Worst Book You've Read for School

[Geo Da Sponge]

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.

I know. I just like being awkward.

 

[nick n stuff]

The Mystery of Marie Rogêt-Edgar Allen Poe
i'm sure it's good but i read it multiple times and i did not understand it. i'm not even sure Dupin solved the mystery

 

[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.

I know. I just like being awkward.

Yes. Yes it would seem you do.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

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

I loved Into the Wild...I didn't know any other school but mine read that book for 11th grade...did you go to my high school O_O?!?

OT: I didn't like The Crucible that much...

 

[Snarky Username]

The Catcher in the Rye.

It was just some teenager coming up with what he thought to be witty and wise commentary on life. Basically things that most teenagers do that I hate.

 

[Chris^^]

the only thing I really hated studying was 'A Streetcar Named Desire', fuck off Blanche, you slag.

 

[Verex]

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

I loved Into the Wild...I didn't know any other school but mine read that book for 11th grade...did you go to my high school O_O?!?

OT: I didn't like The Crucible that much...

Heh, just the opposite. I had a really crappy reading list junior year. The Crucible was one of the better ones.

 

[katsumoto03]

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.

 

[teutonicman]

Great Expectations in Gr. 10. Fuck you Dickens, you long-winded bastard.

 

[adamson1000]

Its a tie between Tuck Everlasting and The Catcher in the Rye.

AHH i loved tuck everlasting

OT definly catcher in the rye

 

[Sun Flash]

The Time Traveller's Wife. t'was terrible. Can't really complain though, helped me get a B in an otherwise failworthy subject.

 

[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

 

[Monkeylord]

I actually didn't mind The Great Gatsby. Probably because for some reason I cast Robert Downey Jr as Gatsby in my head and that made it a lot more interesting.

OT: The Scarlet Letter, jesus

 

[Searlero]

Twelfth Night by Shakespeare, though there were close runners ups such as exracts of Hegel and books by Stephen Ambrose

 

[megasamus1]

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. ;(

 

[blalien]

The Catcher in the Rye
The Dubliners
The Awakening

 

[Aesir23]

The Stone Angel. (Grade 12)

That is the worst book I've ever had to read for school. I didn't even manage to finish it, it was just that bad. Her main reason for choosing it was because it's Canadian literature.

At least my 9th grade English teacher had the sense to pick a good book (The Outsiders). I read through that book twice and picked up my own copy once the novel study was over.

 

[Joeshmoe5]

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

I loved Into the Wild...I didn't know any other school but mine read that book for 11th grade...did you go to my high school O_O?!?

OT: I didn't like The Crucible that much...

I liked both. the worst part of the crucible is that we had to "Act" it out. so the dislexic kid was John Proctor. in the other class our creeper teacher was john and this really skanky girl was Abby. lol

 

[gillebro]

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

seriously? eeeeeeeeewwwwwwww...
mine would be Life of Pi. God that book was horrible. Must-read my arse. And there were some really excellent books that we read too, so why we were subjected to that piece of crap...