What Book In School Did You Have To Read, But You Hated?

[ead79]

I hated The Grapes of Wrath, A Separate Peace, and the Lord of the Flies.

On the other hand, I really enjoyed Heart of Darkness and The Great Gatsby.

 

[sweetpea15]

Another vote for Withering Heights, THe Hobbit, Lord of the Rings


I liked the Pearl - read in 6th grade and had to write an alternate ending to the story, Aced it!

I also loved In Cold Blood - Freshmen yr HS. Great book.

 

[dcgrumpy]

The Pearl

 

[Piper]

Originally posted by Redmic
It's funny, I really enjoyed "The Call of the Wild" and "Red Badge of Courage", but I hated the 300 pages of tedium known as "Moby Dick".

I am with you on Moby Dick -- We had (and I am NOT making this up) 1,278 questions to answer on that book. There were many questions on every page of that book--Who said xxxxx. Who did they day it to-----Why did they say it-----What was the result of the comment-----etc, etc, etc....ad nauseum!

And that was supposed to promote enjoyment of literature???? I don't think so----I still remember the exact number of questions after 42 years!--but nothing of the content of the book!!!!

 

[tstobb]

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.
Absolutly, without a doubt, the largest waste of paper, ink, and time.

 

[TinkHappy]

ANYTHING Shakespear!! I just didn't get it. I don't understand why Shakespear is required reading. The stories were OK, my favorite was Taming of the Shrew, but come-on. Even English majors have said Shakespear's writings are not proper English.

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

OK Here we Go hahaha:
The Scarlet Letter
As I Lay Dying
MacBeth
A Wizard of Earthsea
Things Fall Apart
Fahrenheit 451
The Old Man and the Sea
The Good Earth
The Chinese Bell Murders
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
A Tale of Two Cities
Flowers for Algernon

On the other hand I LOVED:
All the King's Men
East of Eden
Iron & Silk
To Kill A Mockingbird
The Chosen
Huck Finn
The Great Gatsby
A Seperate Peace

 

[CourtasanSatine]

The Pearl was dull and boring

I kinda liked Heart of Darkness(aka the movie Acpolyspe Now)

 

[EltonJohn]

Originally posted by TeresaNJ
In eighth grade, "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight".

I didn't like that one either-too confusing.

Also on my list is anything by Thomas Hardy. In my college Brit Lit class we had to read Tess of the D'Urbervilles-it took Hardy five pages to describe a flower! I'm exagerrating of course, but only slightly-Hardy seems to think that we must have all the descriptive details in a story

I was also assigned to read Eliot's Middlemarch, but I never got around to reading it!

Another author that makes my list is Henry David Thoreau-I had a really arrogant English prof at Baylor who turned me off of Thoreau for very first week of class!

In OT class we also had to read some passages from Leviticus-the most boring book in the entire Bible.

 

[Mermaid02]

Anything by Jack London..... he's a sicko
Sounder (5th grade I think)
Fahrenheit 451
Animal Farm (I think that was it)
Lord of the Flies