Episode 138:
That Fellow In The Coat: The Books That Should Be Taught in School That Fellow In The Coat looks back at his school years and explains the books that teachers should consider teaching to their students. Title Card Drawn by: dookyIKRdooky.
Date And Time: 2011-12-11 21:51:37
Comment: I think that things like Percy Jackson and Kane Chronicals should be taught, due to the humor, action and refences to mythology
Name: Alan Smithee
Date And Time: 2011-05-29 21:29:55
Comment: @Googamp32 Pity neither of you bothered to add "In loving Memory of J.D. Salinger (1919-2010)" at the the end of your vid.
Name: Cronos
Date And Time: 2011-05-11 17:07:34
Comment: You should do a rant on the Twilight fanchise and see why it's the most hated vampire/werewolf love story ever.
Name: Jordan
Date And Time: 2011-04-07 17:11:12
Comment: What did you think of The Witch of Blackbird Pond and do find it funny that you don't really like The catcher in the rye which inspired both the (attempted) assassination of Ronald Regan and the very sad death of my favorite Beatle John Lennon?
Name: Hayden
Date And Time: 2011-04-06 21:25:12
Comment: Have you read John Steinbeck's "the Pearl?" I had to read it last year. I was expecting it to be as good as "of mice and men," but it was 100 pages of boring, pointless morals shoved right into my face."
Name: 411314
Date And Time: 2011-04-05 12:08:25
Comment: I actually chose to read "Frankenstien" in middle school, and though there were parts where I wished it wasn't so slow, overall I enjoyed it. I also liked "To Kill A Mockingbird", which I read in high school. I hated being assigned to read "Old Man and the Sea" in high school, though. I joked that it should be called something like "Old Man In A Boat Talking To Himself" because that's all that happens for most of it.
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Date And Time: 2011-04-04 22:35:41
Comment: I didn't read any truly horrible books for school in High School, but I did in middle school... my brother and I like to joke that those Newbery Awards, specifically the "Newbery Medal" is secretly the "worst children's book of the year" award... no good books have ever received it, that I know of, but a lot of HORRIBLE ones have... I have a low tolerance for books that are depressing to that point that I wish the totally unlikable, flat, whiny characters would hurry up and die already so I wouldn't have to read about their crappy lives... actually, I did read one book I didn't like in High School, and I had to read it in FRENCH... "L'Etrange" or "The Stranger" basically what I got out of it was that if nothing in life matters then why do I have to read this dull and depressing book? Hip hip hooray for Hitch Hiker BTW... Yeah... some books in school are not so great, but I actually kinda like some of the "classics" not love... but they're okay... what I CAN'T STAND is when authors write books "for kids" that are so crappy and obviously trying to shove morals down your throat... like that "Tale of Despereaux" thing, or "Out of the Dust" or "The Giver" YUCK!!!!!!!!!! Why is there even a market for this total crap written by people who seem to not understand kids at all? I blame stupid schools...
Name: Altaika
Date And Time: 2011-04-04 22:31:09
Comment: A few books I'd probably introduce ar Animorphs (the writing style's a bit juvenile, but it's a great series, and a good introduction to war), One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Final Confession of Mabel Stark, My Side of the Mountain (to replace Hatchet; HATED that book!) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix The Yearling, Rascal, Shiloh (some of the best "Boy and his pet" books I've read
Name: Face Nelson
Date And Time: 2011-04-04 19:28:50
Comment: Great concept for a video. Who hasn't been forced to read a book for school? I've read most of your recommended ones and enjoyed them all. I will be checking out The Pixar Touch. I love Pixar and think it would be a great read. As far as letting students pick the books, my mother is an educator and she had a class where she lets the kids request books that they want to read, and then she checks them out for content, and makes sure there's some substance to it. The students enjoy the books a lot more than what would have if she'd assigned them a "classic" book. But hey, at least they're reading, right?
Name: Lady Anime Fan
Date And Time: 2011-04-04 03:00:36
Comment: I used to check out the Hitchhiker's Guide series from my school library when I was in high school.
