There were a few books that I hated reading in English. The Telling of Lies it was just...boring. A murder at a retirement home, oh no. And there's like an iceberg and that, it's all to be very symbolic...but...just boring.

The other one was Fugitive Pieces, it is a really beautiful novel, very poetic. (Well...it should be Anne Michaels is a poet), but when you are interpreting it, everything has so many meanings, and everything is connected that you don't know where to end or where to start.

I hated "A Raisin in the Sun" I don't remember who wrote it.
Honestly, I never read further than the first chapter.
But I could hear them reading out loud over my iPod, and I somehow aced the test.
Worst. Book. Ever.

Gah.. Crab.. BATTLE!

I hated Ethen Frome. Or however you spell it. No only did i dislike the writing style, but the concepts were rediculous. I found it an immature book with the illusion of depth. Honestly, the end was pathetic. It's like something you would see a angsty teenager scrawing in a notebook during math class. /rant

I loved Anthem by Ayn Rand. It was fantastic, simple as that. <3
1984 by Orwell was another good one, as well as Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.

Ugh, we had to read The Scarlet Letter in my English class junior year and it was absolutely horrible. I hated the writing of it; the detailing was just too much. Plus, the storyline is just awful. I love to read, that's what I do with most of my time. And I love to read classics, but that book made me want to shoot myself in the face. I was so glad when we finished it. To anyone who hasn't read it, DON'T; it's a complete waste of time.

I had to read that one as well. Personally, it wasn't the book its self that made me hate it. It was the complete overanylization that my teacher did of it. It's really a bad book. It does have its moments though... Certainly not a waste of time. At the very least, it's a book of great merit and being familiar with it will give you insight and the ability to reference back on that. Teachers and professors love it when you reference books in your writing >>

I hated To Kill a Mockingbird, it was just very boring to me and I never could get into it. By the time I did actually read it, I had already failed the whole class because of the fact I couldn't get into it, so there was no point. xD

Hmm lets see...Lord of the Rings. Seriously that book is uber lame. Into the Wild hated this book with a passion. I want to burn it x.x. Jarhead annoying but was better then Into the Wild. But the book that earns the WORST BOOK THAT A SCHOOL HAS MADE A KID READ is Kon Tiki The book is like 800+ pages long and we had to read in 7th grade. It was about a guy going to the Galapagos islands on this boat made out of this really light wood =.=

Mostly just the Shakespeare. Everything else I was required to read wasn't too bad.

"The Old Man and the Sea", I forgot who wrote it but I think it was Ernest Hemingway. God, I don't think anyone ever wrote a more boring book. It's 100-something pages long and all that happens is: old man goes fishing - old man catches big fish - sharks eat fish on the way back - old man goes home.

We also had to read Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" for History of English Literature. I hated it because the whole text seemed pointless and was just not fun to read >_<

Lord of the Flies and War and Peace. To this day I cringe when I see the books on my shelf.
Yeah, I know, their still there. But for some strange reason I hate throwing out books so my shelves are cluttered terribly.

I have some books that I just absolutely hated reading. And they're from my Sophomore year.

First, Lord of the Files. It was the last book that we had to read the entire year and I couldn't even get past the first chapter. I don't even know how I got a B on the paper without even reading the book.

Next, Things Fall Apart. I liked the book in the beginning, but towards the end I thought it was so boring.

I thought at first that To Kill A Mockingbird was boring, but as I read it I got into it. It turns out that I now like the book.

Now my favorite book that was assigned reading is Catcher in the Rye. No idea why but I loved reading it.

There's been a few.
One was Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I tried to read that book and I did squirm my way through to the end. But the writing and elaborate words were so hard to understand.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Miserable book, miserable plot, and a miserable ending...Definitely don't enjoy very depressing books.
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. A boring book about the Civil War.
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem. Half the time I did not know if the main character was hallucinating or in reality, so it was very confusing at several points and made no sense. Might have been the point of the book but I certainly did not get it.

I couldn't stand the Scarlet Letter. It was just so dry and pious.
I wish we could read swashbucklers in class instead.
They could at least try and cultivate an interest in reading.
I've never understood why, when there are so many excellent novels to read, teachers try
and force students to read books that appeal to such a narrow group.
I personally enjoy classics but I think my brother might be more interested in reading if he'd been given books that actually appealed to him while he was in school. It seems a bit counter productive.

Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy.
Hardy dubbed it 'A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented'... Pfft!
The central protagonist of the title is a self-loathing doormat, and the minute she dares to stick up for herself, she is killed. Hardy talks about her as a perfect woman, and she's nothing more than a useless wet blanket.
He also spends half of the novel ranting about how God is such an evil being, while simultaneously professing that God does not exist... WTF? Make your mind up!

I hated it. A badly written book, portraying nothing but unrealistic characters that only adhere to one extreme or the other.

The Red Room By HG Wells was the longest, most tedious "Short" Story I ever read. Although, I got an A in my essay about it which is weird...

Oomph. I forgot to mention "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë. It's a HUGE book to begin with, and it's so incredibly boring... There's one good part, and that's where (spoiler, but I doubt anyone will read this out of their own free will) the main character discovers that her to-be husband is already married to a crazy woman, who is locked up in a room in the husband's house.

Kon Tiki. Worst book ever.

Originally Posted by FarieFaye

Kon Tiki. Worst book ever.

QFT

The Giver. A nice book, but I don't ready like "In a perfect world..." books. It was pretty boring.

@Volucria: I'm surprised you didn't like Jane Eyre. I wasn't required to read it, my dad bought it along with other books for me years ago. That is one of my favorite books.

But, don't we all hate books a little more when we have to read it for something?

Stargirl. A lot of the other kids in my class loved it, but it gave me headaches. The author couldn't create a realistic school setting. Everyone but the title character pretty much liked the same things, wore the same fashions, and were so impossibly similar.

Thankfully, the only two books that I would have hated to read I 'misfortune' of missing. Lord of the Flies would defenetly have been one, seeing the movie was horrible enough. I mean, I love the fact that it explains human psychology so well... but I just don't think I can deal with little kids killing each other.
The other I can't remember its title... XD, but everyone who read it was disappointed with its ending. Therefore, I was happy.

Wow... So, I started this thread months ago!!! I'm so happy that it's still active!!!!!!!

Anyway, adding Moby Dick to my list of horrible books I was forced to read.

I also didn't like The Giver! It gave me the creeps....

I read Stargirl I think, by Spinelli I believe? I recall liking it but it didn't leave a huge impression on me.

Originally Posted by Tamerthanthou

Wow... So, I started this thread months ago!!! I'm so happy that it's still active!!!!!!!

Anyway, adding Moby Dick to my list of horrible books I was forced to read.

I had to watch the movie xD movie was okay...

The movie wasn't nearly as bad as the book, the book was very...dry. and really gross too