I just read "To Kill A Mockingbird." It was so rockin...I literally, couldn't put it down. (I know it sounds oh-so corny but it's true!) What books do you guys think are the best?

harry potteeeeeeeeer definitely

right now im reading Steven King's "Cell" and its crazy. I like it but then it grosses me out but then I pick it bad up it's pretty good I guess thats just how all Steven King's books are like.

btw........ "a long way gone. memiors of a boy soldier." THAT is the best book ever! it really opened my eyes

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Originally posted by stupidity:
"""It's a love letter from the Lord"""
___Do my ears deceive me... or is it actually echoing idiocy in here?

you really shouldnt make comments like that without knowing the backgroud of what the other persons opinion is based on. .....(sigh) i just realized that that is major hypocrasy (however you spell that) becuase we all do that anyway. ah well...

btw..did anybody else think that paris hilton vid was halarios???

I read "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Huckleberry Finn" my Sophomore year in high school. I thought they were very important books in helping somone to understand what the culture, attitudes, and atmosphere was like back then for both whites and blacks. The characters in the books also have a strong influence on helping the reader to become more tolerant of differences.
However, here in my ignorant, low-class town of Renton, Washington, people are going insane and protesting to have these books banned in the schools. Why? You guessed it... because they include the "n-word". Of course, that's what blacks were called back then. I'm not saying it's right, but it's historically accurate, and the authors only use those terms to show the important change in the main characters' attitudes towards people of a different race.
But those are my comments. It's awesome being able to fill your mind with the great works of literature, and these staples of important writing should not be taken away from students!

I'm reading Gulliver's Travels by Swift.

It's brief, but the names are what get me. Wonderful piece of satire, I must say.

Also, you all should read "A Modest Proposal" by Swift. I found it quite amusing: "Babies: The Other White Meat"...

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I just finished this amazing book called I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. It is so good!

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I read that! Cuase I was going to England so my mom decided we shold read some books that took place in England. (?i dont always understand her) I liked it, but when I looked at the movie it looked sorta dissappointing, so I didn't watch it.

awwww i love shakespear i didnt really think anyone else read his work without being forst to. im reading a book right now called signiture killers i like it but it may be to boring and brutal for everyone else

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A Midsummer's Night's Dream

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I like that book too. It was great.

Oh my god, I just finished this amazing book called I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. It is so good! Its a girl's journal in early 20th century England. She lives in an old castle with her family. Her stepmother, Topaz, who is an artists model, her sister Rose and her father, a writer struggling to follow up the worldwide success of his first book. Its got love, sibling rivalry, class differences and just about everything else.

I want to see the movie.

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A Midsummer's Night's Dream is cool.

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I really enjoyed that. My class also had to act it out in the 7th grade, and watch the movie. I thought it was a lot of fun, even though my role required me to scream, "Help! A snake is crawling up my breast!" Ahh...memories.

-Nicole

Crzy, I was trying to describe the book to my friend, but she was fixated on the fact that there was a fairy named Puck.

The Lord of the Rings.

I like a variety of books but my favorites are crooked, zipped, flipped, a child called it, the called it, speak, the lost boy, party girl, lucas, bad.............. I could go on 4 hours

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A Midsummer's Night's Dream is cool

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My english class had to read that in 8th grade...and go see the play, and watch a lame cartoon movie of it.
I didn't hate it, but I was definitely sick of it.
I don't love it, but then again I'm not really into books with fairies, etc.

Go Ask Alice & Death Be Not Proud are good books that I am Reading right now.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is amazing.

A Midsummer's Night's Dream is cool. I like the faries. It took me forever to read it though.

strangely enough Sense and Sensibility is a bit like Pride and Prejudice It's set in the same era so it goes into love and marriage and economics... which all sounds terribly dry, but I think SnS has a better sense of humor than PnP and Emma Thompson did a great job of adapting that Austenian humor to the screen. I hate romantic movies usually but this one was quite good. Emma is a great actress as well and this has Hugh Grant (debonaire, dashing, charming blah blah blah), Kate Winslet (who surprisingly didn't annoy the hell out of me in this movie) and most important Alan Rickman (though hardly enough of him). It recieved awards but wasn't to popular in the US I guess.