<p>Videogamerx--</p>
<p>Ha! That was great! Fahrenheit 451! Cute! Perhaps the irony (that is irony, right?) is not lost on all! Carry on.</p>
<p>clinton's biography</p>
<p>Island of the Blue Dolphins....</p>
<p>Whoa, blue dolphins... I read that in elementary school I think... don't remember it being that bad.</p>
<p>A Separate Peace was pretty boring, but I don't know if I'd burn it.
Lord of the Flies, burn.
And also, most of Shakespeare's works, most ancient Greek texts/plays also. Honestly, why are they still having us read so much of that stuff? It's not deep, important, relevant, or helpful to us at all. Not that I can see. It's just long. I can understand having us read maybe one work by Shakeman, and maybe 1 or 2 Greek plays just to see what they were like, but they honestly don't add anything useful to anybody's brain.</p>
<p>i second that..........</p>
<p>While burning books is against everything I stand for, I strongly suggest not reading and encouraging others not to read such books as:</p>
<p>A Seperate Peace (apparently, a favorite on this thread...)
Heart of Darkness
The Color Purple</p>
<p>There are others which I can't think of right now. </p>
<p>Oh, btw... Lord of the Flies is absolutely amazing. It may start slowish, but it invokes great reactions from the reader. I found myself wanting to yell at the book for Jack's actions...</p>
<p>Didn't know so many people hated A Separate Peace.. it's actually one of my favorites! Anyway,</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment
The Sound and the Fury
Breakfast of Champions.. i don't understand Vonnegut AT ALL</p>
<p>Oh yes, I almost forgot Shakespeare's plays... not all of them though, just most of them.</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies was bad but not burn-worthy UNTIL our english teacher told us that in the part where they kill the pig by spearing it, they didn't literally spear it, they uh..."speared" it.</p>
<p>They should burn all those dime-a-dozen fantasy novels that offer nothing but rehashed stories from some geek-in-the-basement's feeble brain. What a pity that so many of them have such beautiful covers. I tried reading one, because a lot of friends do, and I fell asleep by the 3rd page.</p>
<p>I think Charles Dickens is a standup guy (Great Expectations is truly a classic, easily his best), but Nicholas Nickleby was so awful. It's incredibly cheesy and simplistic, even for Victorian standards, with the perfect handsome hero (Nicholas), the oh-so-pretty damsel in distress (Madeleine), the irredeemably evil ogre (Uncle Ralph), the impossibly good and virtuous angel (Kate), etc. Not to mention the incredibly annoying adventures of various sideshow characters that take the story into useless tangential universes. Note to author: I don't care!!!</p>
<p>Dombey and Son, another Dickens' throwaway, suffers from similar problems. I think Dickens is one of those polarizing, love/hate authors, as his work reflects the very essence (to the extreme) of Victorian English literature. If it's good, you get David Copperfield and Great Expectations. If it's bad, you get Nicholas Nickleby and Dombey and Son.</p>
<p>I tried reading Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald and thought it was nauseatingly boring.</p>
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That's one of my favorite books of all time! It takes a little bit getting used to, but I loved it. Actually wrote a 5500 word thesis on Vonnegut's work for sophomore English.</p>
<p>i remember a seperate peace being good. what was wrong with it? i read it along time ago.</p>
<p>i hated things fall apart. what BS. also, nearly anything by Jane Austin.</p>
<p>if you can't even spell her last name then your ignorant opinions have no intellectual weight, at all</p>
<p>Hatchet (Gary Paulsen)
The Light In the Forest (Conrad Richter ?)
I can't believe my middle school teacher made me read these books!! They were abysmal!! Hatchet didn't get interesting until the last chapter! I think all survival books are just plain ass gay!</p>
<p>Mein Kampf (for the irony of it all)
Fahrenheit 451 (same)
1984 (same)</p>
<p>Now for the non-ironic list:</p>
<p>Billy Budd
War of the Worlds
Paris in the 20th Century
Call of the Wild (if only because I had to read it both in 7th and 9th grade)
Merchant of Venice</p>
<p>That's all I can think of at the moment. I did enjoy Hatchet when I was in elementary school, but the sequel (something about a river) was boring. </p>
<p>Also, for those of you lacking the humor and frustration necessary to enjoy and participate in this thread, please exit the thread now. Also, if you really think the participants in this thread are serious about wanting to literally have book burning parties, please exit CC at this time. Thank you, come again.</p>
<p>What's all your beef with Lord of the Flies? Reading about pre-adolescent British boys killing each other is sort of entertaining.</p>
<p>"Right up her ass!" (reffering to the spear in the wild boar)</p>
<p>Anyways - Julie of the Wolves needs to burn</p>
<p>Iliad and Odyssey are great</p>
<p>A Seperate Peace and Wuthering Heights are better than Ambien as a sleep remedy.....</p>
<p>Oh you guys are terrible dissing Things Fall Apart haha. I lovvvve that book, especially after reading Heart of Darkness which it was written as a response to. Of course I may be biased bc Chinua Achebe is a fam friend, but still, it's an amazing book if you're at all interested in Africa.</p>
<p>LOL this is like that scene in The Day after Tomorrow where all those kids are sitting in the library burning books :p</p>
<p>The Picture of Dorian Gray</p>
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<p>Heresy! Are you telling me you did not enjoy Emma?</p>