Did you read ALAS, BABYLON in school?

[raccoon]

I've read it lots of times, but not for school. It's one of my favorite books, due to the way it deals with personal growth in the main characters.

I understand it used to be assigned in school, though.

[Tyler Durden]

1. Randolph Rowzee Bragg: a hero of my adolescence

That book should be required reading in any course of American Literature.

[AllegroRondo]

2. Read it, but not for school.

Great book, though.
I should put that in my daughter's bookcase.

[Jamastiene]

3. Same as you.

Never was assigned to read it in school, but I read it several times at home. It is one of my most favorite books of all time and one of my most prized possessions. That book did something to me. It made me think more in terms of what would you do to survive this or that. The Cold War sucked, but not as bad as the thought of a Hot War did.

[RebelOne]

4. Read it, but not for school.

There is also a movie.

[ruiner4u]

5. read it but not for school..

great book...

[LanternWaste]

6. I read it, but never as an assignment-- just for fun.

I read it, but never as an assignment-- just for fun.

I wasn't too enamored with it though, it seemed another cookie cutter for the post-apocalyptic nutter crowd (and by golly did we have a lot of those when I was in my teens).

Unless I'm thinking of a completely different book...

[CC]

7. I read it in school and yes it

was assigned reading. Then again I lived with 10 miles of McCoy AFB at the time.

[njdemocrat106]

8. We were assigned it in 10th grade English

I haven't read it since then, but one these days, I'll pick it up again.

[alphafemale]

9. Not assigned. But I have read it. Pissed me off when the girl was shamed for catching fish.

Because it wasn't her "role as a woman" or some such shit.

[raccoon]

11. Yeah, much as I liked the book, there was sexism and racism in it.

It was published in 1959, so that explains it.

[LibertyLover]

10. Not for school

but when I was in high school the mother of a friend of mine gave me a copy because she thought I would like it. It was a very powerful book.

[catmandu57]

12. Yes it was assigned reading

in my eigth grade language arts, we had that, Lord of the Flys, Johnny Tremaine, and another one that I don't remember.

[Zomby Woof]

13. Assigned in 9th grade

I enjoyed it. It was 2 years before ABC's then-controversial "The Day After", which had some parallels, but I preferred 'Babylon'.

The book had more resonance in the Reagan years, when the Cold War rhetoric was ratcheted up.

[Paladin]

14. Just Read It For The First Time Recently

Absolutely wonderful book. And you pegged the basic reason why: the evolution and growth of the characters in response to horrible circumstances.

And that surprise ending on the very last page---truly classic. Highly recommended.....

[Swede]

15. A long time ago,but not in school.

Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour is thy judgment come.