Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by the Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week the theme is gratitude. In the past I’ve written about books I’m grateful for so this time I thought I’d talk about some assigned reading I didn’t appreciate.
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Every semester this particular professor would change which Faulkner book his students would read. I had the misfortune to be taking his class when he assigned The Sound and the Fury. He enjoyed cackling at our expense way too much.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
I struggled through this, mostly because I thought it was boring, but also as a thirteen year old I had little sympathy for a guy who would go into the Alaskan wilderness unprepared and without useful survival skills. I don’t think he deserved to die; it’s just not surprising that he did.
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
Mostly I didn’t like the narrator. I thought he was pompous and ignorant. But our professor really liked the narrative when he was a kid so he thought we’d enjoy it.
Love your list idea, a big twist on the topic 😂 I didn’t read any of these at school but I did read Lord of the Flies and that was not fun 🙄 although I read To Kill a Mockingbird for English and loved it! That made my list this week actually 😂
My ttt: https://bookslifeotheroddities.wordpress.com/2018/11/20/books-im-thankful-i-read/
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So glad I dodged the Lord of the Flies bullet!
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Oh yeah it’s horrendous!
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I used to hate assigned readings. Two books I could never get through were the Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Stranger by Albert Camus. i just couldn’t get into these two.
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Nice, unique take on this topic! School left me with similar feelings about Atonement by Ian McEwan. Analysing the symbolism of a paperclip was slightly offputting… Pity, because it’s probably a great book.
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That is a bit off-putting… I read it on my own and it was my first read where I realized as I was reading it that the narrator was unreliable and how that impacted everything.
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Love your spin on things/the topic you picked. We read so much in school sometimes I forget that I *did* learn from some of them. I had the same thoughts as you on Into the Wild when I read it back in school.
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Oh good, so glad I’m not the only one. 🙂
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Love your twist on the topic! Can’t stand Faulkner, so I hear you there!
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Thank goodness I’m not the only one.
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Yeah I agree!
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