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I really liked To Kill a Mockingbird even though I barely remember it.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had to look that one up. Looks like I barely missed that one, I had just aged out of the target demographic when it was published. Huh, it won a Newbery, so it must be good! Wait, what the heck, this book sounds like it was huge, how did I now hear of this before? Ok, well, I guess I gotta pick up a copy now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh wow, it's going to be a great experience, enjoy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I liked it too, can recommend

[–] JollyBrancher 11 points 1 year ago

Brave New World. That teacher got me into some sci-fi & dystopian greats!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Both Lord of the Flies and 1984 were great.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

1984 is an amazing book that is increasingly relevant

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Quite a few:

I am David.

The Grapes of Wrath.

.1984.

A Fortunate Life.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I liked Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I felt To Kill a Mocking Bird was only ok, although I got pretty confused in some of the court scenes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All quiet on the Western Front

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Still one of my favorites all these years later.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

In High School
Of Mice and Men
The Old Man and the Sea
Both are easy reads, but I found a lot of depth in them in my formative years. Things don't always go as planned, but we carry on.

In Uni
Catch-22, I genuinely laughed out loud at so much, it still helps me laugh at infuriating bureaucracy.
Fear and Loathing in LV.
Both for an Americal Lit elective, read everything I could find by HST afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] girlfreddy 4 points 1 year ago

The Faraway Lurs. It started my love affair with fantasy.

[–] bi_tux 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Der Junge im gestreiften Pyjama

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's a good book, deeply unfortunate about it being inaccurate and harmful though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] Tolstoshev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

HHGTTG - we had a pretty cool teacher

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Metamorphosis.

And from my youngest days, "The Murder of The Math Teacher"

[–] Chivera 3 points 1 year ago

Neuromancer The Things They Carried The Catcher in the Rye

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Slaughterhouse-Five.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Island of the blue dolphins was an immense gateway for me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Crysalids

Still one of my favorites

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I enjoyed that one too, I never forgot Sophie was it and her extra toes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Probably To Kill a Mockingbird and Fahrenheit 451 were my two favorites from my high school years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not to be That Guy, but I LOVED the catcher in the rye as a teenager. It spoke to my angsty teen heart.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's the beauty of it, aint it? It perfectly captures teen angst, so much so that you see it very differently when you're a teen vs an adult.

[–] Weylandyuta 2 points 1 year ago

The owl who called my name, catch-22, invisible man, Lord of the flies and so many more.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I enjoyed To Sir, With Love and The Crysalids.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Out of Mind by J. Bernlef really stuck with me. A story about a man suffering from Alzheimer's, his life seamlessly flowing over into memories. At times he suddenly awakens from them, realizes his current state, and a terrible emptiness engulfs him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I specifically remember really liking bud not buddy, but also remember very little about it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh my God, I've never seen any reference of this book anywhere. I read it when I was super young and couldn't understand anything except some of the racial stuff (I'm mixed), read it again as a teenager and was so glad I did. I don't want to touch it now and ruin the nostalgia but I really loved it as a kid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't really ever hear anyone else talk about it either. I'm guessing it was picked by my teacher and wasn't a common book to read in school. Ms. Hoke was wonderful. I'm white but went to magnet schools so I was surrounded by folks of all different races and financial backgrounds as a kid, and that book was probably my first introduction to the idea that some folks treat others differently for the color of their skin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Odyssey.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Connected to another post here: Brothers Karamazov. It was a mandatory read for philosophy class when I was 17. It’s one off my favorite books.

We had many other mandatory reads, but most were from my home country and are not that internationally famous.