Worst Book You've Read for School

[ninja555]

The fucking Catcher in the Rye. I saw nothing in that book, just a load of pulp. How anyone is in the least bit inspired by that book is beyond me. How it got into high class liturature is also another mystery.

 

[Kimarous]

I or The lottery, a book that they made us read in 7th, abotu some kid at a orphanage that won Flowers in a lottery, and he cared for them and stuff. It was horrible.

i dont think you and i read the same "The Lottery."

From wikipedia:

Spoiler

"The Lottery" is a classic short story by Shirley Jackson, first published in the June 26, 1948, issue of The New Yorker.[1]
The magazine and Jackson herself were surprised by the highly negative reader response. Many readers cancelled their subscriptions, and hate mail continued to arrive throughout the summer.[2] The story was banned in the Union of South Africa.[3] Since then, it has been accepted as a classic American short story, subject to many critical interpretations and media adaptations, and it has been taught in schools for decades.[4]
Plot

The story contrasts details of contemporary small town American life with an annual ritual known as "the lottery". In a small village of about 300 residents, the locals are in a strange and nervous mood on 27 June. Children gather up stones as the adult townsfolk assemble for their annual event, that in the local tradition has been practiced to ensure a good harvest. In the first round of the lottery, the head of each family draws a small slip of paper; Bill Hutchinson gets the one slip with a black spot, meaning that his family has been chosen. In the next round, each Hutchinson family member draws a slip, and Bill's wife Tessie ? who had arrived late ? gets the marked slip. In keeping with tradition, which has been abandoned in other neighboring communities, Tessie is then stoned to death by everyone present as a sacrifice, all the while protesting about the fairness of the lottery.

this was the one i read.

That is, without a doubt, the most loathesome piece of literature I had ever read for academic purposes. I remember reading it as a kid, being confused... and then when it dawned on me what the heck just happened, I was so shocked and appalled that I went to my room for some alone time, thinking of something... ANYTHING else besides what I had just read.

 

[Chancie]

Into The Wild, House on Mango Street, and Huckleberry Finn

Into The Wild was boring as heck. House on Mango Street had absolutely no point. Huck Finn, well, was just boring and no one in the class could even understand what they were saying.

There was others I didn't really like, but these are the ones I could honestly say I hated.

Oh, yes, also The Awakening. The most irritating protagonist I've ever seen!

 

[crono738]

Profiles in Courage. It was quite possibly the worst book I've ever read, considering it was basically a collection of wikipedia articles about random historical figures that was allegedly written by JFK.

 

[PureChaos]

i read Stewart: A Life Backwards for university. nearly every time i read it i almost fell asleep reading it. aweful book

 

[Danny Ocean]

Probably "All Quiet on the Western Front", this year.

I really did not enjoy that book.

Oh I actually quite liked that one when we read it, but then we did also watch it.

Really, I think I can win this with the most boring book ever written:

The Old Man And The Sea.

 

[Berserker119]

Some book about a girl during the holocaust (Not Anne Frank). It's title had something to do with the Star of David.

I really hated the book.

I remember that one. That sucked.

 

[sentient_afterbirth]

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (11th)

As if I didn't have enough to get through in Junior year of high school I had to read this dense tome that doubles as a bludgeoning implement. Also, it didn't help that the woman teaching the class was a blue-haired and remorseless demon who was a fanatic of Rand's work. Another annoying aspect was that we were the only class reading it, the book of choice for other classes was a mere pamphlet compared to this thing.

 

[What890]

To Kill A Mockingbird because I couldn't really get into it, and in my opinion, it more of a chick book.

 

[HT_Black]

It's a tie between
The Time Machine (6th grade)
&
Into the Wild (11th grade)

Into the Wild? That one about the cats? For 11th grade? Seriously?

Well, let me try and recall all the crappy ones I read. There was Eragon in 3d grade (my book report was lulzy), Caddie Woodlawn ALSO in 3rd grade (it was very, VERY boring), The Time Machine in 4th grade (NOTHING HAPPENED), 1984 in 5th grade (it had the pacing of a stroke victim suspended in molasses), and after that I dropped out.

So yeah.

ACTUALLY: strike that, I just looked up Into the Wild. I know which one you're talking about now.

 

[Brain_Cleanser]

Probably "All Quiet on the Western Front", this year.

I really did not enjoy that book.

This, and "Old Man and the Sea"
That book made me weep.

 

[Verex]

It's a tie between
The Time Machine (6th grade)
&
Into the Wild (11th grade)

Into the Wild? That one about the cats? For 11th grade? Seriously?

Well, let me try and recall all the crappy ones I read. There was Eragon in 3d grade (my book report was lulzy), Caddie Woodlawn ALSO in 3rd grade (it was very, VERY boring), The Time Machine in 4th grade (NOTHING HAPPENED), 1984 in 5th grade (it had the pacing of a stroke victim suspended in molasses), and after that I dropped out.

So yeah.

Into the Wild is about this guy who goes into the wild to live off the land.

 

[Selef]

a lot of hate for catcher in the rye, i loved that book and i didn't even have to read it but i did.

the book i hated the most was Romeo and Juliet, less because of the story and more because it was never meant to be a book.

 

[kc_lax]

of mice and men i found it too simplistic and lacking in charcter development though thinking about if thats the worse my schools never chose awful books to read

I found the ending worth the wait though, believe me, if you haven't read the ending, you're missing out.
The movie's ending was especially tear-jerking. ;(

yeah the ending was epecially good just a shame about the rest of the book

 

[Drakmeire]

Tuck Everlasting was awful!!! the only use I got out of it was taking it outside and smacking it with a hockey stick (I called it puck Everlasting *bah dum chee*)

Lord of the Flies was surprisingly good, mostly because I read it around the same time "Lost" first aired so after every chapter I pictured the title appearing and making that BOOM sound, "Lost" style.

 

[PrimoThePro]

The Great Gatsby. I could never finish it.

 

[Fallen-Angel Risen-Demon]

The Edge. It's a book about a Angalo-African boy called Danny with a single parent mother. They have an obsesive and abusive boyfreind and they escape to where the mothe grew up (edgecliff estate town unspecified but it up the north of england) where she left when Danny was 5. Oh yeah and they're racist there.
Numorus plotholes, bad narritive and seriosly bad 1 dimentional characters.
I read ahead and finished it when the rest of the class was halfway through and spent the rest of the lessons when they were reading it asleep. A literal YAWN.

 

[Drakmeire]

of mice and men i found it too simplistic and lacking in charcter development though thinking about if thats the worse my schools never chose awful books to read

I found the ending worth the wait though, believe me, if you haven't read the ending, you're missing out.
The movie's ending was especially tear-jerking. ;(

yeah the ending was epecially good just a shame about the rest of the book

"And I get to tend to the Rabb-" *BANG*
Right after seeing that scene I quoted that one Simpsons episode
Marge:kids, I have some bad news about Lenny
Bart & Lisa: NOT LENNY!!!!

 

[AdeptGamer]

Beloved by Toni Morrison

*shudder*