Worst Book You've Read for School

[spartan231490]

great gatsby (or however you spell it) and awakening, both in 11 grade. I take it back, for freshmen year i had to read "last night at the lobster" if you see that book in a bookstore, buy it, just for the pleasure of burning it. absolutely worst piece of crap i have ever even heard of, and i havent met anyone but the author who disagrees.

 

[Xearo_Disaster]

Jane Eyre or To Kill a Mockingbird. No, Wide Sargasso Sea. Eugh.

 

[Dapper Ninja]

Also, MAUS, despite being fairly good, was absolutely painful to learn about in class. For those who don't know, MAUS is a graphic novel about Jews living in World War II under the oppression of Nazis. The key words in that summary are "graphic novel". My class spent about five hours on it. Two of those consisted of a horrendously stupid lecture on "how to read a graphic novel", which included highlights such as explaining speech bubbles, panels, "Japanese anime comics", an incorrect description of the difference between a comic and a graphic novel, and, best of all, the correct order to read a graphic novel's text in:

Spoiler: SUPER MASSIVE MIND-BLOWING SPOILARZ

You read left to right, top to bottom

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

Dogsong

Those of you who have read Lord of the Rings, recall those EXCITING chapters like The Old Forest or when Sam and Frodo are walking to Mt. Doom. Now imagine a book that's pretty much just that. A guy walking through a barren landscape while nothing happens. Even the teacher gave up on the book halfway through.

 

[Verex]

Dogsong

Those of you who have read Lord of the Rings, recall those EXCITING chapters like The Old Forest or when Sam and Frodo are walking to Mt. Doom. Now imagine a book that's pretty much just that. A guy walking through a barren landscape while nothing happens. Even the teacher gave up on the book halfway through.

OH NOOOOOO! Kind of sounds like Into the Wild.

 

[Canid117]

I found the handmaids tale to be extremely boring.

Catcher in the Rye also sucked.

 

[Artina89]

Wuthering heights. It might be a classic, but my god is it a boring book. It got to the stage where my teacher had to make us watch the film as half of the class wouldn't read the book in their own time.

 

[supagama]

The pearl. its 7 chapters of uneventul walks and threats with no real plot. half of the story isnt even there

 

[Thatsomebody]

Tale of Two Cities it was torture and I think no one in my class read the book

 

[Linkassassin360]

The Catcher in the Rye. Let me give you a plot summary: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Teh Ty]

Into to the wild, which was just last year, 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.

For a second I thought you were talking about the other lottery, the one with the stones...

This one...

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.

I did read that one as well, but I liked the premise as well as the ending, how tradition can take over and such, that one, I idn;t mind at all, but the other one might have had a different name, which I cant remember, but I thought it was "the lottery."

 

[Nouw]

Catcher in the Rye
The Invisible Man
Jane Eyre

Out of all of the books I was forced to read for school, these three were quite possibly the most boring and wastes of my time.

How could you say The Invisible Man is a boring book? Its one of the most well-known Sci-Fi classics!

 

[fluffybunny937]

Lord of the flies or Fahrenheit 451. I did not care for those books.

 

[Eden the Fox]

To Kill a Mockingbird and Romeo and Juliet

... ... I think the others have covered those well enough.

The. [Fucking]. Power. Of. One.

My. -God-. It... Ugh. There aren't even sufficient words in the English language to describe how much I detested that book. What saddens me is that there's also a sequel. Like he hadn't brought enough pain and anguish to the world of readers.

Black Like Me

Racism is bad. We understand that. So are books in the form of journals. Honestly. Shut the fuck up about it. This book was so dull I got about... two entries in before closing the book and never touching it again. Luckily, I had figured the plot was the same as practically all books on racism, save a few points, and bullshitted my way through the test and essay. =|

All of these books were last year. I hope to whatever deity there is that the teacher was just a fuckwad.

 

[KingGolem]

It's about a tie between these two:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: You know what this book is? Feminist propaganda, plain and simple. I sure seemed to have read a lot of crap like this, but this is the Crap Queen. It's a Victorian romance novel, of course.

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner: At least you could READ Jane Eyre. This one hardly counts as a book. The plot is basically just following the lives of various members of the degenerate southern family the Compsons, so in other words nothing interesting at all happens. However, Faulkner must have thought that idea wasn't terrible enough, so instead of just writing it properly he has to shift perspectives to different scenes every few sentences, making it damn near impossible to follow. You could be reading this one scene and all of the sudden, bam, it shifts to a completely different scene about ten years previously, then after a few sentences shifts back.

 

[deth2munkies]

The Scarlet Letter by far.

Although the BEST book I read for school was Ender's Game which was entirely awesome.

 

[Hawk eye1466]

The Pearl. The most stupidest book over. Made worse by the fact i had to read it three freaking times 5,8,10.

im so sorry i only had to read it once and i almost jumped off my roof seriously its that boring and bad

 

[Blair Bennett]

The Door Into Summer. The story of a man with the hots for his friend's prepubescent daughter and a knack for time travel. Wanna know what happens when he runs into her in the future, and she's this sexual dynamo? Well I'll tell you: Nothing that we wanted to know about in the 7th grade.

 

[Hlain]

Black Like Me

I thought it was pretty interesting. Not a riveting story, but then it was a documentary-type. Following a white guy going undercover was enough to hold my attention anyway.

 

[Nowheremaan]

Fahrenheit 451 or Catcher in the Rye. I'm nor sure who in decided these would be of any literary value. On the flip side, Lord of the Flies is still one of my favs, so they got one right.