<p>I agree with Their Eyes were watching god.. I mean, ***?
i loved great gatsby too.
narnia sucks.</p>
<p>1984 was a bit depressing.</p>
<p>I hate The Flame Trees of Thika!!!! Urghh, has anyone read it?</p>
<p>"Teacup Full of Roses"</p>
<p>EWWWWWW! Do NOT read that book.</p>
<p>Many books I like are listed here... oh well.</p>
<p>Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. We had to read it for English, and boy, did it sucked. There was no point in it, really. It's just the first 40 years of a person's life, novel form. If I wanted that crap, I can just go read a bunch of blogs.</p>
<p>Silas Marner by George Eliot. Another book for English. Yet again, it's a biography of someone's life.</p>
<p>Wow....you guys are actually listing some really good books as bad ones. I mean....Beowolf, The Once and Future King, I actually liked those two so much that I got my own copy. And we just finished reading Their Eyes Were Watching God, and yes it was hard to get through the first few chapters with the dialect, but after that...it was actually good. Pardon my saying this....but I also thought that The Great Gatsby, Lord of The Flies, Harry Potter series, Catcher in the Rye, and Speak were good too. But that's just me.</p>
<p>As for bad books, I think Slaughterhouse-Five is bad, I didn't like the Color Purple that much, and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek....that book made no sense to me at all!</p>
<p>Johnny Tremain is without a doubt one of the worst pieces of literature ever created.</p>
<p>I don't like "A Christmas Carol." It's too feel-good for me. In seventh grade I never made it all the way through "I Heard the Owl Call My Name," but I don't remember if it actually sucked or if it was just me.</p>
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I don't like "A Christmas Carol."
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Same here! But I'm reading again on Christmas day. :p</p>
<p>I don't understand how you can hate ALL of Shakespeare. I loved Hamlet!</p>
<p>I read it two or three times in different years. And the last time was after/while reading two other Dickens' books. So, yeah. Wasn't fun.</p>
<p>Haha, ditto to Silas Marner and Johnny Tremain.</p>
<p>Both seriously lacked depth.</p>
<p>i seem to hate the books i'm forced to read but haven't so far. i guess that's not fair, considering i didn't even read them yet. uhhh</p>
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I don't understand how you can hate ALL of Shakespeare.
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Then you don't understand how my brain works. :(</p>
<p>I absolutely hate Charles Bukowski as both an author and a poet. His book "Ham on Rye" was seriously the worst book I had ever read, between all the profanities and lewd and crudeness there was nothing. </p>
<p>His poetry is even worse. So awful.</p>
<p>"House on Mango Street" - I can't get 'vignette' books
"Foreign Correspondence" - just plain craptastic</p>
<p>Okay, let's get this straight:</p>
<ol>
<li>Siddhartha is a great book. Period.</li>
<li>Shakespeare's works are pretty awesome. I enjoy them.</li>
<li>I liked 1984.</li>
<li>The Color Purple is pretty cool.</li>
</ol>
<p>Here is what I agree on:
1. Catcher in the Rye is stupid. Sorry Caulfield lovers, it sucks.
2. Reading Conrad's works are about as exciting as watching paint dry. Lord Jim is one of the worst books I've ever read.</p>
<p>The best books ever: Don Quixote (hands down), ROOTS, The Brothers Karamazov</p>
<p>I actually didn't mind silas marner...</p>
<p>I'm the type of person who will read anything she picks up, so you may have never heard of these books:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Echo by Francesca Block - very hard to follow, storyline way too cliched, very frustrating because you keep thinking it gets better but, no it somehow manages to get nowhere</p></li>
<li><p>Candy by Kevin Brooks - THE worst ending EVER... it's a stupid sappy love story... without the nice ending.. total waste of my time</p></li>
<li><p>Wuthering Heights - incredibly boring.. and ever so hard to get through without a dictionary on hand. Although people do tell me it's good if you keep reading.</p></li>
<li><p>A Tale of Two Cities - Hard, annoying, boring, though theres this one scene where this skanky girl dies... and no.. I did not pick up all the stupid symbolism</p></li>
<li><p>A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th century by Barbara Tuchman - OMG the book is not to be read... so so so boring... instant sleeping pill, without the risk of dependancy</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Best Books EVER:</p>
<p>Go Ask Alice/Anonymous, Tuesdays with Morrie/Albom, Memoirs a Geisha/Goldman, Where the Heart is/Letts, Song of Solomon/Morrison, Cut/McCormick, The Ender Series/Card, The Little Princess/Burnett...and so many others I just can't remember right now.</p>
<p>wow, none of my threads have ever gotten past 15 or so posts. this is making me very happy :)</p>