Over spring break, I finished reading Connie Willis' time travel pair of books Merry Wives of Windsor and Richard III for school. Oregon Shakespeare Festival founder Angus Bowmer's autobiography for fun. Hey, guess my major!Over spring break, I finished reading Connie Willis' time travel pair of books Blackout and All Clear which are technically one 1200+ page novel split in half. It's set in WWII and SO, SO INTENSE. Some quibbles, but overall I totally recommend them if you like WWII Britain at all.

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Good Omens

The Log of the SS The Mrs. Unguentine

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gunna read:





curious case of the dog in the nighttime,





for the a second time since i was 15.





now reading the walking dead comics and am on issue 22......



:)

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The Autobiography of an Execution

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Junkie by William S. Burroughs, but I'm almost done. I need a break from Beat.. might read The Jungle next.

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Jane Eyre and The Catcher in the Rye

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On the Road - Jack Kerouac

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Hard Hit by Joey Kramer (drummer for aerosmith)

And a book everyone should read, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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Slaughterhouse Five

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4th book of the Sookie Stackhouse novels, "Dead to the World" I think.

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Ordinary Men

Plato's Symposium

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I listen to audiobooks (because I commute to school, and can't read on the bus), so I'm currently listening to Paper Towns by John Green. I really like it so far!

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Fanfiction.



I have no shame.

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Girl With A Pearl Earring. loving it.

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The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain



also in the middle of Freedom but can't seem to finish it....it's dense and makes me feel bad about myself because I'm not as smart/cool as Jonathan Franzen or any of his sad yuppie characters

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Nothing right now :( I have 8 books on my to read pile though.

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"The Science of Doctor Who". Because I have a major girl boner for science. I read "A Brief History of Time" in two days.

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the sandman series

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War and Peace

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Well, they're both for class, but I'm genuinely in love with them: Cereus Blooms at Night by Shani Mootoo, and The American Woman in the Chinese Hat by Carole Maso.

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mrs. dalloway

to the lighthouse

(for a lawrence/woolf class i slacked on reading so now i hav to read dalloway lighthouse in the same time whelp)



a book about sylvia plath by janet malcom, i forget the title lol. and the autobiography of alice b. toklas which i actually enjoy, it's like reading gertrude stein trololololol-ing all over the place.



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Rising Up and Rising Down by William Vollman.

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I had to read it for a class last year but didn't read it nearly as closely as I wanted to (long story), so now that I have time I'm re-reading it. Strange as anything, but good. I had to read it for a class last year but didn't read it nearly as closely as I wanted to (long story), so now that I have time I'm re-reading it. Strange as anything, but good.

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Water for Elephants

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Jane Eyre (again) and Homemade Living: Keeping Chickens

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The Leopard - Jo Nesbo

norwegian murder mystery

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Re-reading Jane Eyre. It's still great.



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the left hand of darkness :D

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fried green tomatoes

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Feed by MT Anderson.

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ALSO lord of the flies is a flawless novel and i judge every single one of my peers who hated it tbh.

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i agree. i loved that book.

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literally every kid in my sophomore english class abhorred it; i was like WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL.

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That book is in my top 5. I loved it to pieces. Especially the end when the adult was all "oh you're playing a game with your little friends" and Ralph's all "WTF?!! They're trying to kill me."

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I was mad how my boy Piggy went down. I was too through with the book after that, tbh.

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agreed

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Its a great book, and 'Sucks to your assmar" is probably one of the greatest lines written

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Lord of the Flies was the novel in high school that I actually enjoyed researching and writing a report on.



I didn't understand why my classmates hated the book. Kids killing over kids, violence, murder, etc. I, mean, come on. :P

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i love the gruesomeness of it all, kids becoming corrupt and passing judgement/killing each other because of environment change/psychological stress is fascinating



don't why people hate it so much

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most of the books I had to read in english class either had no effect or bored me to tears but I absolutely loved that one.

almost cried at the end and couldn't stop thinking about it for a while after.

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I loved it, too. The only book that I had to read in HS that I actually hated was Heart of Darkness.

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Agreed! The guy I'm dating now hates it as well. I can tell this isn't going to work out.

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I adored Lord of the Flies and Heart of Darkness. Hated Catcher in the Rye and disliked Great Gatsby though.

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agreed, the morals in that novel cut you deep.

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I dislike it because of how it was taught to me when I read it in school. I need to reread it to get a different perspective, bc my teacher sucked and the more I think about it, the more I realized she was so against teaching it (Catholic middle school, uhg) that she made it miserable for the entire class.

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One of the best books ever written...in my humble opinion.

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most definitely

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I think Lord of the Flies is one of those books where people love the story but hate the writing. That's def true for me.

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hahah ngl i lol'ed at sone..

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Marlon Brando, shirtless, on the cover of my A Streetcar Named Desire book for AP English made the class worth going to.

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LOL what?





anyways i love to kill a mocking bird<333

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omg

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eh

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to be fair no one's written like shakespeare since shakespeare

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the catcher in the rye should be up there as "the most boring book in existence"

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i know fuq dat book





YEAH COME AT ME

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i refuse to reread the catcher in the rye for the simple fact i know i'm going to hate it with a passion if i read it again.

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this. I'd rather fondly remember my 16 year old self thinking it was an amazing book.

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i hated it the first time

i'm pretty sure i would just hate it even more if i ever tried again

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ia x10000000



if i knew holden irl i would've killed him several times. him and his phoniness could gtfo.

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well i liked it

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good lord that book was such a waste of my time.









I CAN'T EVEN.



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i hated that phase in life when it was everyones goddamn favorite book and i'm just like what is this shit

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You might even say it was crumby

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Or, "A Coming of Age Story Where Nothing Happens". I read The Catcher In The Rye in a day and a half and found that I will probably never get it back.

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I don't think it's as bad as people make it out to be. Not my favorite thing, but it does a good job of depicting the mentality of a lot of people that age.

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I could only read a chapter or two at a time of that book because Holden got on my nerves so much.

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OMG, I'm not the only one?



I read the first 50 pages and had to put it down. I have no idea why its considered on of the best novels ever written.

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I've always said the title should be, "Whiny Myspace Blog Before the Internet."

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I don't even remember much about that book. I liked it at the time, but I think I'd hate it now. All I remember is he banged a hooker and had a bad attitude.

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I had a teacher tell me I was the female version of Holden Caulfield. I had 4 other girls in class tell me they were so jealous, because the teacher then said he admired Holden.



I told him he was an idiot because Holden is a douchebag. If I was that big of a dick I would've offed myself to do the world a favor. I was 15 and got detention for my little speech.

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I AGREE SO MUCH, OMG.

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I JUST commented with some Catcher in the Rye hate! Glad I'm not so alone!

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catcher in the rye



renamed:





james franco complains about social networking.





:) i still love james though but he reeks holden caulfield when he portrays his normal personality to us fans sometimes.

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Aaaaaand five minutes ago one of my facebook friends just posted "going to name my future baby boy Holden. As in Caufield." Yes, spelling in context. JUDGING SO HARD RIGHT NOW.

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I think most of it depends on when in your life you decide to read it, I would hate it now, but I read it in junior high and was amazed by it.

the nine short stories by j.d. salinger are a flawless work of fiction though.

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