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Reading and Scool

bigdog57 @bigdog57 (27) • Slovak Republic 30 Aug 11

Hello everyone! I am from Slovakia. In my county schools make a big effort to make students and pupils to read a books. So the schools think up compulsory reading. They assigned some book to read and we have to read it and make...

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Five books that bored you but you read

jasbir_pro @jasbir_pro (283) • India 23 Jun 08

List five books (or less if you haven't read that many) that really bored you and you kept fighting an urge to put it in a dustbin but still you read it to the end, may be in the hope that in the end it will justify itself. Or you...

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Have you ever quit reading a book in the middle?

dragon54u @dragon54u (31633) • United States 15 Mar 08

I was really disappointed in the Gregory MacGuire book, "Lost". At page 117, I just couldn't give it any more chances. I loved "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" and the Snow White book but this one, supposedly about Scrooge, was...

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What's the absolute worst book you were forced to read in high school?

ArienKing @ArienKing (4647) • India 22 May 07

For me anything by Shakespeare - reading it is so mind-numbingly boring. His plays were meant to be performed, not read, and I really enjoy film versions of them because they hang together really well.

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