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I HATED reading A Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, A Seperate Peace, Catcher in the Rye and The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn. All of those were books I could have done without reading.
I loved To Kill a Mockingbird! That book just really clicked with me. I also loved All Quiet on the Western Front, the only book I really loved sophmore year of high school, though the ending was just...what? Seriously, that's the ending?! I need to read Dante and Paradise Lost. Those are on my 'to read' list. |
Lark just about mentioned every book that's required reading on my list, which I dislike reading (gris). Add Tom Sawyer to that list as well. Dante (shudder).
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Out of all the books that I've been
required to read that I hated the mos has to be The River Why This book had me so confused just by reading the first page. It used a lot of metaphors which just confused me and that just caused me to ignore the book until the night before I had a quiz. Then the essay due for it was the worst too. There was also two essays I had to read recently in my writing class. One was The Ethics of Individuality and the other was The "Banking" Concept of Education. They just seemed too complex to me. |
for me it was lord of the flies and heart of darkness i really disliked those books.
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There have been many that I greatly disliked :/
The ones I disliked the most were The Pearl, The Cay, Of Mice and Men, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. First, for The Pearl I found it very dull with the excessive describing and such. I tend to like to know more actions than how a hut would look like. As for The Cay, I don't remember much from it but I didn't dislike it as much. I remember watching the movie in class once we finished reading it. Of Mice and Men was just so...ugh. In English class we spend more than two whole quarters on the book. It was just so...painful. In class we would read it slowly, analyze every page, every paragraph, and the process just took forever. And most recently, A Midsummer Night's Dream. It wasn't as bad as Of Mice and Men since we went through it pretty quickly without analyzing every little thing but I didn't really like the story anyway. In two weeks I'm going to begin reading To Kill a Mockingbird for English, I hope it won't be another horrible required reading book. |
There were two books that were required reading in my English class that I absolutely hated: Moby Dick and The Great Gatsby.
Now, Moby Dick I wouldn't have minded so much on its own but 1.) I was being forced by the curriculum to read huge chunks of it in a very short time frame and 2.) having been forced to read it in such a way, I found the text just too damn dense for my liking. The Great Gatsby, on the other hand, I would have hated either way. I hated the characters. I hated the plot. I pretty much hated everything about it. |
I think if I had read The Scarlett Letter outside of school, I would have liked it. But our teacher tore it to bits and tested us on every little aspect, so I hated it more than anything. Reading it was so painful. Then I realized that if you read it out loud in an exaggerated accent, it can be rather funny. Still didn't like it though.
I also had to read a book in my French class last semester called Les Âmes Grises (meaning The Grey Souls) and it was entirely in French... and it wasn't even interesting to me. I just couldn't do it. T-T |
The Great Gatsby and Grapes of Wrath
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There is no way anyone in the world will be able to make me re-read Madame Bovary. It was to the point we thought the one guy who liked the book in the class was insane. xD
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Ugh...I absolutely hated reading Grapes of Wrath. There were no grapes but there was plenty of wrath coming from me with a lighter in my hand and a book cowering in the corner. Sure, I know it's about the Dust Bowl and the Dust Bowl was a horrible experience for the farmers and their families in the Mid-West but the book could have been a lot more interesting and a lot less disgusting.
On the other hands I enjoyed Lord of the Flies and Ender's Game. Those two were the highlight of my sophomore year. All Quiet On the Western Front was a tear jerker though. So sad...especially at the end, but I won't give away details. Ah, another hated book was Cry My Beloved Country. Aside from being boring, a fair majority of the book seemed completely pointless and annoyed me to no end. I would have enjoyed burning that book. Honestly a lot of the required reading in schools is horrendous. |
I recently had to read Autobiography of my Mother (for my Contemporary class) and i thought it was just too hard to get into-> for any chance of enjoying.
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I hated reading Deadly Unna, and So Much to Tell you, augh. I can't stand those two books. D: The other books I was ok with. Some were just bearable. Others became my favourites. I hated Deadly Unna because it was really pointless, I mean sure it had meanings and messages and stuff. But I just couldn't stand it. I hated the author's need to be using alot of explictive words in the book. = 3 = So Much to Tell you, was another one that I hated. I just didn't like the character. To me, she seemed so weak and so... pathetic. D: -Sorry if I have offended anyone-
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UGH, I would have to say, I hated reading Lord of the Flies. Its such a messed up book...
