<p>I don't like "Of Mice and Men"...Although short, I found it tedious...I didn't really like "Huckleberry Finn"...</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby...........even my teacher said it was boring but we had no other book choice left.......we simply skim through the whole book in a few days and decide to write college essays instead.</p>
<p>MzLover3: "Ulysses is pretty bad if you're not an human encyclopedia. (or unwilling to read the volumes of footnotes.)"</p>
<p>I resent that.</p>
<p>Too be perfectly honest, I love you work so much that I even wrote my common app essay on it. </p>
<p>What I said was nothing but dunce fodder.</p>
<p>"The Great Gatsby...........even my teacher said it was boring but we had no other book choice left.......we simply skim through the whole book in a few days and decide to write college essays instead."</p>
<p>!!!!</p>
<p>The great gatsby is awesome...full of symbolism...romance...the perfect american dream novel. The perfect portrayal of the american dream.
it's awesome</p>
<p>AHHH!!! I WANT TO CRY!!</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby!!?? THAT's the most amazing book :(</p>
<p>haha i read Gatsby in one night and soaked the beautiful pages of that book with my drool and tears. and then i proceeded to calculate gatsbys' age when he was with the drunk millionare, when he met daisy, when he fought in the war, and when he died. poor boy, just another victim of the false american dream. T__T</p>
<p>I tend to agree with eva10127.</p>
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<p>Full of symbolism, yes. Ridiculously transparent symbolism that just tries too hard. Every time one comes up, in fact, a garishly dressed dude with a loudspeaker enters the scene and declares, "Readers, pay attention: THIS IS A SYMBOL." Analysing it is just too easy: you read it once and you've got everything. There's nothing to sink your teeth into.</p>
<p>Not that every book has to be difficult-to-analyse, overly intellectual, literary-criticist fodder (though that's certainly fun); but if they're not that sort of book, they shouldn't try to be, you know?</p>
<p>Dream of the Red Chamber</p>
<p>Oh yeah...I didnt like Sophie's Choice</p>
<p>I read "Sophie's Choice"...It was disturbing, to say the least...A five-page description of hard-core fellatio, not relating at all to the theme, along with having an affair with Hoss and her sister-in-law...I found it difficulty to have much sympathy for her in the book, because she was so perverted and sex-crazed...It seemed as if Styron was living out his fantasies through that perverted book...</p>
<p>Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. I hated this book so much and it took me so long to read cause it was all written in turn of the century southern black speak. I had to constantly stop and reread a sentence to decode it back into something I could understand.</p>
<p>I also agree with whoever said The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.</p>
<p>I just got done reading Night by Elie Wiesel and it was one of the best books I have ever read (or even best)</p>
<p>I don't like Oliver Twist and Bleak House, the rest pf Dickens's works are fine, but those two are really boring.</p>
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Aww, you say that like it's a bad thing... ;)
Not that I've read the book myself. But man, that sounds intriguing. Heh.</p>
<p>sophies choice was rather dull actually...and yeah styron was totally living out his fantasies...the movie was a lot better though</p>
<p>hopkinslax, I read Night last year for Holocaust Lit. and I have to agree with you that it was one of the best books I've ever read. Wiesel's descriptions were so powerful and painful at the same time. After I finished the book, I didnt want to do anything, just sit there and reflect because life didnt seem worth living anymore.</p>
<p>Bcp05, I completely agree about "Night"...And to go along with what I said about "Sophie's Choice", it was incredibly tedious and slow, but then it would be punctuated by depraved, descript sexual...For example, there was one point in which Sophie receives oral sex from a woman in Auschwitz, but she says it was understandable since the woman had been without it for so long...She then goes on about the pleasure she receives...That I can recall, there are at least two parts in which Styron goes into detail, even using metaphors to describe Sophie giving oral sex...I saw no place for this in the book...The actions in that book overweigh the themes...The movie was far better, as it does not include such worthless, disturbing information, and you can truly feel sympathy for Sophie.</p>
<p>Agree w Heart of Darkness (zzz)</p>
<p>The only reason I hated The Scarlet Letter was that my AP Eng teacher made us highlite every symbolic/impt thing-thus my whole book was highlited. </p>
<p>Hated Beowulf. </p>
<p>Loved A Prayer For Owen Meany.</p>
<p>Oh yeah I hated Vanity Fair.</p>