Once I read a trashy fanfic out loud in a vc with all of my friends in it. Good times.

A tale of two cities.....yawnnnnn

Romeo and Juliet. I know, technically not a book, but my 10th grade English made us read the script instead of watching the play. I do agree that it is a literature masterpiece, I have great respect towards Shakespeare. But the ending is stupid. Why would you marry a person you met a day ago! Why would you [i]die[/i] for a person you met 2 days ago! I understand they are teenagers and that they make stupid decisions, but I'm pretty sure not even a teenager, in the height of their -blam!-, when most of the hormones are rushing and the prefrontal cortex still developing, would a make such a stupid decision! I know there is still a story that pushed them to it. But there's multiple people you could have prevented this from happening! *cough cough Friar Lawrence and The Nurse cough cough*. If you have Read, watched, or listened to the play, you'll understand. "True love at first sight" doesn't exist. Relationships take time to develop. Hmph

I was my own teacher in highschool, so I didn't have to read anything. Pretty much anything I read was because I wanted to. that said Nicholas nickelby

I don't remember what it was called, but it was about this society that--when you reached a certain age--you'd be taken in and turned into a "Pretty". As the name implies Pretties all had, like, perfect appearances, and stuff. The protag's presumed love interest is just a little older than she was, and so he got turned into a Pretty first, and while Pretties and Uglies weren't usually allowed to talk to each other, she snuck out to see him, and then found he was acting really different. So, like, then there was this other girl, who lived outside this society, and had a hoverboard, and the two ran away out into the wild, where there was this whole tiny society of "Uglies", -blam!- the whole Pretty thing. I think the protag had made a deal with the government, though, and was like a double agent, reporting back where these people were. Then, lo and behold, this government was BAD, and she decides to join the ranks of the town instead. I don't really remember much about it, though. Tbh, the book might not have been [i]that[/i] bad, but it came a chapter-by-chapter assignment, where we had to answer questions about obscure details, like "What was the shape of the mask that dissolved into the carpet.". For the record, to any teachers out there, don't do that. You should instead be testing your students on more abstract questions, getting their thoughts, and testing their understanding of the book. In any case, the one cool thing I remember about the book was, there was that girl with the hoverboard, right? Well, she had, like, these safety bracelets, and if you fell off the hoverboard, the bracelets would catch you in mid-air just before you hit the ground. That's pretty cool. Though, irl, I'm pretty sure that would rip the arms out of your sockets--but tbf the protag does mention it being painful. [spoiler]I remember right at the end of the book, the protagonist went back to the city, and walked up to the authorities, and the very last line of the book was "My name is (name), and I want you to make me Pretty.", and I just rolled my eyes. I wonder if my memories of the book would be better if they didn't have such lame titles like "Pretties" and "Uglies".[/spoiler]

Of mice and men

Christianity, Social Tolerance and -blam!- by John Boswell. Had to read it for an assignment and it was rough.

Dang. That’s one of the greatest guides to success in life

Johnny Tremain.

Anything we had to read in whatever high school English class. Books that were way out of date even back then.