What are you reading right now? (possible RotE spoilers)

[Farseer]

When I was in secondary school, Lord of the Flies was the curriculum read.

Still is, here! As are ones such as To Kill a Mockingbird, The Elephant Man or Of Mice and Men etc. More modern works such as Tomorrow When the War Began (which I hated but students loved!) and Across the Nightingale Floor (which both students and I loved! ) are on the list too though.

To this day I have no idea what it's about, though if I was to read it now, I might quite like it.

Actually, the son of mine who read it, loved it. Though he would much rather read something like ASoIaF, of course!

I loved English at school (okay...I loved all of my subjects!) and the books that are still memorable are ones such as Sun on the Stubble, The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith and Pygmalion. Yep, that's about as far back as my memory can stretch ...other than Macbeth, which I HATED!

@'thul: Interesting you mention that all students are different...it is for this reason that they actually do get a choice as to what they would like to read at times. In my opinion, this allows a student to not only pick something they may enjoy but to also be introduced to a variety of books, one or some of which they may later pick up to simply enjoy for themselves eg choose one to read as part of the curriculum but then the book cover or positive comments from friends concerning another of the novel choices may encourage interest in picking up a second or third.

I should mention though that my experiences of the curriculum here in Australia may well be different to what many others experience, even with the introduction into the National Curriculum, as it does mostly come down to the teacher in the end, not to mention public or private schools.

Still plodding along with Inheritance. Life is too busy for progress to be otherwise. *sigh*