books you were glad to get in school or would have liked to get

[Master_Wang-Ka]

“Of Mice And Men.”

Only thing I can think of that I read in school that I both liked and would not have read if I had not been assigned to read.

[gallows_fodder]

*Originally posted by BrotherCadfael *
**The Godfather was published while I was in eigthth grade. It was one of the first mass-market books to include explicit sexual descriptions… it was passed around from student to student: “Check out page 26!”

I had not heard of this book, so I wasn’t prepared when a friend handed it to me, already open to the infamous page 26. The “friend” then stood there, loudly commenting on the degree of my blushing… **

Heh, that sounds just like what happened when my 11th grade English class was given the option of reading The Fountainhead for extra credit.

“God, this book is dull…”
“Just wait till you get to page 317!”

[BrotherCadfael]

I’ve read the Fountainhead… Page 317 doesn’t begin compare to the Godfather, page 26…