How many of you actually read the books you are assigned to read for school? This year my class has read 5 books and I've only fully read 1. The rest I either start to read and never finish the last few chapters or I only read the first few chapters, get bored with it, and go on sparknotes or pinkmonkey. So what about you??

i actually do.. honestly, english class is almost all discussion and debate, and we're actually graded very heavily for our participation and introduction of new, original ideas. if i didn't read the books, i would be failing english at the moment.

yes, cuz my teacher is hecka hard on us.
and she does in class discussions, and you're picked randomly to like tell us what you think about the book and stuff

sparknotes helped me soooooo much.

I read 'em all... simply 'cause I read so fast a 300 page book doesn't take more than 5 hours combined max. And if I don't understand... my teacher advises sparknotes.

christina, you reminded me!
my teacher is gonna test me tomorrow.
*dies*

i like reading...we've read some haroun book...and now we're finishing up romeo and juliet...which is stupid...and next we're readint to kill a mockinbird..which seems interesting enough...but i hate the classics that they make us read...some of these old books are just "wack, yo"

yea, old books sucks these days .. i dont enjoy reading it.

i have to read it or my teacher wont pass me for the year...i also have to read 12 different kinds of books to pass for the year..the teacher said it was a standard or something..

call me a nerd but i really do read all the books that are assigned as class books. LOL. there was probably ONE that i went to sparknotes.com to read up on but that was it . :]

Dont you know what's nerd means ? person who does school crap and get's super good grades. Also, very clever and smart.

i'm a sad individual. i read just about all of the books on my summer reading list. we were supposed to read 1 of them.

We've had to read one of our choice, and 2 that are mandatory. The rest comes out of our Literature books. At least in our Lit. books, all the stories are so tragic. Has anyone else noticed that? Anyway, I completely read the book of my choice, read half of one of the mandatory ones (yay gradesaver.com!), and am in the middle of the other. The one I have now is actually kind of interesting.

i do...

i just go to sparknotes.. hahahahh =X

well we had to read outsiders for english and i already read it int he summer so i didnt botehr to re-read it. And i cant use sparknotes cause my teacher knows about it so she generates test quetions that wont be from sparknotes.

well we've had to read three books this year, i read two of them all the way through... i gave up on silas marner, it was killing me slowly

mice and men- eh... i get why its menna be so great, but it didnt do anything for me personally

but to kill a moockingbird was so good... on eof my top 3 books ever. im glad we had to read it

just finished- adventures of huck finn

just starting- the great gatsby

yep, read all of them, but it was all pointless to my life...except crime and punishment and to kill a mockingbird.

I usually read all of the books, just because we get tested on the content and what not.. can't really use spark notes because they're insignificant novels

Eh, I usually read them before the class starts reading them. Haha.

I'm taking AP english for my junior year and we have a summer reading list which includes "This Boy's Life", "An American Childhood", and a collection of essays. I read several of the essays, maybe half and I'm about 100 pages in "An American Childhood".



I read the Great Gatsby for english last year. I could not enderstand the metaphors, they were so confusing. But that's just me and my non-analyzing brain.

for my school, our ap english book this summer
is the Poisonwood Bible.

I had to read some book by Charles Dickens and lemme tell you...I WAS BORED OUTSIDE MY MIND and I had to read Christy and this summer I had to read that book Chronicles of a death Foretold
i absolutley HATE summer reading and their stupid test

I finally finished my summer reading! I read
Hitchikers Guide To the Galaxy
Tears of a Tiger
& The kidnapping of Christina Lattimore.

My teacher's advice is, "You can use SparkNotes all you want, but we'll be talking about the character's personalities and traits and less about the story."

I'm reading To Kill a Mockingbird, but that's just because I lost the second book. >.> It's really good so far though.