Worst Book You've Read for School

[thenumberthirteen]

Emma. It may be a classic but by god it's dull at least put in zombies or an explosion. Luckily I got an A on the paper about it.

Oh my god. THE VANDERMARK MUMMY! What A piece of shit book.

Here is a summary of a chapter.

"Oh no, my sister has been kidnapped! Hey she likes the museum! Maybe she is their!

Not In this room
Not In this room
Not In this room
Not In this room
Not In this room
Not In this room
Not In this room (hey this one has sports equipment. NEETO!)
Not In this room
Not In this room

hmm, let me double check all the rooms.

Not In this room
Not In this room
Hey I found her! Turns out I didn't look hard enough in one room. What a relief!"

WHAT!!??

At least you could study it by playing Super Mario.

 

[Arkvoodle]

Probably "Moby Dick," with Gatsby a close second.

 

[mastermarty]

one book: the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime.

a book about the murder of a dog, seen from the perspective from a... well... retard!
and, it's just annoying!
the writer doesn't pay any attention to what's important and not, because his mother's name never got tolled, but he used 5 pages discribing the inside of a f@*&$ing train!!!

the story is about nothing, the main character is annoying, the book is badly written, has no logic, and is just more annoying than ANYTHING you can imagine!
so, if you need to torture someone, or feel the need to kill your brain, read this book, it'll work!!!

if anyone read this book, please give me your opinion.

 

[JohnSmith]

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, John le Carre'

Of all the fiction surrounding the cold war and berlin in particular why did my teacher pick this. I found it a confusing read and unlike the rest of the class i actually knew a fair slice of cold war history prior to reading, plus little tid bits that some of my class seemed to miss like who MI6 are... You know on second thoughts as terrible as this book was I think it may have been about the right thing to inflict on my class.

As vain as quoting myself is, I have just discovered the reason for the astounding confusion that everyone in my class experienced in relation to this damn book. The teacher set it without ever telling us that it was a sequel and that the first book contains a number of important plot points. Also the book would appear to be famous for the characters doing arbitrary things.

Do teachers hate the idea of students ever learning to like reading, I mean I feel that the experience didn't effect me a great deal I was already an avid reader and still am but there were other students who could have been swayed had the teacher decided on a more appropriate text. Rather than one who's main claim to fame is that it presented cold war espionage as it actually was, i.e. boring and brutal by equal measures.

 

[mexicola]

Anna Karenina in high school, I did NOT enjoy reading that book. When I think of all the wasted time I spent on it when I could have... I don't know stared, at the wall.

 

[mastermarty]

The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, John le Carre'

Of all the fiction surrounding the cold war and berlin in particular why did my teacher pick this. I found it a confusing read and unlike the rest of the class i actually knew a fair slice of cold war history prior to reading, plus little tid bits that some of my class seemed to miss like who MI6 are... You know on second thoughts as terrible as this book was I think it may have been about the right thing to inflict on my class.

I read it to... and I agree. it was a pretty poor exuse of a cold war book.

 

[Kagim]

Probably Frankenstein.

I expected the book to be interesting, but it was just soo boring and badly written. I was like "this is what pasted for horror in the 1800s?!"

To be fair Mary Shelly wrote that while drunk off her ass with a couple friends on a rainy day.

So why the hell are we going over it in school as if it's a great piece of literature?

Because we live in a world where everyone thinks Frankenstein is the monster.

Frankenstein is the monster. Frankenstein's creation is not the monster.

Think about it...

As i pointed out to another person already trying to say this...

People think that the creation's name is Frankenstein. People think tall green and Homicidal is named Frankenstein. The guy who goes errrgg arrggg and kills people. That's the guy most people think is named Frankenstein.

 

[interspark]

hamlet any day, it sucked bad. i dont care what everyone else might say, this is the 21st century and in this time, that kind of writing SUCKS!!!!

 

[Pinkros]

Has to be "Lord of The Flies".... angst, angst, angst........

 

[Sallix]

AQA GCSE English Anthology.
Contains exciting poems and short stories including:
-A man who doesn't care unless his yams are taken from him
-A poem about potatoes
-A short story about a girl wanting to be Superman
-And a heart warming story about Pigeons.

and of course, ALL of these are metaphors for other things.

We also had to read a book about a very unlikeable African man in tribal Africa who's life gets ruined when us English try to bring civilisation into their way of life. I would probably have more sympathy for the guy if he stopped bitching about his yams.

Oh and Shirley Valentine, as well as the movie (which has some very disturbing late 40s nudity and sex with a creepy Italian man... eurgh)

 

[dashiz94]

I absolutely hated A Raisin in the Sun. Also, anything by E.E. Cummings (fuck you sir, in English we capitalize names.)

 

[Edward Heffner]

lord of the flies 7th and 9th grade

 

[ScorpSt]

Probably Frankenstein.

I expected the book to be interesting, but it was just soo boring and badly written. I was like "this is what pasted for horror in the 1800s?!"

To be fair Mary Shelly wrote that while drunk off her ass with a couple friends on a rainy day.

So why the hell are we going over it in school as if it's a great piece of literature?

Because, in that drunken stupor, Mary Shelly single-handedly created Science Fiction. Had she not written this, there would be no Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, Battlestar Galactica, nor any other Program/Movie/Book that imagines what science could do*.

OT: While there have been books I didn't like, very few of them were ones I was forced into reading for School. Most of my Senior Year of High School, English class consisted entirely of reading selections from our textbook, to the point that I was constantly sneaking in my own books to read during class.

*Please note, I'm not saying that Science Fiction would never have happened, it just would have come at a later time and developed in a different direction.

 

[Yureina]

"Their Eyes Were Watching God"

I have no idea why that is part of any curriculum.

I remember that one. That's my most disliked too.

 

[NeutralMunchHotel]

'Spies'.

A whole chapter, describing a smell, and then basically what is a 150-page interlude of a child's life until something happens. Then an abrupt ending.

Almost devoured my teacher after reading it.

I'm so glad you said that - very few people know it, and for a good reason!

Seriously, the twist was so far out of the left field that it was just ridiculous; it wasn't a twist so much as a 'fuck you, here's one possible ending lol'.

 

[Joeshmoe5]

Eugh... What's the name of that book.. It's a movie aswell..GRawg!

Ah! Stormbreaker! Man that book was bad...

Maybe its cause I was younger when I read it, but I love that book. haha, however, the movie was an atrocity.

Spot on. The guy who writes it is a good writer, but it is just a bad premise.

OP:Across five Aprils. In 5th GRADE!! It was so bad only two kids in the class actually read it. we all failed the tests, but it was better than that Bore Fest! The protagonist's name was Jethro though, that made it 1/2% better

 

[Novania]

Spook Country....never, ever read it. It makes as much sense as...i dont even know what to compare it too.

 

[dashiz94]

Absolutely, undeniably, and extremely emphatically: The Scarlet Letter. The worst book ever written. Dear God that was awful.

You sir, I admire. That book was absolutely horrid, the symbolism in it was downright pretentious if nothing else.

 

[SultanP]

I can't remember specifics, but pretty much any of the really boring, but allegedly, very meaningful books that are supposed to mean something entirely different from what the story is about if taken at face value. God I've spent a long time arguing about that with my English and Danish teachers through my school years. If the author hasn't made a public statement saying that they meant something else than what the story is about, who are these people to state with such certainty that the author meant this and that about society and such. It's infuriating.