Feature and Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee's View and Alison Can read. Each week there're two featured blogs. This week's featured blogs are Books are my reality and Concise Book Reviews.
Question of the week:
Summer Reading. What was your favorite book that you were REQUIRED to read when you were in school?
Answer: Oh God, I hated required reading when I was in school. I'd much rather read something paranormal or romance related. With that said, my favorite would have been:
Anthem by Ayn Rand.
A lot of dystopian nowadays actually reminds me of it.
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i haven't heard of that one. i read tons of good books in school. some bad ones too but the good def outweigh the bad!
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The only thing I tried to read by Ayn Rand was Fountainhead and I couldn't finish it. Yes Outsiders is a classic that you have to read. Watch the movie as well. Like everyone is in it: Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Ralph Machio, Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillion and a bunch of other people I can't even remember.
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I hadn't heard of this one, but If it reminds you of dystopian then I might have to check it out.
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Today at my book group we had a huge discussion about Ayn Rand!! :) Talk about coincidence!
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I've heard of Ayn Rand, but no required reading on it nor have I read any of her works. Heard MANY great things about it. Maybe that's why it wasn't required at my school.. LOL.
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Never read that, nor have I heard of it either.
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I haven't heard of that one. But I'm not really big on dystopian.. mehh. But I wasn't all that into reading required books in school either.. but some of them were pretty good.
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Oh wow, Ayn Rand is heavy stuff! Old follower! My FF
I haven't heard of this book but it sounds interesting :)
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I'm a new GFC follower and haven't heard of that book, but will
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this was a super short one lol. I read it in one sitting. Maybe that's why I liked it so much
oh wow. gna go find it now. I actually read Fountainhead for my senior research paper in high school. Most ppl thought I was crazy, but I actually enjoyed it. I think it's because Rand's writing is more "modern" than a lot of older classics. I also really liked her concept even if she was kind of weird.
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it's very short and doesn't have all the details/trilogies of dystopians now. I think it worked better because she got the point across and was done, instead of dragging out the story.
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haha maybe. can't have you read something enjoyable in school. Anthem was the only required reading. all her other works are wayy too long, over 1000 pages
it's a pretty good dystopian. very short!
I hated reading required books lmao. some of them are interesting. I think if I didn't have to write a paper or analyze it i would've enjoyed it a lot more!
haha not this one at least. or maybe I just didn't really figure it out
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I haven't heard of that one.. I'll check it out!
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Hmmm. Never heard this book, but I like the title!
I always preferred to pick my own books as well.
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Sometimes my summer reading list would let me choose from a set of given titles, but most of them were less than enthralling to me. I would have much rather read something paranormal, too.
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LOL I know exactly what you mean! The only books I liked while reading in school were ones that contained romance! >_<
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you had to write a paper and analyze it? >.< maybe I don't remember that part of high school lol. maybe it was so traumatizing my mind has blocked it and I can no longer remember what a fragile state I was in hahahahaha. oh lawd.
Never heard of it. Must check it out! Thanks fro stopping by :)
Hey! Thanks for stopping by! I haven't heard of that book :(
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I haven't read that one, but am totally with you on not enjoying most of your required reading. Always loved reading on my own, just not for school.
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