Whatever. Wasn't so bad. Old man, that is. Didn't like it, but coulda been worse. Coulda been: Lady Chatterley's lover. Fucking sucks.

johnny tremain the red badge of courage any of those war-time men are heroes boring bullshit books i don't actually remember TRBoC, who knows, i might love it now but i remember hating to have to read it. oops, except what is it, heart of darkness? conrad etc. afterward we got to watch apocalypse now in class.

I like the stuff they make me read. In high school my english teacher forced me to read "Flowers for Algernon" and "Romeo & Juliet". In university I get to read "Swann" and "Obasan". Scholastic literature Rocks. Never had to read the old man and the sea, though. I understand my brother hated it.

I liked much of what they forced me to read: "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Their Eyes Were Watching God" number among the best books I ever read. But I hated the robust American literature. I didn't like Steinbeck and I didn't like Hemingway. Except I did like "Of Mice and Men." I liked decadent American literature. I liked "The Great Gatsby." Y'know? If they hadn't made me read those books I would eventually have read them because they were fiction and they were in the Library at school. But I stopped reading literature COLD when I got to University. I have this thing against the canon.

I actually haven't read any real literature (uh, comic books don't count, right?) just for FUN since I started university. But the required stuff usually turns out to be a blast. Well...literary wise.

I read 1984 for my own pleasure, then had to read it a few years later for school, liked it the first time wasn't so impressed after reading it for school. same with The Hobbit. Guess i just dont like doing the deep analysis required for assignments. Margret; you should see the play for Of Mice and Men, if you get the chance, the book was soso but I was very impressed by the play.