Okay...what did our class read in high school? Somehow we skipped both Lord of the Flies and Catcher in the Rye (the Apprentice wasn't so lucky). We did read a lot of short stories and poems, several Shakespeare and Shaw plays, A Man For All Seasons, Death of a Salesman, and a bunch of novels:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Huckleberry Finn
Brave New World
Heart of Darkness
The Sun Also Rises
The Pearl, by John Steinbeck (you want it, you find it, but you can't keep it)
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles (don't remind me how many coming-of-age symbols there are in this one)
On the Beach, by Nevil Shute (people getting sick after a nuclear blast)
The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham (people repenting after a nuclear blast)
Very depressing, most of it. The ones I liked, I still like. The rest I'm still trying to forget.
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Oh, I hated Death of a Salesman. LOL Holly
Oh my heavens. The Chrysalids! I'd forgotten about that book ~ and after just looking up a very detailed summary, I realized how little of it I truly understood...I was only 10 or so when I read it - I really should track down a copy and read it again as an adult. :-)
Totally with you on this one. There are even a few books I liked as a teen that I can't stand now. Jane Eyre has a totally different feel as a married woman than it did as a romantic teenaged girl. Wuthering Heights makes me think that the heroine needed a good spanking.
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