Classic books that you HATED
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My least favorite was Brave, New World! ugh vomit vomit
I did not like Grapes of Wrath, Beowolf, Canterbury Tales or Homer (Illiad and the Oddessey). And, i also hated any of the dog books where the dog or dogs died (Old Yeller, Where the Red Fern Grows, those may have been middle school)
Tess was bad, Charles ****ens was bad.
I do remember loving Lord of the Flies, Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Separate Peace, Slaughterhouse Five, The Outsiders, The Glass Menagerie.
I love to read, but they did make us read lots of depressing crap!0 -
The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger......hated every second!
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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.
I love the sentiment of the thought that we should read Othello over Romeo and Juliet! The former is a much more important lesson.
Wuthering Heights is the only book that comes to mind when I think of classics that I particularly didn't like. To be fair, my mom told me to read the book because I like to read, but she warned me that the book starts slow. She told me not to give up on it though because it really ended up being a great read. I didn't make it to the good part. Maybe it is time to try again?0 -
The Reivers by John Steinbeck...I love to read but holy hell that sucked lol. And wow, talk about censorship....we cant type ****ens? Its a dudes name!!! Sheesh....
Favorite book i read was Fahrenheit 451 and Beloved.
oh p.s. Im now back in college and if I have to see/read Arthur Millers "Death of a Salesman" one more time im gonna puke.0 -
The Awakening...I don't know why but I really liked that book. Our teacher told us when we started it that it was usually the least liked book of the year and it turned out to be my favorite!My least favorite thing I have been forced to read? The Crucible. Now THAT was terrible to read. Especially when you were tested on knowing EACH AND EVERY CHARACTER.
Aww, I LOVED The Crucible!! Of course, I'm also a theatre geek and thoroughly enjoyed reading Abigail's part in class :devil:Haha I did my A Level English Lit coursework on Jane Austen novels. The most irritating was Sense And Sensibility. If the characters in that had come to life I'd have given them a slap!
Agreed! I liked Pride and Prejudice in high school, so I thought I'd read some more Jane Austen on my own - I HATED Sense and Sensibility! And I gotta say, didn't much care for Emma either - little brat needs to get a life!
To comment on others from the thread:
Liked: To Kill A Mockingbird. Most Shakespeare, but not Romeo and Juliet. (Favorite = A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Okay: Lord of the Flies. The Yellow Wallpaper (I just love that she went thoroughly insane by the end.)
Hated: The Great Gatsby and Heart of Darkness. I could never remember just what the hell I was reading about, even right after I read them in high school.
I also hated one that I can't remember the name or most of the book, but it was a dull boring thing about a Victorian woman who ends up committing suicide by just walking into the ocean at the end....exciting as such a scenario might sound, the author still managed to make it as dull as watching grass grow. :yawn:0 -
To Kill A Mockingbird
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Brave New World
They all disgusted me. And I'm an English major
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - it was so bad!
Billy Budd wasn't my fave either.0 -
Great Expectations. Only highlight was when Mrs. Havisham caught on fire. LOL.0
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A Tale of Two Cities was a snoozefest! It's not really a "classic", but in school I had to read "The Giver". EVERYONE loves that stupid book so much and I HATED it. It was really creepy too.
I mildly enjoyed "Of Mice and Men".
Let's just say most of the books I was forced to read in high school were actually read via summaries off of sparknotes or wikipedia...0 -
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles ****inson
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Both were serious snooze-fests for me! :yawn:
you HATED grapes of wrath? when did you read it? if it was as a teenager, you may want to read it as an adult. it is seriously amazing.0 -
The Awakening...I don't know why but I really liked that book. Our teacher told us when we started it that it was usually the least like book of the year and it turned out to be my favorite!My least favorite thing I have been forced to read? The Crucible. Now THAT was terrible to read. Especially when you were tested on knowing EACH AND EVERY CHARACTER.
Aww, I LOVED The Crucible!! Of course, I'm also a theatre geek and thoroughly enjoyed reading Abigail's part in class :devil:Haha I did my A Level English Lit coursework on Jane Austen novels. The most irritating was Sense And Sensibility. If the characters in that had come to life I'd have given them a slap!
the book you are referring to is The Awakening I enjoyed it, much better than some stuff. I love debating the end of it
Agreed! I liked Pride and Prejudice in high school, so I thought I'd read some more Jane Austen on my own - I HATED Sense and Sensibility! And I gotta say, didn't much care for Emma either - little brat needs to get a life!
To comment on others from the thread:
Liked: To Kill A Mockingbird. Most Shakespeare, but not Romeo and Juliet. (Favorite = A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Okay: Lord of the Flies. The Yellow Wallpaper (I just love that she went thoroughly insane by the end.)
Hated: The Great Gatsby and Heart of Darkness. I could never remember just what the hell I was reading about, even right after I read them in high school.
