<p>The Great Gatsby. I choked my way through that book and it was the only book I ever used SparkNotes on instead of actually reading it. (I eventually read the whole thing, but every once in a while the day before a quiz I'd read the chapter notes if I hadn't been able to force my way through it.) All I remember of the time we were reading it is my friend and I rolling our eyes at each other every time we had to pull it out because of our severe mutual hatred of it.</p>
<p>Into the Wild was pretty bad too. His writing style was SO boring! And I was not particularly impressed with the kid.</p>
<p>And To Kill a Mockingbird. It wasn't difficult, it was just boring. And I had to read it twice! Ugh. I grew up with my mom singing its praises, so I went in expecting to love it, and I just... didn't. (Same thing happened with The Great Gatsby, actually. I've learned to not trust my mom's judgment when it comes to books.)</p>
<p>Really I couldn't stand most of what we read in English. I am not a classics kind of girl (except Shakespeare!). Give me a good fantasy any day.</p>
<p>Shakespeare is better if you read it outloud, because sometimes silent reading allows you to skim a bit and Shakespeare just shouldn't be skimmed.</p>
<p>The Pearl... only because we read it aloud. In class.
Eff that. My classmates read at the pace of a snail... I finished the book (probably barely 180 pages, if that) in two days of class, reading ahead, and it took us a MONTH to finish the damn thing.
Hate that book. Hate it.</p>
<p>^Lol, a little while back I went through a "classics" phase, and I read dozens upon dozens of those books in the B&N classics section, but I purposefully avoided those which I knew I would soon have to read for school.</p>
<p>Unless a book is particularly difficult to understand, I tend not to like reading it again within a short span of time, it gets boring...</p>
<p>Disneyguy... that cracked me up. I've heard similar things about My Antonia. In Eng Language, we had a choice between that and "A Lesson Before Dying." I read the latter, and it was the only book I enjoyed that year. Lit was better.. A Clockwork Orange, which I'd read before several times and Inferno for example.</p>
<p>I picked up Jane Eyre for enjoyment in 9th grade. I couldn't get past the first 20 pages because I felt like I was being bored to death. I've tried several times since with similar results.</p>
<p>My final vote? Either the GRAPES OF FREAKING WRATH or Watership Down.</p>
<p>"Wuthering Heights. I actually kind of liked the first five chapters or so, but then it started sucking. We're still reading it, about halfway through, and it just seems dreadfully boring. The whole storyteller structure absolutely takes me out of it." - me, in March</p>
<p>I change my vote to Jane Eyre. God, that book just drones on and on and on and on and on....you get the idea. Too much description of the outward features of characters I CARE NOTHING ABOUT. And nothing happens. It's all inconsequential and brooding and self-serious. I hate Jane Eyre.</p>
<p>The two Bronte sisters should definitely fight it out in a ghost author cage match.</p>
<p>We read it in advanced reading class in 8th grade. It was about the civil war. All I remember is that it was very tedious and war-strategy based. Oh, and all the characters were named George.</p>
<p>Eventually, Our teacher gave up on teaching it. loll</p>
<p>I actually liked Pride and Prejudice and Their Eyes Were Watching God.</p>
<p>Yeah the hardest for me was War and Peace in original Russian.... ehhhh it took me a whole month to finish it.... the book was good but Russian is such a boring language to read.</p>
<p>^I've been considering reading it. Is Tolstoy harder or easier to read than Dostoevsky? I dunno if I want to trudge through it in Russian or not (is he particularly verbose? Me' vocab might not be enough if he's too wordy)</p>
<p>Jane Eyre wasn't that bad. It was lengthy, but it was ok.
I could not get through Wuthering Heights. I wanted to read it, but just couldn't read any of it.</p>
<p>I'm almost done reading Wuthering Heights (reading it for fun) though I've put it aside for now because I have to trudge through my AP Lit reading. It's not that bad in my opinion, just a bit dense.</p>
<p>But Crime and Punishment --- gods above, that is a painful book to read (and I'm not even halfway through). And as for Anna Karenina, I had to abadon ship a few chapters in. I guess the Russian classics just aren't for me.</p>
<p>I thought Heart of Darkness would be a quick read, but I was very wrong. I spent half the time flipping back to previous chapters because I had no idea what was going on.</p>