Name: Eoghan
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 20:40:07
Comment: Schools should have Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires, Hubert Selby Jr's Requiem for A Dream, Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides, John Godey's Taking of Pelham 123, Robert Harris' Red Dragon, Stieg Larsson's Millenium Trilogy, John Ajvide Lindqvist's Let The Right One In, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Brett Easton Ellis' American Psycho and Alex Garland's The Beach.
Name: Jaimetud
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 15:06:09
Comment: But lastly, if I had to recommend something other than books to be taught, it’s LOGIC. Simply put, logic. I think C. S. Lewis was right in recommending that and I see people all the time who suffer from just not thinking ahead properly. Raise the bar a little bit, alright people? Thank you.
Name: Jaimetud
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 15:02:53
Comment: No for what I WOULD like to see taught in school. For younger audiences, “Warriors 1-6.” I hear some schools advocate reading programs for that series and that makes me proud, but take it one step further. “Redwall,” definitely. It’s good and evil, war love, justice and all that awesome stuff that kids love. “A Boy’s Life” brought me out of my bias towards animal fantasy and had me never wanting to put it down. THAT should be taught in school alongside “Flatbellies,” which is kind of like reading “Stand by Me” with high school students. For special education interest, I’d recommend “Look Me in the Eye” and “Born on a Blue Day,” the amazing true stories of Aspergian people who accomplished many great things.
Name: Jaimetud
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 14:54:54
Comment: Screw Holden Caulfield. He's an emo who I can’t stand and turned me off from reading. Guys like that really make me wanna slap them for not appreciating life. Why it’s considered a classic, I do not know. “Of Mice and Men” was depressing, but at least it had a point. “Alice,” fine. “The Wars,” never read it. “Gatsby,” didn’t finish it. As for your suggested books, Stefan, let’s see here. “Clockwork” I never read but I saw the movie. “In Cold Blood,” never heard of it. “Hitchiker,” I only saw the movies and heard the books on tape. Some laughs there. “Pride and Prejudice,” I’m sure I’ve seen movies inspired by it. “Get Shorty” was a book? I might read “The Pixar Touch” out of self interest. Graphic novels in school? That would be awesome!
Name: April
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 13:15:43
Comment: I like catcher in the rye :(
Name: Mark
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 13:12:55
Comment: Why you think I have my english teacher's e-mail addrass?
Name: Jerry
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 13:04:39
Comment: Will you make a sequel to this video? That Fellow: Probably not.
Name: Terry
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 12:10:16
Comment: Check out Linkara's videos talking about Frank Miller
Name: Tom
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 11:31:38
Comment: Can you make a video telling us why you hate catcher in the rye? That Fellow: That would probably require me to read the book again and that's a pain I don't want to re-live.
Name: DJ
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 11:15:43
Comment: I'm a teenager, and I don't read Twilight. I HATE that series! Anyway, the books I like are the Percy JAckson series, the Sisters Grimm, and Harry Potter.
Name: David
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 11:12:44
Comment: My mom deagrees what you said about catcher in the rye. She likes the book. But she's also said not the book in the world. She still likes it. She read your favorite book A Clockwork Orange, when she was in school. She hate the book. I'm sorry not everyone will like the same thing. But it's my mom's opiton. She just want me to tell you. Great job on the video.
Name: Jarred
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 11:04:10
Comment: Yeah, I must pretty much echo what Andrew said. While any kind of student can certainly get some enjoyment out of prescribed reading, that just ain't the same feeling as the one you get when you're blown away by a book you yourself chose to read. However I think often English classes, by enforcing such reading, can still provoke at least an interest in literature in pupils who were indifferent beforehand. Oh, and I'm sorry, man, but it seems like you're either a Gatsby or a Catcher in the Rye fan and I'm 100% in the latter category, but hey, each to their own!
Name: Jerome
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 11:00:53
Comment: Is there any J. D. Salinger books you do like? That Fellow: Not really.
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Date And Time: 2011-04-03 09:44:25
Comment: Hey, do you know a brazilian series of books called Yellow Woodpecker Ranch? I know you like Monica's Gang so I thought you'd like YWR too. That Fellow: I've heard of them, but never read them.
