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REquired REading that i hated!
THe rime of the ancient mariner.
It is a really good story with a great moral, but i'm telling you, by the end of it, i was so tired of reading about albatrosses. |
I hated Our Town, I swear nothing happened in that entire play, really. I also disliked A Farewell to Arms, it was kind of interesting in the beginning but then I really started hating the main character completely. The ending sucked beyond all reason and even our teacher wondered why she had assigned it in the first place. Animal Farm was pretty bad too, especially the movie. XD
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1. The Awakening
2. Jane Eyre 3. Huckleberry Finn 4. Frankenstien 1, because the woman seriously was a pansy in not getting her way during her mid-life crisis. 2, because I apparently have no sympathy for women during that time era. 3, despite the fact I am indeed from the South, actually, farther south than their south, the speech made my IQ drop. 4, Viktor is a pansy who does not want to stand up for his misdeeds like a little wuss, and how in the hell did the monster learn to read on the bible and Paradise Lost? |
1. Utopia
2. A Handmaid's Tale Those are the only two I think I ever really hated that I had to read. |
A History of the World in Six Glasses. I hated that book. I'm in honors, so that was our beginning of the year read. We had to write a synopsis every two chapters, which sucked even more. Other than that, there haven't been too many required read that I can even remember. Not since fourth grade, though. Wait, never mind. I can't even remember what we read back in fourth grade.
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for me it would be lord of the flies and sidartha.
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The Scarlet Letter annoyed me to no end. Especially her daughter. Ugh. D:
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Most defiantly Emma by Jane Austin and Clueless (it's a comparative study). I didn't mind Pride and Prejudice, but ohmy. Emma just gave me the shits (no other way to put it). It's just waaaay to much like people I know in the real world. Currently, I'm mildly disliking Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), but that's just because it's proving to be a whole lot less interesting then I thought it would be. |
My cousion bought me A Wrinkle in Time as a gift and my parents made me read it. It was so damn boring!!! I had to read it because it was a gift...
Another time was in my English Class. It wasn't that I had to read it but the teacher read to he class. She was reading The Giver. One of the worst books I've ever heard in the history of my life!!! To me the society seemed like it was on crack... Sorry, no offense to anybody who likes those. It's just my personal opinion... |
The Great Gatsby- I wanted to die because they made us read it.
The Catcher in The Rye- The main character had issues. Big time. Lord of the Flies- Most. Disturbing. Book. Ever. EVER. I'm not one to really hate books, it's more of the way the author presents their stories that made me dislike them. |
There are very few books that I actually dislike, and I enjoyed every single assigned book until my Sophomore year of highschool.
First, I detested Herman Hesse's Siddhartha-- somehow, I'm rather skeptical about a book on Hinduism and Indian culture written by an arbitrary German intellect. And the style of writing itself drove me mad. It was... oh-- I don't even really know a proper word for it. Fatuous. I think that Hesse was addicted to reading his own writing. The entire thing felt like an epic self-congratulation. I also disliked The Scarlet Letter, which was required reading for this year. The moral backdrop did nothing for me, and I couldn't empathize with Hester. Or really any of the characters, which limited my ability to enjoy the reading. I'm surprised at how many people didn't like The Lord of the Flies, though. It's one of my favorites. I also have a noted tendency to bring it along whenever I get on a plane, just in case. :yes: |
There's only one book I can honestly say I disliked and that was Great Expectations. I just could not get into it and I don't even think I finished reading the book.
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I disliked having to read Hard Times with a passion. It has left such a lasting impression that I now cringe whenever someone as much as mentions Charles Dickens. Completely ruined the Dickens festival for me as well. :stare:
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110% hated Ethan Frome by Edith Warton. Thankfully it was short, but it was so painful while reading.
Other books I wasn't fond of were: The Grapes of Wrath, but mostly because every other chapter was a crazy landscape study that bored me to tears. Scarlet Letter. Need I say anything? |
Hurm...
