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I've been hearing people say they didn't know The Great Gatsby was a book once the trailer to the movie came out... DID YOU GO TO HIGHSCHOOL?!
The Great Gatsby is one of my favorites along with anything by Mary Higgins Clark.


The Great Gatsby was my least favorite book that I had to read in high school. The movie trailer brings back bad memories
 
The Great Gatsby was my least favorite book that I had to read in high school. The movie trailer brings back bad memories

Believe it or not, at the time it was also my least favorite. I started to enjoy reading more once I graduated High School and enjoyed it much more the second time around. I also love rich people being scandalous & conniving so that helped, too.
 
The first time I read Gatsby, I was lukewarm about it, but after reading it a second time, I LOVED it. There's such a good message behind the story.
 
i'm with JayySoFierce

I hated just about everything I was assigned to read in high school, including Gatsby, all of Mitch Albom's work, The Scarlet Letter, etc. With the exception of A Streetcar Named Desire, I've gone back and reread and fell in love with every single book I was ever assigned. I'm convinced I only hated them because of how drawn out they were. I also think some of my teacher's interpretations and "in-depth" discussions turned me off, too. I love reading because of the way you can imagine the characters and the story all in your own way and a teacher telling me it was wrong ruined most every book for me.
 
Believe it or not, at the time it was also my least favorite. I started to enjoy reading more once I graduated High School and enjoyed it much more the second time around. I also love rich people being scandalous & conniving so that helped, too.


I hated everything about the that book. The characters...themes...everything. I'm a very hit or miss person when it comes to literature and theres no going back. When I do readers advisory for patrons I preface my recommendations with "I absolutely hated this book...but you're going to love it"...and sure enough a week later they come back and tell me how great it was.
 
My favorite books I have read in my 18 years of life would have to be the Harry Potter series, Jodi Picoult books, To Kill A Mockingbird, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Great Gatsby, The Notebook, Pretty Little Liars series, Water for Elephants, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Hunger Games series, Of Mice and Men, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, among others. I've enjoyed many of the books we read at school, as well as your Nicholas Sparks type of book, fantasy novels like Harry Potter, as wells as stories about adolescents in other countries throughout history. If anyone has a suggestion for me I'm currently looking for new books to read!
 
I was also taught the Dewey Decimal System more than once throughout the years, but now as a Senior in high school I do not remember it by heart. I tend to only read fictional novels and also usually buy books at Barnes and Noble, who separate by topic, rather than the DDS. I don't visit the library very often, thought my mom took my brother and I to the library almost every week until I was in like 6th grade and I'm so glad she did because I still LOVE to read even when all my peers think it is a stupid pastime. Sorry for all of the run-on sentences!
 
My favorite books I have read in my 18 years of life would have to be the Harry Potter series, Jodi Picoult books, To Kill A Mockingbird, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Great Gatsby, The Notebook, Pretty Little Liars series, Water for Elephants, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Hunger Games series, Of Mice and Men, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, among others. I've enjoyed many of the books we read at school, as well as your Nicholas Sparks type of book, fantasy novels like Harry Potter, as wells as stories about adolescents in other countries throughout history. If anyone has a suggestion for me I'm currently looking for new books to read!
You have like the same tastes in books as me haha. I love Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, not sure if you've read that one. I just got done reading Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs for the second time. It's different and interesting. My aunt got me into the One For The Money series by Stephanie Plum. They're fast reads and pretty fun. I read six over summer when I went to our cabin, so basically one a day. I'm a fast reader haha. The Carrie Diaries series is good, but there are only two out. I think there is supposed to be a third. The Kieran Scott He's So/She's So trilogy is pretty girl. The first book (She's So Dead To Us) gave me a Mean Girls feel.
 
You have like the same tastes in books as me haha. I love Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult, not sure if you've read that one. I just got done reading Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs for the second time. It's different and interesting. My aunt got me into the One For The Money series by Stephanie Plum. They're fast reads and pretty fun. I read six over summer when I went to our cabin, so basically one a day. I'm a fast reader haha. The Carrie Diaries series is good, but there are only two out. I think there is supposed to be a third. The Kieran Scott He's So/She's So trilogy is pretty girl. The first book (She's So Dead To Us) gave me a Mean Girls feel.
Hahh thank you for all the suggestions! I'll be sure to check them out! I've read all of Jodi Picoult's books and loved Nineteen Minutes too! Change of Heart and The Pact are my other two favorite books of hers.
 
Hahh thank you for all the suggestions! I'll be sure to check them out! I've read all of Jodi Picoult's books and loved Nineteen Minutes too! Change of Heart and The Pact are my other two favorite books of hers.
I'll have to check those ones out!
 
Winning Balance by Shawn Johnson was one of my favorites!! I like reading books about gymnastics for some reason! my favorite part about the shawn johnson book is the fact that I live in her home town so I know a lot of the surroundings she talks about! I also really liked The Clique series, Pretty Little Liars, Harry Potter, Hostage, anything by Nicholas Sparks, The Hunger Games, Anne Frank's diary, Sarah's Key, Anything by Sarah Dessen, The lying Game, Number The Stars, A Wrinkle In Time, Ender's Game, From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Flipped, I'd Tell you I love But Then I'd Have To Kill you, Before I die, Chalked Up: Inside Gymnastics' Merciless Coaching Overzealous Parents Eating Disorders and Elusive olympic dreams, Dominque Monceanu: A gymnastic sensation. Thats all I'm going to put down considering that I've read way too any books to remember them all....
 
Hahh thank you for all the suggestions! I'll be sure to check them out! I've read all of Jodi Picoult's books and loved Nineteen Minutes too! Change of Heart and The Pact are my other two favorite books of hers.
BuegeSmalls Have either of you read The Storyteller? I love her books and this one especially! I think it's pretty new (considering it mentions Fifty Shades of Grey) and its amazing! Also the one about the girl with the bone disease, I read it in like 6th grade so I don't remember the title. But it's one of my favorites by her


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I hated everything about the that book. The characters...themes...everything. I'm a very hit or miss person when it comes to literature and theres no going back. When I do readers advisory for patrons I preface my recommendations with "I absolutely hated this book...but you're going to love it"...and sure enough a week later they come back and tell me how great it was.
Double post but I'm the same way! People ask me about Ender's game, which I read in 4th grade, and I tell them I absolutely HATED it. I seem to be the only one in the world who feels that way and people tell me to reread it because "ill like it" but no. I know I won't


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