What Classic Read Do You Hate?

[Elizabeth]

What Classic novel did you absolutely HATE?

[Elizabeth]

I had to read The Grapes of Wrath for a university course and I HATED it. It took me FOREVER to get through.

[Cheryl]

To be honest, I think the closet thing I've read to a classic novel would be a book by Hemingway.

I had a lot of trouble getting through it. I forced myself!

[Elizabeth]

Cheryl wrote: "To be honest, I think the closet thing I've read to a classic novel would be a book by Hemingway.

What about in school? Most of the classics I have read have been required reading either in high school or university.

[Cheryl]

In school I remember reading some of To Kill A Mockingbird, but I never finished it.

[Namerah]

oh i absolutely hate lord of flies like anything!

[Kimberly]

I absolutely dislike The Scarlet Letter. I never read it but I was suppose to in high school. I barely passed the test for the book!

[Namerah]

the scarlet letter,sounds kinda erotic-barf

[Kimberly]

long-winded barf

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I had to read Moby-Dick in one of my college literature classes, and I absolutely hated it. I suffered through half of it, and kind of faked my way through class discussions for the rest of the novel. I've thought a time or two about picking it back up, but then I remember how dreadfully boring it was, and I just let it sit on my shelf collecting dust.

[Lois]

I really disliked To Kill a Mockingbird and Wuthering Heights. Really over-rated books!

[Frances]

Although Jane Austen is my favourite author and I've read all of her books multiple times, for some reason I've always disliked Emma-she seems simultaneously too full of herself and too clueless. And when she speaks disrespectfully to Miss Bates on Box Hill (I'm sorry, but I cannot bring myself to use disrespect as a verb), I shudder.

[Catherine]

Kidnapped! That book was abysmal.