"Classic" Literature that you hated?

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Heart of Darkness

God how I hated reading that, and the ending was like a kick to the face. All that for nothing, thanks book!

OT: Pride and Prejudice mainly. There are a few others that I hated reading and would never touch again, but that one earns my ire.

EDIT: But Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was awesome and should be the only way to read that book.

 

[Nudu]

For me? Lord Of The Flies. Small children, whose parents didn't care enough to raise them and just shipped them off to a boarding school, have the potential to be primitive evil murderous little sh*ts you say? As a long time glorified babysitter I have to wonder if anyone was surprised to find this out.

And you didn't at all catch the fact that it's a war going on and their parents are probably dead?

 

[Ursus Buckler]

Great Gatsby can go fuck itself with a rake. Boring boring boring POINTLESS book.

'I've never SEEN such beautiful shirts!'

Also, Ulysses. I like detail and all but when the author decides to inform us on Leopold Bloom's bowel movements it becomes pretty tedious bloody quickly.

 

[PatrickXD]

I dislike most classic books. Too bad I'm doing my A2 in English lit this year!
So far I've read Wuthering Heights, among others from Bronte, and they are all dire.

 

[Karma168]

Great expectations, had to read that when i was about 13 and it put me right off Dickens as i was so bored.

My all time hate though is a poem called the Ryme of the Ancient Mariner. It is literally the incoherent ramblings of a junkie.

 

[poleboy]

Blade Runner is close to, if not my favorite movie. So I figured I'd read the novel that inspired it - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - I hate that book. I hate it so much. It's just random and stupid. I have no idea such a worthless piece of trash inspired such an awesome movie, but I'm glad it did. I just prefer not to think of the source material when I watch the movie anymore.

I like both, but they are nowhere near being the same story. All the religious and social aspects are pretty much stripped out of the movie. And while I like Ford, he doesn't do the character justice. His Deckard is an extremely one-dimensional action hero. I'll take Dick's social satire and insight over Hollywood any day.

 

[xmbts]

Great expectations, a million billion times. It's so incredibly boring.

 

[XDravond]

Ehm how many haw read August Strindberg's "Red Room" ... "War and Peace" by L. Tolstoy was not what you could call fun, Shakespeare ugh... Moby Dick.. don't think I finished that. And yea my teachers loved making me read really boring books...

Well I try to forget all "classics" that I've read, no way anyone is going to come to me and want to discuss classic literature (and not expect the classic "shotgun-in-the-face")

 

[UnknownGunslinger]

The fraking Iliad and Odyssey of Homer.
I sooo much hated those in school, I was like "why can't we read Terry Pratchett or something"
Anyway, I blame schools for ruining the classics by pushing them to us exactly when we were most likely to give them the finger.
I re-read Homers works a few months ago and they are actually AWESOME!!!
But I doubt most people would make such a masochistic gamble, after what we've been through in class!
And it's a shame cause they are actually very good.

I read Romeo and Juliet, the Catcher in the Rye and Huckleberry Finn on my own and enjoyed them as a kid, I doubt I would've enjoyed them at all if my first impression of them was in school.
It's the way they tried to hammer to us how important they were, and spelled the "morals" and "lessons" like we were kids (which we were), instead of you know, leaving us read the damn books like they are actually intended to be experienced!

Damn schools, it took me ages after graduation to discover that Physics, Math and History were all actually interesting, once you get rid of the teachers and enjoy the subjects on your own time.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Roll of thunder
The old man and the sea

And every other book I was made to read in school. I still cannot be in the same room as a charles dickens book.

 

[Dr. Pepper Unlimited]

The Heart of Darkness

I will punch that book in the face. I hated it so much. Every page was a wall of text, broken up by one or two lines of dialogue. The rest of the book were pages after pages of pure description.

 

[Romblen]

The Great Gatsby, it was just dull.
Romeo and Juliet, I don't care if it's Shakespeare, it's just stupid.

There are a lot of classics I don't like, but I'll just limit it to these two.

 

[Eumersian]

I'll agree with you on those Shakespeare plays. They're not even meant to be read. They should be performed, and yet English classes are still forced to read them. I couldn't stand reading them in high school, and I don't know many other people who did.

Also The Scarlet Letter. Just?really boring. Really.