<p>..is possibly the WORST book I've ever had to read for school. It's too slow and I'm just not following it. And my teacher assigning 40 page segments with 2 page reflections and analysis reports (MASSIVE packets) EVERY NIGHT.</p>
<p>The worst book, besides Pride & Prejudice, of course.</p>
<p>What's the worst book you ever had to read for school?</p>
<p>the scarlet letter was my least favorite!!
it was HORRIBLY boring....along with grapes of wrath...not a fav or mine
haha</p>
<p>The Idiot...</p>
<p>Even though it's 19th century fiction, I'm sure people still talked somewhat like real people even back then. I wanted to die reading that... Maybe it's because its translated from Russian.</p>
<p>I actually liked Snow Falling On Cedars and The Scarlet Letter although most of my classmates hated them.</p>
<p>The worst book I have ever read is either Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson or All the King's Men by Robert Warren Penn. Both were beyond boring.</p>
<p>omg i love snow falling on cedars! give it a couple more chapters..yeah it is slow but it's so heartfelt and beautiful..haha
and hey i loove p&p! goo darccyy! :)
and scarlet letter was awesomee too
i really love every book i read lol
but i HHHATTEEDD..ummmm..
HAMLET. yeah..</p>
<p>Three books stand out ignominiously above the throngs of books assigned to me in school:</p>
<p>The Sun Also Rises
The Scarlet Letter
My Antonia</p>
<p>Each of these is incredibly boring and unnecessarily dense (TSL), or boring as a result of the mindless, plotless wandering that characterizes the majority of the writing (TSAR and MA). I choked through these books and started counting down the pages until they were finished.</p>
<p>On the opposite end of the spectrum, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, and Lord of the Flies were the best.</p>
<p>I'm sorry, but Pride and Prejudice is the best book ever.</p>
<p>Anything written by Shakespeare.</p>
<p>^^^lol. at least he didn't write a novel.</p>
<p>YA fiction, hands down. (Speak, Stargirl, All We Know of Heaven...)</p>
<p>Honestly, the whole genre seems to be made up of high school stereotypes and bad writing... and I'm not interested in reading about other teenagers' lives. :/</p>
<p>In Cold Blood and Becoming Madame Mao were dull too.</p>
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<p>lol, its funny that you say you hate the book Kidnapped because in An American Childhood, my least favorite book/memoir in the entire world, the author mentions that book several times and how much she loved it.</p>
<p>Aw, I loved Speak. And Pride and Prejudice. The only book I've read for English that I really, truly hated was Frankenstein. I wish Mary Shelley would return from the grave just so I could kill her for writing that book.</p>
<p>Mine would have to be back in 8th grade, when we had to read a 45 page excerpt of The Odyssey.</p>
<p>The best for me was Angela's ashes. And I usually hate novels.</p>
<p>Well, I didn't hate it, but I wasn't a fan of Oliver Twist. Never held my interest for a second.</p>
<p>From what I've read, Pride and Prejudice definitely towers above all others.</p>
<p>Great Expectations.</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter, though I hated the first half, gets better towards the end and the conclusion chapter brings up some very interesting points about religion and its role in society.</p>
<p>I agree with you on P&P. All my friends and teachers rave on about it and I've tried to read it three times. I just can't seem to get past the 18th chapter.</p>
<p>I actually liked Speak. Not for an English class, but it portrayed the life of a depressed teenager really well. I like the writing style.</p>
<p>My least favorite book in English was probably My Antonia. Nothing happened. O.o</p>
<p>I'm surprised someone said they hated All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren. That jumped to the top of my book list after I read it. It is packed with amazing symbolism and philosophies and ideas. I thought it was unbelievably brilliantly written. But everyone has their opinions about books, eh? To each their own.</p>
<p>I don't read and have no clue about 99% of the authors/books on here, but one of the few books that I actually read from start to finish was Harry Potter the 2nd one and it was pretty horrible IMO. Took me a month to finish.</p>
<p>I'm starting to actually read now (aiming for one book every 3 months, so like 4 a year? Lol that's a LOT of reading to me), but I hate how school-assigned reading is all ridiculously boring. It's been sparknotes/wikipedia since Middle school.</p>
<p>Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" takes the cake for this one. Everyone in our Social Studies class hated it, and three quarters of us didn't even read past the first chapter.</p>