<p>o man, dont read those books. instead, read </p>
<p>SURELY YOU'RE JOKING MR. FEYNMAN</p>
<p>cuz that book is amazing</p>
<p>i didnt like the great gatsby. the movie was worse.</p>
<p>the grapes of wrath. it sucked only becuase it was so dense. but other than that, it was an good book.</p>
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i didnt like the great gatsby. the movie was worse.
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LOL. Which one?
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C'mon. You can't hate Shakespeare or The Odyssey/Illiad! That is so not allowed.
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Livin' on the edge, yo. Livin' on the edge. ;)</p>
<p>Siddhartha-just felt the point was poor and the book was to stupid to care about.
Shakespear - uses to much cheap humor and plots are highly predictable.</p>
<p>Some of you people are making me crazy with the books you hate! lol. </p>
<p>I second The Perks of Being a Wallflower- it's definitely the favorite book of hipster kids who don't read. Not real literature at all.</p>
<p>Same goes for the Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons. Sure, they're entertaining, but man are they awfully written.</p>
<p>matt- of course shakespeare is predictable, because we've been bombarded our whole lives with the stuff referencing his work. but he's the original, man:)</p>
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<li>Their Eyes Were Watching God/Hurston - Just bad.</li>
<li>Romeo & Juliet - I adore Shakespeare, but honestly, I'm in high school; I hear enough overzealous teenagers *****ing about their love lives
+The DaVinci Code/Dan Brown - mildly entertaining but poorly written</li>
<li>LOTR/Tolkein - I forced myself to read to page 50 and couldn't take any more. Sorry.</li>
<li>Narnia/Lewis - Christian allegory makes me want to spoon my eyes out.</li>
<li>Shadow Puppets/Orson Scott Card - I love this man's work but the "let's stop being cool military leaders and have babies instead!" thing did not sit well with me.</li>
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<p>Really liked Speak, btw - ah well. Everyone in my English class loathed the awakening, but I adored it; same with A Tale of Two Cities and Lord of the Flies.</p>
<p>I hate anything Shakespeare, always have and always will, and The Pearl by John Steinbeck (It probably wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to read it for 3 consecutive school years.)</p>
<p>I Hate Waterland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>a tree grows in brooklyn is my favorite book!!</p>
<p>ok, and i second (third? fourth?) a catcher in the rye. the entire thing is full of "helluvas" and other repetitive, obnoxious catch phrases. OH MY GOD I hated it!</p>
<p>what about this one?:
the misanthrope
we had to read it for AP Lit, and i nearly screamed with boredom. </p>
<p>if anyone touches the poisonwood bible, i'd probably quit CC
and that's saying a lot.</p>
<p>AHA! I'd forgotten about The Pearl.</p>
<p>I'll have to second Frankenstein. I gave it 4 chances. But no.. I still cant even finish 1/4 of the book.</p>
<p>Prep, and The perks of being a wallflower - horrible. horrible. horrible. horrible. horrible. horrible. horrible.</p>
<p>And i've never READ any shakespeare's stuff. thank god. </p>
<p>and I hated that book.. the adventures of huck finn? I cant remember if that's the correct title.</p>
<p>Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. When you open this book, it is 1 page with this: "Sunrise." 2 1/2 pages later, the narrative starts. You seriously have blank pages in there. And, oh, the last one is blank too, except for the middle of the page: "Sunrise, accept this offering, sunrise." I had to read it for English and I have no idea what actually <em>happened</em> in the novel.</p>
<p>Also loathe Dan Brown. Terrible entertainment. Robert Ludlum was a much, much better writer than Brown could ever dream of being, and he was just writing about assassins. </p>
<p>Their Eyes Were Watching God is absolutely pointless. I do love the last line, though. I just abhor the plot.</p>
<p>tennisdude: You're amazing. Everyone go read that book NOW.</p>
<p>Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.</p>
<p>heart of darkness
brave new world</p>
<p>Definitely not a fan of Angels and Demons/DaVinci Code... they're like the same book... written like a comic....</p>
<p>Also didn't like The Great Gatsby. ALL of the characters annoyed me, minus Nick, and Nick is just boring. However, I do like Fitzgerald's writing so I want to read something else by him...</p>
<p>I thought Freakonomics was kind of overrated.</p>
<p>DESPISED The Lovely Bones.</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness- <em>muffled scream</em>...man...Sparknotes is a LIFESAVER</p>
<p>Silas Marner- the most boring book on earth...I swear it is...I'm SO surprised no one has mentioned it yet...absolutely HORRIBLE...once again Sparknotes saved my a$$...just thinking about that book makes me cringe...</p>
<p>Beloved- This book is SO confusing</p>
<p>As I Lay Dying- This book was just...weird...</p>
<p>I also HATE Shakespeare...</p>
<p>I'm sure there's more</p>
<p>ack i loved the great gatsby, we read it right after turn of the screw so i guess anything was good by comparison.
-oedipus rex/antigone/whatever the other one is called
-narnia/those hobbit books
-dracula
-odyssey (i couldnt even get through the sparknotes it was that bad)</p>
<p>^^oh yea Turn of the Screw sucked also</p>