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Date And Time: 2011-04-03 09:20:42
Comment: What exactly didn't you like in catcher in the rye? I never read, but I know its reputation. What's wrong with it? That Fellow: The main character is whiny and unlikeable, the writing style is incredibly irritating and the story has little to no development to it.
Name: Dick Grayson
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 05:28:19
Comment: I agree that Graphic Novels should be read in school. But I'm not agreeing with your choice of litterature. I like the books, I just think they're better choices out there. I would, if I were a teacher, have my students read Maus by Art Spiegelman. The best Holocaust story along with Schindler's List. And perhaps Will Eisner's A Life Force, about life of ordinary people in the Depression era Bronx. It's a masterpiece and one of my favorite works in sequential arts.
Name: Andrew
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 03:16:55
Comment: You are VERY wrong, sir. The best part about reading those books you mentioned, is the feeling you get, when you CHOOSE them YOURSELF. When something good is assigned to a teenaged you, you automatically associate that with mind control. To put it simply, the best stuff is left to you to seek out. Great things must NEVER be assigned. And you forgot to mention "Master and Margarita". P.S. Kudos for TV Tropes reference :3
Name: Graham
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 02:02:17
Comment: Books that I'd recommend: The Phantom Tollbooth, Of Mice and Men, the Wayside School trilogy, any of Ray Bradbury's novels or short stories. Books that need to be dropped: Lord of the Flies.
Name: Wilson
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 00:59:55
Comment: It's a nice video and all. But we will only read math,science and history books in our school. I guess your school worked differnt. We do have a library to cheack out what books did we want to read.
Name: MKNeed
Date And Time: 2011-04-03 00:31:16
Comment: So what are your thoughts about todays books, like Twilight and Diary of the Wimpy Kid? That Fellow: I haven't read either book, though I've only head bad things about the former.
Name: Billy
Date And Time: 2011-04-02 23:03:05
Comment: You are aware of schools work differnt,right? My mom read IN COLD BLOOD when she was in school. The only books I'm taught to read in my school are math and science.
Name: Annie
Date And Time: 2011-04-02 22:41:57
Comment: I don't remember most of the books I read in school except for one of them Wayside School and it was awesome!
Name: Hyman74Roth
Date And Time: 2011-04-02 22:33:37
Comment: The only good book I had to read in school was The Hobbit which fueled my love of Tolkien, other than that the rest of books were a major fail for the most part. P.S. The Greeks myth weren't bad either.
Name: Fay
Date And Time: 2011-04-02 22:28:30
Comment: The reason why graphic novels are not in schools is because they are more expensive than most books, tell less story (usually), and tear easier. I know my old librarian HATED them tho. But the Hitchhiker's Guide books are very good I like them all so far, I am at the fourth one.
Name: Patton
Date And Time: 2011-04-02 21:51:56
Comment: ohh ohh i got lots of recommendations. BUT NO JANE AUSTEN sorry but its just so dull to me. lets see, Personal Memoirs of U.S Grant why i recommend this is it shows you how the mind of the of best Generals of American history thought and its an indepth nonademic View of the American civil war The road to Serfdom: in this bizzare time of political turmoil i recommend it because its the blue print of how good government intention leads to totalarism and how it can happen in America, ps written in the 1940s so its not anti-obama if thats what concerns you The Federalist papers: again discuss the constituion and the role of government and get students to question the man. Mein Kempf: now i know what're thinking, Hitler's book? what are you a nazi? well now however if we can get people to read this and teach how sick a guy he was then the 2nd world war makes more sense rather then just Us vs them. Winston Churchill: its to get people thinking about life and the role of the most important man in britian in the 20th century.
Name: The WaxBadger
Date And Time: 2011-04-02 21:29:04
Comment: DOWN WITH HUCKLEBERRY FINN! All it did was give me a D in 11th grade English.
Name: Googamp32
Date And Time: 2011-04-02 21:28:41
Comment: Finally, someone else who knows catcher in the rye is overrated!
Name: Peter
Date And Time: 2011-04-02 20:49:03
Comment: What do you think of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451? That Fellow: Yep, it's a pretty good book.
Name: JWFilms
Date And Time: 2011-04-02 20:47:49
Comment: Hmmm, not a bad idea.