What are the worst books you had to read in school?

[fierydemise]

The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby are bad but without a doubt the worst book I've ever read
House on Mango Street

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

Originally posted by: fierydemise
The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby are bad but without a doubt the worst book I've ever read
House on Mango Street

Oh God, that House on Mango Street sounds absolutely atrocious.

 

[fierydemise]

Originally posted by: CrazyHelloDeli
Oh God, that House on Mango Street sounds absolutely atrocious.

Its twice that bad, the only redeeming quality it was mercifully short

 

[episodic]

Moby Dick

 

[RedArmy]

I can't believe the amount of people that don't like Catcher in the Rye. I loved the book and the other short story that J. D. Salinger wrote (Laughing Man). The amount of symbolism and metaphors in it was insane. Then again, the coolness was taken to the next level after I watched GITS:SAC. Laughing Man is a BAMF.


Oh yeah, House on Mango street sucked huge along with just about every other book. I can't recall one memorable instance of any book I read in school, therefore they were the suck.

 

[Turfzilla]

Originally posted by: blackllotus
Ethan Frome... omg

Wow, yes i forgot all about that... that was horrible.
Also.. The Walkabout. Some austrailian kid has to walk... about....
horrible

 

[Mo0o]

House on Mango Street ... so... bad...

 

[Kaido]

Beloved

and

A Wrinkle in Time

The first one had more explicit passages than I ever wanted to read and the second one I have never, ever understood.

 

[Brainonska511]

Wuthering Heights
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Good Earth (didn't even bother with it, just sparknoted it)
Nectar in a Sieve (same as with the Good Earth, both were assigned for a S.S. class in 9th grade).
Turn of the Screw by Henry James (?)

I'm sure there are more, but I don't remember which books I've read.

 

[ChaoZ]

The Great Gatsby

 

[xeemzor]

Originally posted by: fierydemise
The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby are bad but without a doubt the worst book I've ever read
House on Mango Street

Forgot about that one. Reading that book causes physical pain.

 

[SonnyDaze]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: pontifex
i had to read some book about the revolutionary war (i think it was that war). OMG was it boring. can't remember what it was called.

The Red Badge of Courage (Civil War)?

Killer Angels?

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: keeleysam

Originally posted by: goku

Originally posted by: keeleysam
The Scarlet Letter

The Hot Zone

/thread

Damn, you didn't like the Hot Zone? Heh, I actually own that book!

Books I read that sucked and had to read

where the red fern grows
bless me ultima
roll of thunder hear my cry
Catcher in the Rye
Fahrenheit 451
There is probably a few more that I've forgotten (thankfully)


Oh crap, this thread made me remember some more...

Red Badge of courage
To kill a mocking bird
The great gatsby ---Definately was meh

You suck.

Well considering that you didn't like the Hot Zone, YOU SUCK.

 

[EGGO]

Scarlet Letter, and Frankenstien. Wait, there was To Kill a Mocking Bird as well.

 

[zerocool84]

AHAHAHAHAHA HOUSE ON MANGO STREET!!!!!
damn the memories also Wuthering Heights..................OH HEATHCLIFF!!!!!! OH CATHERINE!!!!!

and WOAH GOKU did we go to the same highschool??? i think i read all of those same books too

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: zerocool84
AHAHAHAHAHA HOUSE ON MANGO STREET!!!!!
damn the memories also Wuthering Heights..................OH HEATHCLIFF!!!!!! OH CATHERINE!!!!!

and WOAH GOKU did we go to the same highschool??? i think i read all of those same books too

Do you live in walnut Creek? Some of the books I listed were from middle school..

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
Lets see... worst books...

Scarlet Letter;
Wuthering Heights;
Pride and Prejudice;
all Shakespeare;
the Crucible;
Jane Austen;
Scarlet Letter;

(why are all these books they force upon us from the 1700's or so?)

Basically... if it could be read, I hated it. I'm not a fan of reading.

Unless its pr0n.

Old Man and the Sea also sucked. Maybe because my AP English teacher felt we were not advanced enough to READ the book so we listened to the whole thing on a fvcking record player.

Why the heck are you saying Shakespeare is bad? Julius Caesar, MacBeth, and Hamlet were all really good.

Edit - Here's my list though

Our Town - Lousy play, for some reason it had a Newberry Award<?>. Totally devoid of any plot, incredibly dull, didn't seem to have any point.

A Separate Peace - The one book I have fell asleep reading. Nuff said.

The Catcher in the Rye - Holden Caulfield was an idiot.

The Grapes of Wrath - Subjecting the reader to problems of a turtle flipped on its back and how it turned back over and kept moving forward may be a metaphor, but good god, its dull.

Lord of the Rings(all three) - Read 3 pages, skip half a chapter's worth of song lyrics, read a few more lines of relevant text, skip another patch of song lyrics.

Johnny Tremain - All I remember from this book is the beginning, up to the point where his hand is deformed, and the last paragraph, where he writes the line 'Thousands would die, but not the thing they died for. A Man can stand up.' Everything between is a complete blur, it wasn't interesting enough to keep me interested then. I should probably reread it, but I've got a stack of books I'm trying to get through.

 

[futuristicmonkey]

Originally posted by: Soybomb
kafka's the metamorphosis. terribleterribleterrible

Aye! My fvck, did I hate that little, pointless POS.

 

[brtspears2]

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - I got sent to principals office for dozing off during in class readings on two different times. It didn't help that it was during black history month and the teacher was black.
Dubliners - all I remember is that I mastered the fine art of using Cliff Notes to boost what little I did read from this book.
Daisy Miller - damn, I still want to punch Winterbourne for being such an idiot, he was so in the zone and gave it up.

 

[blackllotus]

Originally posted by: CrazyHelloDeli

Originally posted by: fierydemise
The Scarlet Letter and The Great Gatsby are bad but without a doubt the worst book I've ever read
House on Mango Street

Oh God, that House on Mango Street sounds absolutely atrocious.

Think of a girl getting raped by a clown

 

[Screech]

Absolute worst read for me was Red Badge of Courage.....that SUCKED, absolutely the worst read ive ever had, no comparison.....not even to moby dick, which was also pretty bad (2nd worst). went on forever. And yeah, Im pretty sure Red Badge was civil war. 3rd worst was Bovary, I felt like pulling an Emma and taking some arsenic while reading that....

Other pretty-bad stuff:
Their Eyes were watching god
Cry, the beloved country
Frome, although it wasn't as bad, as it was fairly short

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I liked Old man and the sea, as well as F451.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

All

I have never read a single literature book in high school.

Now 30, succcessful engineer. And I still hate books!!!! I try reading them and it's just boring.

 

[zerocool1]

I read The Giver while in grade school, for some reason I read it again. Wow, that's a messed up book. Where the red fern grows is pretty pointless, but so is walden

 

[HamburgerBoy]

The Catcher in the Rye is the only one I can think of by name, but there were loads of boring ones I can't remember. Does anyone know what book involved a family with a young white kid adopting a black boy and the whole book being about the black kid being picked on? That one was horrible.

 

[Dumac]

A Raisin in the Sun
Fahrenheit 451
Almost anything Shakespear
The Red Badge of Courage

I liked Guns, Germs, and Steel but never finished it. However, that was private reading, not school reading.