Originally Posted by Huffie

YES! :( You make me remember another another book that wasn't to my taste...unsurprisingly it was one I was assigned to; these seem common among black lists! :XD I really didn't care for Treasure Island, although it's apparantly a classic. I found it boring, and the main character ticked me off quite majorly. :-x

I wonder about how the books we are told to read are the ones we dislike, do you suppose it's because they're forced on us and we're bitter towards them for it, or because we don't get to choose what we read it's the simple likelyhood that we'll end up with one we have no interest for? :lol:

They definatly force us to read books that we have the least bit interest in because, it has to be 'educational'. But don't we learn new things from all books? From the author's ideas and beliefs? Wouldn't we rather read things that are more modern for our time? Of course we would. But the teachers/profs choose books for us because they know them off by heart and can make up questions and essays that can relate to the course. I'm currently in a Chatholic High School. So obvlsy a lot of reading we do in English class has to somehow relate back to our faith.
ex: Brighton Rock - The 7 Deadly Sins were presented mostly through the main character Pinky, and through ... ugh...( whats her name? The fat one? Not Rose...)

Anywho, my point: books are chosen to relate to the subject of the course our in... wait.. English... that's all literature... AHH I DONT KNOW

Generally, the first five chapters of the book are boring, so I don't ever let myself give up on a book until I'm at least half way through. I usually finish books, since I'm OCD about finishing what I've started.

I've actually hated three books so much that I could either not finish them or seethed the entire way through:
-The Awakening by: Kate Chopin (Seethed)
-The Mercy Seller by: Brenda Rickman Vantrease (Couldn't finish. I knew the ending from the first page.)
-My Sister's Keeper by: Jodi Picoult (Seethed)

I actually loved the outsiders and the hatchet. Outsiders was one of the few school books i finished, and hatchet i read in my free time. I might like Hatchet BECAUSE it was my free time, but still

My AP English teacher was a literature nerd. He would wax poetical about all of the parts in these books and none of us in the class would care >.<

I freakin hate james joyce and kafka and suck it.

This English teacher I have, totally takes out the fun in reading. She over analysis (which I understand, teachers have to do) but she makes it so boring and hard to stand. Right now we're reading 'Beloved'. Bullshit. So predictable. And I hate it because she's making us rub our faces in it. We've been reading this book and analysing it for an entire month! SERIOUSLY? SCREW ITTTTT!!!

The Lord of Castle Black

It was written as a "historical" book from the universe of a series I quite enjoy. Unfortunately, the author deviated from their usual, slightly humorous, style to write Castle Black in a more "classical" style. Classically bad! The descriptions were horrid and painful in their details, the story dragged on at a snail's pace, and each and every character sounded so overblown pompous that I just wanted to rip my hair out. Now, I like some older style books, but it seemed that the author decided to borrow every poor writing habit of the worst of not only the old serial authors, but also of every feudal-era hack writer who ever tried to get paid by the word.

I tried to read Eldest (Eragon series) twice but I couldn't even get halfway through, it just doesn't seem... Interesting :/