Confusing and tough required reading..

[The Bibliophile]

Have you guys ever read a book for class and have been totally confused by it? I had to read Brave New World for a Wes. Civ class last semester,and I was completely lost..I also had to read Handmaid's tale,which was not as confusing as it was horrible.. Have any of you experienced this?

[Shannon]

It's not quite on the confusing scale as horrible, but my experience with Crime and Punishment was probably the most difficult of my required reads. I think it's partially because my translated copy was a bit different than the other class members. x_X

[Jen]

I actually really liked Brave New World and The Handmaid's Tale. But typically I was not a fan of required reading in school. Great Expectations and Lord of the Flies were absolute torture to read.

[Adam]

Yeah, I have definitely experienced this. "Brave New World" is an okay novel at best. I read it as not required reading though. However, I absolutely abhor anything by Steinbech and when I was in high school, it seems like I had to read a novel of his a year. In college I had to require read things off of the Oprah Book Club, only one of those books was okay because it was a history book about the holocaust and that was readable.

[Ter254]

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