<p>actually I think everything Henry James wrote sucks :p</p>
<p>Easily "As I Lay Dying" or "Wuthering Heights."</p>
<p>All of the crap by Shakespeare must be burned because it just stinks.</p>
<p>ugh having read most of it this summer the notion of destroying such perfection makes me want to vomit</p>
<p>the Bible</p>
<p>I'm kidding</p>
<p>This thread is pretty ridiculous</p>
<p>harry3734: a separate peace is one of my faves</p>
<p>books used at bob jones university</p>
<p>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, And through the Looking Glass. by Lewis Carrol.</p>
<p>You want to burn all my favorites ... yes, I am an English teacher. However, I would throw ETHAN FROME on the fire.</p>
<p>Funny you should want to burn Ethan Frome--we read that this year in English, and it was one of the few books that I thought was decent. Then again, it was a lot better than most of the books we read during the neverending "turn of the century woman" unit.</p>
<p>Faust.</p>
<p>I had the misfortune of taking a comp lit class taught by a TA from Germany who thought Goethe was God's Gift to Mankind. Talk about analyzing something to death. I still get a headache thinking about it.</p>
<p>Also, Waiting for Godot, although I don't know if that counts as a book or a play.</p>
<p>All of the crap by Shakespeare must be burned because it just stinks.</p>
<p>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, And through the Looking Glass. by Lewis Carrol.</p>
<p>Also, Waiting for Godot, although I don't know if that counts as a book or a play.</p>
<p><em>Sadness</em></p>
<p>Heart of Darkness rocks.</p>
<p>"We live, as we dream- alone."</p>
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<p>You mean books NOT used at BJU, since they are clearly the work of Satan and his scientific minions. :)</p>
<p>Seriously, don't burn books. Just hate them and spread that hate as a warning to others who might make the mistake of reading them. Except The Fountainhead--burn that. j/k</p>
<p>If I catch any of you little nazis burning my books I'll burn you!</p>
<p>LOL, I don't think anyone here really wants to burn books. I don't anyway. But you can't blame people for hating some, particularly after you've been forced to overanalyze them. With "Waiting for Godot," for example, I had to listen to a girl prattle on endlessly about how the carrot in Vladimir's pocket represented hope and God, and the turnip represented emptiness and despair. You all would hate it too.</p>
<p>White Noise
Life of Pi</p>
<p>I don't get why so many English teachers nowadays just have to have the class overanalyze books. I completely lost interest in reading from grade 8 to grade 10 because of it. Now I'm back into it, but honestly...</p>
<p>Can't we ever just read books to enjoy them? Most books just weren't meant to be picked apart and dissected... frogs were though. Yeah, I enjoyed doing that... except for how it was right before lunch. And the smell, that was bad too.</p>
<p>I love the Fountainhead. I'm shocked at those against Ayn Rand here :P</p>
<p>The carrot is also a phallic symbol, ssv. think about it . . .</p>