*spin off* What was your least favorite assigned reading in HS or College?

[Tera, First Chick]

For me it was The Catcher in the Rye. I just did not love that one. In general though I find it really hard to like a book I am forced to read. That's why I stink on the group reads. The minute someone says I have to read something in this amount of time the rebel in me kicks in and i blow it off. It's horrible because I do it even if I really want to read the book. I'm working on it.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

Canterbury Tales in college, I hated it because I had to do a project on it and I couldn't find any information on the innkeeper. We were each assigned a pilgrim and that was mine.

[Blueberry]

Lord of the Flies

[Jennifer]

Shakespeare. I'm not a fan, never will be. I don't even like Romeo and Juliet.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I managed to get through high school and college without having to read Romeo and Juliet.

[Blueberry]

Ha, I did to...only to go on to learn and then teach it to home school kids. Now I love him. :o)

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I like the Shakespeare plays I read. I just never had to read Romeo and Juliet. It's only a comedy if no one dies in the play. :)

[Renee]

I hated both Catcher in the Rye and the Lord of the flies. I reread them both as an adult.Still hated them. Grapes of Wrath when reread as an adult was a favorite. I think I was not mature enough as a sophomore in bhigh school for that book

[Petra]

In high school I hated Animal Farm and The Old Man and the Sea. Took me years to read these authors again (love Owell; on the fence about Hemingway but want to read more).
In University, I hated My Ántonia and The Playboy of the Western World. I've since read more of Willa Cather, including My Antonia and love her writing. I haven't retried reading Playboy or the author's other works, if he has any.

[Marlis]

The Old Man and the Sea. I thought it would never end. And then it did. And then …nothing.

[Bloomin’Chick (Jo) aka The Eclectic Spoonie]

Shakespeare is the first to come to mind, so I'm guessing that's what I disliked the most. Along with The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[Natalie]

a farewell to arms was awful. I got a d on the test and the teacher accused me of not reading it even though it took all summer to read

[Viola]

Great Expectations. Ugh! So LONG and wordy.

[Gaynor]

I hated "Faust" or whatever it was titled. The idea of selling your soul to the devil for some short term gain - abhorrent. However, I had a really good teacher for "Animal Farm" who talked us through everything that happened. It wasn't really about animals, it was a satire about politics (sorry, I'm sure you know that). I proceeded to major in politics at univ so it must have had an impact.
Loved Shakespeare, hated Hemingway.

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I never read "Faust" or "Animal Farm"

[Louise]

The Fifth Child *shudder* I will never read Lessing Again!

[Penny]

Silas Marner by George Eliot. Enough said.

[Taylor]

'night, Mother. I still get depressed just thinking about it.

[Stacy]

The Canterbury Tales.

[QueenAmidala28]

Uncle Toms Cabin and Animal Farm

[Gortrixie]

I loved Lord of the Flies. Also loved The Inheritors. I hated Waiting for Godot.

[Kristin]

Anything Nathaniel Hawthorne, and also, Catch 22. Ugh!

[Blueberry]

Cyrano de Bergerac and Inferno

[Irene]

Lord of the Flies, it was so depressing, not simply the plot of the story, but what it said about human nature. At 15 years old, I was not the cynic I am today and everything in me rebelled at that book.

[Teri]

Last of the Mohicans! Maybe if I had actually done the assigned reading I would have enjoyed it more. Then again, maybe not!

[Blueberry]

Works of John Locke by John Locke for high school American Government.

[Reforming]

Teri wrote: "Last of the Mohicans! Maybe if I had actually done the assigned reading I would have enjoyed it more. Then again, maybe not!"


I read it after the movie came out and thought the book was awful.

[Reforming]

Great Expectations in HS.

[Jess]

Anything by Philip Larkin I don't like being in that man's head

[Jayme(theghostreader)]

I read Canterbury Tales in college and I hated it when we got to the end. Our Professor assigned us to one of the characters and I got the host. I couldn't find a darn blasted thing on the host and I looked through several books. So I winged it. Regardless to say, I didn't do very well.