<p>So far, my vote is with the Book of Job in the Old Testament.</p>
<p>The Autobiography of Benjiman Franklin
gahhhhhh the book had fricking grocery lists in it</p>
<p>^LOL REALLY HAHAHA</p>
<p>uh, i'd say a tale of two cities. NOT convincing at all, cute tho</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment. 650 pages of some guy angsting about how he's not superior to the people around him.</p>
<p>Dude, C&P is good IMO. We read it a month ago in AP Lit. Well, compared to Heart of Darkness, anyway. We just had our test on that and it KILLED me. Bloody hell. I have never read a more confusing and rambling book.</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness is next semester for me. Thanks for the heads up.</p>
<p>And I know a lot of people liked C&P, but, seriously, the whole thing was Raskolnikov b***ing about how he's not a Superman in between completely idealized characters (Razumikhin, Sonya, Dunya) being angelic foils. GRR! I mean, in the end, he didn't even learn anything! He still wasn't truly remorseful about killing Alyona and Lizaveta, only about the *idea of killing them. Not to mention the whole religion thing and the way that the reader was bashed over the head with it. Maybe I just felt awkward because I was the only Jew a roomful of Protestants with a Catholic teacher but, come on, there's almost nothing more patronizing to a reader than blatant Christian symbolism (except the symbolism in The Awakening, but that's a whole nother story).</p>
<p>I don't think there was a single character in that whole book that I actually liked (although Sonya's mom was kind of ok to read about since she was totally NUTS). The idealized women just irritated me. Svidrigailov & Luzhin were obviously "bad guys," in the simplest of terms. Raskolnikov was a sniveling whiner. </p>
<p>I just...<em>calming breath</em> That book really rubbed me the wrong way. </p>
<p>Darwin's Origin of Species.
Yep. We read the whole thing.</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice. </p>
<p>Scold me all you want. I do NOT like Jane Austin's style of writing. Eh.</p>
<p>And The Scarlet Letter. How many pages does it take to describe a door? (I think that's what it was)</p>
<p>Neither were very hard... but they just sucked for me.</p>
<p>Omg Ilove Pride And Prejudice What Are You Talking About</p>
<p>Reading Emma was extremely painful.</p>
<p>Sorry Narcissa. I REALLY, REALLY tried to like it. My best friend is IN LOVE with her so I figured I might like it after a while. But... no sorry :/. Lol.</p>
<p>I totally loved P&P. Austin's subtly sarcastic style was brilliant, especially when talking through the father's and Darcy's voices. </p>
<p>Though I do recall seeing a poster somewhere that read: "Everytime a Jane Austin book is opened, an angel rips off its wings." I don't agree, but I thought it was a funny sign.</p>
<p>romanigypsyeyes i just had to read both books for ap lit over winter break.</p>
<p>NOT fun.</p>
<p>Jane Eyre was pure torture.
Also, although I like the story, Their Eyes Were Watching God is extremely difficult. It's written in the dialect of poor, uneducated, black Southerners, so all the spelling/pronunciation is atrocious and a pain in the *** to work your way through.</p>
<p>For me it's either A World Lit Only by Fire (for AP Euro) or The Scarlet Letter. Haha, I agree with you romani about the door thing...Hawthorne also took up 3 pages to describe Hester's entrance onto the scaffold.</p>
<p>Faulkner's "The Sound and the Fury" annoyed me to no end.</p>
<p>romanigypsyeyes, I'm with you buddy. Pride and Prejudice was a total NIGHTMARE!</p>
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<p>So dry. So boring. </p>
<p>Jane Austen...Pride and prejudice was the WORST. Closely following is emily bronte with wuthering heights</p>
<p>Their Eyes Were Watching God had both vernacular and "educated language" just authors style...</p>
<p>I didn't like the book when I first read it but now I'm glad to have that book under my belt (:</p>
<p>Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson was beyond boring</p>