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<?=$who;?> Forced to read in high school...and liked. Please feel free to add any book that you enjoyed despite being forced to read it. Edit
List created by Mark J. (CrazyaboutFantasy) - on Jul 23, 2010
List Votes: 2 Books: 7 Contributors: 2 Watchers: 1 List Type: Open
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CrazyaboutFantasy
Mark J. (CrazyaboutFantasy) -
Animal Farm by George Orwell
George Orwell's Animal Farm is still a widely read satire of Stalinism. The novel, which was rejected several times before its publication in 1945, is the focus of Bloom's Notes. Along with a collection of some of the best criticism available on his work, this text includes a brief biography of...  more

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CrazyaboutFantasy
Mark J. (CrazyaboutFantasy) -
1984 by George Orwell
1984 has come and gone, but George Orwell's prophetic, nightmarish vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is timelier than ever. 1984 is still the great modern classic of "Negative Utopia"--a startlingly original and haunting novel that creates an imaginary world that is...  more

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CrazyaboutFantasy
Mark J. (CrazyaboutFantasy) -
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here...  more

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CrazyaboutFantasy
Mark J. (CrazyaboutFantasy) -
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Tells a story about the strange relationship of two migrant workers, who are able to realize their dreams of an easy life until one of them succumbs to his weakness for soft, helpless creatures and strangles the farmer's wife. Tragic tale of a retarded man and the friend who loves and tries to...  more

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Mark J. (CrazyaboutFantasy) -
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck's epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a China that was -- now in a Contemporary Classics edition. Though more than sixty years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. "I...  more

Book Votes: 0
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CrazyaboutFantasy
Mark J. (CrazyaboutFantasy) -
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Kidnapped from his safe California home. Thrown into a life-and-death struggle in the frozen Arctic wilderness. Half St. Bernard, half shepherd, Buck learns many hard lessons as a sled dog: the lesson of the lash, of the cold, of near-starvation and cruelty. And the greatest lesson he learns...  more

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mommy2girlz
Aimee B. (mommy2girlz) -
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Also titled: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Set during five of the most intensely dramatic days ever portrayed, ROMEO AND JULIET was probably written in 1594 or 1595. Romeo is forced to approach Juliet in secret because of the impassioned rivalry between his family, the Montagues--and...  more

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Comment added 7/23/10 by Pat G. (scout1968) - , :
Gotta have "To Kill a Mockingbird".