I also hated one that I can't remember the name or most of the book, but it was a dull boring thing about a Victorian woman who ends up committing suicide by just walking into the ocean at the end....exciting as such a scenario might sound, the author still managed to make it as dull as watching grass grow. :yawn:0 -
Jane Eyre was pretty bad...0
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To Kill A Mockingbird
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Brave New World
They all disgusted me. And I'm an English major
What disgusted you about To Kill a Mocking Bird? I can see with the others, nasty pig head, crushed mice, little kids having sex...didn't like any of those0 -
The Awakening...I don't know why but I really liked that book. Our teacher told us when we started it that it was usually the least like book of the year and it turned out to be my favorite!My least favorite thing I have been forced to read? The Crucible. Now THAT was terrible to read. Especially when you were tested on knowing EACH AND EVERY CHARACTER.
Aww, I LOVED The Crucible!! Of course, I'm also a theatre geek and thoroughly enjoyed reading Abigail's part in class :devil:Haha I did my A Level English Lit coursework on Jane Austen novels. The most irritating was Sense And Sensibility. If the characters in that had come to life I'd have given them a slap!
the book you are referring to is The Awakening I enjoyed it, much better than some stuff. I love debating the end of it
Agreed! I liked Pride and Prejudice in high school, so I thought I'd read some more Jane Austen on my own - I HATED Sense and Sensibility! And I gotta say, didn't much care for Emma either - little brat needs to get a life!
To comment on others from the thread:
Liked: To Kill A Mockingbird. Most Shakespeare, but not Romeo and Juliet. (Favorite = A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Okay: Lord of the Flies. The Yellow Wallpaper (I just love that she went thoroughly insane by the end.)
Hated: The Great Gatsby and Heart of Darkness. I could never remember just what the hell I was reading about, even right after I read them in high school.
I also hated one that I can't remember the name or most of the book, but it was a dull boring thing about a Victorian woman who ends up committing suicide by just walking into the ocean at the end....exciting as such a scenario might sound, the author still managed to make it as dull as watching grass grow. :yawn:
Mine too! I love debating if she killed her self and why lol0 -
Jane Eyre was pretty bad...
It was! In high school we had to read 500 pages of outside reading a semester. When I got to page 500, I was done. There was probably less than 100 pages left, but I wasn't going to put myself through any more torture.0 -
The Sirens of Titan. Firstly, because the ending sucked donkey *kitten*. Secondly, because my English teacher wanted us to be impressed that she made a sci-fi book required reading. She underestimated our tastes. An awesome book would have impressed us even more.0
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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....
I wrote my college English term paper on The Yellow Wallpaper. Only term paper I enjoyed writing
And I had a English teacher in 8th grade that told us the histories of Poe and Shakespeare, which just made me appreciate their writings so much more.
I read Pride and Prejudice in the 8th grade, but didn't really understand it. Now after seeing the movie, I think I'll go get it from the library since I'm old enough to understand now 0 -
Sophie's Choice. She made the wrong choice.0
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I tried to read Pride and Prejudice at least three times and just could not do it. I know it's a classic and it's supposed to be one of the best books ever written, but PLEASE! :explode:0
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I enjoyed most of the classics I read in high school. But I couldn't stand "The Grapes Of Wrath" at all. I don't even think I finished it and just guessed on the test.0
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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles ****inson
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Both were serious snooze-fests for me! :yawn:
you HATED grapes of wrath? when did you read it? if it was as a teenager, you may want to read it as an adult. it is seriously amazing.
All of Steinbeck's stuff is so dreary to me. Very depressing reads.0 -
Beowulf. To Kill a Mockingbird. Scarlet Letter. Wuthering Heights.
Call me a d*ck, but mostly anything that was assigned in high school is going to suck.
I think that it might be more that at modern high-school age, kids aren't mentally able to grasp the deeper levels of these kinds of books. i'm not hashing on kids today or anything, i didn't like many of these books when i was younger either. it wasn't until i was older and had gained some relative experience where i could relate to either the characters or the story itself.0 -
I used to teach literature, and I love most of the classics. However, I absolutely hated Ivanhoe and The Last of the Mohicans.0
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"Catcher in the Rye" -- complete trivial bull$hit. :frown:0
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The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
I was tortured with that book in my 10th grade English class. It was SUPER boring!0 -
I LOVE to read and will read just about anything and everything, but the one book I absolutely could not get through....
Moby ****, seriously WHY?!?!?!?!0 -
Catcher in the Rye0
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I tried to read Pride and Prejudice at least three times and just could not do it. I know it's a classic and it's supposed to be one of the best books ever written, but PLEASE! :explode:
I loved it, but I think it's because I watched the BBC TV series first. It follows the book almost word for word and the acting is phenomenal. When I read the book, I was just envisioning the TV series, so it seemed quite entertaining. So witty!0 -
The Stone Angel By Margaret Laurence...I pity all victims of the Canadian education system who had to slug through that with me.0
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I tried to read Pride and Prejudice at least three times and just could not do it. I know it's a classic and it's supposed to be one of the best books ever written, but PLEASE! :explode:
This makes me so very sad as it is my all time favorite book on the planet. I love it. I love it. I love it!!!
Thank God, for different colors in the rainbow ;-)0
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