Clockwork orange isn’t high school core
Has anyone on this board actually read all of these shitty high school–core books?
Connor White
Asher Rodriguez
High school english teachers, based on personal experience, are all pretty much defined by their being just a little too into Harry Potter and sticking mostly to modern fiction / YA novels as far as their literary consumption goes. I had one guy who taught me who was pretty into Shakespeare and Homer as a general rule they work well with 15 year olds because that's what they read like.
I still remember when I was in 12th grade I had an old english teacher from previous years approach me in the library to ask what I was reading, I think it was the Gambler or Notes or some other short Dostoevsky book (pretty standard 'I'm 17 and think I'm smart-core I think) and they straight up hadn't heard of him. It wasn't that they'd not read him, they did not know who the man was, period.
I never had any educators with a strong interest in literature until I got to college, that's usually where you find people with an actual passion or considerable breadth of knowledge in their field.
Justin Gonzalez
I have read 12 of those.
Chase Collins
Why cant a good book appeal to a more general audience? Im not saying all books are good or that inaccessible books are bad. I think there are books that can be a meanginful read to highschoolers as well as learned, well-read adults (perhaps in different ways)
Jordan Davis
user is making a statement, you're the one who should disprove it.
Samuel Rivera
my english teacher had a big tattoo of a fly on her back and while teaching us a christina rossetti poem with the line
>Oh vanity of vanities, desire!
she didn't know that "vanity" meant a worthless thing and was a reference to ecclesiastes. she thought it meant being vain about one's appearance
Isaiah Moore
>I have a friend here who's invisible. Prove me wrong.
Based retard.
Anthony Lee
>false equivalence
Based retard.
Aiden Miller
Anthony Brown
Yes, he did. I'd noticed that when I composed the earlier post. The reason why you haven't added anything of value with your observation, is because the OP functions primarily as a derisive invitation to count off one's read "high school" books from the list, and secondarily as the (usually true) banality that high school literature sucks.
That is, the OP's scorn is partially unwarranted in the sense that "at least a few" of these books are culturally mandatory, which was the substance of my observation. It's just some unpleasant thing that you had to do in school, once. Ironically, if you actually did it (read the book), then you become able to dismiss the book itself from an informed position, which has value in-itself.