<p>Gone With the Wind. I don’t get what the big deal is. I had to force myself to get through it, and even then, I only read it for the sake of saying I read it.</p>
<p>I second Moby Dick and Scarlet Letter.
Pain in the butt to read/analyze x.x</p>
<p>riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.</p>
<p>There are a LOT of classics that I haven’t exactly been able to stomach, but Scarlet Letter stands out as one of the most unbearable. I’m an aid reader and I picked up the book from the library when I was in about 3rd-4th grade since I knew it was a classic… big mistake; was WAY too advanced for me and I could barely get past the first chapter. Then I had to actually read it for my 11th grade honors American Lit class and it was *still *impossible to get through.</p>
<p>Other classic books that I have not been particularly fond of have included Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, and The Grapes of Wrath. I had to read them all for school. :(`</p>
<p>I didn’t like Catcher in the Rye. Holden was a annoying character, who whined a lot. It wasn’t as great at my teacher made it seemed. She did told us your will love or hate the book.</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice. It was so incredibly boring.
Slaughterhouse Five</p>
<p>“Titanic is not even a classic. And I hated it.”
-How could you hate Titanic? That is like the best movie EVER!!! :)</p>
<p>And I loved Catcher in the Rye. Macbeth was so incredibly confusing to comprehend. If it werent for our teacher who analyze each paragraph for us, I wouldnt have been able to understand it to save my life!</p>
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<p>…Really? It was one of my all-time favorite books that we’ve ever had to read in school. I LOVE Vonnegut. Now, if you had said “Little Women” or "Othello: I would agree…</p>
<p>I really, really hated The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This was the only book assigned in AP Lang that I didn’t like. The worst part is that after trudging through 300+ pages of headache-inducing dialect, you come to realize that the MAIN CONFLICT OF THE BOOK WAS RESOLVED BEFORE THE BOOK STARTED.</p>
<p>That really ticked me off at the time. I don’t think I’ve calmed down yet.</p>
<p>Unrelated to the thread, but Keasbey Nights, you have the best username.</p>
<p>I smile every time people understand my Catch-22 / Streetlight Manifesto reference.</p>
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I’ve seen streetlight twice, great live.
I absolutely hate Catcher in the Rye. South Park sums up a lot of my attitudes toward the book. It’s just a rich spoiled kid running around complaining all the time. I couldn’t get past the first few chapters. Just didn’t get why it’s a classic.</p>
<p>Their Eyes Were Watching God</p>
<p>The dialect was giving me a headache when I attempted to read it the day before.</p>
<p>Movies:
They aren’t exactly classics, but I hate everything by James Cameron other than the original Terminator. Especially Avatar… that movie is awful.</p>
<p>Books:
Every single book ever written by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Grapes of Wrath
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Moby Dick
War and Peace
Most of Shakespeare’s plays</p>
<p>If you dislike Shakespeare, you dislike literature.</p>
<p>Same goes for Moby Dick. Brilliant, brilliant book.</p>
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I’m not hating on Shakespeare. The plays are decent, but comments like yours elevate them to some sort of mythical status. I just don’t buy that.</p>
<p>Why is Moby Dick such an excellent work?</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter.
Reading that was physically painful. I believe whatshisname was secretly a sadist who was hellbent on systematically torturing readers of his “work” for centuries and centuries to come.</p>
<p>ITA about The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield is nothing but a spoiled whiny rich kid who curses a lot, which I think is a big part of the appeal for teenagers. As for movies, I could never see what was so darned great about Citizen Kane. I figured out the Rosebud thing immediately, and my hs film teacher has held that against me to this day.</p>
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<p>I can understand why you don’t think its the best, but its definitely not overrated as you say.</p>
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<p>You figured out Rosebud “immediately”? You mean, five minutes in when Kane says it before he dies? :)</p>
<p>When I read LOTR I hadn’t seen the movies yet, and I got so bored with the lengthy discussion of the shade of green that Legolas’ pants were that I skipped the entire council of Elrond thinking it couldn’t possibly be that important. lol. I did finish the series, though.</p>
<p>The only book I can ever remember starting and not finishing was Eragon, which is definitely not a classic. As for classics, I also hated the Scarlet Letter but had to read it twice, once in american lit in high school and once to write a college paper. It wasn’t as bad in college as it was in high school. I also hated anything by Thoreau, and was not a fan of Emerson either. I didn’t get to read Catcher in the Rye until I was an adult and by then it was really obnoxious, I think I might have liked it more if I’d read it when I was younger.</p>
<p>I have to think if you hated Gatsby you just didn’t get it.</p>