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(2,223 posts)back in the late 80's. At the end of junior year, seniors who were planning on enrolling in AP english were given a list of 30 or so books by the AP teacher, who expected us to read at least 5 of them to prepare for the AP class. I read the list and handed it back, telling the teacher that i had already read on the list in the past 2 years, so she told me to pick any 5 books and she'd approve them. one of the books i picked was Handmaid's Tale, which raised her eyebrow but she let it slide. First day of class we had to write an essay about any of the books we had read, I wimped out and did The Hobbit. Anyway, over the course of the 1st semester we dissected our books with a provrebial scanning electron microscope, which required us to have the book we work on to on hand. That said, I picked Handmaid's Tale because it was the one that interested me before, it was goold old Dystopian literature (i was a depressing emo before emo kid back then). Several of my other teachers gave me some seriously dirty looks when i was reading it, one even confronted me over it in his class. he was a garden variety domionist in training (i went to a catholic and VERY conservative high school) and rudely asked me why i was bothering to read such garbage. I responded with equal rudeness that it was going to help me later in life on the off chance asshats like you take over. he was not amused and dragged me physically to see the principal, who was in fact amused at the teacher's overreaction to my comment. so i got out of class and spent the rest of the period discussing the book with the principal. who was just as freaked out as i was by the content (catholic priest). one of my better memories from school.