Worst Book You've Read for School

[Davey Woo]

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen for my Year 10/11 coursework.
The worst book I have ever read, ever. It was made worse because I couldn't stop reading because it was shit.

 

[Harlemura]

"Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen.
Two out of thirty people in my English group enjoyed that book.
It couldn't hold my attention for a whole page. Saying I wasn't bored after each line would be pushing it.

 

[Rasputin1]

Twilight, it was sugested by a group of girls and my ***** of a teacher said ok.

That must've been a horrible experience.. Normally books are better than the movies, but I think Twilight makes an exception there.

 

[necromanzer52]

Easily "the boy in the striped pyjamas".

 

[rosemystica]

Tough call, but probably Catcher in the Rye, with The Pearl a close second.

 

[Quaxar]

Interesting question, infact I hated every single book we had to read during the last year. Or at least every single german one.
Emilia Galotti, Schiller's Mary Stuart ... I don't mind people reading or even liking it but goddamnit they were awful.
The one time we had to rewrite the ending of Emilia Galotti I tried to spice it up with a little bit of blood, murder and mayhem (much of it actually) but my teacher didn't like it. Mostly because I finished off everyone in the book, even side characters. Funny homework but it didn't change anything regarding the book's boringness.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

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.

Ok, that's understandable. I didn't mean to sound pissy, but it is one of my favourite books. I'd still suggest you read it again though, maybe you'll like it more after some time has passed.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

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.

I thought that the point of that book was to show that Frankenstein WAS the monster, instead of his creation.

As for me? The Handmaid's Tale. Way to make sex boring.

 

[DarthFennec]

Christ. Emma, by Jane Austen, in 11th. Only book in school that was so boring I couldn't finish it ... or even get ten pages into it ...

 

[Quillpaw]

You know, I didn't mind The Great Gatsby that much. It certainly wasn't my kind of thing, and I didn't LIKE it...but I put up with it for one main reason:

IT WASN'T THE SCARLET LETTER.

There are no words to describe how deep and intense my utter hatred is for that book. I didn't even finish it. I just used my friend's study guide and pretty much flunked the unit.

 

[garlicncow]

Sophomore year in high-school: The Great Gatsby
So fucking bad

 

[Soviet Heavy]

However, we have read a lot of fun stuff.
Othello and Macbeth were fun reads. I especially liked Othello, because I got to read Iago's lines and feel like a real manipulative bastard.

And all the stuff by Edgar Allen Poe we've read was brilliantly dark and macabre.

 

[LWS666]

catcher in the rye.

I did not see the point in that book, nor why it's so well known.

 

[The Scythian]

Jane Eyre. And, back from middle school, any book that won the Newberry Award, and had a young, female protagonist, as they were all the same.

 

[Hashime]

The chrysalids.

I'm an avid reader but I just hated that book.

Yes, I read that book in grade nine and it sucked -1st COUSINS GET TOGETHER! EWWWWW....
The Odyssey also sucked, but that was mainly the translation our school bought.

 

[Wrists]

Private Peaceful, by Michael Morpurgo

An exercise in self indulgent drivel that should have ended after the first chapter.

Had to read it in Year 9 and never looked at English in the same way again.

 

[Swarley]

Poisonwood Bible

 

[ZephrC]

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

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (9th grade)

I just could not get into it. I honestly liked our watered down version of the Odyessy more then that.

 

[Dxz5roxg]

Romeo and Juliet and A Tale of Two Cities were absolutely horrible books. I hated them both so much.