What books from school actually stuck with you?
I also loved White Fang and pic related in elementary school, but neither were actually assigned to me. I don't think I was ever assigned a good book until Romeo and Juliet in 9th grade.
Is OP any good? I wanted to read it at one point but later threw it in a bin thinking it was childrenslop and not literature.
>>25156054Many. I read a lot of crappy shit, but tons of good authors were part of my curriculum.Cortázar, Ocampo, Oesterheld, Borges, Shua, Bioy Casares, Feredico Garcia Lorca, John M. Synge, Poe, Bram Stoker, Saki, Lovecraft, Machen, Echeverria, Gambaro, Fontanarrosa, Sergio de Cecco, Sophocles, Roberto Artl, Aeschylus, Liliana Bodoc, Manuel Puig, C.S. Lewis, Richard Matheson, Miguel de Cervantes, Mark Twain, Jose Hernandez, Jose Mauro de Vasconcelos, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Euripides, Shakespeare
>>25156073It's great. London is tragically underrated. It contains the most vivid descriptions of a wolf's perspective that I've ever seen in fiction, while also showing all the various shades of human nature in how people treat animals. Call of the Wild is also fantastic.
>>25156090Where the fuck did you go to school, anon?
>>25156120This school was ran by money hungry assholes, but some of the teachers were amazing: https://maps.app.goo.gl/oTazCcn1RtRzDh2L9
>>25156115Pretty much everything London wrote was good. I was surprised the Call of the Wild was considered a children's book. He deals with pretty mature stuff in everything he writes.
>>25156054Romeo and Juliet. I hate romance but this really resonated with me in high school as a sad lonely boy who yearned for true love.
>>25156115>>25156153Call of the Wild is probably my favorite book, frankly.>As you love me, Buck.
Jack London seems like he kicked ass. Would have been nice to have his life
>>25156115>he most vivid descriptions of a wolf's perspective that I've ever seen in fiction,I can't tell if this is supposed to be ironic. Wishful thinking, possibly.
>>25156054Very few. Couldn't stand reading for school, and it pretty much turned me off of reading entirely for many years. I'm now getting back into reading and I'm starting with the books that I was supposed to have read during my highschool years.
>>25156073jack london is honestly one of the very best to ever do it. he's in the children's section the way huck finn is in the children's section, or dracula, or wuthering heights. if you haven't read him you're missing out, and i'm envious that you get to do it for the first timethat said>childrenslopfix the structure of your eyes
We had a lot of Roger Lancelyn Green's books in the library.
>>25156054For school specifically?>Stardust, by Neil Gaiman.Got me into romance novels and Gaiman in general.>Momo, by Michael Ende.Gave me Chronophobia.>Dylan Dog, by Tiziano Scalfi.Got me into comic books.
A Clockwork OrangeOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s NeatThe Adventures of Huckleberry FinnApril Morning (History class, but still)Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (History class, but still)Julius Caesar Romeo and JulietTwelfth NightMacbethWhy I Live at the P. O.The DeadThe KillersPoemsThe SeafarerOzymandiasLondon (Blake)Ode to a Nightingale The Eve of St. AgnesThe Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockFern HillDanny DeeverThat (disputed) translation by Pound The River Merchant’s Wife
>>25156384Well he did have scurvy and lost a few teeth from it and it may have shortened his life. Along with the alcoholism
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>>25156445I preferred Call Of The Wild honestly
Shakespeare and Catcher and that's about it.
>>25156054Of Mice and Men became one of my favourite books.
Of mice and men and lords of the flies were the only books I got in freshman year. They were iconic and did improve my inner world.
>>25157494Did you allow gaiman's scandal tinge your like of him. I didnt care but plenty have excommunicated him.
>>25156090>>25156149Danke schon for showing how other people live. You really got the rory Gilmore experience. Did being well read aid you in life or did you just coast by?
