Worst Book You've Read for School
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From here to eternity.
It wasn't a bad read per say but our English teacher gave it to a few of us saying we should read it as he thought we may enjoy it. He then organized a massive evening where we all had to meet up and analyze it..... all 1043 freaking pages....
It wasn't a bad read per say but our English teacher gave it to a few of us saying we should read it as he thought we may enjoy it. He then organized a massive evening where we all had to meet up and analyze it..... all 1043 freaking pages....
-Pride and Prejudice
-Where the Red Fern Grows (this one was years ago)
-THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. Worst book i have EVER read.
Damn, i feel sorry for the people who had to read Ayn Rand in high school...her books are painful enough without forcing them on highschoolers...
-Where the Red Fern Grows (this one was years ago)
-THE AGE OF INNOCENCE. Worst book i have EVER read.
Damn, i feel sorry for the people who had to read Ayn Rand in high school...her books are painful enough without forcing them on highschoolers...
Usually for books even if I hate them I can usually appreciate them for their artistic merits which is really all you want in one of these books since you have to write an essay on something about them.
But for the life of me I cannot find anything good about Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon (if you're not Scottish you've probably not heard of it) Most dire thing ever, the heroine is supposedly such a "strong" and "forward thinking" character, but I did not see a single example of it anywhere, the narrative was dull (there was about a whole page of tiny text about the villagers shock over some minister saying "Gawd" instead of "God"). The whole thing was written in dialect so I no clue what was going on, I thought someone was being assaulted by a horse when she was really just being chased around by some drunk guy. The whole book is her indecision about whether to become a teacher or fuck around on a farm for her whole life
Worst book ever.
EDIT : @The guy who read Stormbreaker, I love that book but how the hell did it end up on the syllabus??
But for the life of me I cannot find anything good about Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon (if you're not Scottish you've probably not heard of it) Most dire thing ever, the heroine is supposedly such a "strong" and "forward thinking" character, but I did not see a single example of it anywhere, the narrative was dull (there was about a whole page of tiny text about the villagers shock over some minister saying "Gawd" instead of "God"). The whole thing was written in dialect so I no clue what was going on, I thought someone was being assaulted by a horse when she was really just being chased around by some drunk guy. The whole book is her indecision about whether to become a teacher or fuck around on a farm for her whole life
Worst book ever.
EDIT : @The guy who read Stormbreaker, I love that book but how the hell did it end up on the syllabus??
I thought the book was ok.Verex said:
I agree. I didn't see the point to reading the book, and not surprisingly, no one in my 11th grade class got the message of that book. We had to have it explained to us by the teacher, and even then most people were like "wtf did I just read?"Z of the Na said:
Also, that one book on the salem witch trials, with Abigail Williams being one of the main characters... forgot the title. But I found that book (and the whole Salem witch trials shenanigans) to be so mind- numbingly stupid to the point that I simply could not speak for a good ten minutes after reading each part during class.
The book is supposed to be highly edgy and interpersonal, especially when it's written from an autistic child's (first person) perspective. It's intended to alienate any normal thought you'd consider rational, and instead immerse you in a world you can contemplate, yet not fully revel in even if you try to. The main story is fleshed out and originates, from the main character's perspective; the whole desired effect being that you contemplate it from a perspective never told from in traditional media, an almost educative stance. You may find the plot arbitary, but by no means is it arbitary to an autistic child; such as the snowball effect from the intrigue with the dog, to finding his mother. Immersion is key. You wouldn't find an autistic child finding a dead dog and then going on an epic journey of revenge, blood shed and world shattering events.mastermarty said:
It doesn't provide profound, genre and life defining enjoyment, or any such emotion, but a fabulously deep and varied exploration of how people and society flow. I find the book to be long lasting, bitter yet deep.
On a completely seperate note, I have never particularly hated ANY book I have stuidied; Pirde and Predjudice ranking highly among those I actually adored. ;D
The Perfect Storm or The Diary of Anne Frank (or Number the Stars...any book that had to do with hiding Jews...it got boring after a while).