For me it's most likely:
*something about a character named* Billy Budd Emma Anna Karinna Balzac and the Little Seamstress (something like that) and Chinua Achebe's book about Okonkwo.... which was depressing enough that I've repressed its name to the depths of my memory. And there are some books that I liked to read on my own, but the assignments killed. For instance: Harry Potter Series - I loved it until I had to research all the 'controversy' surrounding it and analyze the symbolism contained within its pages. (FYI: It has a bunch of pages... as a book and especially as a series.) And there are also just some genres that I despise despite the book having a good author: "Coming of Age" novels "Abused Teen dealing with Issues" Novels anything Teen Pregnancy/ Teen Angst I never really connected with them and felt like I was slugging through the swamps of sadness like Atrayu in the Never Ending Story, i.e. "if I let my boredom with the topic consume me, I'll never get out of its pages" I read many more books than I despise, but reading for assignment really seems to make things that simply annoy you worse than they actually are... |
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Worst. Book. Ever. I read it freshman year. It sucked. A lot. If Ernest Hemmingway wasn't dead already, I'd kill him myself. |
Apart from a few that have already been said (The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Great Expectations) my most-hated are:
Their Eyes were Watching god Passing A Rasin in the Sun Deliver us from Evie Letters from Inside Our Town Betsy Brown .... wow I really hate my school's english book picks for middle and high schoolXD |
the adventures of huckleberry finn! I had to listen to the full tape in class for more than a week which was grueling the person who read the book on the tape didnt help either.
the old man in the sea was also bad. The only book I liked was To Kill A Mockingbird. I also had no idea they made The Scarlett Letter into a movie starring Demi Moore. That was pretty surprising. |
I pretty much don't like biographies. I'm not saying that all biographies are annoying, but most of the Required Reading ones are....
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I can now whole heartedly add Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson to my hated novels list. Nothings happens in it! Even my teacher said so XD When I was done I thought that I must have forgotten some parts because surely, something MUST have happened.
But there wasn't. According to my teacher this novel has no complete plot, the best you can do is say something vague about 'coming of age' but Miriam (the main character) doesn't even develop all that much. |
In high school there were two pieces of literature I actually would say I hated. This is only because these are the two books I actually took the time to tear apart and throw away, because I didn't feel like inflicting them on some unknowing bystander.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was required for my 9th grade English class. I've blocked most of the story out, but I remember it being very dry, very boring. The only good thing about it was the class got some joke mileage out of the yam currency. My real beef, so to speak, is with Gustave Flaubert and the supposed masterpiece of Madame Bovary. He is my reference to people in going into too much detail. It seemed like he spent ten pages writing about the town the newly married couple moved to, and by the time it actually returned to the plot you felt ready to either kill the book or yourself. It didn't help that despite what Flaubert attempted, I had no sympathy for the protagonist and was quite happy to see her go. While a realistic ending, it was also a bit too bleak for my taste. My class was actually talking about having a bonfire for this book, since all but one person hated it. There are others I disliked, but could tolerate. I remember I didn't like how The Taming of the Shrew ended, because it was just sad to see how 'the shrew' lost all of her character in the last act. I actually couldn't stand The Crucible, but I think I loaned it to someone and never got it back. XD |
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Ahh Billy Budd, I know that book well. xD
We were required to read it last year and the actual premise of the story would be interesting but the author spent all but three pages ranting about something or other which made it impossible to read. I didn't hate Lord of the Flies but it wasn't one of my favorites. I found the boys' actions towards Simon very disturbing because he was one of the only characters I cared about on any level. I admired what the book was trying to represent but we were forced to analyze it to the point where I felt like I was going insane. I liked the Catcher in the Rye because the main character's outlook on life interested me. I didn't agree with him on anything but he reminded me of a few of my friends. A required reading book I really disliked was Of Mice and Men. I don't know why, I just had a very hard time stomaching it.\ But I wouldn't say I hated it. Thats the only one I can think of off hand. |
I actually enjoyed 1984, Ferenhiet 451, and The Great Gatsby.
My absolute least favorite required reading book was The Education of Little Tree. I hated, hated, hated it. 'Little Tree' just copied every thing and idea of his Grandfathers and never had an original thought of his own during the whole entire book. Grrr. I never saw what was so great about Moby Dick either. The bulk of it seems to be the rantings of a madman, and for insane rantings its incredibly preachy and boring. |
The Socrates Cafe. I can't even remember the author.
It repeated itself over and over again and was REEEEAAAALLY boring. Had to read it for a humanities class. |
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