<p>I second Wuthering Heights. I read it my sophomore year for a challenging book report, and I didn't even finish it. I just picked the prompt about style and mood (we received a list ahead of time) and wrote a great essay based on the first half of the book. The book went nowhere! I was much more pleased with Jane Eyre.</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter wasn't that bad in my opinion. I liked all the symbolism. Hawthorne is a genius.</p>
<p>The reason I put the "dis" in parentheses is because I only dislike hard books while I'm reading them. When I'm finished, I have the tendency to say "Oh, that wasn't that bad." I'm pleased with myself that I was able to plow through a difficult read. Besides, there's little to no satisfication in reading something that didn't challenge you that much.</p>
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Hawthorne also took up 3 pages to describe Hester's entrance onto the scaffold.
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BUT IT WAS IMPORTANT!!</p>
<p>My vote is for Benjamin Franklin...I wanted to sleep.</p>
<p>I LOVE Jane Austin. Love.</p>
<p>Most Difficult to Read: Bible excerpts (I love parts but the parts we read for English are TERRIBLE), Illiad (I like other Greek literature, but I had to push myself to finish this one)...</p>
<p>I don't know, I can't think of many. I read 'hard' things for fun, I have a weird taste in books... </p>
<p>Oooh, also didn't like Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor... It wasn't hard to read, I just really didn't enjoy it. Maybe I should try it again, because I read it in ninth grade. I would probably be at least okay with it now.</p>
<p>On the subject of other books mentioned here:</p>
<p>I've read P&P and I have Emma on my shelf ready to read, along with a lot of other Austin books. I love her.</p>
<p>Only read excerpts of the Autobiography of Ben Franklin. Wasn't too bad in comparison with the other things I had to read that year.</p>
<p>Also LOVE Faulkner. Sometimes difficult to understand but that's what I like about it. As I Lay Dying was amazing.</p>
<p>I'm reading Wuthering Heights for fun now, but I'm on hiatus because of all the work I'm doing. I'm not sure about it... </p>
<p>Ack, also liked Jane Eyre. I just reread it a bit ago.</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter wasn't too bad... I liked it better than Huck Finn- we read both of those in the same year.</p>
<p>I hated The Old Man and the Sea...just too repetitive. Also didn't like The Crystal Cave; 500+ pages of boring nothingness. Oh and I threw it in the pool when I finished it.</p>
<p>I didn't really enjoy the first 1/3 of 1984, but the remaining 2/3 was beautiful. Overall a great book, though.</p>
<p>lol Illiad in GREEK!</p>
<p>Oh and The World Is Flat, the expanded edition. OMG. The whole book can be summed up in about 10 pages.</p>
<p>Crime and Punishment
Scarlet Letter
Heart of Darkness
Wuthering Heights</p>
<p>Jane. Eyre. seriously agonizing. most of the time NOTHING happens (woo I'm wandering on the moors!), and then everything happens. It could have been done in half the time! </p>
<p>I know, I know, I can't appreciate literature if I don't like it, but you know what? I didn't like it...it's actually one of the few books I do not like (for example, I like Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, etc)</p>
<p>Oh, and Howards End...that wasn't as bad as Jane Eyre, but still only the first 50 and last 50 pages had any action. most of it was really annoying. It was well-written and had good symbolism, so it mostly just HARD to read, not BAD.</p>
<p>It's a tie.</p>
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<li>No Exit (exclusively in French as "Huis Clos")</li>
<li>The Canterbury Tales (in Middle English)</li>
</ol>
<p>The Canterbury Tales in Middle English wins. That sounds excruciating! Middle English is IMPOSSIBLE to understand. I don't even like reading them in modern English...</p>
<p>Don't shoot me!</p>
<p>Beloved by Toni Morrison
Beowulf (not as fun as it sounded when I decided to buy it)</p>
<p>I'm reading Beloved now and think it's amazing. Why don't you like it? (I'm not attacking, I have no place to. I'm against Jane Austin lol.)</p>
<p>staciehere
ugh i'm working on a project for Their Eyes were Watching God right now
so hard to read with "Ah"s instead of "I"s, etc. </p>
<p>so that and the Scarlet Letter?
I liked some parts of Woman Warrior and despised others.</p>
<p>romanigypsyeyes, I am just not an English person. If I don't like a book, it's most likely a compliment to the author if you know what I mean.</p>
<p>In short, I am an honors kid, not an AP kid. I don't really enjoy reading anything (fictional) more difficult than Douglas Adams or Orson Scott Card (not that I have time to read, let alone fiction).</p>
<p>^^ Haha, I get it. I don't like most of the books in my APE class (Waterland, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest), but I must admit that Beloved held me interest.</p>
<p>why does everyone hate scarlet letter, it's one of the better classics</p>
<p>^^ I didn't like it because the author takes so long to describe every detail. I just don't like overly elaborated upon scenes. Probably because I'm impatient.</p>
<p>Actually, strangely enough, this year has been my most enjoyable year of English. I'm still getting B's because I don't do homework, but I enjoy the little I do. </p>
<p>So far, I've liked The Liar's Club by Mary Karr, "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, and Dante's Inferno.</p>