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Which was your least favorite required read in high school/college?
Other (please name in comments)
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Authors:
George Orwell, William Golding, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, S.E. Hinton, J.D. Salinger, Joseph Conrad, Harper Lee
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George Orwell, William Golding, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, S.E. Hinton, J.D. Salinger, Joseph Conrad, Harper Lee
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White Fang or The Call of the Wild . . . who knows the difference? They were both terrible! Maybe I would like them more now, but I just can't bring myself to try again.
The House of the Seven Gables.It took a long time to finally finish the book!!!
Lord of the Flies, Hiroshima, Bless me Ultima..HATED THEM!!!!!
Also, no idea how anyone could hate The Outsiders. It's amazing!
Anna Karenina. The Prince and The Pauper.
*head splody*
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. I hated this whining little wimp.
Ethan Frome - and I still hated it as an adult.
The Mill on the Floss--worst deus ex machina ending ever.
Hard Times-Charles Dickens. Those were some hard times trying to read that.
Have to say A Seperate Peace and Farenheit 451 were awful for me but I voted for The Great Gatsby.
I couldn't stand Huck Finn... I actually abandoned it halfway through and fudge factored. That was/is the only time I've ever done that.
Sana wrote: "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."
I just read Great Expectations! Hahaha, it's not Dickens' best work, but it was still entertaining. I had to read Gulliver's Travels my Junior year and I agree it is a bit dense.
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights--horribly boring and tough to follow for me at the time...just simply reminded me of useless drama...was completely uniterested at the time I read it.
The Crucible by Arthur Miller. Horrid. For a young highschool girl of a fairly innocent nature, this was a very negative learning experience.
Silas MarnerOr as we dubbed it in my 10th grade English class, Silly Ass Marner.
The Scarlet Letter is HORRID, it has run on fragments, I never thought that such a thing was even possible untill I read this book!
The Country of The Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett...and A Separate Peace by John Knowles is a close second
All Quiet on the Western Front; Things Fall Apart; Night; highschool students are depressed and angst-filled enough-no need to feed into it, eh?
Oh, I remember All Quiet on The Western Front! I absolutely hated the ending.
Grapes of Wrath. Which after reading later (years later), I love.
A Seperate Peace by John Knowles, ugh.
It was a toss up between The Catcher In The Rye and The Outsiders.
"Heart of Darkness" was worse than "the Pearl", in my opinion. The two of them were only a half step up from "The Inheritors". The Inheritors and Heart of Darkness were so obscured and diluted with affected style and drama, and the Pearl was just one of those books that is wholly, thoroughly and painfully uninteresting.
I loathed Faulkner's "Light in August" when I had to read it, but I was 15 years old at the time.
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.I started with a hardcover. Got the book-on-tape to help me along and still fell asleep.
The Quixote by Cervantes Saavedra! Argghhh hated that book! And I had to read both the first and second parts -.-
Things Fall Apart made me want to rip my face apart. X_X
"The Catcher in the Rye" has always seemed pretty pointlss to me, and "Lord of the Flies" seemed pointless, and only a teacher qith ulterior motives would assign it to 7th grade/11-12 year old general readers -- maybe emotionally and intellectually advanced readers could have handled it, but it is not 7th grade material.
For me, The Great Gatsby and Their Eyes were Watching God
HS Junior English, 1992 - Huckleberry Finn. Blah. The only thing I remember about it is that a grad student taught it, everyone hated it, and he hated Vanilla Ice, so we gave him a tape of "To the Extreme" as a thank you present.
"Trouble with Lichen" by John Wyndham was required reading for high level English. The theme was interesting, but the book was not enjoyable at all to me, may be because it was "required reading " ?!!!!!
The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin and Of Mice and Men. Simply awful.
Frankenstein. I'd read it for a thing I did over the summer one year and hated it. Then we had to read it again my senior year of high school and it was a little better, but I still didn't like it.But I also didn't like The Pearl, and The Great Gatsby wasn't so great. And I don't get the hype about To Kill A Mockingbird or The Catcher in the Rye either.
Responding to some comments, I thought The Scarlet Letter was decent/almost good, and I liked Johnny Tremain and A Separate Peace.
I have a shelf for books I had to read for school, if anyone would care to look at it.
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I've have to vote for Of Mice & Men, followed by The Lottery, and then Animal Farm. Loved Shakespeare.
Great Expectations, definitely. What a drag. I was forced to read it for Honors English II and while I did enjoy the imagery, the book was completely pointless in my view.
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. This book SUCKED BALLS and my history teacher made a read it. I still dont like Mr. Walker.. lol
Grim
Winter psychotics.