JStrider

Yesterday I finished reading Watership Down by Richard Adams. I really enjoyed the book. I know a lot of people at my high school had to read it for school, but somehow I was always able to avoid it, I didn't have any interest in reading about rabbits.

What books did you avoid in high school, or read and didn't like then, only to pick up years later and really enjoy them?

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Jinn

I used to really like fiction, but I just can't get into it anymore. I love non-fiction books these days, especially ones about neuroscience or religion.

But in school I never really dodged any books, and always participated in those 'summer book club' things (I remember one where if you read 20 books over the summer you got a pizza party - I got them all).. so I read everything from Tale of Two Cities to Watership Down to the Redwall series to Catcher in the Rye. I can't really think of a book people read in high/middle school that I haven't read.

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girldetective

The Worm Oroboros was not required reading in HS, but was read avidly by some of my peers.
Ive still not read it though.

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Fremen

I've never read "Catcher in the Rye" or "Watership Down".
I'm a little interested in reading them, but they aren't high priority.
I slogged through "Of Mice and Men". I didn't particularly enjoy it, or dislike it. It was just "meh".
I think it had to do with the way we read the books in class. Out loud, one person at a time, a couple of paragraphs per person. Just boring.


I'm more into Westerns, or Science Fiction/Fantasy nowadays.

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Eilonwy

This is funny because not 3 days ago I was saying that I wanted to read Watership Down.

I can't say what others I missed out on in high school, as I don't know what other people had to read.

My favorites from high school were A Separate Piece, Brave New World, Candide, and To Kill a Mockingbird (okay, that one was middle school, but it's still great).

Baraka_Guru

I didn't read 1984 or The Stone Angel. The former wasn't on my reading list, but some of my friends had it. I was supposed to read The Stone Angel, but I didn't.

I read both of them years later and enjoyed them thoroughly.

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JStrider

I'll have to look into some of these. I haven't read a lot of them.

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Strange Famous

I dont know, but I can tell you the book I most regretted reading - Wuthering Heights.

I saw Heatcliff as petulant, self destructive, bullying, sexually degenerate, overgrown adolescent who was obsessed with a girl who was most likely his illigitmate half sister... who was a spiritless, pompous, crybaby who preferred to torment herself and imagine she was a martyr than simply walk out of her unhappy marriage.

I read it at age 17 and our literature teacher was prolly approx 24, and I think had some sort of crush on Heathcliff. When I stated in class that headbutting a tree was a moronic way to react to loss she actually said in front of the whole class "I dont care what you say about me but I wont have you talked about Heathcliff in that way"

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She also was pissed off that I thought Hamlet was at very least a latent homosexual, and in love with Horatio.

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