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Originally Posted by MysticCat
As for a more inane book, that's easy: The Old Man and the Sea.
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GOD YES! I think I've mentioned that on this site sometime before, but I was about to type it again here. Worst book I've ever read.
"Hand, why won't you open. Open hand. I want to catch this marlin," or so on. A whole book of that. I'm not sure what a high schooler is supposed to get out of that other than torture.
Other books I read in High School that I recall:
Of Mice and Men
A Separate Peace
Fahrenheit 451
The Great Gatsby
Huckleberry Finn
Lord of the Flies
Excerpts of Moby Dick
Cry the Beloved Country
The Power of One
To Kill a Mockingbird
Oliver Twist
The Crucible (technically a play)
Of these, the ones that made the biggest impression on me were Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, The Power of One and To Kill a Mockingbird.