Worst Book You've Read for School

[nicholaxxx]

The Pigman
The Lottery

both given by the same teacher, coincidentally. Her logic was that there books would 'relate' to us, what a load of bullshit...

 

[The Singularity]

Hmmm I'm not sure witch was worse, Oliver Twist or Into The Wild. Just based on the book I would have to say hands down Oliver Twist because it was horrible and ridiculously long. He manages to almost get killed wayyy too many times, and the only enjoyable part was all the jokes we could make about it.
Into the Wild was bad, but it was also pretty short. But then we had to write a two page report linking it to our lives and make it so the teacher would "know us just by reading the report". All I wanted to say was I was not crazy like this dude was and I have no urge to go freeze to death in Alaska.

 

[Ninja Tank]

life of pi and it is getting a movie "please let Michael Bay direct it"

 

[Slenn]

GREAT EXPECTATIONS!!! Grrr! I hate that piece of crap! It was soooo boring! And it took forever for Dickens to finish his unnecessarily lengthy descriptions of everything.
Candide was also boring, but not as much as Great Expectations.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Beowulf. The only awful book we read this year. And we read a lot of good ones like The Odyssey(Fagles version), Fahrenheit 451, Julius Caesar, and ANTHEM!

 

[rekabdarb]

Grapes of wrath or adventures of huck finn, not because they're bad books. Because i couldn't fucking understand them. The black guy slang was sooooooooooo bad

 

[WorldCritic]

The Crucible. I don't know if there was any way to make that book any more boring or painful to read.

 

[Sarkule]

Cloudstreet. IT IS HORRIBLE
It's about 700 pages or so long, (which will usually only take me a few hours to read)
BUT NOTHING HAPPENS. It's about two families that move into a lame old house, and do nothing. According to my English teacher it has heaps of deep themes and meaning. BUT IT WAS SO BORING.
I recommend that none of you read it.

 

[Swifteye]

Pretty much every book I've ever been forced to read. They all hit the notes of B.A.D. Boring, Aggresivly stereotypical(usually in an attempt to relate to the reader), and Dumb. Worst of which is probably the bronx masqerade. But When I had to pick my posion son of the mob really drove me up the wall. Like bad romantic comedy up the wall.

 

[FinalHeart95]

The Book Thief (summer between 8th and 9th) and some random book about the Holocaust (7th). The first one could've had a good 300 pages cut out of it and is basically about death musing about how bright the color red looks. The last one was just another Holocaust book, with EXCEPTIONALLY bad writing. I mean, I'm not asking for some literary masterpiece, but maybe something that isn't painful to read.

 

[DarkPanda XIII]

Hrmm...sadly, it's 'Running with Scissors', though it was sadly during College I had to read it, I started to rake my head after awhile. I didn't really need to visually picture the majority of the stuff in it x.x

 

[Zach Steadman]

Great Expectations. hands down.
The plot meanders and takes like 100 pages for a single event to happen. and the ending was a sub-par twist.

 

[rhyno435]

The chrysalids.

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

Really. I read that and thought it was pretty good.

My worst book would either be "Lord of the Flies" or "To Kill a Mockingbird". However the best one I had to read, that I actually enjoyed, would be "Frankenstein". Out of the ones I chose to read for projects, "The Droughtlanders" or "Life of Pi", would be the best.

I got a little off-topic there, sorry.

 

[ensouls]

We read maybe a third of "My Antonîa" freshman year of high school before the entire class boycotted it and the teacher had to pick something else.

 

[ado01]

life of pi and it is getting a movie "please let Michael Bay direct it"

I really liked Life of Pi, actually. Come on, a boy gets stranded on a lifeboat with only a tiger for a companion! THAT'S AWESOME.

Anyway, I found House on Mango Street to be really pretentious and for some reason most of the books my teacher made us read that year had to do with rape or death. A Tale of Two Cities was pretty boring too, but I didn't hate it purely because of Sydney Carton and Madame Defarge. Lucie and Charles were so flat and boring ughhh.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

Silas Marner. Eventually the teacher herself gave up and just had us watch the equally crappy Ben Kingsley movie. A Simple Twist of Fate, on the other hand, was a fantastic film. Between school and home, I've probably seen that Silas Marner adaptation 20 times.

 

[werekitsune]

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.

This novel, and fucking Ethan Frome. 80 pages of pain, for everyone: me, my class and the characters. Great Gatsby, All quiet on the western front, brave new world, most of shakespeare were all good to some degree. Odyssey was kinda boring, Watership Down was okay, and the Alchemist OH MY GOD! What a tacky piece of shit that was.

Also, I enjoyed Huckleberry Finn alot until the end when that dumb ***** Tom Sawyer, mad b/c his book sucked, ruined it, and just b/c Twain wanted to make a sequel if he was financially troubled. Black Boy was actually great, and Frankenstein was great, in about 15 of the total amount of pages when shit happened. Its actually very meaningful and impressive for an 18-year old to write, but Shelley's husband, Percy Walker Shelley (I think thats his name) a poet, had to edit it, and the book suffered from the Romantic trend to needlessly describe every locale in Europe though it has no relation to the plot and serves to reinforce bullshit about getting back to nature.

The Worst Novels I've read in school came from middle school: Tom Sawyer, The Cay (meh actually at the time) and Tuck Everlasting, and Winn Tuck or whatever. Jesus.

 

[indiana_104]

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

Oh, I feel so sorry for you right now.

OT: A dumbed down and summarized version of Robinson Crusoe. It felt like a book for a bloody 5 year old.

 

[General Ken8]

7 habits of highly effective teens.

absolutely no redeeming qualities, worst book ever

That's the spirit!
OT: Either Dogsong or Love That Dog, both were dumb. Dogsong was just boring and dreary, and Love That Dog was just corny
(It kind of sounds like I don't like dogs. . .)

 

[TheLaofKazi]

7 habits of highly effective teens.

absolutely no redeeming qualities, worst book ever

I remember seeing like every girl in my school reading that in like 8th grade. A lot of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul too. It got a bit annoying... I can't stand a lot of self help books, they all have that optimistic dribble to them that doesn't really say much.

For me, it was probably Lord of the Flies. I didn't outright hate it though, it was very well written and I enjoyed it for that, but the message of it, while having it's good points, seemed a bit hollow to me. Sure, I can get in on the whole "deep down we are all animals" thing, but I think there is more to it then that, and that many of our animal-like, selfish and harmful attributes are also formed around the way our society is set up. And it wasn't really the book itself, it was the incredibly simplified version of the book's message that was fed to us in the classroom, and that no class time was allowed to actually discuss the book's message beyond what we needed to know for the test (the conch is law and order, ect). I mean, what's the point of reading a book with a message if we can't go in and pick the message apart, criticize it, expand upon it and discuss it?