<p>Just have to comment on 'bartleby's moniker.</p>
<p>As in Bartleby the Scrivener? </p>
<p>I loved that story. Bartleby stubornly refused to do the piecework they wanted him to write, although 'they' kept asked him to, and so he didn't get paid and he became more and more frail until finally he was just a voice. Was that Herman Melville who wrote that?</p>
<p>Slaughterhouse Five was amazing, thank you very much!</p>
<p>Fahrenheit 451 is abominable. ZzZzZzZzzzzzzzz
Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is one of the best novels ever written.</p>
<p>i LOVED wuthering heights, but didn't like gatsby. Portrait of the Artist is the worst book I have ever read in my entire life, and I dislike Dickens because so many of his words are useless. I also really liked Pride and Prejudice, and couldn't get through Life of Pi.</p>
<p>herodotus53: SH5 was horriibllllleeeeeeee! i'm glad it was our last book of the year and we didnt take any major tests over it....or analyze it. It was so....weird!</p>
<p>Les Miserables. I thought I was going to die of boredom.</p>
<p>No WAYYYY..Of Mice and Men is a great book! </p>
<p>Now To Kill a Mockingbird..that I can agree on (I havent even read a good 30 pages of it.. lol...I know Its one of those books every one reads ---just to be able to say they read it...but ITS SO BORING!)</p>
<p>I can't believe at the # of books you guys read; or I'm just reading-ignorant because I haven't heard of seriously 90% of the books you people read.</p>
<p>EDIT: To keep this somewhat relevant, I profess that it is extremely difficult for me to start a book more than 300 pages in length.</p>
<p>As of now probably The Question of Hu, had to read it for summer reading in 9th grade.</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness. </p>
<p>ewwwww</p>
<p>i could not stand reading catcher in the rye. i wanted to duct tape holden's mouth shut and stuff him in a shoebox. </p>
<p>and some likely suspects of boredom..
wuthering heights
the scarlet letter
grapes of wrath
antigone</p>
<p>ughhhhhhhh</p>
<p>The old man and the sea (7th grade) hands down.</p>
<p>Well. I HATED INVISIBLE MAN. YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND.
I could barely get into it.
School for Scandal was pretty stupid. Things fall apart was pretty dumb.</p>
<p>I sort of liked pride and prejudice.. I liked childhood's end and I loved a separate piece.</p>
<p>I have a hard time finding bad things about books...but I'd say...Walden. I don't care how much you sold your first crop of peas for, Henry David Thoreau. I really don't. </p>
<p>And people in this thread are probably all hating on John Steinbeck. It's definitely an acquired taste...but I love him!</p>
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<p>No way!!! I LOVED it!</p>
<p>Othello. Honestly, it was rather good, but I just didn't have the heart to finish it.</p>
<p>I can't get past the first page of A Tale of Two Cities</p>
<p>"it was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." that's it for me.</p>
<p>^ Lmfao. Same here. x]
It's either "The Scarlet Letter" or "A Tale of Two Cities."</p>
<p>Painful.</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter, The Grapes of Wrath, etc. Zzzz.</p>
<p>Oh, come on, guys and gals.</p>
<p><3 Scarlet Letter and Grapes of Wrath!</p>
<p>Well, Grapes of Wrath, anyway.</p>
<p>I'm very happy that I haven't had the displeasure of reading Pride and Prejudice. In fact, I was dropping by a Starbucks today when I saw a girl reading it (she was resting on a ginormous Organic Chemistry textbook): she was bobbing her head repeatedly.</p>