That's a totally ridiculous question - how is that level of detail even remotely relevant to whether or not you read and understood the book??

To be fair, these quizzes were not designed to see if we had understood the book, just to test if we had read it. In English class at my school, we would have a book assigned a couple of chapters a day, and then each day, the class period started out with a 10 question quiz to see if we read it. Basically, I think the use was to scare people into doing the reading so we could have a decent discussion in class.

I was always getting burned, though, because I was so used to reading books in one sitting, I would just read the whole book, and couldn't remember what chapter I was supposed to be quizzing for.

Then we would have an actual comprehensive test once we finished reading the book.

I think the objective was also to teach us how to read and what to look for, but we never got a lesson on that, which in retrospect would have been helpful.

Sorry, I'm with Megan here.

I came at Clockwork Orange from being an angry young punker and thinking the movie was 'cool' so when I got around to reading the book it was quite an eye opener how differently the movie presented the world. I'm glad I read it.

The advantage of Henrietta Lacks is also that, were he interested, there are at least three radio interviews with the author that are super interesting as well.

Feed might be a quicker read if he isn't hooded by Henrietta's story.

Pfah! Can you have so little love for the play of language?

That's probably not going to be a draw for someone who doesn't like reading, though I agree with you. By the end of the book I was thinking in nadsat.

I really loved Feed, and I think it would be a good choice for someone who isn't generally much of a reader.

My school never had summer reading lists either, but I always loved summer because it meant I had time to go through shopping bags full of books, mostly while floating on the swimming pool.

I miss summer.

I miss summer.

Oh, god, yes, when it wasn't the time of "doing the same thing, only while sweating." When you could head out with the dog with a book and find a tree and do nothing for hours but read.

I remember that the summer before senior year, I chose to read The Sound and the Fury. We split into discussion groups the first day, and my group spent most of our time going, "What the HELL was that?"

One spring break, I read Animal Farm, 1984, and Brave New World. For fun. But then I ended up writing a paper on the last two, so that worked out.