Worst Book You've Read for School

[Just_A_Glitch]

That or Catcher in the Rye. 200 pages of a little brat complaining about his life? No thanks Salinger. No thanks.

Isn't that the point though? No one listens to him talking about his ducks or hat. The only hope he has is in the reader, so we either affirm or condemn him.

Yes, that's the point, and I'm not saying that Salinger did a bad job getting said point across. But I just couldn't stand it. It truly was one of the worst books I've read for school. Not one of the worst books ever made, mind you. But I didn't enjoy it.

Also, awesome avatar. I love me some Dexter.

 

[Magnesium360]

The story of Tom Brennon. Reading it makes death seam less bleak. The author was dealing with concepts they didn't understand whilst trying to bludgeon the reader to death with their abominable writing. The most expressive word used was "Yeah?" and even though I like reading I could not bring myself to finnish reading it. The book sucked, and would function better as a hat or a handy supply of 300 sheets of toilet paper, not that it was worty to wipe up dog feces.
I was asked to write a short essay on it and I wrote 200 words on why it sucked, why I hated it, Why everyone else in my class hated it (whuch they did, one more so) and why heating it to 232 degrees celcius (451 faranheit) was an excellent idea. Burn the damn thing.

 

[TheRundownRabbit]

The Chosen, boring as fuck
and Catcher in the Rye

 

[Ninja Tank]

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.

well at the time i was re-reading hamlet and i <3 hamlet. so hamlet was up higher on my scale of awesome.

 

[sailor_960]

Number the Stars by Lois Lowery. Its not just boring, its poorly written, its pointless, and its the one story of the holocaust where the NAzi's have next to no presence. Its just so bad and its amazing because I read The Giver by the same author and liked it (its like Diet 18984 by George Orwell).

As for the best book i have read in school, its most definitely Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. I still don't understand why, but I loved that book.

Of Mice and Men is tied for the title of my favorite book of all time with 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. And that holds the title for one reason that can be described in one word: Nemo. The character of Captain Nemo is the most intriguing and fascinating character ever.

 

[AkJay]

Th Red Pony was fucking HELL.

 

[TheLaofKazi]

Scratch my previous post, I just remembered: Hiroshima [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshima_(book)].

I couldn't fucking stand that book. The most boring thing I've ever read. I mean, the information it was covering was fascinating, but holy shit was it boring.

 

[Magnesium360]

*seam = seem
*Wuch = which

 

[Gasaraki]

It would either have to be holes (7th grade) or hatchet (8th), both were just horrible.

 

[Walkchalk]

Its a tie between "The Pearl" and "Hatchet". God, both of those were SO FUCKING BAD.

OMG there's a ninja above me!

 

[ucciolord1]

There have been a bunch, but the only one I haven't completely blocked out was "Speak."

 

[DJ OMiY]

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."

The book that no one seems to place is called "The Lottery Rose." I had to read that for a book club once... pretty dull read.

My two all time least favorite books in school where both for my 11th grade AP English I class. Utopia by Thomas More and Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill. They must DIE IN A FIRE. You can't even tell what the hell Mill is saying in Utilitarianism half of the time.

 

[merc-with-a-mouth]

Grade 11 "The Great Gatsby"
Most boring book ever.

 

[Talvrae]

That thing http://www.amazon.ca/Children-My-Heart-Gabrielle-Roy/dp/0771075987/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277002029&sr=1-3

Gabrielle Roy is considered one of the best french canadian writer... The truth is she is boring as hell

 

[Feste the Jester]

Bridge to Terabithia, The book was terrible. Most of my class cheered when the girl died, just because we hated the book so much and were glad we were finally done with it.

 

[skywalkerlion]

Bridge to Terebithia
The Cay
The Face on the Milk Carton (series)

All of those sucked. But the worst was probably Bridge to Terebithia.

 

[SilkySkyKitten]

The Bluest Eye

Not that it's a badly written book or one that's shallow and without any depth, it was just absolutely boring. Unlike most other books I've read in school, the plot jumped all over the place and was almost nonexistent, none of the characters were likable or detestable enough for me to give a damn about them, and there just wasn't much within the novel that made me want to continue reading. In fact, if it wasn't for the fact that I had to read the novel for english class, I probably would have quit within the first 20 pages.

 

[bob-2000]

The Great Gatsby. God that was dry.

 

[_Cake_]

Tuck Everlasting... IN A NUTSHELL!

Hello little 10 year old girl
Hi.
When you grow up (well 17) I'm totally gonna hit that shit.
Ok.
Till then I'm a total pedophile and it's only made more creepy but the fact that I'm really an old man mentally trapped in young guy's body.
Umm ....ok.

 

[likalaruku]

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

Ooh, I hated Catcher in the Rye. Didn't like the Steinbeck novels we had to read either.