<p>^Liist, I thought A Separate Peace was pretty good, actually, homoerotic subtexts aside. We read it as a companion to All Quiet on the Western Front, which was much more boring.</p>
<p>ethan frome. The only good thing about it was that it was extremely short</p>
<p>The Awakening: A book about a woman who complains for 200 pages and kills herself. I cheered when I got to the ending.</p>
<p>I didn't like The Red Badge of Courage either.</p>
<p>And I hope to avoid Jane Austen under all circumstances.</p>
<p>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, all that needs to be said.......</p>
<p>I love a lot of these books (As I Lay Dying, The Red Badge of Courage, and Of Mice and Men, for example). However, now I'm reading The Stranger by Camus, and I just want to shoot Meursault. I also hated Anthem; it was perhaps one of the most excruciatingly painful books I have ever read.</p>
<p>Hey, I love The Stranger! I read it for French, though, not English, so discussions were somewhat...stilted, to say the least, but our teacher was amazing. (P.S. -- did you know, half of the words in French are really just English words spoken with a French accent? Those sneaky accents.) </p>
<p>Beowulf gets my vote. I GET that it's one of the greatest relics of Anglo-Saxon history the world has ever seen. I get it. I just don't want to read it.</p>
<p>Is the Stranger a hard book to read? Because I have it on my bookshelf, and I'm debating whether or not to read it.</p>
<p>^
No, and it's a really good book; I recommend it. A great existential book. Meursault = Apathy.</p>
<p>I, Rigoberta Menchu.</p>
<p>It's about this woman in Guatemala, and honestly, it wouldn't be bad if the same thing didn't happen over, and over, and over, and over, and over...</p>
<p>Jane Eyre ... didn't even finish</p>
<p>Beowulf! I HATE that book with a fiery passion.</p>
<p>Autobiography of Malcolm X</p>
<p>I'm sure had I not read two books right before that (Scarlet Letter and A Farewell to Arms) I would've enjoyed it but it was just...tasteless to me. It's an autobiography and I really could care less about him talking about his own life. Is that too harsh?</p>
<p>Books? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.</p>
<p>Are you serious? Why read, when one could watch modern movies? </p>
<p>Movie > pages glued on to a spine with flaps.</p>
<p>I HATED Huck Finn and Of Mice and Men.</p>
<p>I kinda liked The Scarlet Letter though..</p>
<p>Scarlet letter was OK. It started off slow but I thought it picked up steam later on. Most people are annoyed by it because of Hawthorne's complicated and often page-long paragraphs, but it wasn't too bad for me.</p>
<p>hey Huck Finn wasnt bad! I liked all the moral lessons and stuff....lol ok that sounds kinda flowery but whatever.</p>
<p>anything was better than, among others, brave new world, wuthering heights, and slaughterhouse 5</p>
<p>Notes of a Native Son. James Baldwin must have wrote it with the intent of torturing teenagers forced to read it.</p>
<p>The Sun Also Rises, by Hemingway. All they did was DRINK.
Oh look, a friend I haven't seen in a while! Let's go drink to celebrate!
We're going fishing! Be sure to bring lots of wine!
Bullfighting = drinking!
No longer with the bullfighter! Let's drink some more!</p>
<p>Return of the Native was pretty bad, too. I had to force myself to read a book a day and bribe myself with all sorts of crazy things.</p>
<p>tess of the d'ubervilles.
ridiculous.</p>
<p>TSAR was failure manifest in writing.</p>