Books you Hate

Some of my favorite books were listed here. :\ A Separate Peace, 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Great Expectations, the Scarlet Letter...

I absolutely ABHORED the Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Normally I like Hawthorne in all his crazy run on sentances and such, but this book basically had no plot. We had to read it for an AP English summer assignment in between 10th and 11th grades and that was not a book that should be attempted on your own. And it's really long and almost completely not understandable. Also, the teacher who was teaching it wasn't very familiar with the New England transcendentialist movement- which I am somewhat- and could not make any of those connections.

Stab. me. in. the. face.

 

silverclover, I really like the New England transcendentalists. I love Thoreau. My school teaches us that Hawthorme is actually an anti-transcendentalist. So far, I like The Scarlet Letter.

 

Steinbeck - I cant stand anything by him, I really can't. I had to read "Of Mice and Men" for english, and it almost killed me I hated it so much. I also tried to read "The Red Pony", but again, I thought it was awful. I guess I just don't like his style.

 

Steinbeck is the shit! The ghost of tom joad is not gonna be happy with you

 

real tom joad ass negs

 

I like the premise of Steinbeck, I like his plots generally, but I get so frustrated reading the books. I guess it didnt help that I read them in school, with people making daft comments, and having the teacher go over and over and over the same paragraph, saying the same things again and again...
Now I come to think about it, I've never enjoyed anything I've been made to read in school. Last year was "Animal Farm" which was a book I'd read before and enjoyed, but having to read it slowly, and answer insane questions at the end of each chapter, "Who feel asleep during Old Major's speech?", "Who said ...?", it just sapped the life out of it.
I think I'll give it a couple of years, and try Steinbeck again, when I can go at my own speed.

 

Suzane from South America-- you are playing ( I think) a barred E-Minor, therefore a F-minor. Am I wrong?

I read South American novels-- they are not big sellers up here-- but, I'm pretty damn stupid when it comes to names and such. Forgive me.

 

Two books I cannot stand:

1. Jane Eyre ( I know people probbably disagree )
2. O' Pioneers!

Two books I had to read a few years back in high school, and I still feel like both the books are poison.

 

Pride and Prejudice. Really, anything by Jane Austen. ARGH.

I don't know why. I like Jane Eyre, but Austen's romances really make me unhappy.

 

Blithedale was rally anti-transcendentialist. But you'd have to understand transcendentialism in order to pick that up. I ended up having to teach a lot of the little things I picked up annotating to the class because my teacher had no clue what I was talking about. Meh..

 

The Book of Dead Days, utter cowplop!

 

On closer examination, I believe it is a barred A minor-- therefore, a ,B minor.

Or, maybe I'm just drunk.

 

Well, there would be :

Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier (a turn of the 20th century book, boring as hell ...)
And L'Homme d'Anticosti by i don't know who ..

Those were two books i read for school ...

 

Anything by Jane Austen. All the girls in my school like her. But I find Charlotte and Emily Bronte much better. I really did like Wuthering Heights.

 

lord of the rings-couldn't get past the hobbit which i loved
huckleberry finn-super boring
Hamlet-dumb
to kill a mockingbird-dumbest book ever\
yeah i could keep going but i wont

 

huckleberry finn-super boring

I absolutely LOVED that book, not because of the plot so much as... I dunno... but ever since then, sometimes while falling asleep I imagine floating down the Mississippi of 150 years ago, at night, on a raft...

It wasn't a book I expected to like, I just wanted to read it because it's been such a classic, and I was trying to expand my reading taste a bit.

But some popular books just don't suit me well. I've tried several times to read Ken Kesey's "Sometimes A Great Notion" but as much as I marvel at his daring and extremely unusual style (like describing events thousands of miles apart in the same sentence, or describing the thoughts of two different characters in the same paragraph without telling the reader where the line is drawn between them), it just became too much work to read.

 

Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms was just a bit too much for me...Red Badge of Courage...Oh, and I absolutely hated Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn.
I think I hate a lot of the books I do because of the teachers who taught them...They just made them really unbearable. Like, A Farewell to Arms...Now, I could probably read that again and I'd love it, but the teacher who taught it didn't really teach it well, so now I just can't stand the sight of it.

 

Cat In The Hat.




This book was highly offensive.

 

Oh, blashpemy. The only thing I don't really like by him is The Pearl. Everything else is...bliss. I'm just getting into East of Eden, and it's like I've found home.

 

LMAO. That is perhaps the funniest quote I've read on here in sometime. Actually, Dr. Suess and I are not friends. Not one bit. I will not read him on a train, I will not read him in a plane. Dates back to being locked in a closet with a light that was too high for me to reach and the only reading material was Dr. Suess. Ick. Traumatizing, I tell you. (Haha, really, this was mainly for a laugh, but it's true. Damn crazy ass babysitters).

I cannot stand The Great Gatsby, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Gulliver's Travels, and the list goes on and on to include mainly most of the books I read in high school. They were all torturing. Who gets to decide what's classic or not anyway? No wonder kids are so dumb, when you give them reading material they're bound to hate, they're not going to learn anything.