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I threw The Scarlet Letter out the car window after I finished reading it while on a road trip one summer during high school.
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Moby Dick. Hands down. We only had to read an excerpt in our english textbook, and it was a hundred pages of sheer torture. And I'm going to school to be a librarian, I practically read for a living.
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I am not alone!!!
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I was more pissed at my teacher when a friend and I had to beg to read Hiroshima, because even though it was on the list, and we were in Talented and Gifted, and had actually started reading it without permission, it might be too violent. Then Hiroshima rocked my world, and I rued (that's right, RUED) the day Hemingway went to the beach. Other books I've hated as reading assignments? --Farenheit 451, because it devolved into a question of "moral obligation" between the government and the people. On one side, you have the kids that will grow up to be liberals, libertarians, druggies, and international artists. Those of us with a brain realized that even if it wasn't books, the author was drawing a parallel to the way the government controls the population "for it's own good." The other side had people that grew up to be bankers, 50's housewives, and FOX news broadcasters. They maintain that the people as a whole should be treated like an errant five year old. /rant --The Scarlet Letter, for reasons listed above. I don't think reading 25 pages about a red rose is really gonna get the point across. --Any work by Shakespeare or Dickens that has been condensed to fit into an English textbook. If I want the cliffnotes, I'll buy them. Your job, school system, is to give me the whole thing, or not put it on the syllabus! ETA: I love Farenheit 451 on it's own. I read all of Chaucer's works before I hit double digits. I adore Shakespeare. I actually searched out most of the required reading before it was required. Alone, these books are amazing. When Things Fall Apart actually led me to write a very moving poem based on individuality and the oppressive government. However, as required reading for a public school where 90% of the kids are only going to do the minimum and less than 2% are going to think outside the box if they do actually care? They SUCK!!! |
Amazingly enough, I like all the books I read but I've heard that some of the people in the more advanced English classes hated reading Catcher in the Rye.
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Some book I had to read over the summer in middle school . . . I think it was called The Cay? o.0 I just hated it. We were supposed to be tested on it as soon as we got back from summer break, but when we did, there was no test on it. ._____. They tricked us into reading. I was very upset. ]<
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I like a lot of books but i did not like
Farenheit 451 , Taming of the Shrew ,Things Fall Apart , or Romeo and Juliet . I just didn't find them interesting or did not like the way they ended. |
The Old Man and the Sea, The Scarlet Letter, Cry, The Beloved Country, The Pearl, plus some I don't even remember.
In Cry, The Beloved Country you couldn't tell who said what because some genius decided to write without quotation marks, The Scarlet Letter droned on and on, and the other two could've been summed up in a pamphlet. |
Like many before me, I also HATED The Scarlet Letter to death.
The very core of the story isn't bad, but it's not worth an entire book, especially one as bland as The Scarlet Letter. And good god, having to look up a dictionary definition for every fourth word that I read... |
I couldn't stand Wuthering Heights.
It was written all strange and never seemed to end (nor did it seem to have a purpose.) I hated all the characters also. |
"A Tale of Two Cities" made my head hurt and gave me nightmares.
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I hated Lord of the Flies. Mostly because we ripped the book into itty bitty peices until the actual meaning of the words was lost in favor of 'theme', 'symbol' and the like. I swear, analysis of a book can really ruin it. I also can't stand Hemingway. His writing is just so dry and bland, like a cracker. Not even a salted cracker, just a cracker. Reading "The Sun Also Rises" was like eating cardboard.
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I didn't like it, yet I don't feel much hostility towards The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. I mean, I adored Jim's character (he was the only one I could understand!) and I was glad to have it under by belt once I finished, but UGH. Reading it was a huge chore.
I didn't like Hiroshima much at all. I didn't like the writing style. Yes, it's very good to be educated on the subject of the bombing of Hiroshima, but that book just did a terrible job of doing so! ERNEST HEMMINGWAY. UGH. I hated Old Man and the Sea! I have to read another book by him this summer, and it makes me sad. ;_; I thought I was done with him freshman year... |
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