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Has anyone ever read A Separate Peace by John Knowles? We have to read it for my English class, and all the students are pretty divided. Some absolutely love it, and others never read it (they just copy answers and such.)

No, I'm not trying to bum answers here, I'm just curious as to see if anyone has read it, and your thoughts on it.

I thought that the book was very inappropriate for high school literature. I felt that there were far too many homosexual occurrances in the book for it to be anywhere near appropriate for High School reading.

Fifty bucks says they were both ready to come out with their big relationship the day before Finny broke his leg.

I mean c'mon, who goes to the beach and says 'You really are my best friend ever.' I mean yea I can see a girl doing that but c'mon. I hated it.

That's not even what I was talking about. I was talking about the different times when the narrator describes the shapeliness of Phineaus' derrier. To me, that was the most tell-tale sign.

Finny's pink shirt gave it away for me. I liked it though.

Here's the funny thing about it. I had to read it twice at my high school: once during 10th grade and once during my senior year. My 10th grade English teacher kept telling us "There's not homosexuality in this book, you just have dirty minds" and my senior English teacher said there was.

When I read it the first time, I sorta skimmed because I didn't generally read the books we were assigned. Senior year, however, I had to do a paper on the book and I didn't want to get a bad grade so I read it, and I thought it was good.