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Which was your least favorite required read in high school/college?
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Golding, John Steinbeck, George Orwell, Nathaniel Hawthorne, S.E. Hinton, J.D. Salinger, Joseph Conrad, Harper Lee
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Oct 09, 2008 08:38PM
The Pearl. Shoot me.
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Ken just reminded me of "The Tale of Two Cities." Man that sucked.
I absolutely hated Tale of Two Cities. Typically I loved to read and enjoyed having to do so. *ducks* But "Tale" was a drag.
Billy Budd by Herman Melvilee... yawn
OH MY GOODNESSi HATED "Great Expectations"
good lord...
slaughterhouse-five. i have to read it right now and ... gah. i can't stand it.i had to read lord of the flies last year ... that was pretty bad.
i had to read animal farm, to kill a mockingbird, and the outsiders for eighth grade.
animal farm was okay. to kill a mockingbird was pretty good. the outsiders was amazing. :D
"The Jewess of Toledo" by Lion Feuchtwanger. Did not finish; made my mum to write review for me."Quo Vadis" by Sienkiewicz was quite non-enjoyable, too.
Ditto for Great Expectations - and I liked reading in high school!
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad. It's the only book in high school that I didn't finish because I just couldn't force myself to do so.
I agree!! The Pearl was only narrowly edged out by Heart of Darkness...
The Odyssey- HomerThe Epic of Gilgamesh
The Old Man and the Sea. Booooring! I know, I know, its Hemingway but honestly the only good thing I can say about it is it was short.
i agree with great expectations. ugh.the custom of the time was to pay by the word - there could not be a better example of why that is a bad idea
Moby Dick is another one I was required to read that is so long I couldn't get into.
Moby Dick, by far. Although now I appreciate it a little better because it was the springboard for a book I very much enjoyed: Ahab's Wife by Sena Jeter Naslund.
The Jungle, hands-down. Gruesome, such a total downer too. Moral of the story=life sucks!
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49. Which I was assigned at least three times. Ugh.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. I like Dickens but this one almost killed me!
Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding; for some reason, even today, that one book almost turned me away from reading altogether.
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My absolute LEAST favorite book was The Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway. Talk about a waste of my life.
Probably either "The Scarlet Letter" or "Lord of the Flies."
The Red Badge of Courage...Just kill me!
All these books are actually GOOD. Try reading them again as adults. Really. Actually reading Catcher in the Rye as an adult would probably suck...but as a teenager it's great. I'll even take my own advice and attempt my scorned Heart of Darkness again.
The Road made me want to strangle myself. Okay not that bad. But it came pretty close.
The Odyssey. <- I'm not sure that's spelled right, but I hated that book. I think the reason why though is because I didn't understand it really all that well. If I were to read it now, I would most likely like the book now that I can understand it.
I voted The Scarlet Letter, but The Awakening comes in a close second.
I checked other, because I enjoyed most of the ones listed. (or i didn't read them in hs or college. :) My "other" is "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare.
I have a three way tie. Johnny Tremain, The Old man and the sea, and Ethan Frome. All god awful, depressing books
I voted for Beowulf, but I forgot about Great Expectations. I absolutely despise that book. I started it 3 different times before I was able to force myself to finish it.
Great Expectations and Gulliver's Travels. I tried Gulliver's Travels later, and it was alright. But I doubt if I'll ever give Great Expectations another go.
Madame Bovary by Flaubert. I have to read it in French no less...I really enjoyed Catcher in the Rye.
I almost went with The Scarlet Letter, which is unsurprisingly a very popular answer. But at least I finished that one (cursing stupid Hester Prynne and her dumb baby Pearl the whole way). AP English taught me, however, that epic poetry requires more fortitude than I have. I managed to not finish Beowulf, The Odyssey, and The Inferno all in one year!
I loved Wuthering Heights. I know, it's crazy, but I have reread it twice since high school.
The Three Muskateers or Beloved. There was one I hated more but I think I must have blocked the title from my memory.
