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Spinoff from this thread: http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/what-was-your-favorite-book-that-you-had-to-read-in-high-school
What was your least favorite book you had to read for high school?
I really hated Great Expectations. I had loved reading Tale of Two Cities the year before so I'd hoped my enjoyment of Dickens would continue but it was so slow and I just couldn't get into it.
There was another book that I had to read over the summer before I started AP English that I LOATHED but I can't remember the name of it. It was really long though and I couldn't read for more than about 15 minutes before I fell asleep from boredom. Man - I wish I could think of what it was but I've bannished those awful memories from my mind I guess.
haha I was about to start this thread
The Old Man and the Sea, I just do not get it. I did really enjoy the Sun Also Rises so I'm not a total Hemingway hater.
Also, Frankenstein. Soooooo looooong
Can I say All Of Them? Seriously... there wasn't a book in High School I remotely liked. Especially when they whipped out the Odyssy. Shoot me now! I love reading. I just hated all the "classics" I guess. In Jr High I did read the Scarlet Letter and liked that though...
A Separate Peace by John Knowles. So boring. So very, very boring.
@GroovyHippieChick: YES, that book was awful, and gets my vote as well.
Catch 22 and Sophie's World. Oh, and Anthem by Ayn Rand. I wanted to throw that book against the wall!
The Heart of Darkness. Had to read it in 12th grade AP Lit. I seriously had 20 sticky notes on each page with vocab just so I could understand it. I love the classics and need to start reading more (when I get time)
HEART OF DARKNESS. Oh my gawd. And Things Fall Apart. Any book about British imperialism, really.
ETA- @LovebirdsSC: Great minds, I swear. We had an abbreviated senior year because of Hurricane Katrina and we covered that horrible book in about two weeks. Needless to say, I didn't write about it on the AP test.
It's a tie between Heart of Darkness and Scarlet Letter. Shoot me now.
Call of the Wild. God, reading that book in 7th grade was like pulling teeth for me. The Scarlet Letter was boring too. Hmmmm... Beowulf too.
I swear, I love literature but I have limits.
I loved pretty much everything I read in high school....except for "My Antonia"...I just hated every bit of it! My sister and most of my friends loved it but UGHHHHHH
@KatyElle: True, The Scarlett Letter is pretty awful
Ok I know it's not a book, but basically anything by Shakespeare. Did we really have to study him every.single.year. I know this is terribly uncultured, but URGH.
@LGenz: I hated Old Man and the Sea! blahhhh...
I've never heard of some of the books that PP's have listed!
I am going to say Huck Fin. Mostly because from 1st grade through college I have read the damn thing about 8 times. A
Eathan Frome. Oh god that was tourture. Weird too, " her hair smelled like sawdust".... ummm What now?
@armywifetobe12: Oh my goodness, I LOVE Catch-22 - it is one of my favorites! I loved Sophie's World as well. We must be total opposites :)
My least favorite was probably The Scarlet Letter, or when we read Hamlet outloud as a class in 9th grade. A great deal of my classmates were not the best readers, and the whole process was cringe-inducing to listen to.
I hated The Great Gatsby. Of course, that might be because my teacher tried to tell us that it was all about the evils of industrialization. I hate when English class makes you analyze a book to death and I hate it even more if the analysis they feed us is wrong.
@Showers: Shakespeare is wonderful, but it's meant to be watched, not read.
@Eva Peron: I was just going to put that. It seemed so depressing. I told my English teacher I couldn't read it anymore because it was bad for my aura. Which I'm pretty sure makes no sense.
I don't have a great memory for what we read but I HATED Lord of the flies, like really really hated it in 9th grade, way to start of high school english, blech! I also really disliked animal farm!
@LovebirdsSC: and @rubyroad10: and @Meowkers: Aw man! Really? I really liked Heart of Darkness!
@MrsStormy: Aw. I really liked Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies too. I mentioned both of those in the other thread.
The only one I really remember fighting to get through was Chaucers "Canterbury Tales". Yawn.
@Lindsay12.31.2010: Oh yes - Canterbury Tales was awful. Luckily, we didn't have to read the entire thing. Our teacher just selected certain sections and stories.
I know they aren't books but anything Shakespeare. I hate all of his work. I find it to be boring and by the time I figured out what he was trying to say I wanted to slam my head into the desk.
@Mrs.KMM: I love those both as well! I did an amazing project for Animal Farm in 9th grade - I managed to convince my classmates to wear animal masks, and I interviewed them as the local newscater reporting live from the scene of the coup :) I can't believe I persuaded them hehe
@Mrs.KMM: Sorry! :( I think that book induced physical pain each time I picked it up. It took me like 15 minutes to get through one page...thing was so dense it could have been a black hole.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS!!! I had to read it over the summer before my AP English class started and I. Could. Not. Get. Through. It!
Seriously, I would fall asleep within 5 minutes of picking it up and trying to dredge through it.
I liked most of the other books we read though.
@Lindsay12.31.2010: I love the Canterbury Tales! When I was little, my dad had a book on tape of it and he would play it for me. My favourite tales were the one with the rooster (Nun's Priest's Tale I think) and the Pardoner's Tale.
@sarahjc0015: You should read Down and Out in Paris and London by Orwell. It's very different from his works of fiction and well worth a read.
Wuthering Heights and The Scarlet Letter both made me want to bash my head in.
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