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The Awakening by Kate Chopin. Okay story, but not very enjoyable when we were required to write formal literary essays on the novella. Just about no symbolism at all, and the few cases that existed were laid out in the text. Not very easy to interpret.
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I am actually starting to hate all required reading. In my eng comp class we are reading American Earth. It is all cool and everything because I am all for the earth but when these people are saying the same thing over and over and over again I am like BLARH!!! I also had to read A Mind at Work by Mike Rose. I guess kinda interesting but I must have a short attention span because I was bored after reading 1 page!
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OMG I had to read this one book called Hatchet during thanksgiving break in my 7th grade year but I ended up not reading it and getting a summary from a friend of mine who read it. xD
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I can't remember any required fictional books that I hated so much that I couldn't get through them. For my LAS class though, we had to read The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. :headdesk: I tried to read that stupid thing at least 5 times, but I could never get past the first few pages. I ended up not reading it and not doing the paper that was due for it...which is saying something for me. Luckily, it didn't affect my grade because I did all the other papers. It was weird how much I hated it, I went into it thinking that it was going to be interesting and I was going to learn a lot from it.
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I wanted to kill myself when I had to read To Kill a Mockingbird. Omg most boring book ever! Chocolate War, Frankenstein and a few others are extremely horrible as well.
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I hated almost everything - with the exception of The Yellow Wallpaper - I had to read for my Women's Lit class. It was like they were incapable of picking stories that weren't about whiny women who got the men they wanted through their whining alone and not through actually being, you know, interesting. Either that, or they were diatribes on how much men sucked. Which gets really boring after your second or third one.
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I hated anything by John Steinbeck. It seemed every year there was a new Steinbeck novel that I had to read.
Ugh "The Red Pony" and then "Grapes of Wrath" and everything else. I've blocked most of them out, cause they sucked so bad. |
I hated having to read To Kill a Mockingbird. It was super boring and I don't even remember what the book was about. However, I loved getting to read Lord of the Flies.
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It makes me sad that so many people hated farenhiet 451, I love that book, it was one of the books that made me love reading in general.
As for books I hated, the old man and the sea...and he rowed and he rowed and he rowed......ugh! I hated that book, never did less than 200 pages seem so long. A day no pigs would die, and the Red Pony, both just aweful. Maybe I just have a thing about farm life, just can't stand stories about it. |
I hated the Red Pony too, I also hated The Pearl. Maybe I am just NOT a Steinback fan. Bleh. I was not really a fan of the Lord of the Flies, Of Mice Of Men, or Grapes of Wrath. BLEH an entire chapter on a turtle crossing the road. I get the symbolism. No really, I get it, BUT I don't have to like it!
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THING FALL APART! DX
we had to read that in class!! EVEN THE TEACHER HATED IT! other: Animal Farm -I don't know I just kept falling sleep Dante's Inferno - I could stay awake long enough to enjoy it >.< Family Tree -The characters annoyed me! The Epic of Gilgamesh -Arrgh once again, I couldn't stay awake! |
Lord of the Flies needs to die. Now. I don't understand why it's a literary great. I also wasn't all that much for To Kill a Mockingbird. Loved the movie, but it was probably due to Gregory Peck and his amazing godliness.
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Hmmm...Well, last year I hated reading "To Kill A Mockingbird". It was soooo boring. It just dragged on and on and on...
Antigone: Didn't like at all. Too much was going on. All I really remember is a theme being selfish pride; I think that was it. As you can probably assume, I wasn't all that interested. Of Mice and Men: I didn't like the ending. Symbolism my buttocks. No one should walk away from a dead body and say, "What's gotten into 'em?". No! No! No! Blaaagh D: |
Last year I had to read Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury. It might have partially been how my (symbolism-obsessed) English teacher taught us about the book, but it seemed that the book's symbolism was so overpowering that it killed the action. Also, the wide variety of characters with only vague connections to one another made the book seem somewhat disjointed. It was also quite boring.
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Hmm... Reading anything done by Angela Carter, in this case, "The Bloody Chamber" has basically made me rather... Well... Traumatised is a bit too strong, but pretty damn close.
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Lord of the Flies & To Kill a Mockingbird All I can say is I barely got through both of the books... If it wasn't for the movies I don't know what I would have done. Although, the movies weren't that great either and both were in black and white. I ended up skipping a few chapters here and there. The fact that the movies are in black and white should tell you something... They're very old and we need to keep up with the times by bringing in some new material. |
I really hated To Kill A Mockingbird. I though it was dry and boring, and the entire plot could have been writing in 100 words or less but was instead dug out way to long.
I would have said A Separate Peace, but that series got a major boost of interest in my class. The book itself was boring and everybody hated it, until we got a debate going over whether or not Gene was gay or not. That whole debate made the book a lot more interesting, because we were all looking for debate points for one side or another the entire time, so we read it and remembered it well. |
I could not STAND Tess of the D'urbervilles (or however you spell it; I don't remember and I don't care to). I have never read a more boring, depressing book, and the main character's an idiot. It annoys me when the main character's an idiot.
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Madame Bovary. I don't think I've ever hated a book more than I did that one. There was absolutely no redeeming value to it at all.
I also disliked Beowulf, The Great Gatsby, A Street Car Named Desire, 1984, and The Scarlet Letter to name a few. Sometimes it seems like English teachers have a knack for picking out books you will hate. I had a couple teachers like that. |
Metamorphosis by Kafka. Actually, any Existentialism.
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Hmm, funnily enough, I actually quite liked "The Metamorphosis" by Kafka. Then again, I saw it in a playscript form first, and wanted to see how the story ended, but that's just me. But then, that's what makes the world go round, is it not, to have differing tastes?
Another book I abhorred, and still find myself opposed to was "Passage to India" by E.M. Forster. A plot that could have been told in a summarised 100 pages, and too much flowery description. Every grain of sand had to have about a page's worth of description, to make some form of metaphor for racism and the like. It didn't help that I had to study this book with one of the worst teachers I ever had in general, let alone for Literature. "Right, today, we're going to study the same chapter we've been studying for the whole course - The arrest of Dr. Aziz". I had thought I would find Milton to be a bore, due to this similar problem of nothing but flowery description, but instead I found myself enjoying Paradise Lost, if only for the fact that when it came to the crux of the plot, Milton was very good at making every side have a good argument, even if his own beliefs overwhelm the narrative completely. Actually, unless there is a topic on it already, I'm tempted to make a topic about "Required Reading You Thought You Would Hate, But Grew To Love". |
Personally, I didn't hate Paradise Lost, but I found it very difficult to understand. It's was kinda meh for me.
I really didn't like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight or Beowulf, both of which I read in Brit Lit this year. |
Almost all of them, honestly even if it's a book I might like being forced to read it at a pace I can't do makes reading terrible. But if I had to pick the worse was "My Antonia" I can't even tell you what it's about I hated it so much!
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