<p>Crime & Punishment. I didn’t mind it in the end, but it certainly was difficult to force myself to read it, especially since I was in Paris at the time.</p>
<p>pride and prejudice sucked so much. That book was so ridiculously stupid</p>
<p>Reading Billy Budd was sooo painful</p>
<p>I concur. It was bad as well. The plot was horribly bland. I don’t even remember what happened. I just remember the one guy had him shot, and he wouldn’t have been if he had listened to the old Scandinavian guy</p>
<p>The Father Brown Stories are just terrible</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter - I just don’t know what was happening after reading one page of the book.</p>
<p>paradise lost, scarlet letter, the world’s religions</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness by Kate Chopin= displeasure.</p>
<p>Displeasure: Dante’s Inferno ahh even Sparknotes seemed long then.</p>
<p>EDIT: The Scarlett Letter wasn’t that bad, the story was just going slow for me.</p>
<p>^^^Paradise Lost??? ahh how I despise you >:b</p>
<p>Last time I checked, Joseph Conrad wrote Heart of Darkness.</p>
<p>Unequivocally Paradise Lost.</p>
<p>I read both Dante’s Inferno and The Scarlett Letter for fun, long before they were assigned in class. [sad5]. Crime and Punishment was a Christmas present from a friend, and among the nicer ones I’ve received. But she knows how I love Russians.</p>
<p>And I’m reading Light in August now, about 40 pages to the end. I like it.</p>
<p>However, I have never hated any book as much as I hated The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I can deal with a boring story, I can handle a book that’s not to my taste, but I could not accept a guy as despicable as Huck as my protagonist. I could not deal with it.</p>
<p>Having to read “Mythology” by Edith Hamilton was like gauging your eyes out.</p>
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How far did you get? I heard that the first part (Stephen Dedalus POV) was the worst bit. After that it is supposed to get easier.</p>
<p>Hmm. I actually liked The Scarlet Letter when we read it in class. I don’t know if I’d want to reread it now, but I liked it more than maybe 85% of the class, at least. But I guess that’s not saying much.</p>
<p>I just didn’t get Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. I just couldn’t read it. It didn’t help that we were assigned huge chunks of the book to read at one time. I probably would’ve enjoyed it more if I could’ve taken my time to read it.</p>
<p>I totally forgot about Their Eyes Were Watching God until I read this. It was that forgettable. The way of speaking probably threw me off and I didn’t read it very well.</p>
<p>I would’ve died if I had to read The Canterbury Tales in Middle English. I almost cried just looking at a page the teacher gave us with that version.
And I hope I like Pride and Prejudice more than a lot of people here. We’re reading it next quarter.</p>
<p>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead was interesting. As my teacher says, it’s more fun to watch than to read. I agree. He said that about Hamlet too, but I never watched that.
…That was long.</p>
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<p>Well, do you like Greek Mythology? I’m about to read this and am excited too…but you made me slightly nervous, haha.</p>
<p>I read Mythology by Edith Hamilton for fun :). It was not particularly well-written but I appreciate the book’s depth of explanation for a lot of the myths. </p>
<p>Anyways:</p>
<p>THE AWAKENING BY KATE CHOPIN.</p>
<p>DEAR GOD WOMAN.</p>
<p>edit: it wasn’t that hard, but it was AWFUL</p>
<p>the books we read were never really that bad, but i think the WAY these books are taught at our school is just messed up.</p>
<p>therefore, while reading the book was perfectly fine for me, “analyzing” romeo and juliet (or moreover, regurgitating what the teacher says about the book) was the most horrific experience of my life (in the context of lit classes, of course.)</p>
<p>@jamesford</p>
<p>congrats on returning after all this time :]</p>