Damn you north the border Scots and your good english literature education
Down in England we read Of Mice and Men, To Kill A Mocking Bird, Adrian Mole rubbish and a boatload of Shakespeare.
We did read The Monkey's Paw which was cool though.
Yeah, it was on the lists of texts you were allowed to do, or were 'highly recommened', ie if you didn't do those it was frowned upon by the exam board as they probably have not read Bukowski, lol.
We did Of Mice and Men too, and watched that tv adaptation with Malcovich, first time i saw him in anything.
Shakespeare wise we did Julius Ceasar.
Don't know what the Monkey's Paw is, will look it up, haven't read Adrain Mole, but i liked the tv series, lol.
But, Catcher was the one our teacher went into with us for the exam, looking at other folk's essays, writing out the discussed opinions on what it was about etc. She was a very cool and liberal teacher.
That's why I didn't want to do it, I think a lot of folk's essays would have turned out very similar, and I'm pretty sure I was the only one out of my class to get an A that year, maybe one other person, can't remember, so probably a good idea. Only one other person in my class did the Bell Jar.