Classic books that you HATED
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Of Mice and Men.
Kill me now.0 -
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles ****inson
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Both were serious snooze-fests for me! :yawn:
I am SO with you on Steinbeck....we had to read Grapes of Wrath and a few others in H.S. .... definitely decided I am NOT a Steinbeck fan. Every one is such a downer, esp. in the endings!! Ugh! Wasn't overly fond of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby either.0 -
Romeo and Juliet.
They say a good beginning is what gets you hooked into a book.
A thirteen year old boy is crying about how another girl wouldn't sleep with him, sees Juliet at a party and magically gets over the first girl and falls in love with her. The thought of it was just strange. I never believed in the whole love at first sight thing.
Othello is too underrated in comparison. I'd rather have grown up learning that revenge backfires than to believe in love at first sight.0 -
With that said, I honestly can't believe everyone is listing some of my favorite books... Great Gatsby was awesome if you paid attention, and Animal Farm was brilliant if you knew the back story! Everyone's entitled to their opinions and I'm not trying to offend anyone. I just wanted to share my perspective, since it was so much different from everyone else's!
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I have to say, though I didn't care much for the characters in the book, "The Great Gatsby" had some of the most vibrant and beautifully written descriptions of people, places, and things that I've ever read. Fitzgerald's writing ability is what kept me reading that book.0 -
Romeo and Juliet.
They say a good beginning is what gets you hooked into a book.
A thirteen year old boy is crying about how another girl wouldn't sleep with him, sees Juliet at a party and magically gets over the first girl and falls in love with her. The thought of it was just strange. I never believed in the whole love at first sight thing.
I completely agree with you...I always thought it was kind of immature0 -
"A Brave New World" I had to read in Honors English in high school. That book depressed me to no end....0
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Les Miserables. The longest boringest book in history.
[Old Man and the Sea. I wanted to hit that damn old man with an oar and knock him overboard. ] his baseball fixation just bored me.. i thought it would be great to read on a caribbean vacation. wrooong....
Hahhaa! I had to read that in high school as well and I TOTALLY agree!!0 -
Beowulf and The Poisonwood Bible, I Fahrenheit 451'd both of them upon completion0
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Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
Worst. Book. Ever.0 -
'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck
CAN I TEND THE RABBITS GEORGE TEND THE RABBITS RABBITS RABBITS RABBITS
Argh, that book did my nut in ><0 -
House of Seven Gables....Zzzzzzzzz0
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I really disliked Beloved by Toni Morrison. The concepts are very interesting, but reading it was torture. Her writing style left me with a near constantly raised eyebrow...
Heart of Darkness was pretty 'eh' too. And Dante's Inferno wasn't nearly as interesting as I thought it'd be.
I dunno why everyone hates on Wuthering Heights so much though. I absolutely loved it. The language is tough to get through, but the story is incredibly deep and passionate. Other great ones are 1984 (albeit very depressing) and Lord of the Flies0 -
Also... I'm not sure if this counts as a 'classic' but, Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I only got through 400 pages before giving up...0
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Great Gatsby was awesome if you paid attention, and Animal Farm was brilliant if you knew the back story! of Mice and Men was another great read. 1984 is amazing too,
I like The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men and 1984. I think it just depends on when you read it and whether or not your teacher really explained it. I bet most people were exposed to them in high school. You really have to get creative to make the books come to life. Also, there's a lot of background information to some of these books which kinda impacts your reading of them. I would recommend watching the movies first if you didn't get into them. You might enjoy them so much you'll want to read the novels afterwards.
I must admit though, I'm a great lover of science fiction. I think it's one of the few genres that's not taught that much in schools and yet it's pretty entertaining.0 -
Frankenstein, Heart of Darkness, and The Sound and the Fury (to be honest, I never even finished that one). Favorites were The Awakening, Jane Eyre, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Brave New World.
