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But I have to say... To Kill a Mockingbird...
WAY TOO BORING FOR MY TASTES
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And the most recent book I've read that I hated was for school. The Old Man and The Sea. How the fuck does someone find that entertaining?!
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Proud PxM shipper.
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And as much as I love Harry Potter, 5 & 6 were definitely the weakest in the series.
One K, one R, two V's. Gawd.
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Most people thought Wolves of The Calla was the worst, but it was one of my favorites. I liked that and Song of Susannah. The last book had its ups and downs. There were a lot of disappointments (like The Crimson King's appearance and the whole finale between him, Roland, and Patrick), but certain things gave it some redeeming qualities, such as where Roland and Susannah meet the emotion vampire. It seemed like a sort of sequel to IT. The only book in the series that I hated was The Waste Lands. The Gunslinger was a little boring because I read the original version, but I can forgive that since it was one of the first big projects King worked on.
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In general I hate existentialism.
Oh and stuff about the midwest. "Call of the wild" and "Grapes of wrath' made me want to physically harm myself.
But the WORST was having to read, study and perform ' Our Town' for an entire three months. THE HUMANITY OF IT ALL!
It haunts me to this day. ;_;
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Anne Rice because she's just plain shite, and Stephen King because he's R.L Stine but with profanity sprinkled through his works.
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Thank you, Trabz.
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War & Peace-Long, tedious and BORING! My sister gave this to me for Christmas one year; I figured she was mad at me. I read 5 chapters before I gave up and used the book for a door-stop.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles--Yuck! Again, long, tedious and boring. I gave up on this one after 1 chapter.
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*Leaps back in abject horror*! Madam! Have you no soul!!!!????? Where is the Hardy love!??? (if you think that one's bad, don't go near Jude The Obscure or Far From The Madding Crowd).
Personally I can't cope with Dickens. He was my bane at University and when I graduated I sold all the books of his I owned except for one copy of David Copeprfield that has lovely illustration.
I also can't recommend The Faerie Queen to anyone unless they are simultaneously put on suicide watch.
Also - most of George Eliot's output. Flashes of genius with utter shite in between (IMO).
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Anyway I also hate Shabanu, Romeo and Juliet, and Farewell to Manzanar
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*shakes head disapprovingly* >.> - <.<
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That's because it's the bulk of what I read and dammit I expect it to live up to the hype - at the other end of the scale is stuff that I know is likely to be utter dross when I buy it so it's not worth bitching about
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Anne Rice because she's just plain shite, and Stephen King because he's R.L Stine but with profanity sprinkled through his works.
Agreed.
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
"Madame Bovary is me!" he said. He must have been one of the most boring mangina-wearing guy in the history of ever.
La Princesse de Clevres - Madame de Lafayette (IIRC)
Arguably the worst book I ever read, bar none. Not even anything from Anne Rice nor Stephen King nor J.K. Rowling nor Piers Anthony (lol lesbians and lol emo) nor Dan Brown can match this cesspool of mediocrity.
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One book I din't like was The Amber Room. Just when it seemed like something interesting was about to happen, the scene changed to something completely different, and started all over again. So annoying!
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Anyway I also hate Shabanu, Romeo and Juliet, and Farewell to Manzanar
I haven't heard of LOTF until my teacher told shoved it in my face and told me to read it for class. I read it in a day and thought it was shit.
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Anyway I also hate Shabanu, Romeo and Juliet, and Farewell to Manzanar
The Romeo and Juliet part. *Nods so agreeably that my head nearly falls off*. I fucking hated Romeo and Juliet. The only thing by Shakespeare that I've actually wanted to read is Hamlet, because The Lion King was based on it and I love The Lion King. But we never read that in school
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I can forgive R&J anything because of the character of Mercutio, who is a perennial favourite of mine and one of the filthiest minds in literature - and also because it's probably the greatest emo teen love story of all time :) But it's far better on stage than in text. Ditto for Macbeth which is another junior high favourite text.
