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ITT= Overrated books

>> No.7323998

ITT: Books that you were forced to read in High School

>> No.7324001

>>7323998
>tfw no one forced me to read a book in high school

>> No.7324007

>>7323996
Books you are still not old enough to get

>> No.7324013

should be

ITT americans rush to the defence of their highly overrated """great""" american novels

>> No.7324020

>>7324007
i didn't say "grapes of wrath is a bad book", but seriously it's overrated as fuck

>> No.7324023

>>7323996
that is a flawless book. it sets out to do something and nails it.

of course above doesn't mean it's the best book ever but it's always a pleasure read

>> No.7324024
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>> No.7324046

>>7324020
I maintain what I said. And I'm far from being a fan of American Culture where I've never been and where I have no intention of going in the future. It is not a book for High-School kids, for example I doubt many kids gave any attention to the 5th chapter, where he talks about the banks, etc..

>> No.7324052

>>7324046
Ok i'm a high school kid then

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7324096

This book was fucking trash

>> No.7324098

>>7324096
Its good actually

>> No.7324104

>>7324098
I disagree

It fucking beats you over the head with the religious themes and allusions

And it was boring desu senpai

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>>7323996
Fuck off OP its a great book.
Though Noah leaving always seemed a bit random.

>pic related to the OP

>> No.7324183

>>7324096
Hello /HighSchool/

>> No.7324204

>>7323996
Overated = used in a lot of high schools?

It's a great book either way

>> No.7324208

>>7323996
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2JR3FmvVAw

Fuck I love it

>> No.7324220

>>7324024
There ya go.

>> No.7324350

>>7324007
>must be the obly reason somebody can dislike a work of such obvious brilliance amiright senpai
fuck off retard, it's shit, stupid social justice, awful characters and prose and everything, fuk off

>> No.7324375

>>7324350
>senpai
>stupid social justice
>Uses words he saw in manga

How do you expect to be taken seriously

>> No.7324533

>>7324024
shots have been fired...

>> No.7324538

>>7324375
>he doesn't know about the new filters

baka desu senpai

>> No.7324541

>>7323996
this is a masterpiece

>> No.7324621

>>7324096
>>7324104
I can appreciate why it's in a reading curriculum. But it really is the worst kind of Romanticism, verbose and one dimensional.

>> No.7324651

just read it for the first time and I thought it was fantastic. Chapter 19 was my favorite.

>> No.7324681

>>7324375
hi redit desu

>> No.7325834

>>7323996
Any by Dostoevsky.

>> No.7325938

>>7324204
You read the whole grapes of wrath in high school? Over here in australia, you'd struggle to get students to read a book over 200 pages in a non elected english class. Does every single student love reading in non elected english classes?

>> No.7325943

>>7325938

Nah, I'm an English teacher. Most just read the wiki. Only /lit/ pretends it can read a 800 page book in two days and acts like it's been doing that since they were freshmen in high school

>> No.7325958

>>7324024
kind of true insofar Protestants see the Scriptures as practically the paper incarnation of the Holy Spirit