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Kagim

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AjimboB said:
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.
 

dragonslayer32

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the bible. i am religious, i believe in god, but the bible contradicts itself all the way through. maybe just one person should have wrote it. also, when is the bible 2 coming out? i wanna hear about joan of arc and ghandi.
 

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AjimboB said:
Kagim said:
AjimboB said:
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.
 

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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!!??

On the upside, I had to read Flowers for Algernon way later in my school career. THAT is how you do a class novel.
 

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The secret lives of Sergent John Wilson.

Interesting at first, boring the second time I read it, nauseating the fourth time I read it. A book I would read only once but I needed to read it many times to answer the many questions our teacher had for us.

I now hate the book.
 

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I would have to agree with Tuck Everlasting. It's an extremely preachy book, it doesn't just suggest the reader to ponder the main idea. It pretty much tells you exactly how you should feel about it. Poor writing.
 

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AjimboB said:
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?!"
Agreed, although that wasn't for school, strictly speaking, but for an intro Humanities course in college with a professor who had something against materialism and "dangerous advances in science." I wanted to strangle the bastard, but I got an A for idiotically repeating his points on essays...

In school, it would have to be Peace Like a River by Leif Enger in 11th grade English. Think of it as 250proof christian propaganda. How this was even allowed in a public school is beyond me...
 

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Washington Square by Henry James (year 12)
This is how bad and brain-crushingly dull the novel is: "In fact, James was not enthusiastic about Washington Square itself. He tried to read it over for inclusion in the New York Edition of his fiction (1907?09) but found that he could not" (quote from Wikipedia) See?? Even James himself couldn't get through that hellhound of a book! And I had to read it TWICE!
 

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I honestly was mature about reading the books we were required to throughout school. None of them were terrible but some of them were boring as fuck.

I'd say the biggest over hyped piece of shit I had to read three times in my life would be Romeo and Juliet. It's the worst Shakespeare play (in my opinion). I have all his work in a giant, super well made book. I don't like this story. Sucks ass.
 

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Although I didnt have to read it for school, the first twilight book was absolute garbage!
 

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Marcel Proust; In Search of Lost Time

This single-handedly deported my brain into a realm of eternal boredom. There are no words to explain how boring and exhausting this is. My brain hurts just by thinking about it.
 

Kagim

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AjimboB said:
Kagim said:
AjimboB said:
Kagim said:
AjimboB said:
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.
And people mispronounce Brandon Fraser's name all the time, but no teacher is going to make their class read his autobiography over it.
It was more the point that no one actually reads it and more just skims through to answer the questions so no one has realized yet it was the result of a four friends getting drunk on a rainy day.
 

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Siddhartha. Nothing happened within that book.
Aside from the whole quest for enlightenment, and microcosm of human existence, yes? It's one of the best books ever written, but maybe you didn't take your time with it...
 

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I did not like the Adventures of Huckleberry Fin. This was the only book I was assigned to read in High School that I didn't finish. I don't think there was one kid in my school who actually did like it.
 

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

I really did not enjoy that book.
I read that this year too. But it was topped by second class citizen. That was just bad.
 

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thethingthatlurks said:
-=Spy=- said:
Siddhartha. Nothing happened within that book.
Aside from the whole quest for enlightenment, and microcosm of human existence, yes? It's one of the best books ever written, but maybe you didn't take your time with it...
I understand that is from a literary standpoint, but I found that I just couldn't care about this Siddhartha's journey. In addition, our teacher was reading it to us, and she doesn't quite have what I would call a lovely voice.
 

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11th grade, "The Great Gatsby". I tried the first three chapters and nearly bored myself to tears. I said it wasn't worth me hating reading for the rest of my life for one book, so I stopped reading it and failed every test on it. Spent my time in class just doing homework for other classes or sleeping instead. Seemed like a better way to use my time instead of reading that paperback sleeping pill.