<p>Right now I'm reading a book for my APUSH class and it is the hardest book I have ever attempted to read. I have tried so hard to make it interesting and easier to understand (reading aloud, buying the audiobook, etc.) and still I can't get past the first 10 pages. I'm so confused and I don't know what to do. Any advice for getting through a book you hate/can't understand? Thanks. :)</p>
<p>Sparksnotes deffinatly is a help, as long as you read the book with it. That one kind of sucks.</p>
<p>Which book is it? Is it the Jungle? Cause I had to read that for APUSH. I also had to read Founding Fathers. Both were kind of difficult reads...</p>
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<p>Oddly enough that was our AP English Lang summer reading for this year.</p>
<p>Really? I thought that book was typically relegated to the APUSH reading list...</p>
<p>haha the Jungle is for rising sophomores at our school and Founding Brothers for American Studies I Honors (also for soph.) both books are torture.</p>
<p>Well, they were sort of boring to read, but I actually enjoyed them.</p>
<p>I don't read, so I always use one of those websites for help. I suggest you go look at one of those.</p>
<p>Yeah, it's Founding Brothers. Thanks for all the tips so far. Keep them coming! :)</p>
<p>I had to read A World Lit Only by Fire for Euro.</p>
<p>The whole thing is a rant against the Catholic Church and monarchs of the Middle Ages followed by an entire devotion to Magellan.</p>
<p>I don't know if this would help, but I would watch the John Adams miniseries. It would give an entertaining perspective that would go along with the book.</p>
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Which book is it? Is it the Jungle? Cause I had to read that for APUSH. I also had to read Founding Fathers. Both were kind of difficult reads...
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Huh. I had to read both of these for APUSH and didn't think either of them were particularly difficult. The Jungle was actually really good except for the huge bit about socialism in the end [that could be because I'm very anti-socialism though]. Founding Brothers... I just thought that the author did a pretty good job making some boring stuff rather interesting.</p>
<p>However, if you're having trouble reading it, maybe after each paragraph go back and be like "OK so that means.... _______________" and sum it up in "regular" language. When I was reading Beowulf, which is admittedly pretty easy to read, I was just so so so uninterested in it that I had to make myself read it outloud and sum up each little bit. That helped a ton and I sped through it in a few hours.</p>
<p>Well, they were difficult reads in that I wasn't very motivated to read them. :) But in the end, I liked both of them. Although I did not like the Jungle's socialist propaganda...</p>
<p>Yeah socialism.. ehhhhh. It'd be nice if EVERYONE was in the same terrible conditions that were talked about in the Jungle. And if nobody was selfish, nobody wanted to get ahead, nobody cared that their money was being re-routed to the poorer people, etc etc.</p>