<p>^ I also hate everything Ayn Rand-really cant stand it.
I also didn't like billy budd by herman melville, faust by goethe (actually like marlow's version better), and scarlet letter by hawthorne. but i ended up liking young goodman brown by hawthorne. scarlet letter was just too loooooooooooooooong.
Don't give up on hemingway yet! i liked a farwell to arms, but maybe im just a weirdo.
never got through jacob's room by virginia woolf. i keep harrassing myself to finish it, but im pretty sure the book has no plot.</p>
<p>I read The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky because it was supposed to contain the meaning of life or something. Even Vonnegut said so. I didn't even make it halfway through. </p>
<p>What am I missing?? Maybe I'll try again when I'm 30.</p>
<p>i loved the great gatsby! but ill join onto the scarlet letter train. the SPARKNOTES were a little bit too boring for my taste.</p>
<p>The Stranger,</p>
<p>I LOVED that book.</p>
<p>the AGONY AND THE ECTASY</p>
<p>OMG- so boring!</p>
<p>lol this one time, our English teacher called us selfish bastards because while he was talking about about The Great Gatsby, almost everyone was sleeping.
Personally I thought the book was pretty boring, though it was very well written.</p>
<p>walden
o dear lord that guy had no life....</p>
<p>^I second Walden, I had to help my Mom read it for her college class, and it was sooo horrible</p>
<p>Also Scarlet Letter (although now that I'm beginning to like symbolism more it might not be too bad) and Tale of Two Cities (urgh, couldn't even finish it)</p>
<p>All Quiet on the Western Front.
Dragged on and on. And the font hurt my eyes.</p>
<p>I actually liked Scarlet Letter and Tale of Two Cities..</p>
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LMFAO I remember my english class we had to read an excerpt oh my god that was so boring him talking about nature...</p>
<p>Gah, I haven't read like 98.3.14159265% of the books that you guys have listed here...</p>
<p>but then i just remembered another school-required reading: Jane Eyre.</p>
<p>God forbid....I FELL asleep TWICE on SPARKNOTES.</p>
<p>pride and prejudice...omg sooo boring</p>
<p>wuthering heights was a close 2nd</p>
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Personally I thought the book was pretty boring, though it was very well written.
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<p>I hated Great Gatsby also, but that may be because my teacher assigned us 60 pages/day for three consecutive days the week before spring break (we were trying to catch up to the schedule), and she expects us to close read always. Not to mention that the week after, we wrote an essay on it and I bombed it.</p>
<p>We never read the Great Gatsby, we just watched the movie for it :D</p>
<p>Hmm....I loved Pride and Prejudice. I've read it in English and in Russian and they were both amazing!!</p>
<p>But I've also read most of the other Jane Austen novels......</p>
<p>hated:
huck fin
of mice and men
silas marner
the scarlet letter
the great gatsby</p>
<p>but I liked to kill a mockingbird and pride and prejudice</p>
<p>I LOVED Pride and Prejudice. All of Jane Austen's, actually. But you may have to be older to start to appreciate them.</p>
<p>The first Harry Potter was torturous going, at least the first 70 pages, and I have a lot of tolerance for boring books. To a point. 70 pages of setting the scene before you found out what was going on was JUST TOO LONG.</p>
<p>although my son was reading it to me in the car on a long road trip earlier this summer, and it was actually fun listening. I think it might have had something to do with him, though, he is just a natural actor and it shows when he reads aloud.</p>
<p>Plutarch's Lives. I'm not sure I've read a book cover to cover since, which is like 8 years.</p>
<p>siddhartha</p>
<p>Gatsby was amazing as was Mice and Men. Red Badge of Courage was suicide.</p>
<p>Ulysses. I lost steam after 40 pages. Pale Fire was also harsh. I've found that I'm not a fan of translations.</p>
<p>I loved ToTC, Wuthering Heights (I want to get a shirt that says "Heathcliff is my Homeboy"), Scarlet Letter (Good ending), Great Gatsby (I don't know why you wouldn't like it), and The Crucible. And I'm male.</p>