What is your favourite book from middle or high school? How about college

United States
August 13, 2008 8:50pm CST
Mine is "To Kill a Mockingbird." It spoke of racism and the tragedy that can erupt when justice is perverted to justify an act of hatred in its most disgusting form. In college I discovered Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God." That should have been made into a movie!
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• United States
15 Aug 08
I think that one of the books that they should get rid of in the United States curriculum (if they haven't already) is "The Scarlet Letter". Sure we can see how romanticism works in literature from the United States, but when you're 16, you don't really care! My favorite from those years is also Brave New World. You have to think about how we are using very similar technologies in our lives!
• United States
15 Aug 08
I personally liked the Scarlet Letter when I had to read it in the 9th grade.
• United States
14 Aug 08
THe Great Gatsby, Catcher and The Rye
• United States
14 Aug 08
Gatsby was my favorite. he was looking for daisy. and i like Gatsbys words, "tomorrow we will run faster,our arms will stretch farther, trying to reach the american dream. one fine morning...*insert dream achieved here*" NIck: showing how the rich world can corrupt someone as average as daisy who used to be with Gatsby. Catcher in the Rye. just a bit, its nice to see the world around holden
@soooobored (1184)
• United States
19 Aug 08
My all time favorite was actually in grammar school: The Westing Game. I don't know if anyone else remembers this book, but I LOVED it, and it started a lifelong affair with detective stories!
• Malaysia
14 Aug 08
It's a book about dark family secrets that haunted a little girl's life called "My Sweet Audrina" by Virginia Andrews (aka V.C. Andrews). It was one of my favourites during high school years. It's about a girl who have a memory loss, who couldn't remember anything that happened within the past few years, and why her parents kept her deceased older sister's room exactly the way it was and forbid her to go into that room. Then, the girl try to unfold the mystery of her past. It was intelligently plot, full of suspense and keeps you guessing about the outcome till the end. It's really a good read!
• United States
3 Sep 08
My favorite book was from middle school, where the red fern grows.
• United States
9 Sep 08
I loved A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I still re-read it from time to time. We had to read it in 5th grade and I have loved it ever since.
@paid2write (5201)
14 Aug 08
Mine would be Thomas Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles. I read this book three or four times when I studied it at school, and I have read it several times since, at different times of my life. It always moves me but I find my feelings about the characters have changed, because of my own life experiences, and my understanding of the novel has increased each time I read it. If I ever read it again, I know I shall find even more in it and I will still enjoy the book.
@agihcam (1914)
• Philippines
14 Aug 08
My favorite book since then are those I can gain something from it. I don't love much on novels book and the like. I love books related to Martial Arts, Computer, especially programming languages since I was in college, also books related to cooking and house improvement. Science and Technologies books are also my favorite. Have a nice day.
• United States
14 Aug 08
My favorite book of all time has got to be, "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley. I love reading about negative utopia societies, and then comparing and contrasting that society to my own. Those types of books really help you become more critical of the rights and wrongs in societies, which has really helped form my political opinions. It's a great book, and I recommend it to anyone. "To Kill a Mockingbird" is also a good book that criticizes society. Happy mylotting, and may you have good reading!
• United States
14 Aug 08
That is hard on but it would have to be Demon In My View by Amelia Atweter-Rhodes and Blood And Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause.but there is so many books that I always find a new favourite one.