I haven't read any really bad books in school, but we were forced to watch Twilight and analyze it. So I was brutally honest and slaughtered the film. I got a B+ 
Lord of the flies. Okay, I get it, metaphors, artisitic descriptions, so on, but there comes a point when there's so much of it going on that the whole thing ceases to become readable, with none of it making sense, making the whole damn thing seem like the deranged scribblings of a madman.
Coming to think of it, the only book I liked reading in school was "The curious case of Dr jekyll and mr hyde" and most of that was spoilt by the lack of the surprise element. Then there was the fact I read it three times, because the rest of the class was so damn slow in reading it. It's in desperate need of modernization, where's the Stephen King? Douglas Adams? Max brooks, Clive Barker? They say they don't cover modern literature because all the best writers are the old ones, but that's quite simply not true.
Coming to think of it, the only book I liked reading in school was "The curious case of Dr jekyll and mr hyde" and most of that was spoilt by the lack of the surprise element. Then there was the fact I read it three times, because the rest of the class was so damn slow in reading it. It's in desperate need of modernization, where's the Stephen King? Douglas Adams? Max brooks, Clive Barker? They say they don't cover modern literature because all the best writers are the old ones, but that's quite simply not true.
Any book by Zora Neale Hurston made me want to cut myself than having to endure another page of pain and misery.
And I forgot the name of this book I read in 6th grade. It was something bout some Swan and this little boy who was a mute or retarded and his sister and...Oh god...it hurts to try and remember the name of that godawful book.
But 6th grade did introduce me to The Chronicles of Narina and C. S. Lewis, so it all balances itself out.
Edit:
Oh yah, Of Mice and Men...*crys*
And I forgot the name of this book I read in 6th grade. It was something bout some Swan and this little boy who was a mute or retarded and his sister and...Oh god...it hurts to try and remember the name of that godawful book.
But 6th grade did introduce me to The Chronicles of Narina and C. S. Lewis, so it all balances itself out.
Edit:
Oh yah, Of Mice and Men...*crys*
Some book about a boy and his father who were moving to Africa, their plane crashed and the boy had to walk to civilization. It sucked for many reasons.
The "thing" of the book was that the boy was connecting with the lions, specifically an old male who got bested in a duel and shunned by his flock (or pride or whatever). It's was just that the book didn't turn out like a journey across the wilderness. Three quarters of the book was just at the plane wreck, with them trying to survive and being boring. Plus, the boy ,just for some reason, had mad survival skillz, even though he had spent his whole life in London.
Then he goes out for his hike, he has one encounter with that old lion, which just looks at him. He gets help and everyone lives. Hooray...
Also, Holes. I didn't read the whole thing, because I switched to another class, but it had some build-up about the main character and probably some twist later on, which I figured out after just a fift of the book.
The "thing" of the book was that the boy was connecting with the lions, specifically an old male who got bested in a duel and shunned by his flock (or pride or whatever). It's was just that the book didn't turn out like a journey across the wilderness. Three quarters of the book was just at the plane wreck, with them trying to survive and being boring. Plus, the boy ,just for some reason, had mad survival skillz, even though he had spent his whole life in London.
Then he goes out for his hike, he has one encounter with that old lion, which just looks at him. He gets help and everyone lives. Hooray...
Also, Holes. I didn't read the whole thing, because I switched to another class, but it had some build-up about the main character and probably some twist later on, which I figured out after just a fift of the book.
The Chocolate Wars
annoying with charachters I could not care less about and overall shoddy plot.
But The Adventures of Huck Finn were by far one of the most dull, annoying pieces of trash I had the misfortune to read. Someone performing vivisection on me would have been more enjoyable than that garbage.
If I didnt so much of a problem with the act itself I would burn them on the spot.
annoying with charachters I could not care less about and overall shoddy plot.
But The Adventures of Huck Finn were by far one of the most dull, annoying pieces of trash I had the misfortune to read. Someone performing vivisection on me would have been more enjoyable than that garbage.
If I didnt so much of a problem with the act itself I would burn them on the spot.