Oh, and I hated all Shakespeare too.0 -
The entire Rabbit series by John Updike and Edgar Huntly Charles Brockden Brown.
Although there are a lot of books in this thread that people seem to have disliked that I loved and have read over and over. To each his own.0 -
P.S. Also not a big fan of Edgar Allen Poe or Emily ****inson....too morbid for my taste!0
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Oedipus, Julius Caesar, Grapes of Wrath, Brave New World, 1984
Ones I loved: Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mocking Bird, The Crucible, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Age of Innocents0 -
P.S. Also not a big fan of Edgar Allen Poe or Emily ****inson....too morbid for my taste!
LOL at the censoring!0 -
Wuthering Heights.0
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I have re-read the first pages of that book a few times trying to get into it, never did finish it.Anything Tolkien...
I know I'll probably be flamed for that...but I did an extensive Tolkien/Lewis class and Lewis won hands down...
i just can't force myself to read or enjoy Tolkien...
Bwahahaha
I'm re-reading the Hobbit right now!0 -
Great Expectations....every time I had to read it (high school and at least three different college classes), I kept praying that the convict would kill Pip.0
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I have re-read the first pages of that book a few times trying to get into it, never did finish it.Anything Tolkien...
I know I'll probably be flamed for that...but I did an extensive Tolkien/Lewis class and Lewis won hands down...
i just can't force myself to read or enjoy Tolkien...
Bwahahaha
I'm re-reading the Hobbit right now!
I couldn't stand the first part of the Hobbit. I was reading it for a class and slogged through Baggins End for a while. But then I ended up getting really into it and LOVED it by the end.0 -
Great Expectations....every time I had to read it (high school and at least three different college classes), I kept praying that the convict would kill Pip.
Just be glad you didn't have to read David Copperfield. It's the same thing but a million times longer.0 -
I'm an avid reader, but I hated a lot of the books I was compelled to read in school.
The two that stand out most are I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and The Scarlet Letter
I teach both of them....and The Scarlet Letter is AMAZING - Anything Hawthorne I'm a fan of!! I'm a big Hawthorne fan.
Also Arthur Miller - his plays are phenomenal!! I loved 'Death of a Salesman' and 'The Crucible'.
I'm a huge fan of reading plays - 'A Doll's House' by, Henrik Ibsen oh!! And how can I forget 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams!
Ok, I'm an English teacher - I love to read....Just some of my favorites.......
All-time favorite short story is 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
And anything Edgar Allen Poe ('The Tell-Tale Heart', 'Annabel Lee', 'The Bells', 'Lenore', 'The Raven' )
And.....Shakespeare. lol I can read him all day long too....
*kitten*....I sound like such a nerd!!! grrr....lol
And for what I didn't like to read lol ...um..... 'The Red Badge of Courage' by Stephen Crane........YUCK!!!
I like so much more....just won't even attempt what I love to read on this thread since it's about what I DON'T like....0 -
The storyline of Les Mis itself is great...when you can get to it. But when you have to wade through 90 pages of detailed description of every twist and turn in the Paris sewer system just to make the point that it was nothing short of a miracle that Valjean and Marius got out alive.....that's a bit of overkill!! I can see how it could turn people off...but it's my FAVORITE musical!!
Les Miserables. The longest boringest book in history.
[Old Man and the Sea. I wanted to hit that damn old man with an oar and knock him overboard. ] his baseball fixation just bored me.. i thought it would be great to read on a caribbean vacation. wrooong....
Hahhaa! I had to read that in high school as well and I TOTALLY agree!!0 -
the ginger bread man.... a cookie running around taunting people and animals... = not cool... not cool at all
(at least he got what was coming to him) 0 -
My bf says he hated Scarlet Letter
I hated Great Expectations <---yawn0 -
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I'm an avid reader but I def have to second Tolkien.. and The Old Man and the Sea.. Not a fan of Catch-22 either.
Loved The Great Gatsby!0
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