Worst Book You've Read for School

[eggy32]

Of Mice and Men.

I guess if you're an American adult then a book about the American Dream might appeal to you.
Who on Earth thought that a class of 15-16 year old Irish boys would enjoy this?

 

[Captain Schpack]

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

I feel your pain. It was either that or my whole Short stories unit, in which we read "The Necklace", "The Gift of the Magi" and "The most Dangerous Game" all of which everyone had either already read or knew the gist (sp?) of. Nothing annoys more than tediousness.

 

[Forgetitnow344]

To Kill a Mocking bird

Damn you Harper Lee.

Damn you to heck.

This. I'd never hated a book until I tried reading this piece of crap.

A close second was Madame Bovary.

 

[TheJwalkR]

A wrinkle in time
Flowers for Algernon

oh god I hated those books.

 

[Kagim]

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

I feel your pain. It was either that or my whole Short stories unit, in which we read "The Necklace", "The Gift of the Magi" and "The most Dangerous Game" all of which everyone had either already read or knew the gist (sp?) of. Nothing annoys more than tediousness.

At least "The Most Dangerous Game" is incredibly bad ass. Though yeah i can't see reading the other two any more then once without getting bored.

Man, I've must have heard Gift of the Magi like five times and seen the short video twice.

Every damn time I forget the title and always think its something cool about Magic and stuff. Then i get bored slapped with Pocket watches and Brushes.

Balls.

 

[conmag9]

Huckleberry Fin was pretty arduous but the cake is taken, thrown off a building, stomped on and urinated on by several passing dogs and a crazy man, by Great Expectations. That book was so horrible, I'm certain that reading it caused kittens to implode with every word.

I'd suggest to particularly durable aesthetic(I know that's not the right word, but it was similar in sounding, so I'll go with that) that it might be a good idea when self-flagellation becomes boring.

 

[Elonas]

Honestly, none of the books I've been forced to read I've disliked. The closest to that would be "View from the bridge" and that was still okay. I've read Holes, To Kill a Mockingbird and Private Peacefull.

 

[Flig]

A Tale of Two Cities. I love classics, but I'm just prone to hating Dickens.

 

[Valkyrie101]

Eugh... What's the name of that book.. It's a movie aswell..GRawg!

Ah! Stormbreaker! Man that book was bad...

Maybe its cause I was younger when I read it, but I love that book. haha, however, the movie was an atrocity.

Amen.

Pretty much all of the books I've read at school have been bad.

 

[Valkyrie101]

Of Mice and Men.

I guess if you're an American adult then a book about the American Dream might appeal to you.
Who on Earth thought that a class of 15-16 year old Irish boys would enjoy this?

Because there are lots of clever literary techniques, like foreshadowing and animal imagery, which means there's a lot to write about (I know). In terms of actual entertainment value, it's worthless, but there you go.

 

[Hashime]

Eugh... What's the name of that book.. It's a movie aswell..GRawg!

Ah! Stormbreaker! Man that book was bad...

Seriously, you had to read that for school? What kind of weird ass place do you go to?!

Heart of Darkness would be mine. It was only about 100 pages long but finishing it was just horror... THE HORROR!

I loved that book. When really analyze the language, setting, and characters you can see it's true nature, which is a comment on imperialism and bureaucracy. I guess if you read it without reading about the period and events it was written to comment on it would be boring though.

 

[Mr.PlanetEater]

The Lottery, I found no advice what so ever in there regarding winning the lottery. >:|
A few years ago, for my A.P. English class mind you the class that's suppose to be about higher literature, we read Twilight.

Forgot to add, I once had to read Hamlet. At first I hated it because my entire class were dips. Who think anything more complex then a bagel isn't worth their, and my teacher being a douche bag. Really put me off the book, but after reading it again and seeing the play. Its quite good imo.

Also 1984, I hated that book with a burning passion. Which is a shame because Animal Farm was so so good.

 

[_tinned_magpie_]

'In Cold Blood' by Truman Capote. Who knew that a book based on a true-life quadruple murder would be so... boring.

Also, 'The Reader'. It was bad enough ploughing through all the condescending lectures and moralising - from a hypocritical arse of a protagonist that I really wanted to punch - but first I had to translate the whole book from German to find all that out.

 

[Hashime]

Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad was incredibly well-written, so in terms of literature it was good. However, trying to read that book was one of the worst and most boring experiences I have had in recent years. He managed to write a grammatically correct sentence that ran for 150 words.

That is epic! I do like conrad's work, but for those who do not read deep enough (analyze the period, look at the social issues of the time...) his work can seem dry.

 

[thenoblitt]

House on Mango Street 10th grade, the book was just so stupid and so poorly written

 

[Tdc2182]

Anyway, I do a literature degree so I read at least one book a week. I'd rather talk about the favourites

Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange (It's a real skill that he could make the language so understandable, by the end of the book you could get all the slang despite it never being explained.)

It was not my most favorite book. But I respected the shit out of it. It was pretty amazing how you understand everything towards the end.

Here's a thought, was the ending of the book a bit of a cop-out or was it actually a much more depressing end than the film?

I am glad I am not the only one who thought that. The ending was in my opinion retarded.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

It would have to be Pride and Prejudice. Whoever thought forcing 15 year old boys to read that and then write essays on it needs to be tortured slowly for many years, never being given the escape of death.