schools ruins the fun of reading, kind of. Options

[jennyjenny]

I bet half of you reading this are all "i don't like to read", or "me? books?"

but i bet you do like books.

I think it's school that's making you read boring books, book that aren't of your interest, so therefore that's "hating reading".

i loathe the books we read in school. it's nothing that i like. nothing that interests me. but i love to read, don't get me wrong. i have a bookshelf full of books. but yeah, i hate the books at school.

so what books have you read (recently-- last year/this year) in school that you HATED-- fell asleep on that boring. and what books did you LIKE reading?



i'm currently reading the odyssey and we just finished this mythology book. i hate mythology, or anything ancient. it's so boring that it took me two hours to read a chapter (they're book I, II, III, etc. instead of chpaters) and take notes. we read huckleberry finn last year and it was so boring.

I read the Giver last year, and that was the only book I probably liked.

[xoxo_proud]

Oh god... where to begin?

Romeo and Juliet - Hated it (not as bad as the Odyssey). It's just a bunch of crap about romance and the whiny Romeo and pathetic Juliet.

Odyssey - We just started reading this and I already want to stab myself. And you have to pay attention, the teacher walks around the room and taps you if you arent. Then you stop every two seconds and she asks, "OK what's happening NOW?".. Uh... who cares?

I loved I Have Lived a Thousand Years, Fahrenheit 451, The Outsiders, The Giver was OK and the same with The Catcher in the Rye. Most books are actually alot better (like Esperanza Rising was actually a very good book) when you're reading them outside of school. When you;re in school its all about "Now what do you think the GROCERY STORE symbolized class?" Which I know helps us become better readers (atleast that's what my teacher says ) but it does get boring.