Worst Book You've Read for School
- Thread starter Verex
- Start date
Recommended Videos
Mortal, fucking, Engines. It was the crappiest book I have ever read. And that's saying something.
i'll agree with romeo and juliet in 8th grade. all girls school. the preppy girls conned the teacher into letting(FORCING)us too watch baz luhrmann's atrocity. it was better presented in "Hot Fuzz".
In year 9 I had to read a novel called "walking naked". The gist of it is "cool girl is a *****. Cool girl befriends uncool girl. Cool girl is still a *****. Uncool girl kills herself. Cool girl has some shallow revelation about how much she's changed THE END!".
It was fucking abysmal, to girly for even the most girly girls in my course. I can't even begin to comprehend what my teachers where smoking when they selected it (especially as most of the texts we studied were bearable, some even being rather enjoyable).
It was fucking abysmal, to girly for even the most girly girls in my course. I can't even begin to comprehend what my teachers where smoking when they selected it (especially as most of the texts we studied were bearable, some even being rather enjoyable).
Heresy!Marter said:
OT: We had a book circle once and was forced to pick one of around five titles that lay on the teachers table. Of course I stretched myself for the one with the coolest frontpage. BIG mistake. The name of the book was "Churchdevils" and you might guess were the story goes...
Until this very day I hold it as the worst piece of culture I have ever had the unfortune to experience.
It seems like a lot of people on this thread hate literature :S (then again, I am the type of person who actually goes out of my way to read classics that have been deemed good)
I pretty much loved everything I did back in English class, with the exception of Jane Austen's Emma. So unbelievably terrible -- only obese female English teachers like that stuff. Others I didn't like too much were Heart of Darkness, most stories in the postmodern genre, and Frankenstein (but I actually chose to do it; it wasn't a set text or anything)
To all those Anthony Horowitz people -- is this even worthy of being studied? Honestly. Unless you're 12 (sorry if I'm being ageist)
I pretty much loved everything I did back in English class, with the exception of Jane Austen's Emma. So unbelievably terrible -- only obese female English teachers like that stuff. Others I didn't like too much were Heart of Darkness, most stories in the postmodern genre, and Frankenstein (but I actually chose to do it; it wasn't a set text or anything)
To all those Anthony Horowitz people -- is this even worthy of being studied? Honestly. Unless you're 12 (sorry if I'm being ageist)
The Sociologically Examined Life
It was a book I had to read for my sociology class. A class by the way that was a big mistake to take because of all the annoying assumptions it makes. Anyway I hated it because in every other sentence the author used things such as: "sociologically examined life", and "sociological mindfulness." Every other sentence was something like "when we look at the sociologically examined life and think about it with a new sociological mindfulness we see that..." It felt that every word I was saying was sociological mindfulness and it was just enough to make you want to reach into the book and smack the author.
It was a book I had to read for my sociology class. A class by the way that was a big mistake to take because of all the annoying assumptions it makes. Anyway I hated it because in every other sentence the author used things such as: "sociologically examined life", and "sociological mindfulness." Every other sentence was something like "when we look at the sociologically examined life and think about it with a new sociological mindfulness we see that..." It felt that every word I was saying was sociological mindfulness and it was just enough to make you want to reach into the book and smack the author.
I didn't get the society is good feel. The message was more, we are products of our environment so people will act how their environment allows them to. It was made pretty clear at least to me that manny characters were bad people long before they were on the island but their new environment is what allowed them to become savages. The message for me was that we are all bad but its just who can control themselves, this is what the "monster" in the book representedTheLaofKazi said:
Maybe I'll get hate from the few people who like this, but...
Regeneration by Pat Barker. I absolutely hate this book, everything from Barker's pretentious writing style to the whiny characters - yes I know they've all been through war trauma. I just think Barker didn't write about it particularly well having never been in war.
Regeneration by Pat Barker. I absolutely hate this book, everything from Barker's pretentious writing style to the whiny characters - yes I know they've all been through war trauma. I just think Barker didn't write about it particularly well having never been in war.