The Mel Gibson Hamlet is pretty good - watch that on DVD rather than read the play first. And you might consider getting Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildernstern are Dead" as well to watch afterwards which is kind of a "fanfic" that explores what happened to two minor characters from Hamlet when they exited stage left, and looks at the whole thing from their POV. There's a good version with Tim Roth and (I think) Gary Oldman out there on DVD somewhere.
Also good in the ShakeyMovie repertoire is Olivier's Henry V (but it is B/W I'm afraid) and Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing which is a total delight as a story but (I think) is far better watched than read as otherwise the fast banter inteeractions lose something.
Hamlet... complex? It gets handed out to the kids that aren't good enough for a mainstream English course, where I live. :S
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I highly doubt that R&J is handed out in most schools complete with a glossary of sexual innuendo and explanations of why a poperin pear is an appropriate allusion :) Or indeed a medlar fruit. And I bet there's a fair bit of glossing over
"To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle
Of some strange nature, letting it there stand
Till she had laid it and conjured it down;"
as well.
It's about teenage sex, teachers! Get over it!
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The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
I blame my 11th grade English for tormenting us with 'The American Dream' theme throughout the year. This wasn't a bad book but I just couldn't sit down and read it. Maybe because it was a school reading assignment and not something I would do in my free time.
A Yellow Raft on Blue Water - Michael Dorris
Just plain stupid, doesn't make any sense, and hard to follow. The plot is there but catching it is a nightmare since there are 3 parts to the book; the POV of the daughter, the POV of the mother, and the POV of the aunt. BTW, they're all Native Americans so I'm guessing the theme of the book is the struggle of Native Americans throughout the 20th century. In that case, it's infinitely inferior to Charles Wilkinson's Blood Struggle.
tl;dr - girl is sent to live with her aunt and shit happens from there. Endure it if you can.
An Introduction To International Law - Mark W. Janis
I hate law and I hate this book. So much sophisticated language that anyone who received a shitty K-12 education wouldn't have the patience to sit through this. That would be me.
The Merchant of Venice - Willaim Shakespeare
I loved Macbeth but this book is a piece of garbage. It's all about irony and nothing else. Nothing deep, moving, or motivating. Big, fat waste of a 10th grade Fall.
Romeo and Juliet - Guess who?
I'd rather read The Merchant of Venice than this. At least that one was comedic. This one just turns me away. Sure, irony abounds in plentiful amounts but it's so sappy and it's Shakespeare. 'Nuff said.
If I have anymore you can be sure you'll hear more from them.
Also, I read this one book in 6th grade. Some girl meets two mystics and travels to the first dimension and battles a giant mutant brain called "IT" and must save her brother from it. It made no sense and made a part of me die on the inside.
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Absolutely true - depending on how the teacher engages with the book. I had a bad experience with William Blake being taught at school as part of the curriculum and completely detested his work. Then my first ever seminar at college was Romantic Poetry and the first poet studied was Blake. It took me precisely one hour to see his work in a completely new light and now he's one of my favourites.
I think the same thing could easily have happened with A Passage To India were I not already passing familiar with EM Forster so I knew what to expect (Repressed!Sexuality!)
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I blame my 11th grade English for tormenting us with 'The American Dream' theme throughout the year. This wasn't a bad book but I just couldn't sit down and read it. Maybe because it was a school reading assignment and not something I would do in my free time.
Try this one again when you're a bit older. It's not something I would assign in school because again, it has some complex themes that are to do with sex and emotion and I'm not sure that it can be taught honestly by most teachers without complaints flooding in. And I wouldn't expect most school age kids to understand the kind of complex, obsessive long term relationships the book explores (it's also a toughie without the context of the historical period due to the wider metaphor and that's often ignored) unless the teacher is prepared to explain and again that might take a teacher who has experienced the kind of willfully doomed relationship therein OR one who can empathise enough to get across the emotion.
America Dream. Hm. Was your teacher a massive cynic, by any chance? Heh!
Gosh, I'm surprised what gets handed out at school randomly based on this thread! What next? Gulliver's Travels? Brideshead Revisited? Far From The Madding Crowd? (God forbid) Wuthering Heights???
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