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Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 11:53 AM
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Anyone want to suggest 5-10 books that they feel an incoming college freshman should have read while in High School (not necesssarily as part of their formal school curriculum). Reason's for particular books are encouraged, but not required.
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 11:59 AM
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I don't have five, but how about two? 1. Huckleberry Finn 2. Silas Marner Both of these are examples of brilliant books by brilliant authors. Commonly used highschool reading (at least used to be) and there's a reason!
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 12:25 PM
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don't forget :catcher in the rye Catch-22 to kill a mockingbird Atlas Shrugged Oeidpus Rex 20,000 leagues under the sea Uncle tom's cabin I have met the enemy and he is us by walt kelly and have them read without the politically correct censors getting their grubby paws on them. Bear who reads banned books
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 12:31 PM
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"to kill a mockingbird Uncle tom's cabin and have them read without the politically correct censors getting their grubby paws on them." Agreed! The same for Huck Finn.
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 12:31 PM
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I remember "Nectar in a Sieve" great book.
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 1:00 PM
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Any thing by Kafka. If you can keep your head un twisted after that, you may do ok in College.
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 1:19 PM
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Slaughterhouse Five
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 1:27 PM
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The obvious answer, at least to me, is the 5 - 10 highest priced books I have listed 
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 1:30 PM
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Of Plymouth plantation Generation of Swine Anthem Summer of the Red Wolf Left Hand of Darkness
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 2:13 PM
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Five books for a high schooler, before college. Edward Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (not only for the history, but for the language: the true nature of "compare and contrast" exposition is found in the wonderful cadences of this work) Kama Sutra: the high schooler has been thinking about sex since puberty: this book supplies the reader a realization that he/she is not the first, and that sex is a positive sign of living Catcher in the Rye: see above, substitute "self-worth" for "sex" George Polya: How to Solve It: practical applications, an informal but still solid means to approach solution techniques while keeping frustration in check Charles Dodgson: Symbolic Logic: formal logic presented with Lewis Carroll's totally wicked syllogisms, for a realization that the truth can be extracted from any mess of language Bruce B. Reynolds, Trailing Edge Technologies, Glenside PA
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 2:17 PM
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The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine Jefferson: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 2:22 PM
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Count of Monte Cristo Ivanhoe Because I like 'em. 
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 2:23 PM
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What a wonderful thread. My suggestions are, for the most part, best read between high school and college. Not that a student will do much reading in that summer, but some of these titles are better not read too young:
Anything by Nabokov: specifically Lolita and Invitation to a Beheading
Anything by Vonnegut
Gore Vidal's satirical work: specifically Kalki
Brave New World (this one, especially shouldn't be read too young. I have seen it warp some young minds)
13 Days
Fast Food Nation and Freakonomics (must reads for everyone, as far as I am concerned)
and if a student is especially literarily daring
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
and (wait for it)
Revelation
Why, you ask? Revelation (John's Gospel ?) is a highly quoted piece of literature. Knowing it can only add to a persons ability to converse intelligently. Especially with the intellectual and pseudo intellectuals that populate a university.
I think there are few of these titles that will fall on a high school reading list. samuraib
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 2:36 PM
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The Ninth Wave by Eugene Burdick Demian by Herman Hesse Roughing It by Mark Twain Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe The Year of the Angry Rabbit by Russell Braddon The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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Re: Recommend 5-10 Books Every High Schooler Should Read Before College
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Jan 25, 2007 2:47 PM
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Johnny Got His Gun
The Old Man and the Sea
Atlas Shrugged
Brave New World
On The Road
A Clockwork Orange
Call of the Wild
Cannery Row
In Cold Blood
Slaughterhouse Five
Gulliver's Travels
The World According to Garp
Ender's Game
Stranger in a Strange Land
A Confederacy of Dunces
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance OK, so I could go on forever... Edit - and I don't care how many "Great Books" lists it is on, NO ONE should be forced to read Ulysses. Or Faulkner.
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