worst/best english novel you have ever read in school? (3 Viewers)

[lou071]

best: none
worst: king lear

 

[PantherZ]

best: none
worst: king lear

You're joking...

Best: King Lear

Worst: Can't think of any.

 

[lou071]

You're joking...

Best: King Lear

Worst: Can't think of any.

i personally don't like King Lear coz
it was pretty long
and i found very difficult to write essay=
screwed assessment worth 30%:mad1:

 

[Aquawhite]

Haha, most my novels that I've had to write an Essay an, I've good in except for one, which was biasedly marked! The teacher that marked them was teaching the 2nd highest class and her class got most of the top marks, 20s, 19s etc. The top in my class (top class) was 18!

Nevertheless, I still enjoyed the novel I wrote it on.

 

[hollyy.]

Best: Life of Pi by Yan Martel (sp?), The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard

Worst: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton *vomits*

 

[beastindahouse]

Best : To Kill A Mocking Bird (a really, really good book)

Worst: A Midsummer's Night Dream ( cant stand Shakespeare)

 

[LoneWolf1990]

Worst: 'Cloudstreet' by Tim Winton------>that says it all

Best: 'The Gathering'-Isobelle Carmody----->I thought it was very gritty, almost has a graphic novel atmosphere.

 

[Misericorde]

Not sure about best, but worst so far has to be One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Yeah, I know it's a classic, but I found his psychedelic writing style intrusive and annoying, his Christ-figure protagonist was a prick and every female character was either from a brothel or from hell.

 

[hn92]

WORST: cloudstreet.
overuse of so-called Australian slang which no self-respecting person uses in todays society, and how Winton doesn't use speech marks? = WTF
very confusing book.

 

[B-randon]

'charlottes web' back in yr 1 or 2, those were the days

worst would be everything since yr 7

 

[B-randon]

Best: Life of Pi by Yan Martel (sp?), The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard

Worst: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton *vomits*

i saw a production of the real inspector hound last year at newtown theater, it was awesome!

 

[Bulldog4lyf]

The best would be To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Bridge to Teribithia was also good but I had to read it in Yr 5 and 7 so the second time around was a bit boring. From memory, I haven't read many terrible books.

EDIT: I didn't read it in class, but No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy is terrible. It shows how great Joel and Ethan Coen are to make a masterpiece of a film out of a book which may as well have been a pile of shit.

 

[bored of sc]

Not sure. I don't read much/so fail to remember the texts I've done at school. That said, I do remember the general gist/response from the texts I study. I have had some interest in certain issues presented in the texts (1984 = Oligarchical Collectivism) but I am usually indifferent/occasionally content with most.

 

[Air Jordan]

To Kill a Mocking Bird and Animal Farm ^^

 

[annabackwards]

The worst was Tess of the D'urbevilles --> too much description about nature =="

At a close 2nd it was Othello -> love Iago but but everything else just grrrr

Best was Animal Farm and Pride and Prejudice... although from reading the blurb of Letters to Alice (read with Pride and Prejudice ==") makes that book seem like it will be worse than Tess.

 

[chaniie]

Best- To Kill A Mockingbird

Worst- Goodnight Mr Tom

 

[LeetSpeek]

I dont even have a best.
Worst - Locky Leonard
The Hobbit
Animal farm
Some book about the future i cant remember but was crap
Some other book that was meant to be on satire

as you may have noticed i dont like reading anything that i dont pick out.

 

[accio.brain]

Best was The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard, even though it's a play. It was so good!

Worst was probably The Wish List in year 7 or 8.

 

[4unitfreak]

Best: Animal Farm. Macbeth was also awesome, but that's technically a play.
Worst: An Imaginary Life by David Malouf.

 

[dancing_mermaid]

i loved animal farm in year six, hated hating alison ashley in year 5 (but only because i'd already read it years before, and loved it back then)

i liked one flew over the cuckoo's nest, too. the first time i read it i was a bit confused, but i read it again the next day and loooved it.
at first I hated an imaginary life, but the more I read it, the better it gets.


I think all time best was animal farm though. And worst would probably be the Hobbit. I was the only person I knew who actually bothered to read it and it wasn't awful, but I just wasnt interested. People'd been trying to make me like Tolkien for three years by then, and I still don't, five years later. And at least I understood more than most of my friends, I agree, year 5 is too early for it.

oh, I loved to kill a mockingbird, too. but I had to study it twice - year 6 and year 9. But I still loved it after a second study, so it must be fantastic.