Douglas Adams Continuum (DAC)

Self explanatory. There are many novels our English teachers, parents, annoying strangers, etc. forced into our grubby little hands, but sometimes they were pretty interesting.

I've found that most of the books that people have tried to ban are quite fun. Crazy soccer moms don't know good literature when it's waved in their face, do they?
I'm about 3/4 way through War and Peace with my Honors World Lit. class, and parts of it are really good (and the parts that aren't so good have some little detail or joke about them that makes up for it).

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In my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair
I'm not in the mood for whirling

"But you have no weapons! No defenses! NO PLAN!"
"Yeah. And doesn't that scare you to death?"

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

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...And then they made me their chief.

I've tried to start War and Peace many, many times. Just can't seem to get far. I like Pierre though. Didn't he tie some guy to the back of a bear? And wasn't there something about a drinking game that took place while hanging out of a window?

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The truth ain't like puppies. A bunch of 'em running around, you pick your favorite.

There's nothing funny about a plastic vagina.

The Epic Project. It happened. Way too late.

Yep. He gets a little more sensible later on, but still has some wild ideas.

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In my broken chair, my wings are broken and so is my hair
I'm not in the mood for whirling

"But you have no weapons! No defenses! NO PLAN!"
"Yeah. And doesn't that scare you to death?"

Animal Farm

got me into George Orwell properly that one did..

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Carpe aleae

Alexander Solzhenitsyn- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, I would never have chosen to read this book but it was great.

can´t think of one. i could make a list, though, of books i was not supposed to read but liked...

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck
Anthem - Ayn Rand

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

I owe my Shakespeare obsession to my 8th garde English teacher. Ok, so it was a play, but we were forced to read it nonetheless.

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Mr.Spork says you smell funny.

yeah, of mice and men. also, The Troll Circle, by Sigurd Hoel. (original title: Trollringen, they have the translated edition on amazon.co.uk. just discovered this. heh. imagine that. I read that book 3 times in the time it took people in my class to read it once. now it's available in english. I wonder what the translation is like.)

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Batman: Nobody wants war.

Robin: Gee, Batman. Belgravia's such a small country. We'd beat them in a few hours.

Batman: Yes, and then we'd have to support them for years.

E.T.A. Hoffmann - The Devil's Elixirs
Franz Kafka - The Trial
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The Sorrows of Young Werther
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff - The Life of a Good-for-nothing
T.S. Eliot - Murder in the Cathedral

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
(Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See")

You liked this?
I thought it was a punishment.

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The drug purportedly affected an area of the brain called "Shatner's Bassoon"

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
http://s267.photobucket.com/albums/ii297/h2g230/

I like it, but then I like The Beatles too ...

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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
(Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See")

hated that whiny git. rather liked "ultime lettere di jacopo ortis" though, to my great surprise, because this is supposed to the "italian version" of "Werther".

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

Thomas Hardy "Far From the Madding Crowd". But it took until I was about half-way through it (600 pages, ugh).

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vagabond
birds, any birds, anywhere, any time

Dante - Inferno

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (as everyone else has said)
The Odyssey by Homer
Beowulf by some dead guy
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin

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"Madness is the first sign of dandruff." - Dr. John "Winston O'Boogie" Lennon

"I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in imaginary violence." - Paul Rudd in Role Models

Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Fish.

Totally seconded.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

I wasn't made to read this one, but I did, and it was damn good.

Same with The Song of Roland.

I like old epic poetry.

Except the greek/roman stuff. That crap blows.

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...And then they made me their chief.

Nothing to be ashamed of.

I do too.

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

Momo och tiden.
Or, on english: Momo and the time or something like that. My mum and teacher maked me start the book, in 1 month i did get like 100 pages. After that i did get 400 pages on a week. It did went better :)

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Jackisan
Official wannabe ninja

By Michael Ende? If so, the english version is just called "Momo." And I agree, that was a damn good book. I wasn't made to read it though, I chose to.

It's the same author as The Neverending Story, which is an even better book, I think.

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...And then they made me their chief.

Yes, is exactly same book i think. And Den oändliga historien is on swedish too. Woho, must reed it :)

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Jackisan
Official wannabe ninja

Yeah, I've read Momo. Good book.

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The truth ain't like puppies. A bunch of 'em running around, you pick your favorite.

There's nothing funny about a plastic vagina.

The Epic Project. It happened. Way too late.

Spent half of grade 11 studying "La Chanson de Roland"....*sigh*....rather enjoyed it also...

Ather books I was forced to read and enjoyed was "Le Comte de Monte Cristo"...

The Outsiders, S. E. Hinton- fav book of all time
The Pigman, Paul Zindel
Hoot, Carl Hiaasen
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
Hamlet. Best. Ever. So many good jokes.
Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life of Pi

That's all I can think of. All we did in APE was read and essays. @_@ Good class, though.

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Zombies make bad gifts.

Thirded. Also:

Something Wicked This Way Comes Wow... Sweetness.
Animal Farm
1984
Fahrenheit 451

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Personally, I believe joblessness is one of the core prerequisites for creativity. - OZ

Flowers for Algernon. The saddest book I will ever read. Mum threw it at me for years before I broke down and read it.

I almost forgot:
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

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"Madness is the first sign of dandruff." - Dr. John "Winston O'Boogie" Lennon

"I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in imaginary violence." - Paul Rudd in Role Models

Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Fish.

It neveer really occured to me that parental recomendations could count for this list. In that case:

The Monkey Wrench Gang by Ed Abbey
Neuromancer by William Gibson
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

All given to me by my dad. He gives good book advice. My mom doesn't. She told me to read the Dan Brown books. But I love her anyway.

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...And then they made me their chief.

Hahahaha. The first time I read Young Werther, I had to do it for a German class in German. It took me about 150 years to get through it and was VERY difficult. I hated almost every minute of it.

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"Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings."

Flowers for Algernon, most definitely.
Lord of the Flies was a shocking surprise.
Where the Red Fern Grows was another.

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www.nocandyasses.com

"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."--H.L. Mencken

www.campaignforliberty.com

William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying

Was astounded by how good it was, how much I identified with the style, how much it got me.
Even though it was the only Faulkner required for that semester, I read almost every other
novel he published before the year ended.

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Steal Compass. Drive North. Disappear.

twitter: @kensocrates

Watership Down. Never thought a tale about rabbits could be so cool as to make me read it a second time, but it was, and I did.

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I have turned a new leaf: everyday from here-on-out I shall make it a point to do some random act of bravery and then run like hell
http://steampunk.ning.com/profile/VonDarkfaulker

Naiv super, by Erlend Loe..

That`s it.. Others I decided to read myself or didn`t like..

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--Dundre

Sexual Interactions by Allegeir & Allegeir.

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This has been another random act of nonsense.

Fahrenheit 451 - after that I picked up most other Bradbury books I could find, all of which were very good.
Shakespeare's Midsummernight's Dream
Dürrenmatt's Der Richter und sein Henker

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Come to reggies - the restaurant at the end of the internet

You were forced to read that? I thought You'de be the first one to raise Your hand if someone shouted 'Who would like a book entitled Sexual Interactions?'!

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

[url]Det forsømte forår / Stolen Spring[/url] by [url]Hans Scherfig[/url] I ended up reading most of his works.

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Mooned on my first and 1000th post.