WHICH BOOKS DO YOU LOVE?
I read THIS BLOG about how much Teen Book Reviewer hates Holden Caulfield and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and I wondered:
What other books that I love do you hate? Or maybe you love them, too?
I loved these, and more, often because I had great English teachers who taught the books with love. It wasn't until college that I thought we over-
analyzed, but I come from a family of English majors. I expected the great books to be great, I assumed that they would lead me into mysterious and sublime realms, and they usually did.
Other titles I remember are Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, and Julius Caesar; poems by Robert Frost; Arthur Miller's The Crucible; Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury; The Plague by Camus; How to Kill a Mockingbird; The Odyssey; Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury, Paul Zindel's The Pigman, and many more!
Some were pretty difficult, and Walden I loved not just because of the ideas (or ideals), but because Mr. Nelson was so intense about it that I really wanted to understand and live the ideals.
But enough about me. Maybe I was just a little English teacher in the making!
I got lots of great comments on the subject at my myspace blog, but you should go to to Teen Book Review and comment.
1 comment:
Walden kind of sucked my brain out, but there have several books that I've read for school and adored. All Quiet On the Western Front, O Pioneers!, Streetcar Named Desire and several that I can't think of.
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