<p>Lord of the Flies (Freshman), The Pearl (8th), Fast Food Nation (Sophomore)</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies: Sooooo boring. This is the reason SparkNotes exists.
The Pearl: I literally fell asleep while reading this. In class.
Fast Food Nation: Not necessarily boring, but really hard to read and absorb.</p>
<p>A Tale of Two Cities is the
worst, most boring book I have ever read. I had to read it for 9th grade Honors
English. It was so awful that I couldn’t even finish some of the chapters. I just did not find the story interesting at all.</p>
<p>I loved To Kill a Mockingbird! I read it for English class, and it became one of my all-time favorite books :)</p>
<p>Really? Because I’m reading Grapes of Wrath…no me gusta. I’m at page 100 of 455 and have to finish in 19 days…I don’t wanna… :(</p>
<p>It’s a tie between The Grapes of Wrath and The Picture of Dorian Gray.</p>
<p>they both need to just go die in a hole</p>
<p>Ah, back in 8th grade we read the book copper sun, it wasn’t horrible, I didn’t like it, but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been.
But THEN we had to read another book, The Door of No Return about slaving on the West Coast of Africa back in the day, and it was, quite possibly, one of hte most horrible books I have ever seen, not only was hte information completely irrelevant to anything at all. It was also horribly written and made me want to fall asleep constantly.</p>
<p>Every book mandated by our school to read other then Ancient Greek Literature such as Odyssey, Illiad, and such.</p>
<p>I much prefer to read what I like.</p>
<p>I love ancient Greek Literature.</p>
<p>I couldn’t stand West with the Night by Beryl Markham. It was part of our summer homework and I could barely put up with a chapter a day. The Scarlet Letter was pretty bad too.</p>
<p>Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher
This was probably the worst book I’ve ever read in English - probably the worst book I’ve ever read in any language.</p>
<p>I second hating The Scarlet Letter but I’m surprised at some of the reading material that you all find to be boring. Slaughterhouse-Five isn’t necessarily boring, per se. I just think Vonnegut’s not for everyone. He is a little strange sometimes. Of Mice and Men made me cry. I also very much liked Brave New World, Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, and A Separate Peace. A Separate Peace is my favorite novel.</p>
<p>The Jungle, anyone? I had to read this for my Sophomore English class and I certainly struggled. Each chapter contained a new hardship for Jurgis, it seemed, but I wasn’t personally invested in him as a character so it came across as tedious. I also didn’t much care for the 3 chapters of socialist propaganda at the end of the novel. Socialism is a great concept in itself, but is not the proper ending to a novel. I would have much rather seen Jurgis die, in all honesty. But eh, at least Sinclair got us some better food laws.</p>
<p>Right now I’m reading Anna Karenina for my summer assignment. I’m at the beginning of Part 3, and I’m struggling through. Parts of it are interesting, but Tolstoy really knows how to drag out conversations to the point of being snooze-worthy. I have the Pevear and Volohonsky translation though, so it’s not too bad. I’m looking forward to see how the novel turns out.</p>
<p>I had forgotten about this book until I saw my cousin reading it, but the Golden Goblet sucked (6th grade). And I unfortunately got nothing out of Of Mice And Men (freshman year). </p>
<p>My favorites have been A Separate Peace (freshman), There are No Children Here (sophomore), and Hamlet (junior).</p>
<p>“Man in the Moon Marigolds” or whatever the hell it was titled…</p>
<p>Keeidy, I LOVED Anna Karenina, Of course, I didn’t read it for school, but the point stands… once you get to know the characters (Russian literature can be tough with names at first), Tolstoy is lovely and carries the reader along flawlessly. There are bits with Levin discussing his methodologies regarding farms that I can see might play out as less-than-interesting, as they aren’t particularly plot-heavy, but if you allow yourself to approach it without waiting for a huge plot twist, you can even find Levin’s ramblings interesting.</p>
<p>As for the Iliad and other such pieces of literature being boring… what I find interesting upon having to read some of the Iliad for college again is that I have a newfound love, respect, and understanding of the book, whereas I absolutely hated it when I had to read it going into ninth grade.</p>
<p>The worse offenders:
100 Years of Solitude
My Life and Hard Times
The Great Gatsby
The Crying of Lot 49
Anything Faulkner</p>
<p>Anyone who despises the Lord of the Flies or A Separate Peace does not know good literature. Personally, they are two of my favorite books along with The Outsiders. I’m an avid reader too.</p>
<p>Of the boring books I’ve had to read for class, standouts are Eva, Red Badge of Courage, treasure island, and Tom Sawyer. I really liked Lord of the Flies and Animal Farm, though.
For summer, our teacher is making us read five extremely boring books. Maybe I’ll have to change this after I finish them :(</p>
<p>-------------------------------------------If it is to be, it is up to me…</p>
<p>“Anyone who despises the Lord of the Flies … does not know good literature.”</p>
<p>I was not a fan of LotF. I picked it up when I was in middle school, read a few pages, and decided I didn’t like the writing style at all. I wound up having to read it through with one of the kids I was tutoring years later when I was in… I think twelfth grade, at that point. Still didn’t like it. Something about the writing style irks me, and I just can’t find any realism in the way the characters were crafted. Sure, it’s an interesting plot, but nothing about it really grabbed me. Sorry.</p>
<p>I never read A Separate Peace, and as I recall from middle school, I liked The Outsiders well enough. Also Animal Farm. I read it in one day, standing up at a science fair in my heels (because someone had stolen my chair and my partner didn’t like me at all, so he took off to hang out with other people at the fair), but I am in love with the effectiveness of the writing.</p>
<p>@typeakid: I read Animal Farm in 8th grade for Honors English, and I was probably the only kid in my grade to enjoy it. My father was a history major in undergraduate school, though, so I quickly realized the connection between the Russian revolution and the animals’ revolution. I really like George Orwell’s style. I’ve had 1984 on my bookshelf for a while and I’m waiting for the right moment to start it (meaning I’ll probably pick it up during Thanksgiving Break).</p>
<p>No book is really too boring to read for me, but Great Expectations did have a lack of memorable parts.</p>
<p>
I concur. Though “Finnegan’s Wake” is the Irish drinking song it’s based on, the book is actually “Finnegans Wake” (no apostrophe).</p>
<p>I absolutely hated Black Beauty. It’s just about a horse who goes from owner to owner. Why not just call it Slave Horse?</p>
<p>I also hated Romeo and Juliet. I won’t even describe my hate for it.</p>
<p>shakespeare plays…</p>