<p>The Grapes of Wrath.</p>
<p>It's important because of its historical perspective, but gosh, was it boring! Most definitely not to be read for leisure.</p>
<p>Probably this is just because I'm a freak, but I'm finding myself actually enjoying Heart of Darkness. Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey, though ... I definitely haven't enjoyed reading that. Humph.</p>
<p>i didn't love 'Beowulf.' 'Heart of Darkness' is killing me.</p>
<p>I didn't enjoy Grapes of Wrath because I generally don't like reading books about that time period. I loved Heart of Darkness, however.</p>
<p>Right before I saw "Grapes of Wrath," I remembered how much I didn't like that book. It was sort of predictable, and I don't enjoy that time period too much either.</p>
<p>Benito Cereno!!</p>
<p>And the sad part is, it's not even a full novel. It's 40 pages of utter hell.</p>
<p>Scarlett Letter takes the cake.</p>
<p>Pretty much all 3 James Joyce books I've read - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.. and the 2 Faulkner's, The Sound and the Fury and The Unvanquished.</p>
<p>I wasn't a fan of Heart of Darkness, nor of Huck Finn.
And I am not a fan of any of Shakespeare's history plays.</p>
<p>Dante's Inferno we had to listen to as book on tape while the teacher wasn't there...when we got to read it ourselves i heard everything with the reader's miserable accent.</p>
<p>it was hell</p>
<p>In school, I hated the Scarlet Letter. I enjoyed the Great Gatsby. Beowulf was eh...</p>
<p>Huck Finn was great too...some of these responses surprise me. Grapes of wrath sucked. I also liked reading A Brave New World, even though the introduction is hell...</p>
<p>First of all... it's Jane AUSTEN with an E people! C'mon!</p>
<p>Ok, so my list:</p>
<p>Iliad/Odyssey
Beowulf
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Doctor Faustus (UGH!)
The Great Gatsby (he was horribly annoying)</p>
<p>Iliad/Odyssey ?? O_O </p>
<p>But yeah, Faustus was horrible too. SGatGK was okay...</p>
<p>Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.</p>
<p>Had to read it freshman year for a book project and it made no sense to me at all. I'm going to reread it now that I've "grown up" a bit. But I remember dubbing it the most confusing book I had ever read.</p>
<p>lol, Beowulf was pure torture, but it was way easier than Catch-22 for me.</p>
<p>Wow, I totally forgot about Great Expectations...good choice on my part. I second all the people that chose it. 75% of that book was totally unnecessary.</p>
<p>Great Expectation was... very uneventful.
CANTERBURY TALES IS PAINFULLY BORING.
so boring that I don't think I even spelled it right (gave up reading it after the first few pages).</p>
<p>Scarlet Letter wasn't bad.. if you used sparknotes :D</p>
<p>Man.</p>
<p>-Scarlet Letter (seriously, it took him a page to say "the jacket was purple"...come on, edit people.)
-Great Expectations
-Jane Eyre
-Frakenstein</p>
<p>Mind you, we read all these my freshman year.</p>
<p>great expectations killed me a little inside.</p>
<p>i read moby dick on my own time. it was tough at times. like i had to really get my head all up in it in order to get anywhere. probably the most challenging book i've ever read.</p>
<p>I think Heart of Darkness.</p>
<p>Moby Dick. Ugh. Boring, boring, boring.</p>